skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough. Delivery services are perhaps not the best topic to talk about in this context - there's a strong argument for them being net better for climate than brick&mortar shops, particularly in car-centric cultures.

My comment was less about the particulars of 2-day delivery, and more about the general problem of punting the responsibility to consumers for things they're structurally unable to affect. The concept of "voting with your wallet" is one of the biggest modern-day scams.
If you want to get extra fancy, there's a different step 1.

1a) Cut down lots of trees
1b) Turn them into charcoal
1c) Bury the charcoal in agricultural land, sequestering the carbon and increasing yields
Further, the global financial system is based on the notion of perpetual and steady (if volatile) growth. That's the core tenet of the entire system, underpinning everything from inflation to basic employment.

By implication, this requires an infinite human population on Earth on an infinite timescale.

The still very young global financial system and everything in it is and always has been a Ponzi scheme.
An ACX audiobook narrator was scammed into narrating a new edition of Dune
They wouldn't like their neighbors knowing their shopping history, the principle should be the same.
Not easy probably, but likely doable, when someone think it is worth the effort. When the goal is security, because you feel (rightfully or not) targeted by state level intelligence, false sense of security can be dangerous:

https://www.hackread.com/hackers-steal-data-air-gapped-pcs-m...
I agree with that, 100%, but that's valid criticism, not CoRpOrAtIoNs ArEn'T PeOpLe.
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> Trench warfare in the US Civil War didn't end in such a stalemate so there wasn't much precedence

I suppose this hangs on one's definition of stalemate, but I'd consider the nine months of the siege of Petersburg to qualify.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Petersburg
I wouldn't pick this particular point in time to make a defense of "experts". This pandemic was likely caused by "experts" and if climate change is man-made then they caused that too. Wisdom and intelligence are two different things. Intelligence will ask if you can do something, wisdom will evaluate whether you should do something. I trust experts to build a better phone, I don't trust them to tell me when my kids should have access to one. I want them telling us how to build large carbon filters, I don't want them setting policy that everyone needs to lockdown to save the climate.
wind pushes vehicle. wheels spin. wheels drive propeller (via gears). propeller pushes vehicle.

I first assumed it was the other way around with wind->propeller->wheels, which it is not.
You can leave the country or you can be political active in other ways than direct votes. Don't wiggle your way out of your extremist position that you can't do anything except building technology which would be totally obsolete if you fixed your political problem.
I thought it's the article about yet another JavaScript framework indeed.
Not to mention, if you don't really want to send an entire production crew a quarter of the way around the world because there's a pandemic going on, and can find a way to not do that, isn't that a benefit? I think this tech is super cool and I think it probably gave the BBC an option that was the best of all possible ones, honestly. Very not pointless.
This is a big factor. China for example has excellent fabrication and assembly services for PCBs. Does anyone know any services in the West that compete with the likes of JLCPCB?
The article (and wiki page linked in another comment) seem to indicate that this vehicle design already proved it can go faster than the wind over 10 years ago.

Odd that the professor was so keen on betting in that case.
If only this were open source ...
>Fortran and C started trying to do everything and they failed

You have an interesting definition of failure.
What's the problem? Take out the BiConsumer that doesn't exist in the Lisp version and the Java version has the same number of closing marks.
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Wait .. Digsby the Instant Messenger? Once upon a time Digsby was the most used app on my PC?
That's why to be politically viable any carbon emissions tax would have to be phased in gradually over many years. That would give people adequate time to adjust their lifestyles and purchase more efficient vehicles. The average car in the US is 12 years old so the phase in period has to be longer than that.
Various things, one of which being Illinois is expected to turn into the equivalent of what Texas weather and temperatures were about 5-10 years ago, by end-of-century according to this link[1], but there are articles that keep saying we're reaching these tipping points much faster than forecasted[2], so I'm guessing by around mid-century is more likely. And I don't particularly enjoy Texas weather, what I've experienced of it.

Also I'm asthmatic, and the air quality where I live already has several days a year where it's unwise for me to go outside for too long (and so my dogs don't get their walks :/), and the number of those days are expected to triple by 2050. I can't find that link offhand, but here's one that says that Chicago now has worse air quality than Los Angeles, having stretches of 2 weeks of bad air quality, and that's last year, not in the future[3].

I'm not super concerned about flooding where I live specifically, since I'm in the far suburbs. I do live near enough to a river that it floods some streets in my city that I drive on, but it's already doing that now anyway. Downtown Chicago could see some flooding from the Lake, but it won't be anywhere near as bad as the coasts. I'm actually considering moving to a place that's much closer to Lake Michigan, just up in Wisconsin or Michigan.

