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This is great.

Every decision maker should read that list.
I don't think most sciences use "formal" proof. Maths & Computer science do.
> Go back to less than 1B human on planet earth

How do you know it's 1 billion and not 1 million or 10 billion? Hint: you don't know.

This is non-actionable opinion and therefore actively harmful as it further propagates no-action on climate change or solving problems whatsoever.

The population is peaking anyway, growth rates are dramatically slowing, so this is not at all a relevant point.
As long as quorn and similar products continue to taste bland and have little texture, it's going to be an incredibly hard sell to convince people to switch over from meat, otherwise quorn would already be the top seller. And that's coming from someone who was a vegetarian for 10 years

Even the sausage in the picture looks dry
Elastic, like others at the time, have used open source to their advantage - to start. The obvious one is that it is built around the Apache Lucene, and I have no doubt that this is one of the reasons ES ended up being initially released under the Apache license.

Secondly, being released under a permissive open source license definitely helped with its adoption. I was working as a senior developer in a UK Government department in 2013 and we had need for a full-text search engine for a project - and even before v1, ES was a contender, and it was eventually selected once v1 was released. This was largely due to a) ease of set-up/use and b) it’s release under an open source license. If it had been under AGPL, would we have still used it? Yes, probably - our specific use case wouldn’t have been affected by such a license, and the dept. was relatively open to more complex OSS licenses - but I have worked for several other orgs. where even just the AGPL would have resulted in a hard “no”.

Thirdly, ES has had contributions from a wide range of people. I honestly don’t know how I’d even begin to evaluate how much value ES has got from community contributions, but I feel it’s likely to be greater than the costs of managing those contributions.

But of course eventually Elastic got funding and had shareholders to placate. I don’t really have much sympathy for them about this conflict - their early choices were in part clearly made to maximise their value, and they decided to cash in on that value at a later date - the fact that those decisions had implications for their value should have been somewhat obvious to any investor who did any due diligence. I’m still not entirely convinced that the open source model is antithetical to commercialisation, but I think it does highlight how early decisions around OSS licensing can affect such processes.
If my room was 2 degrees hotter right now, I would barely notice. So "2 degrees" by itself actually really does mean very little even to me - and I already know about the catastrophic effects that are going to come out of 2 degrees. I have to think about the sea level rise, increasing heat waves, more floods, more extreme weather, and so on for it to actually have an impact on even me.
> For example for biking you could allow whatever vehicle the competitors choose so long as it is powered entirely by the cyclist.

The World Human Powered Vehicle Association [1] oversees such competition, on land, in water, and even in the air [2].

[1] http://www.whpva.org/

[2] http://www.whpva.org/hpv.html
> Nearly 1 in 10 children in the US will be sexually abused before the age of 18.

This can only be hyperbole. How are you defining sexual abuse?
It's bonkers how they used up so much IPv4 address space just for your local machine.
They still have the incentive, they would gain more money if they have a smaller carbon footprint.
More than 1,000 earthquakes swarmed Yellowstone Park in July 2021
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Yeah well. Everybody getting invited to that knew up front the sort of person who was inviting them. It's not like they sold them to book clubs or choirs...
>Farming is a small contributor to greenhouse gas emissions

This is soo wrong:

>The AFOLU sector is responsible for just under a quarter (~10 – 12 GtCO2eq / yr) of anthropogenic GHG emissions mainly from deforestation and agricultural emissions from livestock, soil and nutrient management (robust evidence; high agreement)[11.2]. Anthropogenic forest degradation and biomass burning (forest fires and agricultural burning) also represent relevant contributions.
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>Annual GHG emissions from agricultural production in 2000 – 2010 were estimated at 5.0 – 5.8 GtCO2eq / yr while annual GHG flux from land use and land-use change activities accounted for approximately 4.3 – 5.5 GtCO2eq / yr.
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>Leveraging the mitigation potential in the sector is extremely important in meeting emission reduction targets (robust evidence; high agreement) [11.9].

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...

>(...) nonsensical if you look at the math that is used to justify it.

Please enlighten me!

Technical summary of "Special Report on Climate Change and Land": https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/4/2020/07/03_T...

Also, quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Report_on_Climate_Chan...

>According to the August 8 Carbon Brief in-depth article on the SRCCL, Chapter 2 provides data on livestock methane emissions, about 66% is agricultural methane" and "about 33% of global methane emissions" come from livestock.[22][23]:38
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Linux does the same!
(Well, almost:)

On Linux, write() (and similar system calls) will transfer at most 0x7ffff000 (2,147,479,552) bytes, returning the number of bytes actually transferred. (This is true on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems.)
Kafkaesque is the word that describes it pretty well. Every few months i glance at that imposing black mountain of web development and it still makes an ominous impression. I 've stuck with PHP/Jquery and can still build whatever stupid idea comes in my head but always wonder what's behind the door.

