skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
taxes on usage/consumption could be progressive.

Using X costs you Y
Using XX costs you YYY
Using XXX costs you YYYYYY

This way water, electricity would still be cheap for most and would incentivise to stop overusing it.

You could still get a cheap flight once a year, but you won't be able to fly every weekend.
In my experience what's actually going on is a mix between "no, we don't do that here" and you're technically allowed but unless it breaks production you're not even given time to put a day or two into submitting a bugfix. Much more likely to merge the fix locally or something stupid. No idea about this poster, of course. Phrasing it as "my employer doesn't let me" would be less specific, but maybe also not wrong in this case.
On Aug 2, Denver was the first city to require the Covid-19 vaccine for its employees, and extended the vaccine mandate to employees of private companies as well. For Denver companies who do not comply, the public is urged to report these companies.
I have played with what feels like every framework rebuilding my personal site (which is still in the works). I looked at Gatsby, Next.js, etc. All of them felt like overkill for a simple site.

In the end I settled on a self created solution that takes markdown files (because I can write a blog post quick with it) that I upload to GitHub and then have netlify runs a build script on. This renders them using handlebar templates which the output is then deployed as pure static HTML. Google, users, etc are none the wiser. At first it was more of a "can I get this work" and in the end I found the time I save writing just markdown worth it. So many frameworks that I hear people using for even a simple personal site are absolute overkill.
In general I agree.

In practice, there are behaviours which provide no net social benefit, exact tremendous costs, and yet are inherently self-perpetuating. Legal prohibitions can help in this case. It's a form of demand-dampening.
But this isn't about body temperature or alcohol concentrations, so comparisons like that are not useful.

Look, I just had a glass of cool water, perhaps between five to ten degrees celsius. And I'm about to have a coffee. What's that, fifty degrees? With 5% to 10% milk concentration. And I think I'll be just fine. You don't?! What the hell is wrong with you?

If you want to explain why a two-degree increase in average temperature on the planet is dramatic, then you need to do better than compare it to something completely different.
The paris agreement is very specific: "Its goal is to limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels." Basically everyone has agreed to that.

It's impossible to interpret this in any other way as that emissions need to be massively reduced within the next couple of years.
While we're on the subject - can anyone provide examples on what purpose you're using notifications for privately?
What reason do we have to trust that the NSA won't knock on the door of apple and ask for a small expansion, as a matter of national security + here is your NDA outlining that any canary tampering will result in jail time? It's a closed system so we would have no way of knowing.
The benefit must be larger than publicly available information would hint.

Something like the PRISM program: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-cost...
And it's not just "unlawful or harmful.", it's "is or may be unlawful or harmful."

So the burden of proving whether or not it is unlawful or unharmful seems insane. What do you do when a cop says "Maybe it is harmful, it might look innocuous, but it's also street code for murder!"
Global warming impact: dynamic world map (UN)
> You are ignoring that countries whose population is increasing are, per capita, not emitting much

No I'm not and this is what makes the situation worse.

When people get richer they consume more. This is not only about CO2 per se but all resources. Global population growth has been a driver for both CO2 emissions and demand on all resources, but this is also compounded by reduction in poverty.

Imagine a world where all humans consumed as much as a Western European, or even worse an American, today: This would be much, much worse than our current situation.

So unless we want to live in 1984 meets The Matrix in order to drastically limit consumption of resources then we need to get the population down so that every human can enjoy a good life in a thriving environment.

I must say I don't understand why there seems to be a taboo on this.

> asking the culprits to curb their crazy consumption/pollution and leave the rest of the world alone.

It's not "us vs them". We are all on the same boat. The poorest do not want to remain poor, and rightly so. Everyone should have the right to reach highest living standard possible.
> "We will see even more intense and more frequent heatwaves," said Dr Friederike Otto, from the University of Oxford, UK, and one of the IPCC report's authors.

