skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we could just get everyone vaccinated it would make R much less than 1.0.

I'm curious if we know this for a fact. We started out with attainable numbers for herd immunity (which I think is pretty much equivalent to R<1). But that was based on an apparent overestimation of the sterilizing immunity of the vaccines. The alternative appears to be an endemic virus with occasional booster vaccinations for certain populations.
Children weren’t contracting the virus in meaningful numbers.

The delta variant has changed that and Louisiana had 3,000 child cases in just 4 days. The child death rate from COVID is higher than the child death rate from the flu AND many many more kids will be exposed to COVID than will be exposed to influenza.
Maybe you can answer this. What amount of the CP pictures are actual CP? Like are teens posting selfies of themselves in swimsuits or revealing clothes being submitted? People with their kids in the bathtub/pool? Are most of these pictures real give you nightmares CP?

Its seems insane to me that anyone would knowingly upload CP to a forensics site on purpose. Much less several times a day.
> Go through Vance's Dying Earth and you will find an Excellent Prismatic Spray, ioun stones, having to memorize spells (whose memory vanishes on use)

I've heard it called "Vancian magic" for years, but never looked into where that name came from. Now I know!
If you think your government is a bunch of corrupt incompetent jerks, submitting to their orders can feel intolerable.

Even if the hoop you're told to jump through is low and large, you still feel like a caged animal forced to do tricks.

Rage Against the Machine explains the mindset in a more emotional way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXazVhlyxQ
"Child porn" is a smokescreen. It's what every privacy advocate saw coming: find the worst, most repugnant thing possible and use it to backdoor encryption.

It's not a dream, and it's really happening, right now.
Here I thought pork was in fact the least taste-neutral. Pork is one of the few meats that tastes delicious without any kind of seasoning at all. To go further I use pork fat to season othee foods.
I felt this in a sail boat: when the boat is moving below wind speed, the wind pushes the sail and the boat. At some point, wind and boat equal speeds, so it feels like theres no wind at all except the sail is full.

Some well built boats can generate pull (instead of push) in the sail, as if it was a plane wing. The air passing on the convex (forward) side travels faster than the air on the concave, making the pressure lower on the forward side and pulling the boat, and you feel again the wind but against your face (as if you were running forward). It's a bit counterintuitive, because what your eyes see is the sail pushing the boat. So it's not perpetual motion, because the wind needs to keep blowing or the boat slows again. What slows the boat is the friction boat-vs-water.

In the case of the car above, the wind needs to reach the point of wind speed == car speed, and beyond that the wheels keeps rotating the "sails", and thus keeping the pull. If the wind stops, the car can keep going for some time, but as the speed of the wind through the sails is lower, the pull is also lower and at some point it stops. But in this case, the friction is wheels-vs-ground, much lower than the boat-vs-water above, so the car can keep going (same what happens with a bike when you stop pedaling in a flat surface, the bike can keep going for long, and even a faint pedaling or tail winds keep the thing going). This car is a clever construction to keep the wind at high speeds through the blades.
All 349 of them had serious preexisting conditions.

(Not to say that each of the 349 isn't a tragedy, only that the coronavirus is unequivocally not dangerous to children without preexisting conditions.)

Also - if you're considering it, please save the "long covid" histrionics. We used to call that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and there's no reason to believe "long covid" is different, scarier, or more prevalent than CFS. I have a strong suspicion that the patient's psychological suggestibility and media consumption are greater predictors of "long covid" than infection.
My gut feeling is that a combination of naturally recurring chaotic weather cycles, together with human produced damage will either be fatal to humanity, or cause huge problems.

I also believe that the Universe is teaming with life, intelligence, and love, and in the grand scheme of things, how important really is human life on this one planet. As individuals people tend to over emphasize their own importance, and I would argue that as wonderful as human culture is, an asteroid or weather knocking us out is sad, but that is about it.
electricity.

But it certainly isn't the cheapest way to heat houses, run cars, or make steel & concrete.
> Make your representative in the Council of the EU accountable.

How would I do that? He is already in that position, I have zero influence on his decisions.
If they had to publish this, that means the outcry has been significant. If people continue, it might actually make an effect.

https://appleprivacyletter.com/
It's shocking to see the similarity to how you talk about this product compared to the founders of Robinhood. They've been very successful at tricking people into gambling away their money in the name of "investing." This is essentially the same thing at a smaller scale. This is a bad product for most people, who will silently lose money over time by moving money in and out of the stock market. Perhaps you're initial, wealthier customer base will be able to make use of such a service, but if you end up achieving any amount of scale, you will invariably end up wrecking someone financially. I hope you enjoy the moment when someone can't make rent because the stock market had an off week.
>phone with facebook app preinstalled and unremovable

I've never used a phone like this, but are you also forced to provide FB credentials during initial setup? If not, then is the FB app just being installed a privacy threat if it is never used? Is it still accessing information on the phone without being tied directly to you?
Most jobs are meaningless, and it's hard to tell which ones are unless you think about what literal actions and materials are required to support human life instead of how much money is required to purchase those actions and materials.