> The gateway to the law is open as it always is, and the doorkeeper has stepped to one side, so the man bends over to try and see in. When the doorkeeper notices this he laughs and says, "If you're tempted give it a try, try and go in even though I say you can't. Careful though: I'm powerful. And I'm only the lowliest of all the doormen. But there’s a doorkeeper for each of the rooms and each of them is more powerful than the last. It's more than I can stand just to look at the third one.”
In a pandemic, we make weird friends. I much prefer some pro conservative anti abortion org asking for less censorship than a dozen woke newspapers and rumor mills calling me a fascist or antivaxxer because I don't treat science as an unquestionable holy cow. Or while propping up corrupt politicians because they're on the same team.

I don't need to agree with someone 100% in order to agree that doing X will make the world more like what i want it to be like.

In this case, if this org is wrong, the answer is counterspeech based on facts, not shooing people away from afar without a chance to listen. Because that is the tic of the authoritarian who is intellectually bankrupt.
Yeah, sorry about that. I'm generally against obfuscation, but in this case, the "why" of the resulting differences in calculations is well known to most programmers; the big issue is not "why we get different results", but rather "are we ok this type of inconsistent behavior".

If you simply showed that modulo and implicit casting work differently in different languages, we wouldn't have had any discussion. With the obfuscation, we got some discussion about the main point... and the discussion about the obfuscation. Honestly, none of us managed to capture all the perspectives well enough. Yeah, the "Ask HN" could have used a less obfuscated expression and been better worded to clarify that the specific semantic differences weren't the main point here. Similarly, most commenters (myself included in my previous comment) failed to realize/clarify that there were two discussions going on here, but that one of them is settled with a technical footnote.
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Close to zero as growing the grain was not "free" conversion from atmospheric CO2 to glucose or w/e.
It is hard to "care".

People are bombarded with articles and viewpoints and even lies to the point that they are unable to orient themselves - and just zone out.

When the easiest thing to say is to just tell them to "stop burning stuff".

Do we call it fuel? Stop using it.

Can't stop using it? Ok, but please use as little as possible.
A.E. Currie's Utopia 5 series of books are well worth a read. They are speculative fiction, describing how the world burns over the second quarter of the 21st century. But frankly terrifying as each year passes and they align with reality.
> They think I'm a crazy person when I mention the never-ending storms and lack of drinking water.

If you put it that way it's no wonder that they think you are crazy. Storms mean heavy rainfall that means more drinking water. What is your point, exactly?
You can kinda see where C's weird i[a] notation for arrays came from, and even why.
I find this controversy kind of vexing. Apple crossed the line between being strongly opinionated and patronising years ago. There's nothing about this plan that is out of character, Apple have and will continue making unilateral decisions on behalf of their users because it's their shtick.
> Even if they pay the same tuition as masters or bachelors students this is usually around 800-900 CHF per semester,

AFAIK, as long as you are registered as a PhD student, you have to pay the fees.

That's easy to pay if you are an ETH employee with a normal salary.

It might not be that easy to pay if you are in Wuhan university, with a Wuhan PhD student "salary".
I wonder, if I installed Google desktop on an old PC image and stored "life of pi audiobook CHAPTER 65 FULL[freemp3q.org].flv" in "htdocs/2/", would it still be found? Are these delistings just empty promises? :-)
They'll have a choice between two similar products. One is $10 because of a $5 carbon charge, the other is $6 with a $0 carbon charge. What will they choose?

They'll choose the $6 one, and keep their carbon tax dividend in their pocket too.

They won't really be worse off.

On the other hand, the rich will be worse off because they take more flights, consume more resources, and generally cause more carbon emissions anyway from their day-to-day lives.
For me, my problem with it is nothing more than selfish. There’s literally no upside for me. Best case, my battery dies a little faster or my power bill goes up a small amount that I will never notice. Worst case, I get a SWAT team in my face because someone accidentally clicks “yes” instead of “no” when reviewing a false-positive.

What’s the upside to me, for this tech? There’s less of this content in the world? I don’t see it anyway, so for me, it doesn’t do anything except become a potential (low) risk liability.

I don’t see why I’m paying their power bill to do something they’re legally obligated to do.
> the internet will be just black text on a white background

Where do we sign up?
It’s just so hard to know what actions have what impact on CO2 production. Some are high-pain, low-gain (switching devices off instead of standby?), some are opposite (cycling instead of driving when possible etc).

For that if for no other reason, I’d rather if consumer prices included an explicit CO2 tax. The here can be a rebate for poorer people, or personal allowance, whatever, but there would be a fixed yardstick for measuring your personal impact.

Off the top of my head, I have no idea which if my activities generates the most CO2. My car? Energy use? Diet? Going skiing once a year? No idea.

