skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compressing a large program into a small computer by having part of the program written in compact interpreted code dates back at least to Short Code on the UNIVAC I in 01950, which was "short" because it could fit six instructions per machine word instead of the usual two.

Of course Turing's original hypothetical Universal Machine from 01936 is "universal" precisely because it is an interpreter that can emulate any computing machine, most importantly including itself, but you could reasonably object that Turing didn't actually build a working Universal Machine in the 01930s, and at any rate he wasn't concerned with the question of how to fit a lot of functionality into a small amount of RAM.

I've seen references to "Turing's 'short code'" and to "ENIAC Short Code" but I am not sure if they are things that really existed or if someone was just getting their references confused.
> lighter frames (within reason)

The UCI's 6.8kg weight limit is much higher than what is achievable with modern materials. So much so that there are frame builders who can build you an "illegal" bike made out of _steel_: https://www.rodbikes.com/catalog/outlaw/outlaw-main.html
Same with garbage bags and plastic straws. Stuff comes in stores absolutely wrapped in tons of plastic and they go and ban plastic straws. Not to mention stuff that's triple wrapped (sweets for example).
They will care when there countries start getting migrants CC migrants?

Mind you they're probably the types to start a civil war when private fossil fuel use, gasoline/petrol/diesel, becomes illegal.
I have found during Canadian election seasons that green party signs and posters are the only ones consistently vandalized. The people who think the Green party is stealing 'their' votes are unbelievably entitled. If only they knew how much that does to make them not my second choice either.
The most impactful thing you can do as an individual is devote yourself to improving clean energy resources and carbon sequestration technologies.

If you're here there's a good chance you have the ability to help engineer these techs. That's going have way, way more impact than riding your bicycle.
> I think it was hard to know that many years ago (10+?) how things would turn out.

The long-term commercial advantage in Free Software being for the largest established players with revenue mechanisms centered around services rather than selling software licenses was widely recognized, with many observers independently coming to the conclusion, from at least the mid-1990s.
You've gotten a couple responses making arguments that the atoms required for a language like lisp are fundamentally simpler than eval in Perl and that makes the difference... Fwiw, I don't find these arguments very compelling. It's not so much that they're entirely false, but the "most beautiful program ever written [sic]" that we're talking about here is "beautiful" precisely because it elides all these "simple" details. I do get the vague sense that it is essentially a more verbose `eval $1`.
> What about emergency diesel generators for hospital

Use carbon capture to generate fuel from the air. Yes it's expensive compared to regular diesel, but for use-cases with low consumption like emergency generators that really shouldn't be a huge issue.
There is no evidence we have reached runaway warming yet, and while there are positive feedbacks, there are also negative ones as well. We have not accounted for all of them, which means we should keep trying.

The evidence is not there to suggest fatalism yet, and even if it were, the impacts occur on a spectrum.
Before this thread, I never considered they might deprecate the native app, but there seemed to be a lot of premonition here that it’s on the horizon.

I wasn’t actively looking to find a replacement, but I was certainly not happy to see them taking venture funding. That’s great in some contexts, but explicit pressure to grow revenue enough to support 500 people and pay back a bunch of venture capitalists isn’t very conducive to writing quality software.
Can someone please explain why should a middle class, middle aged blue collar worker care about this? How does any of this make his life better or worse?
Apple doesn’t scan iCloud for CSAM and refuses to do it. Which is why they researched intensively on differential privacy.
What this attitude says to me is that too many people have more solidarity with the ultra rich than their peers. Not to even mention those whose income is lower than their own. Hence, a tax on the ultra rich, is somehow very likely - in their mind - going to affect them as well. On the contrary however, a benefits cut, or perhaps a benefit grant, is just a waste of cash and will never benefit them somehow, even though things like paid vacation in Europe is universal.

I'm sorry but to me this attitude hasn't worked out all that well for the common man in the US (no vacation, parental leave, health care etc), but still you believe in the propaganda by default.
Yes, sure, make it visible!

I think the GP was that many things happen outside the normal consumer flow and the choices of impeach individual have a minimum direct impact.

Also, I’m not sure just forwarding the CO2 tax to the consumer is the best way to go, it still puts to responsibilities with the consumers instead of everyone.
> They're abused because they are unable to work elsewhere

That's absurd. Even if you make a (false) claim that they're only able to work at a call center and all other professions are closed to them, there are many different call centers that all compete for the same labour.

> Working at a call center is akin to emergency medical care, but for financial surviving.