Obviously we need the entire supply chain associated with food, shelter, power generation, water purification, clothing creation, medical supplies, border defense, application of the law, and a few others, but beyond those major supply chains- what do we as a society really need in order for everyone to remain alive for another day?

The question: if everyone who does what you do stopped showing up to work tomorrow, would anyone downstream of your job die after the workforce adjusted to your absence? If the answer is no, you almost certainly work a useless job.
This got really apparent in the discussions around Brexit. Lots of people saying "I vote in EU elections", assuming that the EU elections work the same as all the other elections they vote in. It really doesn't. The EU is very much an oligarchy controlled by a small number of unelected bureaucrats.

They've been very careful to not let the curtain slip too far, and preserve the appearance that popular opinion can change policy. But there's no legislative connection.

This kind of legislation is an interesting case in point. Who wants this? Who benefits from this? Is it actually going to make a dent in child abuse? Generally the EU is keen on privacy, so what changed that for this? Are there any states really pushing for this so they can read their citizens' mail (Poland, maybe, I guess, but they're not having a great time in the EU at the moment so probably not)? As TFA says, this is not a popular move, and there's no popular wave of anti-pedo sentiment at the moment, so why now?

The suspicion of palm-greasing (sorry, "lobbying") remains. Reading our messages means more data for the AI, means better ad targeting.
I'm not disputing the CCP's past and present crimes. But I'm not sure what that has to do with climate change.
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> Any sailor worth their salt knows that is not true at all.

You sure? Take a gander at this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance_sailing

You’re right in the sense that tacking is not the word for sailing faster than wind, but it is true that sailors can tack faster than the apparent wind, and that professional sailors know that. The “apparent” part is an important part of the discussion that the quote didn’t include or clarify, but would be implicitly understood by the saltiest of them.
I wouldn’t say 250k per person per bank per account type is a tiny amount. Moving money from a bank account to the market is a significant increase in risk for all but the most wealthy.
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Also there are several other companies that have a lock on that thing.

When I worked at QCOM at one point I had access to that the 3g versions. My boss had printed it out. It was about 2 inches thick single spaced double sided. Rumor was the 4g one was double that. Then there was the 'chipset'/serial interface about the same size.

So could you re-write one? Yeah (given the time for it). Never mind the legal tangle that bcom, qcom, marvel, whatever Motorola is these days, Huawei, ZTE, and others have built around it. That would just be the technical. Then getting it onto a real cell network would take a lot of work. You prob could make your own in a unlicensed band though if you stuck inside the power limits. Title I/II determine what people can and can not do with the US networks. Think the current thinking is physical connection you can do quite a bit, but radio it is locked down. But I could be wrong.

Have to check that proj out. Looks cool!
A 3M silicone half-face respirator and P100 filters costs a mere $50 even with pandemic pricing. It fits much more comfortably, has no leaks, and doesn't fog glasses. We're 18 months into this pandemic. It boggles my mind that ersatz cloth masks are still the baseline, and annoyingly-tight N95s are seen as the nicer option. Upgrade your EQ.
What's to fix? It seems like the prevailing business culture is to optimize the shit out of everything, and for managers it means getting the most work that you can out of the employees that you have. No matter where I go I am expected to work my ass off.

I would burn all of that down, if I could, because that principle needs to change. But then that's "leaving money on the table", and we just can't have that...
Yes, I would go higher than MERV13 if I could, my HRV is a Zehnder, which doesn't support better filters without some modifications.
> Imagine if for a period of time everyone wore masks when necessary and when the time finally came, vaccinated if they are able to. We wouldn't be having this discussion.

You say this based on what, exactly?

On the contrary, if the general public had more broadly acceded to these mandates they would simply have been cemented in place, and more aggressive ones would have been rolled out already. We'd already have the no-fly lists and hospital bans for the unvaccinated, instead they're having to manufacture the consent for this stuff with a big propaganda campaign.
> From a proponent's perspective [throwing out laws] a big point in favour of cryptocurrencies.

I agree. The main goal of cryptocurrencies is crime. You may not like the laws, but that doesn't change that the main goal is crime.

