skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> The bad news is, they're China.

Not sure what your point is here, but whatever it may be, I feel sure it is not helpful wrt to climate policy in the world's largest emitter. If you have some other axe to grind, maybe take it elsewhere.

China is dominant in industries that are currently significant in renewables. Especially solar PV. They already have the largest EV fleet, including buses.

The next industry to really matter will be energy storage. China is positioning to dominate in batteries too. If they do, good luck to them. Not because I love everything about China, but because somebody needs to scale this and if China does, then that's good for energy transition.

>> they have a growing population

Currently about +0.3% per annum. Which puts them around the lower 30th percentile of countries by population growth.

China is certainly large, but it is not growing much and should soon be shrinking.
That's exactly how we handle it: all the clients and servers involved are set to utc.

I don't see it as a risk, I'd recommend doing that in any instance to save from confusion eventually, but thanks for clarifying in details.

Any chance you have an example query (or instructions to follow) to trigger a bad case? I'd like to verify our setup

I see your point, I need to evaluate the consequences of it
Covid isn’t lethal enough to really make much of a dent in their numbers. Even with a collapsed health system, overall mortality from covid is around 1.5%. Significant to be sure, but very far from the 80-90% mortality of European diseases in the native populations of America.

Viral warfare is an absolutely stupid idea. It’s almost assured that the weapon would escape containment and find its way into the population, and as we’ve seen vaccines are of limited benefit if enough people won’t take them.
One of the major things government did to get the covid vaccine out faster was... wait for it .... be LESS involved and not apply rules and regulations they normally do.
Not an answer but an anecdote:
I am a long time vim user and wanted to learn clojure.
Everyone recommended emacs, because of it's lisp and repl abilities and ease of use.

I spent two weeks learning emacs, elisp and the ecosystem.
I was not able to get it to run via WSL with Frontend integration (shadow-cljs). Several help channels where unable to assist, since they all just blamed other parts of the environment (WSL, the LSP, DoomEmacs or the clojure plugin..)

I eventually got it to work, just to find out, that vims minimal plugins that i used (vim-iced, sexp, and a Coc plugin) where faster, more reliable and better to use than the emacs counterparts.. and they just worked, without any troubleshooting.
Neat, that does make more sense actually. Pretty impressive that the spin from a piece of leather would add 58% to the flight distance though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amentum
Completely agree. I have absolutely no doubt this technology will be abused. I bet it will be used to silence dissent, opposition and wrongthink more often than to protect children.
Actually designed for Bootstraping CPL.
I think this isn't getting nearly enough traction, especially considering how undemocratic EU's legislative procedures can get. Considering the lack of direct democracy in the European Union, exposure and public protest is the only viable way to oppose this legislature.
There's also an ongoing petition against the legislature: https://www.openpetition.eu/petition/online/preserve-eprivac...
> These people are not the ones who need to take action, so who cares?

Yes they are - big corporations and governments only do things when the public goes along with them, otherwise they go bust or get voted out.

It will take people making choices, changing the way they live, travel, eat, and buy things and using the products of companies that support that to make any change.
So will everyone. The whole industry uses the same algorithm to calculate hashes.
I think you meant to reply to someone else?

A change in average temperature (either direction) does not imply extreme temperature swings. My current apartment is much warmer than my previous apartment! I'm not dying, and the extreme temperatures at the oven or the cool parts of the apartment are not any more extreme than they were before. And no, I haven't ever noticed my oven having a dramatic impact on everything else in my apartment. So, no, this kind of appeal to intuition about the average temperature in an apartment does not help explain why 2degC across the globe means more than just.. a bit warmer temperature. And most certainly comparing it to something like body temperature (which tends to be very steady compared to air temperature) does not help at all.
Digging up lithium is nowhere near the same as mining fossil fuels. You're literally just washing rock with water and you can clean the water afterwards.
> 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?

Your second sentence is an overreach. The natural death rate in the United States is about 0.9% of the population. [1]

[1]. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/deat...
> The only countries that are growing their carbon emissions are developing countries; mainly China, India and Russia

Developed nations have polluted the planet for decades, with highest rates of energy consumption per capita. They have failed to build systems and processess that enables sustainable living. They have lived their excess and now lecture the world that their "90% of emissions are from consumption"

One group of people have taken the world for granted. Now want everyone else to bear the cost. Typical.
That's not going to work. A lot of people (and industries) rely on cars to do their jobs. It's a lot of low-income households who rely most on cars because they live in remote areas due to housing costs and have to commute to city centers to find work. Such a tax would cause a huge backlash in large parts of the population in any country and the government who enacts it would be quickly disbanded. We need subsidies to pay for the transitions (pay for changing people's heating, buying them electric cars, etc.). Financing this shouldn't be a problem for most developed countries at the current interest rates.
But then the video can't change perspective based on the camera position for the correct parallax views, or if it does the presenters get screwed on perspective.
This is good, but ultimately opt-in. I think you need something much wider-ranging than this.
Problem one is Apple doesn't know what they are scanning for.