Newspaper articles only help a little, they usually present an incomplete picture, and optimising against an incorrect utility function is often counterproductive.

I’m imagining something like VAT, where “value added/carbon” adds up over the lifetime of product/service production.
> About this time, someone usually mocks "it's always about the kids, think about the kids." To those critics: They have not seen the scope of this problem or the long term impact. There is nearly a 1-to-1 relationship between people who deal in CP and people who abuse children. And they rarely victimize just one child. Nearly 1 in 10 children in the US will be sexually abused before the age of 18.

Maybe it's the fact that I don't have kids, or that I spend most of my life online with various devices and services. But I would much rather drop the NCMEC, drop any requirement to monitor private messages or photos, reinstate strong privacy guarantees, and instead massively step up monitoring requirements for families. This argument seems like we're using CSAM as a crutch to get at child abusers. If the relationship is really nearly 1:1, it seems more efficient to more closely monitor the groups most likely to be abusers instead.

It even seems to me that going after a database of existing CSAM is counterproductive. With that material, the damage is already done. In a perverse sense, we want as many pedos as possible to buy old CSAM, since this reduces the market for new abuse. It seems to me that initiatives like this do the opposite.

I am not defending CSAM here. But CSAM and child abuse are connected problems, and istm child abuse is the immensely greater one. We should confront child abuse as the first priority, even at the expense of CSAM enforcement, even at the expense of familial privacy. With a rate of 1 in 10, I don't see how not doing so can be ethically defended.
Even this isn't the problem; I generally prefer the style (in Java at least) of splitting things up into small pieces, pkolaczk below gives some more rationale. It's certainly easier to test, and is often easier to read. But yes, people can go way too far with it, leading to the infamous pejorative "ravioli code". And people can pervert it, e.g. in the name of expediency creating paranoia by wrecking previously simple and clear functions by editing in functionality that function shouldn't be handling and violating the principle of least surprise. Few things hurt as much as getting relaxed in a codebase, able to skim over most function calls that aren't relevant to the problem you're looking at, only to then be tricked by an innocuously named method along the code path doing what it shouldn't and wondering if you need to start inlining (mentally or otherwise) everything to avoid future trickery.

Terseness that comes from powerful expressions (simple SQL queries can replace lots of code in any language) is great, though terseness just in the form of density shouldn't necessarily be a goal. At my last job the worst Java code was the most dense, with huge methods spanning hundreds of lines and sometimes up to 10 levels of indentation. Sure it's all there, but it's hard to understand everything it's doing (and more importantly why), impossible to cover with good tests, very difficult to refactor because of so many implicit dependencies you have to untangle first (and there are higher priority items), no justified pressure against "just adding one more conditional" to the middle of some big method to satisfy some new requirement from somewhere (so long as the tribal knowledge exists about where such code ought to be placed anyway, it'll take anyone new a long time to find out from scratch), and so much dense code in many core infrastructure areas was initially written by a superstar coder over a decade prior -- if he ever left the company, a lot of things would break with no one to fix them in a reasonable amount of time, he has so much institutional knowledge and no time or pressure to document it all if such a thing were even possible.

Out of control ravioli code on the other hand was relatively easy to wrangle back under control -- my favorite was a huge logging framework written by a Principle level employee that actually wasn't used by anything, not even its supposed log() entry point, so it was just a big no-op, and could be deleted.

The hardest parts of maintaining software aren't the difficulties in understanding a clever piece of code using advanced language features, but just the sheer complexity of computation being expressed. This is part of the essence that has even a few old time Lispers saying things like "language doesn't really matter" -- nevertheless, I think CL pressures reduce complexity and difficulty of understanding more so than Java, and still decades later has better tools to pierce the veil when understanding is difficult. (Monitoring tools, not as much, though well-understood code tends to not need as much monitoring.)
I felt it often. In many cases, I stay for their network. Most of my bosses were always way more connected than myself, and working for them and making them successful leveraging what I could do better than them (tech/analytical skills) made it possible for me to ride their tail and get pulled in nice future opportunities as they moved forward in their career, even across different companies, and decided to bring me along. Many times with minimal/bogus interview processes since I came "highly recommended by the VP". It has probably been what defined my career in terms of success.

In some other cases, I also worked with bosses that were just better than me under any professional dimension you could imagine: technical skills, soft skills, business acumen, wisdom, experience, ...
I'd say that a reduction of systemic issues to personal responsibility is a much bigger problem than that. Global warming is a problem of externalities and can only be solved as such.
That's because a shell isn't a crustacean, it's a mollusc.
I know this will just haul in the downvotes, but I just want to point out the EVERY IPCC report, EVER, has been dead wrong. Every single one of them.
If it's the one with this caption:

> Researchers excavating the sunken ruins of Thônis-Heracleion have discovered an array of archaeological treasures. (Christoph Gerigk © Franck Goddio / Hilti Foundation)

That is obviously not a wicker basket. It looks like red-figure pottery.