And this is why it'll never be mainstream. Turns out extremely few people actually want the ultralibertarian dystopia where there is no taxes, no drug laws, no reversibility, no accountability, no economic sovereignity, etc… etc…

Coiners are like the people who say "abolish the police" and mean it literally. They want to burn down everything about society because surely out of the rubbles will rise a phoenix of perfection. Surely now that we've thrown out not just the baby with the bathwater, but also bulldozed the whole city the baby was in, the next baby will never even need a bath because it'll magically never get dirty.
It's going to be run by the government as well.
My guess is that you couldn't be less qualified to make such an evaluation. The evolution of this pandemic has been something difficult to predict. The only certainty now is that vaccination is the key to moving on.
$10.000 got donated and a lot of publicity created. I think it is just good marketing. Dunno if it is worth 10k but it got on HN a few times, so it undoubtedly works.
And the topic itself is super interesting!
Drug laws caused the average person to be terrified of drugs. If the average person becomes as scared of crypto as they are of drugs, crypto may exist, it won't be a mainstream product.

There are no vc funded cocaine or heroine companies.
"If <50% people vote, then the vote is arguably illegitimate"

That's not how a democracy works. Unless you're forcibly prevented from voting - or are denied the right to - that's not the case. It is not an illegitimate vote if you decide not to vote.

In the EU Parliament elections it's just people deciding not to vote. As you yourself said: "is a kind of a vote too".

Let me make a practical example: we are having a pizza party and we have a vote for what pizza to order, you say: "I don't care - you guys decide!". When the pizzas show up you may say: "Dang, you got the anchovies pizza - I don't like anchovies!", but not "Why did you guys get anchovies? I don't like anchovies, you shouldn't have ordered that pizza!". They seem closely related, but they are not.
Children don't suffer from it, statistically. That's why the vaccines were not tested on them earlier.
Country-wide. It's typically in the 100k's per major city. The last Yellow Vest protest in France was organised in 80 cities & towns.

For an example of underrepresentation, "160k" was the "official" figure for the totality of France recently in the few mainstream media reports. Most "official" figures, if they report at all, are multiple factors low, or in same cases orders of magnitude too low.

Eg, just the single public square in Paris (place de la concorde) protestors have occupied in most protests, easily holds much more than 160k, on its own. That was just one square in one (albeit the biggest) city that day.

Find drone shots or timelapses to make estimates, for example: odysee.com/@alltheworldsastage:0/Aug-7th-Paris---Montpellier-France-Massive-Anti-Vaccine-Passport-Protests-Libert%C3%A9-Manifestations:2?

(Absolutely don't endorse this channel or anything - but this bit of content in this case is largely unedited or editorialised, and is sourced.)

If you find a good visual source, use one of various free crowd estimator tools to see for yourself. Draw lines on the map and drag a slider for crowd density - eg the above-mentioned square in Paris is 50k for a light crowd, up to 200k+ for a packed crowd - and the protests meet the definition of packed.

There are no easily-accessible, centralised and vetted sources of indisputable information during times of widespread censorship - you simply have to go look and do the work of vetting it yourself. Beware sometimes it's mislabelled/misinformation, eg, actually shots of a world cup celebration (likely intended to discredit). It's not hard to be discerning however - if absolutely everyone is holding the countries flag and there are no signs, it's likely a sports or other national celebration. If some are holding flags and others are holding signs saying "liberte" it's a protest. You need to learn the foreign words for freedom and vaccine passport at least.

In Italy it's easy as the word for "no" is the same as English and the word for vaccine passport is "green pass": so "no green pass", as various members of parliament ambushed the center of a parliament session and held up signs saying so recently.

You can bet if multiple members of parliament are flooding the central chamber of government of a major European country with protest signs, then protests are at least in the millions.
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Yes, rich people in temperate zones would. I’m not so sure about poor people in the tropics though.
Politicians and NIMBYs killed mass transit in the US long before Musk entered the picture. In fact, Boring Co is a direct reaction to mass transit projects routinely being turned to boondoggles by politics, corruption, mismanagement, and obstructionism — building mass transit via the traditional means is practically impossible.

I won't pretend that the Boring Co's loops are efficient or a real solution but I don't believe that pinning the blame on it is quite right.
On one hand masks are an easy way to reduce the transmission of pathogens.

On the other hand there are legitimate scientific & public health concerns regarding mass enforcement of nonpharmaceutical interventions such as lockdowns, masks, etc [1].

It's really not clear that mask mandates will be a net win for society if we begin to see the predictions in [1] play out - we'll just have to see how bad the flu season is in the coming winters.

[1] The impact of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions on the future dynamics of endemic infections
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/48/30547
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Sometimes it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
I sincerely hope it won't be necessary, but in Kim Stanley Robinsons book Ministry for the future, there is a wet bulb heat wave that kills hundreds of thousands that serves to at least somewhat galvanize the world into action. Perhaps something like that could be a plausible thing to happen.
Anecdotal data, but i saw more solar rooftops in India in 1 month than I have seen in Canada/US in last 5 years
I think the confusion people are having with "Crystal arrangement results in 1,000x more power from ferroelectric solar cells" is that it doesn't have a qualifier like "more power than current ferroelectric solar cells." It only tells you what type the new ones are.