> "And we will also see an increase in heavy rainfall events on a global scale, and also increases in some types of droughts in some regions of the world."

According to TFA these are the consequences to expect if 1.5 degrees rise occurs. Doesn't sound like "code red" to me.
Almost every industry has started to see vaccine mandates or encouragement of vaccination in the past few weeks. While Vanguard is not requiring employees to get the Covid-19 vaccine at this time, it’s providing an incentive to get more workers to get vaccinated. The financial giant will pay $1,000 to each employee who provides proof of the Covid-19 vaccination by Oct. 1. The offer also extends to workers who received their doses before the announcement.

https://www.nobraa.com/en/covid-19-test-kit-kits-suppliers-w...
Aviation overall is just 3.5% of emissions: https://research.noaa.gov/article/ArtMID/587/ArticleID/2667/...

I'm not saying we should leave it as is, but there are easier and more impactful things to focus on.
The deniers are largely a product of propaganda and shouldn't be overestimated. The ones spreading the propaganda however, are neither deniers nor disempowered, but they would rather go down with the ship than possibly let go of their current privileges. Their phases "It's not happening", "It's not human made", "Don't be too alarmist, it's not that bad", "Ah, well it's over now", all serve the purpose of doing absolutely nothing.
Is this some kind of C--? scnr
Bees find refuge from perilous world in robotic hive
Unambiguity about right or wrong is necessary here. It exists when finding bugs, but not in more subtle things.

For example, asking a junior for feedback as a friendly gesture and exposing him to an interesting problem. If he then takes the opportunity to one-up by explaining his naive opinions about irrelevant details, do you ignore him? He will experience it as being marginalised or "gate-kept".

The problem is that youngish guys have so much ego invested in feeling smart.
General public will understand the problem when first country ceases to exist (there are multiple candidates that will completely become uninhabitable in a few decades).
Drug Design, Development and Repositioning with AI
Carbon-based DNA-replicating life didn’t go anywhere though, if that’s of any comfort.
We still cannot be sure if it is anthropocentric climate chance but that doesn't really matter. If we want to "return to baseline conditions" - what we try to show on graphs, then we need to cool down the atmosphere using aerosols: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160519120731.h...

Realistically there is not and there isn't going to be in the current decade an agreement between nations on CO2 reduction. Whatever we change in EU China and India is going to undo by mining coal. So geo-engineering negotiations should start now.
> No one at FreeBSD is jumping up and down about it. Maybe because there's more to a software project than maximising profit.

That is because xBSD have more than enough people to develop on it - hobbyists and companies alike.

For smaller software with less of an established ecosystem, the supply of people willing to work on it for free is... not exactly much.
Indeed. The crucial thing is: iff you disable iCloud photos upload, the scanning Feature is disabled.
Heh, this seems mild. Try reviewing one of the real estate "entrepreneurs" in tourist cities that have a few flats for rent. You know, the ones you find on Booking.com or on AirBNB. I was literally threatened last time. Which is why I only use actual hotels since.
Decoding China Tech Corporate Gibberish
You could post on a Wordpress blog. I'd be very surprised if there weren't plugins for posting automatically to every social media web site I've ever heard of.
> And in a cold European climate, most people seem to think that’s a good thing. Warm summers are enjoyable when you’re swimming in the sea and having barbecues in the park.

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.

The gulf stream is already being disrupted by meltwater from the arctic.
I think Randall puts it into perspective very well:

https://xkcd.com/1732/

(but still not targeting laypersons)

Scientific facts alone are not helping most people.

Recently there was torrential rain in parts of germany. And people were warned (per official SMS) with: Expect x liters of rain per hour.

Most understood, ok, so there is heavy rain. I keep my umbrella close by.

What they did not understand is, that this meant a massive flood, with houses close to small rivers vanished and over 160 people died.
Ah, I understand then.

Generally, I've seen Mr/M[r]s/Mx[0] and F/M/X.