If you want to provide care, you can do it. I do it myself. But it's completely immoral to put it as a responsibility on somebody who just buys these people's services. When you go to buy groceries, you don't suddenly become ethically responsible for the grocer's financial situation, do you?
Let's not muddy the waters. Right now, we are talking about GHG and we have to be focusing on that with an eagle eye.
I think installing Wordpress locally, using WAMPP or XAMPP or so, would work, but I haven't thought it through.
Attacking our own food supply over a supposed 25% of emissions should be lower priority than for example taxing actual emissions so that the food suppliers can adapt, and people can stop going on vacations to Bali twice a year. Doing it this way will push farmers towards e.g. regenerative agriculture which can actually be carbon negative. Waging war on certain foods will accomplish relatively little and also alienate huge parts of the people we need to cooperate with us.
What’s with the hyperbole when this topic is discussed every time? It doesn’t add weight to your argument after a certain point. With the US being no where near China and India in CO2 production I think it’ll be fine. You can sleep safe and sound at night.
This has been my pet theory for a while. What if the actual great filter for an intelligent species is the difficulty of escaping your home planet _before_ you've consumed all of its resources? I will — naturally — have a human-centric view of this, but it does seem like a very hard thing to do, given the physical and technical challenges of getting out of the gravity well, and actually surviving for extended periods in the harshness of space. Not to mention the travel time of getting anywhere worthwhile!

It seems pretty clear to me now that we're not going to make it. We need to cut global emissions by 15% a year, every year, starting in 2020[1]. As a species, we aren't capable of the kind of global organisation and foresight it will take to achieve this. I'll suspect we'll continue hurtling headlong towards the edge of the cliff (although there's a good chance we're already over it, and currently hanging in the air like Wile E. Coyote) until there's a war over the last dwindling resources, or a simultaneous worldwide failure of food production.

I've wondered a few times that if we were to go back in time to the start of human civilisation, knowing what we know now, would we be able to direct our energies more appropriately, and make it off earth in sufficient numbers to enable us to become a spacefaring species? Then I remember that science predicted all of this back in the 19th century[2]. We did nothing then, and we're doing nothing now. Alok Sharma says it's a catastrophe, but "also insisted the UK could carry on with fossil-fuel projects."[3] We're in real trouble.

[1] https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/1/3/21045263...
[2] https://daily.jstor.org/how-19th-century-scientists-predicte...
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/07/were-on-...
Yeah, that's a given because they're not constructed manually ie. no manual verification.

Give them some time to react. My wife complained to me she could not visit a website (I run Pi-Hole on our network, and our mobile devices get routed to it even on external networks). I looked through the logs, figured the offending rule, contacted the maintainer, and they fixed it within a few hours.

The issue has been up for one hour thus far.
ISO 27001 does not prohibit working from home, at all. If a company decides that they cannot secure their work environment with people working from home, than that is on them.

We passed our yearly ISO 270001 audit last month, and we all work from home most of the time until going to the office is reasonably possible again, and even then we will remain hybrid. In the end it doesn't really matter where someone is physically working from if they follow basic security precautions if you are in IT (unless you are doing national security type of things; most of us aren't of course), and ISO 27001 just wants to see that you have such policies in place and that risks are mitigated.
CFC gasses where a big one. They were hugely useful for many things but were found to be breaking down ozone and were very rapidly banned effectively.
Then don't follow "to the extrem"? Why do you think that it has to be taken to an extreme?

There are many ways in between reproducing ever more humans and not reproducing at all. For example if people really want to have children, they can adopt children instead of making even more ones. There are sooo many children in the world, who do not have a bright future, whom one could adopt. If one really loves children for the reason of seeing them grow up, develop, learn, become good human beings, then adopting one should not be a big problem compared to making one.

Then there could be a rule similar to the following: First child is OK to make, second child needs to be adopted. If the second child is not adopted, but instead made, then there are financial penalties for that.

In any case, how do you propose to get back to perhaps half of current population?
Line. Must. Go. Up.
> Individual action won’t solve this problem.

Not sure if we agree or not.

To make it clear, what I write is not about individual actions but about smart legislation and massive campaigns:

- mandate teaching practical repair work instead of todays "feel good"/"feel bad" subjects environmental studies in school

- a giant hike on import taxes on fast fashion and cheap "use once" gadgets and electronics

- gradually increase mandatory warranties until selling low quality is a losing prospect

- make "news anchors" - at least in public tv stations - use more ordinary clothing, and reuse it.

- do make ads and tv shows about cobolt mining

- do inform the public about our unhealthy dependency on China

- do make ads about the stupidity of living in wastefulness

- edit: do mock "individualism" that consists of having to go to exotic places

- edit: do tax food import! Urge other countries to do the same! Especially anyone who burns rainforest.
I agree with the idea. At the same time, plenty of people have seen Lucy hold the football this way before.
Crystal arrangement results in more power from ferroelectric solar cells
You forgot a big fat /S.