Compare this quote from the article:

> Other objects found on or surrounding the tumulus included ancient pottery, bronze artifacts and figurines depicting the Egyptian god Osiris.

> “We found hundreds of deposits made of ceramic,” Goddio tells the Guardian. “One above the other. These are imported ceramic, red on black figures.”
It's not the same model, as you're not paying for version 1.0, 2.0, etc.

With Sketch, for the year since your purchase, you receive all updates. Whether they are major or minor.

I get that it sounds similar to legacy licensing models, but it is not the same. I think it's a good blend of patronage/subscription and keeping-what-you-paid-for

With the old 1.0/2.0 paid upgrade model, you could go years before the next major version. You also got different tiers of upgrade pricing: upgrading to 3.0 from 1.0? Or from 2.0? Or are you buying 3.0 outright?

With something like Sketch, any time you pay $100, you get the latest and greatest for one year. If you want to take a break you're not financially punished for skipping updates

So I would say the Sketch model is quite a bit different
Their record on not accepting requests from governments is not that good: another comment here mentions a few cases from China, but Russia has had some success too https://9to5mac.com/2021/03/16/russia-pre-install-iphone-app...
It's only your opinion that there's no social benefit. Which is a problem, because your opinion might be wrong. If you charge people appropriately for their carbon use such that it's no skin off your back if they continue consumption, then you don't risk destroying value in places where your opinion turns out wrong.
Wildfires in Canada and Russia. Floats in Germany. Etc, etc...

We have known 40 years what will happen and now for our leaders those consequences seem to come as a surprise.

I hope the Germans will vote for the Green party in the September's federal elections and other countries will follow the example.
Start with the entirely unnessecary carniverous apex predators (aka pets) people insist on keeping. If people cant get rid of pets, then asking them to avoid replicating their own DNA is going to be a challenge.
It's interesting to see how advanced some of these setups are – all in real-time. I recently found out how ads in football stadiums are masked out and switched in real-time depending on what location the game is broadcast: https://twitter.com/UltraLinx/status/1411807406728925196
"Might look into pinephone or something similar."

Pinephone is my hope, too, but do not expect anything stable soon. That will take some time, probably years. It does not happen on its own, though, they need support now to make it a real alternative and not just a tinker toy.
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Your analysis has one major flaw: It would only make sense if ice cream had as severe a climate impact as bitcoin. I have no reason to believe that it does.

You would have to find a list of things that people enjoy but don't bring societal benefit that add up to bitcoin's climate impact. I assume that list will then either:

• contain things that should actually be banned or

• add up to way more utility for way more people than bitcoin
We have the means to stop the catastrophe. We don't need more solutions, just to comprehend that our behavior is destroying our ecosystems and pick the right solutions for the right behavior. We just need to act on it.

Also, no one pretended that violence can be annihilated when we collectively decided to swallow that killing one another is not a right and we outlaw it (except in some context that is defined by laws and treaties).
> This is especially frustrating in the UK, where our existing warmth relies on the gulf stream; without it, our climate would be closer to others on the same latitude, like Canada.

That is overstating the effect of the gulf stream. Canada and Russia have continental weather - they get cold because the interior doesn't have a huge heat sink in the form of an ocean surrounding it keeping it warmer (or cooler).

The UK is small and surrounded by ocean, with prevailing winds off that ocean. It isn't going to have a continental weather system if the gulf stream is disrupted, and it isn't going to suddenly have a climate as cold as canada. It may have unpredictable effects and may not be desirable, but we wouldn't suddenly be suffering from equivalently cold weather as the same latitude in Canada or Russia.
While I find it nice that many people were able to bring to light some poorly written legislation, and actually have some impact , it's kind of a bummer that this action might not have been successful if it was not about money.
> One of the reasons that always comes up is legal.

And usually nobody has run that by legal, it’s just a way for managers to go “nope”.
Personally I like nearly all the (many) Quorn products I've eaten, and continue to eat on occasion, as a flexitarian. Esp the large (Best of British) sausages, the "chicken" pieces and to an extent the "mincemeat".

Can they improve? Yes, sure. But when cooked in good sauces / dishes they constantly impress for day-to-day meals.
Individuals can and should reduce their direct CO2 footprint. Most of personal energy budget goes for transportation and heating and/or cooling the living spaces. Two solutions enable you to stop directly burning stuff: EVs and heatpumps.

Beyond that, cap-and-trade scheme has worked to reduce SO2 emissions and it will work to reduce CO2 emissions.
As much as it is the new vogue to claim that Neanderthals where artistic, I am not convinced yet that these artifacts are not signs of newcomers (homo sapiens).