The former is officially used in GB, but it sees informal use in US media and elsewhere. I live in a country that doesn't use honorifics, but I use 'Mx' where it's required. I'm unsure about non-English equivalents for 'Mx'.

The latter sees use in BE, DE, IS, MT, NL and on job boards in Europe and more progressive areas. It's also seeing use in the US on passports and NY birth certificates.

There are of course others, but none as widely adopted as these.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mx_(title)
Since lockdowns have been lifted I don't thin this will be relevant anymore.
https://thetakeout.com/ancient-rome-shipwreck-amphorae-wine-...

Can't find the article right now, but people have successfully drunk 2000 year old wine that was laying in amphorae at the bottom of the sea, preserved by a layer of olive oil which was placed on top to keep the wine from oxidizing. The Mediterranean is full of interesting stuff.
The world's population was at around 5.3 bn in 1990 and is now approaching 7.7 bn. This ain't a popular opinion on HN, but I think a key factor to getting climate change under control (whatever that means), is to reduce the growth and to stabilize the population.
the scales apparently change?

it took me a lot longer to scroll through bezos orannge than 185x the 1 Billion Blue rectangle.
> what can concerned citizens do?

What can they do that's effective?

Nothing.

Build guillotines, maybe?
I think this is being a bit pedantic. If they can slide one on your device, they can slide 100
My guess: expensive.
Gas turbine power plants are not cheap, but fuel wasn't that expensive back then.

I'd expect the replacement to either use hydrogen with hydrogen-resistant steel, or, more likely, helium.
I think carbon-carbon composite can handle extreme temperatures in a helium atmosphere, beyond what you can reasonably reach with a fuel flame.
However, the temperatures should be feasible for fusion power plants, which could use helium or another noble gas (in case helium diffuses too fast) to cool the chamber-facing tiles.

The light gas would be for power density by way of having a high speed-of-sound.

Also, we mostly switched to Rankine cycle for external combustion power plants.
Steam turbines are quite good at what they're doing.
And do what? Cause even more human suffering by preventing others from reaching a better standard of living?

What do we ramp down? Electronics? Clothes? Food? Transport?
https://hnhiring.com/
Also see Roots of Lisp[0] for an equivalent article, similarly ending with a working metacircular evaluator.

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html
There was a huge flood in the Netherlands in 1953 which killed thousands and as a result a big barricade of walls was built around the whole area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works . There's been not even the slightest chance of flooding in that area since. Smart things with segmentation can also be done.

I think it is possible to hold this off for the richest cities. It'll cost a lot to build, maintain and perhaps even upgrade it, for sure. The Netherlands had the big benefit of a major natural gas find in that time that gave a huge boost to the economy, otherwise this wouldn't have been possible. Also, there were less environmental restrictions back then. All that will make it more expensive today.
Why did you force yourself to read such an inane work and then spend/waste even more time reviewing it? You need to review your priorities.
I read the first chapter review skimmed the rest and filed your report in the waste bin.
I don't think this is going to be enough. We see everyday people affected by the pandemic yet many of them still refuse to get vaccinated, keep distance or even wear a mask... They will just dismiss these consequences as "one offs"...

I believe that our best chance is to do as much as we cand right now and to induce a sense of climate awareness into the younger generations. Bring them up believing, well, actually knowing, that the climate must be respected and protected constantly.
https://whoishiring.me/
> to other power generation technologies of the era.

Emphasis added. These days we can design significantly better steam turbines due to advancements in computational fluid dynamics and air as a working fluid is just not as nice (thermodynamically speaking) as steam. The Brayton cycle
is still used in jet engines and CCGT power plants though.
There were people infected with Covid, in hospital, which still denied that Covid is real. Granted, those extremes are rare, but it shows how resilient in their beliefs deniers are. I think you are quite optimistic in thinking people will wake up.