But also if we blow past our estimates of warming and get to 4 degrees Celsius or higher, then a good chunk of the US is expected to start turning into a desert, and where I live is approximately where the edge of that is expected to be[4].

I imagine the process will take long enough that I'll be dead before it fully happens, but I also would like to secure a decent home further North before the eventual rush so I can still get a place at a cheap-to-decent price.

[1]: https://climatechange.chicago.gov/climate-impacts/climate-im...

[2]: https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/world-to-hit-t...

[3]: https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-air-quality-weather-unhealth...

[4]: https://youtu.be/ZfFvLJyPf3o
He gives electric transportation and storage with one hand, and takes away with the promise of literally thousand of ultra-low-efficiency fuel (methane) burning rocket launches with the other.
This snack has started appearing in Chennai as well. Pretty sure I have never seen it before 2-3 years here. I always was interested about the curiosity around it as a YouTube food reviewer asked some very specific questions and the vendor refused to answer.

Also pretty much everyone say it has no taste and only the lemon, salt and chili powder adds any taste but makes me wonder why it’s a profitable business if so.
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I wonder how much people there actually are who don't yet know child porn is a classic bullshit excuse governments use every time they want more control over the Internet. It's so classic, so blatant it feels cringy already. Not even for a second I would believe they do this to actually protect children.
Back in about 2000 I managed to get my hands on twelve free NeXTcubes that a tech company was throwing out. I was over eager with my generosity handing them out to the local geek community, and before I realized what I'd done, I didn't have one left for myself. Always regretted that, as they're very cool machines even just sitting on the shelf.

I do still have stacks of NeXTStep CDs sitting in a closet though. I used one of the Intel version ones a couple years ago to install a copy on VirtualBox like this guide is showing. Fun to screw around with it, brought back fond memories of my days in school using an original NeXTstation.
I'm all in favor of subsidies to help the disadvantaged, as a general matter of principle. But fundamentally, disrupting people's lifestyles is the point. Yes, it's going to radically shift the economics of all kinds of things, including commuting. That's exactly what needs to happen. There's got to be a big rebalancing, which is hopefully the sort of thing that the free market is good at. What we need to do is make sure there are enough safety nets and wealth redistribution so that no one gets left behind - again, as a general principle, not just over this one issue.

All change is going to disproportionately impact the disadvantaged. But I don't think we can let that be an argument against change in general.
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>>Your wikipedia link doesn't show anything regarding abuse of the governing body ALL of the examples are from private persons.

Have you even like....read the page they linked?

"Siobhan Gorman (2013-08-23). "NSA Officers Spy on Love Interests". Washington Wire. The Wallstreet Journal. "

Are NSA Officers "private persons" now? They are government employees, they were abusing the power they were given while employed by the government. It doesn't matter in the slightest if they were abusing the power for private or state gain, it's a state agency and its employees abusing the access, that implicitly makes it the state abusing the power they have.
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Ehh, I look at it more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%E2%80%93time_tradeoff

Either we can have more stuff and larger material/waste/energy/emissions footprint to save us some time/effort or improve convenience/pleasure, or we can put in the time & effort to lessen our footprint. I say we're overindulging our pleasures and underperforming our responsibilities.

That's not to say we're necessarily lazy, but likely due to a combination of pressures that distract and exhaust us through the course of our modern lives. Remove the oppressive/coercive/manipulative influences and more individuals will have the space to act responsibly. The greater challenge will be to train them to actually do so.

You seem to want to wash your hands of the whole thing, as if the presence of major polluters somehow absolves you from your part in this. Ultimately, it comes down to the actions of individuals. The faceless organizations pillaging the environment subsist entirely on our patronage; stop feeding into them and they die off. Ezpz.

Is handwashing dishes & clothes really too much to ask?
>China and soon India are the two countries that make me feel hopeless about controlling CO2

A helpful guide to assuage your apprehensions

https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/india/

https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china/

https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/usa/2020-07-30/

(USA data is incomplete for July 2021)

I am worried about China too, but as an Indian, I can assure you that everyone in India is climate conscious and the govt. is doing its best to reach its pledges and targets.
The consumer would still bear the costs either way.
The news are pretty depressing these last couple of days. We're marching towards very dystopian future.
> The secret to Blackbird, Cavallaro explained, is that once the wind gets the vehicle going, its wheels start to turn the propeller blades — they're connected to the blades by a chain. As the vehicle speeds up, its wheels turn the propeller faster and faster. The propeller blades, in turn, act as a fan, pushing more air behind the land yacht and thrusting it forward.

