skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're asking if these forms are non-binding: the Dutch government lost a court case because they ignored the pledges.

Of course, then the cabinet fell in January for completely different reasons, and instead of taking responsibility for that they've been acting in-place until a new coalition is formed. For which they've been dragging their feet (the technically-former prime minister Rutte is on record with saying they're basically free to do whatever because "they can't kick us out any more"). So drunk on nothing-to-lose power they've decided to ignore the fact that they have been ordered by Dutch court of law to do something about the emissions. This is not just my opinion by the way, there's an actual interview where they say that meeting the criteria of the ruling is not a top priority. Because who cares about rule of law? Not the Dutch prime minister, apparently.
There’s several other pullutants removed by moving to electric transportation, not only co2.

In densely populated areas we’re seeing severe effects on our health thanks to all the other crap being emitted by burning fossil fuels.

I believe in a 100 years people will be like: “…and they burned this crap in the middle of where they lived?! Crazy stuff”.

But yeah, otherwise I agree - it’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t type situation.
For it to be really beautiful a compiler implementation would be needed as well.
>*Stop collecting vast amounts of personal data*

This is why I left and denounce green movements. It's always (on an individual activist up to organization level), a front for completely unrelated ideological agendas.

Edit: 'A front' is too strong - a convenient vector. But you poison the well by failing to restrain yourself from slipping that stuff in.
> unwarranted

What if people can't live the exact same lifestyle in a way that stops, or even slows, or even slows the acceleration of environmental catastrophe?

What if "safe for the environment" isn't just another brand that you can choose to buy if you're willing to pay the extra dollar?
I would also vouch for it.
Read the report. It doesn't matter what they say at a press conference which is created to push a certain political agenda.

The only thing that matters is what can be scientifically demonstrated, not just speculated. From that make your own assessment.
Non-Aligned Movement https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement

Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_Nuclear_Test_Ban_Tre...

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1968) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferat...

SALT I / ABMT (1969) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Arms_Limitation_Ta...
> Practically overnight it became impossible to buy drinks containing more sugar than the tax minimum limit. It wasn't illegal to sell them, but no corporation would waste money on a silly thing like taste.

Oh yes. Poland introduced a sugar tax recently, and I've never seen so many low-sugar offerings in the shops in my life. Marketing people of course got to work spinning this; a well-known brand of fruity beverages that advertises to children suddenly started highlighting how their products are healthy for children because they're sugar free. That's despite the fact that until few months earlier, they were the symbol of sugar-full beverages for children.

This is to say, profit motive is reality and sanity-bending, it should definitely be put to use through carbon taxation.
Ah, so we just eliminate low-cost transportation, agriculture, textiles and consumer goods and consequently starve billions of people. A modest proposal for such an ill-specified problem with unfalsifiable causes. I like it.
Apparently AberMUD (way before my time but developed in Aberystwyth where I was a student) was written in B.
This bothers me less than water shortages and desertification, as well as extreme high temperatures making certain areas uninhabitable. That's what will really lead to suffering on a wide scale.

I guess major coastal cities around the world becoming part of the ocean is bad too.

It's not the increased natural "disasters" that will really mess things up. It's some places becoming entirely uninhabitable, permanently displacing many millions of people.
I was asked by a user on Twitter to provide a tutorial for users of other SaaS tunnel services like Ngrok, that would get them started quickly with a HTTPS tunnel.

inlets does other things like TCP tunnels and Kubernetes integration, but this should get folks up and running.

So far the monthly subscription has been popular - combining a SaaS billing concept with a self-hosted piece of software.
If they’re shipping direct to you instead of Amazon fulfillment, they need your name and address. That’s plenty in a lot of cases.
I'm so fucking tired of these asswipes from companies are a thousand times worse pretending they are better. They literally sell all your data to anyone who wants is, but noooo, apple bad! I'm not saying apple is some kind of bastion of privacy or whatever, but at least they are not selling my data to pay for their spyware vessels.

To those 'experts': Get off you high horse and do better. Prove me wrong, go build a working open-source phone, go provide a image hosting service that does not analyze every single photo you upload. Go build a fucking app with out trying to steal my contact book. Fuck you
OK? I live not that far from an airport and I can say I have noticed a significant decrease in traffic, so much that I pointed at a passenger plane the other day to show one of my younger kids. Until COVID-19 that would have been just funny, now it was informative.
Random pictures aren’t going to be in the CSAM database and trigger review. And to have multiple CSAM hash matches on your phone is incredibly unlikely.