Nevertheless, we don’t need everyone to accept the reality, for us to be able to take action as a civilization.
Thanks, good call out. This was largely based on some charts from An Inconvenient Truth which showed temp as a latent responding variable to CO2 PPM.

Obviously a lot of research has happened since then, so I looked it up, and the lag period between CO2 and temperature rise is much shorter than I expected. It seems it is just a decade - so if we went to carbon negative today, we could see results in under 10 years [1] [2].

Kind of unclear if the baseline carbon we could achieve will result in YoY decrease in temperature, given the feedback loops and it already raising temperatures every year.

If the research you mentioned is predicated on massive carbon takeback then I am highly suspicious. The public sector doesn't have the will, and the private sector doesn't have the incentive.

[1]: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/10/3/03...

[2]: https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/16/is-it-too-late-to-prevent-cl...
IIRC you used to be able to do this, kind of, with the Google Search Appliance virtual edition: https://googlecode.blogspot.com/2008/11/announcing-google-se...
Why are they unable to work else where?
Am I stuck in a local maximum?
According to TFA (a few paragraphs above your quotes, even) we won't stay at 1.5 degrees.
So you never had a boss that were less knowledgeable, experienced, or wiser?
Having anything pressurised is a liability, be it CO2 or steam.

I am puzzled how the turbine can be 20 times smaller. That would mean 20 times the load or even more. What is it made of?
Quantitative easing swaps bank reserves for high grade bonds. How is that remotely equivalent to the forced liquidation and distribution of equity?
> Where are the weeds?

I've been describing them? "number of shares owned x current market price on an actively traded public corporation" doesn't mean that you can execute it. So it's not perfectly valid, to the point where you need specialist knowledge to even know at what rate you can expect to get that turned into liquid cash, or convince the seller to accept shares at their market value, which not all sellers will be willing to do. I'm sort of confused why you don't see any issues with that definition of wealth, when the simple act of attempting to exercise that wealth suddenly means you have less of it? The same is not true of cash for example...

A more accurate measure might be, "number of shares owned x current market price on an actively traded public corporation with a rate of loss over a specified time period, where if you wish to access the money faster, the rate of loss will increase based on this model" or something to that effect. I'm sure someone who actually knows the intricacies of this will be able to chime in with the expected amount of money you will end up with given that size of equity stake to some specified error margin.

> I asked before why anybody would want to spend $180 billion in a single day.

Well if you take spend as a transfer of wealth, then I mentioned a divorce which would fit as a significant wealth transfer that happens the instant the document is signed, Inheritance would be another.

> Bill Gates is in the slow process

The fact that you are describing it as slow is an impediment it may not be much of one, but it is an impediment. These are those weeds.
Individuals vote and buy. Companies keep doing what they do because:
1. The law allows it
2. There is a demand for their products
I have hands on experience with, what I'd call at least attempted fraud, with crypto. Back when Sweden thought about state backed crypto, a lot of ads showed up where you could invest in that. I almost did, call centers used Austrian numbers. Not sure if there was even any coin behind that. I reported it to police, got a letter after a couple of months that the investigation led nowhere and was dropped, apparently Austrian authorities did find anything on the reported number.

A couple of hours online found

- the company behind that operated out of the UK
- the call center was not in Austria but used local numbers for a while
- company was known for that shady business but never even got a slap on the wrist

I decided to never count on authorities for that kind of fraud. Or report it, because that's just a waste of time, unless you lost a shitload of money.
Cool. I initially assumed the tables were CGI too.
Probably, at least until someone successfully gets a court to say otherwise, by which time it'll be irrelevant because everyone will either have installed & enabled it to get the updates or (less likely given how entrenched many iDevice users have become) moved to other products.

And after the case to stop them refusing security updates for those without it installed+enabled, there will need to be another one to force them to allow it to be disabled, then a few circuits around the court of public tattle to make it really disable and not magically re-enable itself at random intervals.
As usual, the term "addiction" is being used in the article (and in the comments, unfortunately) to refer to two quite different things.