This is by design and actually a good thing.

It becomes a problem because problem number 2:

No one is accountable if someone gets their life ruined over a mistake in this database.

I'd actually be somewhat less hostile to this idea if there was more regulatory oversight:

- laws that punishes police/officials if innocent people are harmed in any way

- mandatory technical audits as well as verification that for what it is used for: Apple keeps logs of all signatures that "matched"/triggered as well as raw files, these are provided to the court as part of any case that comes up. This way we could hopefully prevent most fishing expeditions - both wide and personalized ones - and also avoid any follow up parallel reconstructions.

I'm not saying I'd necessarily be OK with it but at that point there would be something to discuss.
> TSMC, meanwhile, has been responsible for manufacturing approximately 70% of these microcontrollers.

There may come a day where this trend will reverse.
So will everyone. The whole industry uses the same algorithm to calculate hashes.

Then the list gets more accurate and we move on.
Not to mention the fact that we're in a pandemic and flying more folks around the world than absolutely necessary is less than ideal...
But how much of this is due to Western nations essentially outsourcing emissions to China by shifting manufacturing etc. there?

The per-capita emissions are important because countries with high per-capita emissions likely have a lot of low-hanging fruit.

I mean reducing per-capita emissions in the USA could be done by improving public transport etc. whereas in China it would likely be condemning millions of people to poverty.
I went down this path for a time and I recommended it for MySQL some time ago. But actually epoch time and timestamptz are equivalent. You can specify the number of decimals in a timestamptz to get to microsecond precision if you like.
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There are certainly higher levels of meaning than monetary value. The issue the OP is raising is that many jobs don't even hit that lower bar.

From the perspective of 'creating something people want', a car does belong in that category, and a lawyer doesn't, but there will for sure be some grey areas.
It’s the same people who believe in medical apartheid that are bringing this in. All under the guise of the greater good. Who is it good for because it’s not for the publics. Law enforcement brutality exists online too and all over the world. It’s not simply a US phenomenon. Sickens me that they use children as an excuse. If they really gave a crap about kids there is so much that could be done right now.
Question is always what is suspicious ?
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I have tried for a while to find a web-host which can report an estimation of my environmental impact based on usage. I have not been successful and the project for which I needed this we had to go with self-hosting(which likely is less sustainable) and having to calculate this based on information from our ISP/electricity companies.

Lot's of hosting companies including all the large clouds have marketing pages about their sustainability efforts but only an obscure, expense, and inaccessible Azure service can provide CO2 pollution estimations from ones usage...
You can tell every consumer to check every purchase they make, and put an enormous burden on them which will not happen. Or you can legislate companies and actually get it done.

That's the point of legislation: when the free market doesn't solve something, you add rules and enforce them. That's why food products must be edible and you wouldn't ask consumers to research and pick the right ones.
Argument: Coal is made of carbon, and any combustion of it contributes to carbon dioxide, the primary driver of anthropogenic climate change.

Putting the word "clean" behind it refers only to reduction of sulfur/nitrogen oxides, and does nothing to solve the carbon dioxide. It's a solution to the acid rain problem from several decades ago, but has minimal bearing on the current problem of climate change. At this point, it's a marketing term designed to confuse and confuddle the issue, and to imply that it's even possible for coal to be "clean".

There is everything wrong with an energy department facilitating the same old energy technologies that have no substantial differences in the ways that matter.
I bought a relatively expensive Miele washing machine and a Miele dryer 7-8 years ago. No problems what so ever. Just a tip.
I see a lot more climate change anecdotally. I think it's a response to the classic "bUt It'S sNoWiNg RiGhT nOw In (somewhere usually warm)" response from climate deniers.
This is extremely hypocritical coming from Facebook, who is working on a system to scan E2E encrypted WhatsApp messages to use them for targeted advertising.
I don't think SASS/LESS/SCSS fall in the same category at all. The ability to nest selectors alone makes stylesheets more readable and easier to work on. If the rest of the team likes SASS but you don't, because I guess you are a masochist, you can just write regular CSS without using the SASS features.