An unsolicited email / having photos planted on your phone or equipment is a problem today as much as it will be then, but I think people over-estimate the probability of this and ignore the fact it could easily happen today, with an “anonymous tip” called into the authorities.

If they are scanning it though iMessage they will have logs of when it arrived, and where it came from as well - so in that case it might protect the victim being framed.
It's more than that though. Others have emulated his technique but he's still better.

One day his record will be broken. But the density of his high performing throws will always be amazing.

Sergey Bubbka is perhaps the closest analogy, although his record was recently - finally - broken.
Male chickens and female chickens too old to lay…
How could you leave out the one with the biggest impact, which is basically "less humans"?
> the IPCC reports are getting less concerned not more

Yeah, no.
The planet will be fine. It's a rock. It's the inhabitants who will have a problem.
Or someone quietly slipped it onto a block list knowing that it'd take a while to get noticed.
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What happened to http://www.objectmentor.com/ ?
But you can actually multi-licence code. Put it under GPL and offer other licencing agreements for commercial actors. Copy-left inhibits commercial exploitation while your business licenses get you the money. That is entirely possible.
Yes, because product teams don't make decisions based on what will annoy me. I find Pocket being active by default incredibly annoying too.
It's not just us law. Most countries have the ability for corporations to act as their own entity under the protection of the law. This is because companies need to sign things, like contracts, that can't be secured by any one person.
> The nuclear solution has been there this whole time.

Yes, but it's more subtle than that.

Despite the naysayers, and those that don't accept science and fact, nuclear, is clean, is safe, and is available right now. Deaths due to nuclear power station (construction, accidents,

Amongst the many problems with uranium-based nuclear power is: government legislation and control, government obsession with also producing weapons grade fuel, preventing other countries (Iran, North Korea) from having it, and lastly cost, as a consequence of all of these things.

And because of the weapons grade part, and other reasons, thorium has never been pursued. But China is, https://www.livescience.com/china-creates-new-thorium-reacto..., and it seems like the West is going to be in China's pocket again, if it is successful.

As for fusion. That's still 30 years away as usual.
> In france the yellow vests protest was caused by a planned carbon tax increase on gas. Car dependent citizens rioted.

It's reductive. The protest was not just on the carbon tax, but that the carbon tax was used to finance the cancellation of the wealth tax (aka ISF for "Impot sur la Fortune"). Source: https://wikileaks.org/macron-emails/emailid/50207

I'm French and I've had my tax rate almost cut in half since Macron has become President... because I gained millions on the stock markets. The more I earn from capital gains, the less I'm taxed (relative to my wealth). Each extra € is taxed at 30% (all included), which is less than my far-less-rich coworkers (who only earn salaries, which can be taxed at 45%... 1.5x my tax rate!). And this is wihout even talking about the ISF!

This is soooo unfair and the Gilets Jaunes are simply aware of that, even if they don't know all the little details, and despite the media not describing what's really going on.
That one for Sweden. In countries that neglected it in building codes, before buying green energy there's an "greenify your home" bit. Mostly heat insulation and removal of fossil fueled heating.
Only unless they burn down...as Microsoft had to realize in the North East just recently.
I ran the ecograder tool on a portfolio website I'm making for my girlfriend. It suggested I embed all the images in css (massively increasing the bytes on first request...). It also suggested that I use shared libraries on CDNs like jquery hosted by google, even though browsers no longer cache cross domain due to security risks.
Technically possible. There were alternatives developed quickly to the CFC problem that worked about as well and were only slightly more expensive. This lead to support for them politically because it was a no-brainer to switch over.

On the other hand, alternatives to oil and gas are much more expensive and require significant sacrifices compared to just using oil.

Electric cars are more expensive than ICE. They have less range and there is a lack of equivalent charging infrastructure. Those are being solved but it’s taken 30 years or more of working on battery technology and efficiency to match ICE cars for convenience.

Solar panels and wind has been similar. Years of development and billions of dollars to optimize it and still has downsides compared to oil and gas.

Things like airplane fuel and plastics there are no easy solutions to still.

Even the things that have solutions like electric cars, solar panels, etc require tons of new infrastructure to switch which is expensive both in dollars and carbon cost.