I almost took you seriously ;-D.
Is that true? I’m seeing that cruise ships emit a lot of particulates (namely sulphur dioxide), but the actual co2-equivalent numbers I’m seeing are 0.8t/passenger for cruise ships - which is bad, but not quite as bad as described in your post.

https://www.tourismdashboard.org/explore-the-data/cruise-shi...
Everything will be green and growing, until you get mega-droughts. There may be land that may see a net benefit, but overall, there will be more instability and chaos globally. This will affect everybody at some point in time. Just because it doesn't affect you now, shouldn't be taken as a form of signal.
I'm pretty sure plastic straws were a trash problem, not a climate problem. Related, but not the same thing.
Sure, but my point was that, among all the horrrific things that climate change is bringing, the OP picked two of them that seem to cancel out.
I don't understand the underlying argumentation. Going "net zero" would require changing the live of every human on the planet, that's just not going to happen in a controlled manner. How about some achievable goals like not building new coal plants? And slightly less BS along the lines of replacing (houses, cars, whatever) with new slightly more efficient variations.
In the military I saw people get kicked out for being “overweight.” Interestingly, they could run circles around you for 12 miles, throw you several yards, or otherwise destroy a Physical Fitness Test.

Looking “overweight” can be quite deceiving.
While that is one way to look at it, it is also true that more people are exposed true information as well, many people have been brought OUT of these toxic groups due to exposure to more information online

You are only looking at 1/2 of the equation. On Balance I think it is a net gain for side a truth.

Keep in mind that media and human in general tend to be bad at risk assessment, People believe they have a greater chance of dying in an airplane than on the road as an example, or that terrorism is a greater threat than it is. Or more recently slight up tick in violent crime is worse than it really is...

Sure some people that may not have been exposed to things like the Flat Earth or Anti-Vax were, but I did to look at the over sensationalized media reports of these groups being "epidemic" that social media is to blame for as self serving since the media is used to being gate keepers of information, having lost that power to social media and the internet in general they are looking to demonize the technology in order to regain their position as the Arbiters of Truth

Dont get me wrong, I think Twitter and Facebook are terrible, I just to no support the idea that solution to these problems is with centralized "Fact Checkers" who are conveniently part of the old guard media establishment,

Make no mistake that is what ars is pushing for.
Just will add this: we don't know, maybe the Neanderthals already could speak thousands of years before the Home Sapiens learned to do so.

Then the original Neanderthal civilization had a sharp edge over the Sapiens, through thousand of years.

Ok, everyone says here "but technological development SHOULD have happened". And I would say "not necessarily", and it actually could happened a couple of times, but it didn't had the written word advantage to keep building upon learned stuff (you keep discovering-then-forgetting the same things over and over), or maybe there was other factor limiting the Neanderthal technological development (neurological, strong "bad-to-tech" cultural practices, etc.).

You say "not probably", but Homo Sapiens just recently (re)learned to wash hands as a safe method to better health outcomes, maybe for the 40th time in several thousands of years across a dozen of civilizations / tribes who already know about washed-hands = good health:

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esenios
The problem I have with this approach is that it introduces on-device scan for images. All what is needed to adopt it to scan for different kind of images is to connect it to different database, say, Winnie the Pooh memes featuring CCP chairman, and boom, jailed dissenters. And ability to scan all images is but a minor firmware update away.

Server scanning makes it clear that the company running the servers has access to your photos. So you can either find a form of encrypted storage, or be okay with that, depending on your privacy stance. Having device with ability to scan your photos removes that choice. It is a privacy invasion.
It's not different from eval $1 at all. Because it is eval $1.

However, by the time that $1 has been passed, the Lisp zeroes and ones of the eval function have been turned into the appropriate machine language of the CPU.

As of course different CPUs have different evaluation pipelines for integers, floats, vertices, branches etc.

So it evaluates a block of lisp as purely integers, floats, branches, vertices, and sends the appropriate data type off to the appropriate evaluation line, and reassembles it.
Surveys have shown Americans have basically 0 inclination to pay more than $10/mo even if it would completely solve climate change for sure.

It's a good thing we don't live in a real democracy, because hopefully elites will wake up faster than that.
This is a variation of:

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We're living through a strange time but please do not be defeatist and try not to let alarmist (it's trying to push certain actors into action quite rightly) make you feel that like that should ever be appealing.
It sounds like living in Animal Crossing tbh.
People, it's easy. If we are having difficulties to reduce our consumption because the lack of preparation let's first reduce how many people are living in the world with a worldwide One Child policy.
Obviously this will produce future issues that will have to be addressed but it's a necessary step (temporally?) to gain some time.
There was in Australia for a short time. The topic has become poisoned though and it will be very hard to bring back with newscorp still running things.
Here's a small parametric projection you can adjust to get a rough idea[1]. The conclusion is that we need to work on all ends, starting with heavy carbon taxing.