You have to infer that it's comparing new ferroelectric cells to old ferroelectric cells, and not comparing new ferroelectric cells to our typical silicon cells.

But an article doing the latter could be written with exactly the same title.
Based on vaccination showing resounding efficacy.
Oh, we reached stage 4 denial already?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb2xFvmKWRY&t=16s
> It’s worth noting that despite Apple’s assurances, the company has made concessions to governments in the past in order to continue operating in their countries. It sells iPhones without FaceTime in countries that don’t allow encrypted phone calls, and in China it’s removed thousands of apps from its App Store, as well as moved to store user data on the servers of a state-run telecom.

It’s pretty clear what will happen
It's not being "stuffed" into a bill, it's an amendment that had voting on it. There was a competing amendment that didn't get the support this one did.
You're suggesting they should go 100% solar for all new energy needs?

I assume that they're taking an approach of using renewable energy where possible and fossil fuels when that's not enough.
My first mechanical watch was a Seiko SKX007. I wore it almost everyday for ~10 years and it was a complete delight. There is something so wonderful about having something on your wrist that feels like magical engineering.
How about this? All developing countries would welcome the "developed" nation's Trillion Dollar investments in future sustainability as an act of taking accountability for how they exploited other nations.

Per capita emissions from the US are still ludicrously high when compared to developing countries. Not a single one of those western countries is taking accountability for what they did and exploited over the last 2 centuries. If western countries really cared then they already would've worked with developing countries long time ago and they still can i.e. if they cared.

I'm not saying that developing countries should be allowed to do the same, but this "pointing out the data" indicates more towards "developing nation's work is done here, now we'll stay the same as it is and others do all the work" rather co-operation in my opinion.
Going carbon negative unfortunately for us is very energy intensive. (The pie in the sky chemical ways to attack it such as simulating geology are likely bunk or too slow.)

So intensive that we could be lacking even uranium to do it in a century barring some huge discoveries (biotech, or maybe nanotechnology) or improvements in fusion power.
Can't do it on renewables in the reasonable timeframe - we don't have the production for it and that scale of production will certainly output more GHG.

So yeah, it's a bit hard to attack. Surviving the warming is just as tricky.
To put that in context: About 350 people (the vast majority children) drown in swimming pools each year in the US.
It takes the same space in the flow as if not transformed, but it will take clicks and other mouse events using the transformed size and position. In your example table, transform:scale(0) will behave like visibility:hidden.
Direct democracy is best when the amount of people voting stays small. Think local government.
Israel and Iceland were two of the most successful with mass vaccination and are now having the biggest COVID resurgance issues. Meanwhile Sweden who decided to do nothing and trust human biology to work is rocking right along.

Its settled science now guys, vaccination and lockdown are not the answer to COVID.
> One American is emitting 15 Indians worth of carbon emissions.

> it is important to realize that increasingly developed countries have been outsourcing most of their high polluting industries.

Neither of these points apply to the OP. They did not make the claim that the US emits more than India per capita. Secondly, your rebuttal of the point that "western countries have reduced carbon emissions" is not a rebuttal at all -- the OP specifically addressed this point in their comment if you read it. 90% of China's emission are directly caused by consumption, not manufacturing or export.

Of course the per-capita carbon footprint of the USA is unfairly high, and the result of a consumerist culture with poor urban planning, a legacy of racialized housing discrimination, etc. Although these are all very important concerns, they are ethical concerns. And the climate simply does not care about ethics.

The fact is that western countries are decreasing emissions and decarbonizing infrastructure, while China is still building coal plants for domestic consumption and attempting to export coal projects to poorer countries abroad in order to expand geopolitical soft power. If you believe that high levels of climate change have the potential to cause mass suffering around the world -- and particularly in the Global South -- then you must agree that the risk and harm involved in expanding coal outweighs the ethical concerns regarding per-capita carbon disparity.

That said, the Paris Accords specifically allow developing countries (China included) more time to lower their emissions compared to Western countries, precisely to account for inequitable per-capita carbon footprints. All western countries are on the right path -- the only question is if they're decarbonizing fast enough. The question for China is: will it even start decarbonizing soon enough?

China produces most of the world's solar panels and has amassed a wealth of research and development potential for renewable energy. The fact that they choose to continue building coal plants is inextricably tied up in political and geopolitical reasons.

As far as India goes, they have made a tremendous effort to meet their climate goals and the world owes them a huge debt.

Politically, I identify as a socialist, but I recommend this critique of the so-called "climate left" which includes analysis of some of the claims you made: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-climate-left-is-a-usef...