Just look at the total dollar amount of replacing all oil-using cars/trains/planes/power plants/factories/etc and compare to all CFC-generating devices it’s a lot more.
Makes me wonder whether we could have defeated an organization such as Taliban with say COVID. The very unfortunate side effect (understatement) would be all the civil casualties, but that is also part of guerilla warfare (e.g. happens in Israel/Palestina conflict as well). But nevertheless, something like COVID could've been used as a biochemical weapon, with the side launching it being vaccinated, or knowing how to deal with it beforehand (the 'SARS experience advantage'). Its not even far fetched (though I am not arguing that was the purpose of!) because that's how the Spanish conquered large parts of America (Re: Aztecs).
How are the sellers linking a review to an identity? Are people reviewing with their full names?
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The problem is that these apps come with a built-in doomsday. If they ever get popular enough to be meaningfully on the radar of the company whose app they're replacing, they'll be attacked both legally ("you're violating our TOS by using this app") and technically (removing API access or obfuscating internal APIs / pages to prevent scraping).

Efforts like youtube-dl are a constant arms race between google making changes that prevent it working, and the youtube-dl devs pushing fixes. It's a piece of software where "too old to be useful" is measured in months as tons of things don't work anymore.

These companies will never willingly give up control over the user experience (especially if they NEED that control in order to serve ads), and they'll use every method at their disposal in order to do so. Discord already threatens to ban anyone who tries to use a third party client - how long until twitter does the same?
Given the last 10 years of political "discourse" and third party election interference calling it "paranoia" seems like a very naive view of the world.
I worked in a telco call centre with no phone rules, paper shredders for any written notes, security cameras and door access control.

People still played on their smart phones and vaped weed in the office.

Technology and rules to maintain security, all are nearly worthless when wages and morale aren’t priorities.
Declarators (the name along with pointer, array, etc annotations) in C are written parallel to how they are used, I have always assumed this was to make defining/explaining the language simpler (even though it often defies new learner's expectations), and maybe to reduce the amount of required logic in the compiler.

I think you're right that B is related to this, the reason the brackets were on the right of the name is because no type was mentioned in B (as there was only one type). If types had been named in declarations they probably would have preferred to do what Java does, i.e. `Type[] name`.

The other more archaic reason the brackets are on the right is because in the oldest B compilers the brackets were not there at all, instead when declaring 'local' (auto) vectors you just write the length of the vector after its name, like `auto name 8;` would declare a vector length 8 called 'name'. Once again this syntax makes sense without the type.

In B, declarators had not really matured yet, in some situations you could declare a vector with brackets similar to C arrays, but only of one dimension (which I think is why they were called vectors and not arrays).
The planet also doesn’t care about political borders; it doesn’t make sense to say “this arbitrary geographic area has more CO2 than this arbitrary area, so therefore the latter area is ‘fine’”.
No, even not having children has lower impact than not doing these things. Especially that environmental costs of them ramp up slowly.

Humans tend to be on their own barring social pressures carbon neutral. The biggest expenses being food and water, if these aforementioned practices are applied. It gets even better if these young can work to reduce the impact of the warming.

We'll need a lot of manpower to pull off the necessary changes. Just due to the scale of it. Well educated people too. We're on at least one to two generations of lag in education related to physics, chemistry, agriculture, material science, civil engineering, process engineering, general ecology, social engineering...
And the old will start to wear down and think in old patterns.

Additionally further down the list is "live together in higher density" and "buy locally made things" bits.
How does this differ if the majority of your electricity is zero carbon?

Coal electricity is 60% of emissions. Aviation is less than 5%. How is skipping a flight that highly ranked of you are burning a ton of carbon just being at home (if you have coal fired power).

Actual rankings have to be energy mix dependent.
Previously:

64 comments, 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12253276

89 comments, 1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22322041

68 comments, 9 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4831363

32 comments, 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15109771

29 comments, 12 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=833443

6 comments, 12 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=905750
That's not actionable advice on a timescale that will affect co2 emissions any time soon. Are you suggesting we kill people to reduce the population?
I find it very weird that they have a grade for not using flash in 2021
I'm not really sure about feature phones either. Modern Nokia ones come preloaded with Facebook and Whatsapp.
They could still do the scanning, but if the photo fails it would just refuse to upload it and display an error to inform the user that the photo will not synchronize. There is no reason that the results of the scans need to be sent to Apple servers.
EU's and Germany's emissions are negligible anyhow (9% and 2%, respectively). It's all about the U.S. and China (and maybe India) at this point, especially the latter two that have the strongest increase in emissions. There is no point in inflicting arguably some of the worst politicians in history on these relatively small European nations. They should rather be investing in building a strong workforce and military that can rebuild after storms. The fact that this is not being discussed openly is deeply suspicious.
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Poor people should not be told to reduce their emissions by people who emit an order of magnitude more carbon than they do.