We have pretty much squandered the time for anything but a drastic 180 degree turn.

The best thing you can do as an individual is to be vocal about those concerns and put pressure on your political representatives to take action, CCL[2] being one example of that.

I'm not a big proponent of the individual carbon footprint thing, it's mostly an attempt to shift responsibility to the individual when the ones that can actually get meaningful action on the way are corporations and governments. Despite that, avoiding meat (if you can't avoid all, focus on beef), buying local produce and avoiding flights where possible are still beneficial things to do and the biggest contributions you can make.
I would add not driving a 20 year old car, but a lot of time you not driving it just means someone else will be driving that car instead.

[1] https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.html

[2] https://citizensclimatelobby.org/
While I didn’t love 1Password moving to the cloud because I liked the personal license, it did allow my company to switch from lastpass to 1Password, which was a sizable improvement for password management and allows us to use 1pass’ “2fa” that would at least protect against leaked passwords. HIBP support is cool. Secrets automation seems like an interesting vault alternative. So long as 1Password doesn’t get acquired and can keep hiring and paying strong cryptography experts, I’m happy with their direction.

I’d ultimately prefer to host my own 1Password server at home if there was an option though, data ownership is an increasingly difficult thing to achieve.
What? That's not what I said at all. Erosion of mountains should itself be an O2 sink, not a source (although subsequent burial of organic matter as the eroded material reaches the ocean, and fertilization of plankton in the ocean by the material, could be an O2 source).
AMD Ryzen, EPYC 5~6% Faster Out-of-the-Box with Linux 5.11
From their manifesto [0] https://www.sustainablewebmanifesto.com/

> Efficient

> The products and services we provide will use the least amount of energy and material resources possible.

Ha! Let's see how much impact this has on the current web industry.

Development velocity vs efficiency.

I've yet to see a shop avoid Tower of Babel stacks that increase the former, at the expense of the latter. Unless it's a backwards-compatible drop-in upgrade. And even then, it doesn't bubble high on the priority list.

[0] Obligatory https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BwozkbmjzC4
I don't know what you are talking about. Your vertical eye slits slowly opening and closing please me very much, kin of Greta.

P.S. : Still waiting on my invite to inner-earth.
Growth is already projected to peak at around 10-11 billion, though. The general trend is for countries going towards replacement rate, or even below, as they become wealthier.
Just because army is government's business doesn't mean they should allow any group to arm up and fight.
This is infuriating for me as an Eastern European… they keep piling taxes and adding expenses. Soon steel and no more ICE cars.

Who do you think absorbs the 50€ / ton and rising shock better, a German making 4000€ / month or an East European making 300€ / month?

We either go at this together, in a thought out way, or we don’t go at all. The EU distrusts nuclear energy; we’ve been advised against nuclear energy projects. The EU dislikes coal; we’ve been advised against coal. So what can we do? We can’t build nuclear, we can’t work with coal. What do our workers do? Do we just continue to be meat for the betterment of the west?

I can’t even imagine the difference between the American standard of living and someone in Africa barely hanging on by a thread.

I don’t have a point, I’m sick and tired of being late to the western party (industry? services? startups?) and then we can’t even catch up because the persons in the high castle know better… and now, after burning the world for tens of years, the west is still the saving grace swooping down and imposing global restrictions in order to further protect their lifestyles. Sickening…
That would not work. Ignoring the mass revolt that would occur in most western nations, it would also be wildly insufficient, destroy the economy, and take a very long time to make an impact. There are much better uses for such a massive amount of political capital.
> If my room was 2 degrees hotter right now, I would barely notice.

Are you sure? I have found that difference between 28 and 30 or 30 and 32 celsius is very noticeable.
I've stopped buying stuff like that because I know the experience is going to be bad. I bought a bike computer recently and ruled out anything that connects to a phone.
With warming, cloud cover go down, even with much more water-vapor in the air. So is more like a net contributor to warming rather than a breaker.
That is not the case at all. There have been plenty of companies before pandemic that had remote employees and or individuals who just travel frequently.

You're able to be compliant even without being in the office. Most of the compliance is covered by < 5 mins auto lock, security updates turned on, VPN and a yubikey.

Nearly everything else in these are documented processes and separation of roles and responsibilities.
Something that almost the entire population uses all day is only using 5%? Sounds incredibly efficient. Repacking fonts to be smaller sounds about as useful as plugging a hand crank generator in to the power point.
Creepy as fuck