Plus sass is a dev dependency. Even if my team wasn't using it, I could write SASS on my machine and compile before committing the code.
I mean a "financial crisis" next to extinguishing most life on earth doesn't really seem like a choice to worry about.

Seeing as how the global financial system is a thing we all kind of just made up.

What good is finance when we're dead?
2020 or 2002?
Privacy is something that people usually only care about on a theoretical level. Practically speaking, they're often happy to not care so much at all if they get something more tangible in return.

---

Company: Excuse me, would you mind us profiling you through an accurate survey of most of your everyday purchases?

Customer: Heck no!

Company: What if we let you collect "points" that will maybe someday safe you a little bit of money on one of these purchases?

Customer: Sign me up!

---

Company: Excuse me, would you mind us recording everywhere you go all day every day and store that information for at least six months?

Customer: Heck no!

Company: What if you get a pocket computer with fast mobile internet connection in return, the corner stone of modern life?

Customer: Sign me up!
> There's always GPG and a whole litany of other tools and apps for those who know what they are doing in terms of privacy.

And it's always there also for whoever they claim to want to catch, so this measure is useless.

This is not protecting anyone, Apple might very well be anticipating the regulation, but that does not automatically deserve our praise.
We should fight against this implementation and any regulation requiring similar measures.
Medical apartheid? What’s that referring to?
Which keyservers are relevant nowadays? I try to avoid Keybase and SKS network is officially defunct due to GDPR takedown trolling and general fall in popularity. I want to use GPG more but it's proving harder by each month.
When the world is thrown into complete chaos by the climate crisis, at least we will have saved the damn economy, right?
Who was the group in Asimov Foundation that made all the food? The Mycenaeans?
Pythagoras had visited India as reported by
Diogenes Laertiu. Pythagoras theorem is actually Baudhayana Sutra and was widely used by Brahmins in India to build vedic hawan kunds.
Please refrain from appending to /dev/world as it is already a huge mess.
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>Telling consumers to cut back on X is essentially passing the back and making consumers feel bad without actually addressing the bulk of emissions.

That's not quite true. Individual action leads to societal change. Climate change will never be treated as an emergency until we believe that it is, and until it makes us change our individual behavior to show that it is. The other problem is that this behavior change needs to start at the top. We need to see that our elected leaders are treating this like an emergency. Unfortunately that will never happen because of a certain political party in the US that ignores science and delights in human misery.

https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/carbon-footprint-climat...

Psychologists Bibb Latane and John Darley tested this exact scenario in a now-classic study. Participants filled out a survey in a quiet room, which suddenly began to fill with smoke (from a vent set up by the experimenters). When alone, participants left the room and reported the apparent fire. But in the presence of others who ignored the smoke, participants carried on as though nothing were wrong.
Yes. Of course, the business would also receive a tax credit for all the CO2 being sequestered by employees eating food. /s

Also, your 25 tons number is wildly wrong. It's simple to work it out on the back of an envelope:

CO2 is a produced from O2 and sources of carbon in your food. C + O2 = CO2

The molecular mass of the Carbon in CO2 is 12, the total molelcular weight of CO2 is 44. So, 27% of the mass of the CO2 you breath out ultimately comes from your food.

25 tonnes of CO2 being breathed out a year would imply 18.5kg of Carbon being consumed per day.

You must be hitting leg day hard.
Apple can already decrypt your photos in iCloud - that’s how you can log in at iCloud.com and see them.
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I fear you might underestimate the maintenance costs of forking.

A nice anecdote I heard a long time ago was comparing the approach to custom engineering between SuSE and Red Hat.

SuSE was always very happy to do custom engineering for paying customers and developed and shipped these features in their Linux Distribution. Specifically I am thinking of some interesting features done in the Kernel. At that point, SuSE received money for the engineering work but now had the burden of supporting their fork. The functionality code itself was not a problem, but the interfaces to the remaining kernel were a source of churn and pain.

Red Hat did the opposite. They told their customers that they can have whatever is in the upstream Kernel and they will help them upstream the necessary changes. That took markedly longer but the long term maintenance was much less effort because the in-tree code would be updated whenever an API/interface changed.

Canonical also had a tendency to happily fork of whatever project they needed to ship a fancy thing on time (think Netbook UI, think Unity etc.) and then get hit by the long term maintenance burden once upstream diverged.

Both SuSE and Canonical always found themselves in the unenviable position of having to constantly update their code and potentially seeing a competing but conflicting solution being merged upstream.