They should receive a negative carbon tax for their good behavior, which could be delivered in a subsidy for the purchase of cleaner fuel sources.
The highest bar in the chart says "have one fewer child". It actually exceeds any others by extremely large margin [0].
How is that even considered as the option? One child less means halving population after every generation. Eliminate the population and problem solved?

[0] https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/drimage/1120/630/4832/fourc...
Diesel demand comes from shipping goods primarily. How do we replace the 4 million trucks on the road quickly? How do we get rid of container ship emissions? How do we solve backup generation problem? Go look at what's happening in South America right now because of low water levels -- lots of diesel generation.

We need to wean off fossil fuels but governments need to subsidize and support alternatives which they are doing bare minimum today.
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I think this would be really interesting if it wasn't lua only.
I think it's you that need to support your reasoning. It is true that the capitalist elite wants to maximise profits for themselves with no regard other concerns, and since they don't have to pay for the gruesome externalities they inflict, then they will continue to happily make bank out of gassing the world if they are not forced to stop.

On the other hand, it's ridiculous to say that the solution is "just stop bro". It's anything but technically simple. If you outright ban all fossil fuels, how do you make electricity? How do you stock supermarkets? How do all goods get transported? How do people move about? Obviously it's not so simple as that. You need a plan to transition to sustainable energy and a sustainable economy in general. For instance, you need a massive Green New Deal to fund this transition, you need carbon price+cap schemes to force the transition, etc.
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Wildfires in Greece are common since several decades, fires are usually laid or started out of negligence.

There is no sign of "uncertain harvests" in all the years people have been speculating about this as a potential consequence of global warming. Crop yields are breaking one record after another: https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/record-high-world-...
Then how come so many companies provide E2E encryption? Are the signal devs about to be sent to Gitmo?
> The internet is responsible for around 5% of global carbon emissions.

Right, the internet (not necessarily the web)

> The solution however is fairly simple — use less data

Agreed.

> Fast, accessible websites usually produce less CO2

That's a drop in the bucket. If you look at what's _actually_ using data on the internet, it's streaming services (netflix, zoom, spotify). Fast, accessible websites have plenty of benefits, but if you want to actually reduce the amount of waste, far more effective solutions are things like lowering your video quality slightly (backgrounding futurama? Drop it to 480p.)
I like how constrained the language was:

> All arithmetic in B is integer, unless special functions are written. There is no equivalent of the Fortran IJKLMN convention, no floating point, no data types, no type conversions, and no type checking. Users of double-precision complex will have to fend for themselves. (But see ->32 for how to call Fortran subroutines.)

I wonder if it would have been beneficial to continue with this separation. Fortran and C started trying to do everything and they failed. Fortran was never a contender for C for systems programming, and C has not moved in the right direction to be better than Fortran for numerical computing.
pretty hard to influence for individuals
I have basically avoided the issue in my own sites by not having UGC / comment sections since the '90s.

On other sites that I am or have moderating/ed, very tight filtering on who gets in as a user in the first place, with final manual approval, seems to work.
What exactly am I looking at?
> environmental authoritarianism

What's the name for the epistemic dark arts practice of attaching an ominous-sounding label to an argument, so it can be dismissed without consideration?
Hohn's throw is not the world record and hasn't been for decades.
No need for hash collisions, that's what makes it so bad: just edit multiple known verybad images in multiple nice high res photos like I tried to explain above.
And what’s your solution to this? And has any study said explicitly the number of humans is the main problem? Or their actions and consumption that’s the problem?
As soon as it is used in a negative way beyond CSAM scanning, it will cause people to sell their phones and stop using apple products.

If Apple starts using the tech to scan for religious material, there will be significant market and legal backlash. I think the fact that CSAM scanning will stop if they push it too far will keep them in check to only do CSAM scanning.

Everyone can agree on using the tech for CSAM, but beyond that I don’t see Apple doing it. The tech community is reacting as if they already have.
> No it's not and you have not a single scientifically demonstrated foundation for that kind of claims.

There's pretty clear scientific consensus that climate change will result in more hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, cold spells, floods, droughts and especially that there will be shortages of clean water and land suitable for agriculture. All of those things kill humans.
But surely someone will at some point inspect the images…

So my question remains the same. Do users get a notification once they are (/erroneously) flagged.
Seems Neanderthals may be even better adapted to modern living than us. Higher energy consumption certainly seems like a beneficial trait nowadays.