Addiction to something like Oxycontin is a physical addiction; the symptoms of withdrawal can be severe enough to kill you. Addiction to something like Twitter may involve dopamine pathways, or not; but withdrawal isn't going to result in serious physical symptoms.

Consider nicotine. Withdrawal from even a serious habit takes no more than about 72 hours. The habit of having a ciggie between your fingers is another matter; habits are really hard to shift.

I think it's a mistake to subsume habitual behaviours under the handle "addiction". There are two different things going on here, and it's useful to have two words, with distinct meanings, so that we can distinguish them in discourse.
Or alternatively, then came Internet for the masses. Before that a lid was kept on a huge part of the population, the dream of raw global information sharing turned out to be a nightmare our societies/species is no ready for.
What kind of wish balancing can take place between me and an ant, if my wish is to squish it?

Labour law exists for a reason, and it changes over time for a reason.
The fact that there is no single absolute truth does not imply that we should not be setting limits.
If we want to be carbon neutral in twenty years, poorer people need pretty strong incentives too. I don't see that working out if the carbon tax is mostly cost neutral for them.
This confirms my suspicions that this can’t be fixed. We could discover fusion tomorrow, stop all CO2 release and we’re still on a catastrophic path that will wipe out a big part of humanity.

Anything we do is just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
If you upload a file to email/a messenger service it would then scan the image.
Have you ever felt this way or you always realize these things?
Water vapor also means more clouds which reflect sunlight. Are you sure that it's a positive feedback loop?

Edit: this is a genuine question. The last time I read about it the result was inconclusive whether it caused or hindered warming.
Yep, I'm frustrated by the same issues myself :)
It also excludes (to some degree) those who cannot afford a dedicated, quiet office with fast internet at home.
Levelling off at 8-9 billions is unsustainable if poverty is eradicated and probably even if it isn't.

The demand on resources is simply too great.

Global population is a key problem for humanity.
I don’t disagree but plenty of people I know who voted for Biden didn’t think it applied to them.

$400k per year barely lets you buy a home in the Bay Area.

And regardless, what makes you think they’ll stop at $400k? That’s the point. Eventually a tax bill gets passed some couple making $150k need to “pay their fair share”.
>))))))

Well that's certainly on par.
They're both true. One is subjective experience, the other is objective experience.
One that, and two, emergency oxygen masks work really well against CO2.
It's only toxic at concentrations far above what you notice, not at all toxic at concentrations you clearly notice it (and take care to fix the seat/seal of your oxygen mask), and you shed it very quickly once you get a low-CO2 breathing atmosphere.

It's literally the one thing you don't necessarily need a sensor for if you get regular training to remember how you perceive dangerously elevated CO2.
Very small webs-of-trust?

Keysharing parties? PGP-style, but with modern forward ratchet crypto?

Personal builds of the Signal apps that you share by installing them on your trusted friend's phones, and a backend you or a trusted friend host yourself on virtual servers outside Australian/FiveEyes jurisdiction?

(Give up and destroy all your electronic devices and only ever communicate with people you're in the same room as?)
I know people making changes in their lives but it does appear hopeless right now.
I drive much less and will look at solar panels eventually an electric car. I know some who already did move in that direction.
I can plant some trees in my yard and make better choices with consumption however, what's to stop countries who still build coal power plants or coal still being mined?

I despair. Many ppl are switching to electric cars thinking they did good, and yet they charge those same cars using energy supplied by burning fossil fuel.

I'm not completely convinced solar panels or electric cars are produced cleanly. More needs to be done about that.

How do we know for sure the energy used to make these are not adding to the problem. Even worse is that old petrol cars will usually be onsold to other countries, so emissions can't be falling?

An individual can only do so much.

Most people will bury their head in the sand. Those who take action may be pissing in the wind without realizing it.