Carrying a few bugfixes or feature improvements in a local branch of a library is easy at first. But you're essentially creating technical debt which you'll need to pay off on every upstream change, every security fix etc. Most companies see value in developing features for their main application, not in maintaining internal forks of open source libraries.
It is time that the people of earth build a consensus and prepare for stagnant growth.

It is clear that the ever present pressure of capitalism to show "growth YoY" is a major cause of pollution.

The incentives are wrong. Sustainability should be paramount and carbon tax should be handed down heavily.
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> You don't know if anything is or will be abused

Actually I do. Governments abuse their powers all the time. They have done it before, are doing it right now and will continue to do it in the future. This is not fallacy, it is fact.

Here's an example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT

The only solution is to take their power away. No way to abuse power they don't have. We must make it technologically impossible for them to spy on us.
> let's face it, if you wait for the politicos to come up with a solution and force it through with legislation, they really would put in actual backdoors and encryption bans given half the chance.

They've tried to do this for decades and have failed. If they're going to do it then let it be on record. Let's see how voters like it.
> In at least some cases, intelligence actively abets stupidity by allowing pernicious rationalisation

This is something I’ve believed very strongly for many years. I’ve met some amazingly stupid geniuses who believe things so absurd it actively hobbles their ability to function. I’ve met many others who advocate almost psychotically destructive (to others) beliefs that they have meticulously rationalized. Totalitarian politics of various stripes is a petty common case.

It’s one of several reasons I am deeply skeptical of the cult of IQ. Even if you accept that intelligence is a single dimensional trait, it is not clear to me that more IQ equals better. More IQ seems to often result in a superior capacity to rationalize delusional thinking.

Thinking is a practice, an art, and how you think matters quite a bit. A person of average intellect who thinks rationally is going to do better than someone with a high IQ who is insane or delusional.
This sort of commenter is what I'm afraid just forcing people into change will create. People so disillusioned with what we can do if we all do it that they're afraid to even try. Too afraid to even attach their name to it.

Climate deniers aren't new, but I suspect once people start experiencing what carbon tariffs actually mean, there will be a surge.

People like this are lost. I'm sure there's a way back, but seeing the recent damage of Brexit, Trump, QAnon, seeing how far people can disassociate from simple logic, it's probably a better use of resource to stop more people following them than try to convert them back.
Can you use Sylius to build booking systems?
Check out the Tom Scott videos - the presenters get a screwed up perspective, but sight lines work correctly.

Also, anything aligned with the video panels (most notably the floor) is correct from all angles.
What part of criminalizing the obvious course of action that everyone is taught to do (find evidence of illegal activity, give it to the police) makes any iota of sense to you?
That is a change worth considering, though it must be treated at the level of rights, not just a case-by-case utility calculus. At the same time, most other changes have been towards more surveillance and control: cameras everywhere, even in the sky; ubiquitous location tracking; rapidly improving AI to scale up these capabilities beyond what teams of humans could monitor; tracking of most payments; mass warrantless surveillance by spy agencies; God knows what else now, many years after the Snowden leaks. This talk you hear about the population "going dark" is... selective.

I think my vehemence last night might've obscured the point I wanted to make: what a right is supposed to be is a principle that overrides case-by-case utility analysis. I would agree that everything is open to questioning, including the right to privacy -- but as I see it, if you ask what's the object-level balance of utilities with respect to this particular proposal, explicitly dropping that larger context of privacy as a right (which was not arrived at for no reason) and denigrate that concern as science fiction, as a slippery-slope fallacy -- then that's a debate that should be rejected on its premise.
The most surprising thing here is that someone on Twitter made a bet, lost the bet, and then actually paid said bet.

Playing devil's advocate here a little: The whole machine is very counter-intuitive, and I can see how I myself may disbelieve it if not for the irrefutable demonstration(s)[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCsgoLc_fzI
I think it is best to click the tile even if it only has a small part of the "object" in it. Other instances may have the same image but the grid is offset by a few pixels. At one point the tile does not contain the object at all and won't get any clicks.
That way they could determine boundaries with higher resolution than the grid cell size.
> We can come up with a mitigation or fairness mechanism, but in the end the planet works just like a virus or a script, it's a complex mechanism that you cannot negotiate or reason with.

From the perspective of humanity, particularly on this topic, the planet (and reality itself) runs on the human mind (a collection of them), and the human mind to some currently small degree, can be negotiated and reasoned with.
> Something I'd missed before

If you go back and read the earlier mega-threads, there were many people pointing this out and downvoted to oblivion. Hysteria is a helluva drug.

For anyone concerned about the hypothetical framing attack via WhatsApp auto-saving, you can selectively control which apps have access to your photo library (and thus iCloud) in settings.