That's a terrible explanation - no wonder people doubt the system would work!
Everything in the article leads me to believe this only threatens the “cryptocurrency” industry, but I don’t have the actual text to the amendment. Is anything threatening “crypto” itself?
Right, especially when he put $1.5b in Bitcoin.
The New York City council recently passed a bill that requires apps, like Doordash, to share the customers real name, number, email address.

Their reasoning is that this somehow "helps" small-business.

https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4...
Thats not facebook. Some scummy companies do sell user data, but facebook does not and never has.
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If the gathering is large enough they can't stop it and will back down. See the yellow vests movement.
The treadmill demos made me think of another counterintuitive possibility that I wondered if anyone had pulled off: sailing a boat indirectly up a river in no (bank relative) wind.

Turns out, it has been done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2il8Fagbyk
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The wind pushes the propeller, the gearing of the wheels to the propeller cause the overall vehicle to advance faster than the blades on the propeller (as seen by the wind).

It's an overdrive—the wind pushes the vehicle faster than the wind itself, but the vehicle gets less net propulsion force when you sum up the tractive force and the wind force.
This is turbine technology. Turbines are energy source agnostic (gas, nuclear, solar concentration, etc) and will continue to be used for many years. They are basically the only viable way to reliably turn a heat gradient into electricity. Any advancement in this fundamental technology is welcome.

The mention of clean coal in an image at the top of the article is irrelevant except for political messaging reasons, which I agree is a dumb reason for it to be there but here we are.
> I had this... a third-party seller started harassing me via email to submit feedback

I has a very similar experience. I bought a cheap USB cable pack comprised of 5 USB cables of varying length, and after a span of a couple of weeks all 5 cables stopped working. Once I posted a review I started getting pestered by the seller asking to change the review and offering replacements, which was not unusual, but afterwards started offering 20$ in exchange for a retraction of the bad reviewto instead post a positive one. I recall receiving about half a dozen emails from the seller, even after I stopped replying.
The planet may not care about fariness, but developed countries can do.

As a compensation for years of above average pollution, let them spend some decades in negative pollution (removing carbon from the atmosphere) to offset for all the suffering they have caused.
So... I don't think there's a universal "underlying problem." Everything has a context. Mobilising the capacity of an economy is, IMO, a macroeconomic question. Besides being big and involving the whole economy, macroeconomics is almost synonymous with monetary economics... the economics of money.

So, I don't think you can seperate it from tax and monetary policy.
But Apple only plans to scan photos that are synced with iCloud, don't they? So you could just switch to an E2E encrypted alternative and drop iCloud completely.
There is no Evil Incorporated, nor is there a conspiracy, but when you are a company who has all of them as clients, from energy, chemical, lobbyists, to pharma, defense, and political organizations, it is a who's who of really serious baddies. This is normal, except your business is shaping the attention of children and young people based on the intentions of these organizations.

I'm sure the platforms manage their ethics, but this idea that we should trust them with moral authority because they deal with evil more than anyone else should be more suspect. I think it is far more likely that they are compromised by interests than resolute defenders of principle. At the end of the day, social media companies are just euphemistic peddlars of nuanced variations of porn, and a we probably shouldn't be relying on them for judgment on the quality of public discourse.

Censorship (to say nothing of the co-ordinated censorship between platforms) is a blunt instrument with a lot of side effects, and people are surely going to start up their own version of something, I'm saying we should think a lot harder about these issues, because we really don't want to be around when people finally get sick of it and start erecting their own platforms.
It's still no and far from a direct democracy.
The world is not near the end of the pandemic – epidemiologist Larry Brilliant
Agree. It was how a lot of us Aussies would learn the iconic songs that inspired bands and there was a lot of commonality despite the resulting bands being very different. Its how we knew about The Pixies way before 'that movie' came out, and if you watched Rage guest programmed more than twice, chances are you found out who The Smiths were.

The Rage programmers were great, MTV in comparison had a lot of excitement but more production and less music, and it didn't help that our local MTV in Australia was hosted by Richard Wilkins...

Rage was no-nonsense exposure to music, MTV was more about the hype, although Public Enemy did get broadcast on both.

Music videos can be a great artform, but we're probably slowly losing them thanks to digital consumption diversity and attention deficit surplus which was ironically heavily encouraged by MTV's fast and furious editing style.
I'm not repeating myself again. But given your comment history I'm sure that you're just here in bad faith in general.
"Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5-lDJWCUAAwfya?format=jpg
Well, they could always try putting pressure on the tech giants in other places via other means in order to get them to acquiesce to these sorts of anti-privacy measures. Maybe via things like anti-trust measures which seem to be popular.
>> you can be political active in other ways than direct votes.

Which is what we're doing here, by participating in protests, complaining to agencies and governing bodies as well as Apple itself against this technology. Or is this not up to your definition of "politically active"?

>>You can leave the country

I'm envious of your position in life where this is the first thing that springs to your mind, well done you.

>> Don't wiggle your way out of your extremist position that you can't do anything except building technology which would be totally obsolete if you fixed your political problem.

Uhm....are you sure you have the right argument there? Or maybe replying to the wrong person?
No, that's not why Hohn's record is not the world record any more than "Hohn is not the current world record holder because he never threw the current implement." Or that "Zelezny never threw the old one." The world record is set according to the latest rules of the sport, and Hohn's throw did not meet the standard by definition. You clearly have no idea what the level of outperformance is of Jan Zelezny's record. It is by some stats evaluations more of an outlier than Bolt's 100m record. For the record, I am a former national-class thrower who has trained with the national record holder and had the opportunity to work a former world record holder on multiple occasions.
You're right that it falls far short, but it corrects one of the fundamental misunderstandings many people have about the vehicle: the wind does not spin the propeller, the wheels do.
Yeah, my first inclination is that since the wind is turning the propeller and the propeller is turning the wheels via a gear system, the speed of the vehicle will be determined by the propeller speed, the gear ratio, and the tire diameter (ignoring friction and air resistance for a moment). The gear ratio is the critical component. It's not like the propeller is a simple sail. I could be completely missing something though.
Call centre used by UK firms accused of intrusively monitoring home workers
Well, people of a certain background get treated like shit by the supposedly universal healthcare systems in Europe, so there's that.
i would guess that they are about 1000x worse than conventional silicon
Who thinks it’s a fallacy?
I’m pretty sure Russia is still way below (50%) the 1990 levels though.
This is just streaming spam and any site that accepts user-generated content is susceptible to it.

Having been on their side it can sometimes be very difficult to mitigate without manual approval. This is not automated - it's done by humans and they adjust their patterns against any automatic mitigation attempts.
Exactly. This has all been done for 10 years in various forms.
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Can you please be sensible? Direct demoracy is not working with 445 million people.
I think others have mentioned CCL already, but if you live in the USA want a specific, concrete, easy action you can take RIGHT NOW to move us toward a carbon tax & dividend, check this out:

https://citizensclimatelobby.org/senate/

Right now we have the best chance in a long time to actually get a carbon tax passed, but it depends on lots of us calling and writing our senators to make sure they know we want one! If you support this, please do it as soon as you have a chance.

And I very much agree -- even for people who are willing to take individual action, without including environmental impact into the price of things, it's very hard to figure out where you can best make a difference.
Yes, users are price sensitive when it comes to selling their privacy. They also have a different sensitivity upon consideration of who the other party is and their perceived/intended use of the data.

To me, this isn't so surprising and is fully consistent with a greater willingness to give personal info to e.g. Amazon than e.g. the government.
That only works for gatherings not associated with a legal entity.

For example a sports club ( football? ) can't ignore the rules or it will be fined / closed.
Here's a report on a study that shows we are already at > 2C: https://www.ecowatch.com/greenhouse-gases-paris-agreement-26...
Isn't it time to block the sun's radiant energy? What is the real disadvantage to trying to lift a giant solar umbrella that blocks light from hitting the Earth? It may be pricy but we spend billions per climate disaster, if we could use a few falcon heavy launches and reduce incoming energy by 1 or 2%, we could buy ourselves the time to fix our emissions and ramp up carbon capture.

The other alternative could be increasing cloud cover by releasing aerosols into the upper atmosphere. This would be like an artificial volcanic eruption, a purposeful but temporary hazing which would buy us a little time and let the planet cool off for 50 years before we're ready to go au natural again.

Can someone give me the critiques of these? They seem much simpler than crying about disasters and reports to GOP foot-draggers and all those who don't care about science. The sad reality is around 10,000 government and business officials have 90% of the power on climate, I don't see convincing all these power brokers to help the biosphere, they want profits not environmental restoration. So, let's have them block the sun's energy until we've transitioned our energy system.
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Read the second part of my comment. 90% of Chinese CO2 emissions are not trade based.
I thought solar conversion efficiency was a large fraction already. There's no room for 1000x improvement. Maybe 20%. What is this title talking about?
The most mature (4G/5G) project would probably be https://github.com/srsran
Couple it with a LimeSDR and you'd have a fully open HW/SW stack.
Bezos's wealth comes out to be about $500 per person.

I would be more than happy to pay $500 to another Bezos that provides my life was as much value.

Amazon is so convenient!
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