skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fail to see the same climate-related apocalyptic messages coming from the mainstream media exactly one year ago. It's either the situation has gotten exponentially worse in this last year (unlikely) or that the focus has turned from one apocalypse (covid in the wealthy countries) to another one (climate change). At this rate only a big regional war can shift the focus again from this specific subject.
Yes, I used Interlisp-D decades ago. It was a different experience. Common Lisp has things like read tables that are designed around a file-based (or at least text-based) view of code; Interlisp did not and natively supported in-image code editing (with Sedit). This meant * in Interlisp was the comment operator, and you had to do multiplication with TIMES.
In theory, a sink large enough to bring the Earth back to carbon neutral would be possible if the Sahara were reforested[0]:

> The team's calculations suggest the forested deserts could draw down around 8bn tonnes of carbon a year, about the same as emitted from fossil fuels and deforestation today.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/nov/04/forests-d...

Edit:

> if insoluble carbonates could be synthesised from atmospheric carbon dioxide

indeed, if only there was a highly efficient process that could convert the carbon in the atmosphere into hydrocarbons, using energy purely from the sun...
Pixel4 with LineageOS (Non google apps) F-Droid and Nextcloud for Backup and sync....grass is rosy for me ;)
A long way behind heating homes and transport though.
Seems to me a lot of noise about Apple joining all the other services in meeting US regulations, aren’t all major vendors equally compliant, maybe more invasively so!
The AR case could probably be solved with a ring(in the jewelry meaning of the word 'ring')-like controller accessory, with a little touch pad and a couple of buttons. Hopefully it could be done with reasonable work time per battery charge.

I don't believe in hand tracking too much, for the first generation of AR headsets at least. People complained about latency a lot, and many use cases are simply impossible to reconstruct accurately with headset camera tracking. For example changing direction in a laser pointer mode, by lazily shifting your controller between your thumb and your pointing finger is something neural hand tracking would be hard pressed to reproduce adequately.
Does he care about anyone but himself? Does he have children or grandchildren? Nephews or nieces? Does he care about their safety and welfare, and want them to have good lives?
They have other interesting products on their site. I'm also waiting to decide if getting this Pinephone or waiting for a beefier one with more battery life (1), but I can wait since I'm not into smartphones. In the meantime I supported them by purchasing their solder iron, plus tips and other add ons, which works surprisingly good for the price, and I'll probably buy one of their SBCs. So if anyone wants to support them, there are other ways to do that.

(1) To Pinephone designers: I would absolutely love a 2cm thick Pinephone if that allowed some more speed and serious battery life. I'm serious about that; my current phone is a Nokia 8110 4G (the new "banana") which is 1.5 cm thick, and although the OS is a joke and I use it only for calls and as 4G access point for my laptop, wrt usability it's the best thing I've bought in years.
I've thought about it myself and the best answer that comes to mind is clear-cutting entire forests, tossing that biomass down a mineshaft, and replanting to start the process over again. All this talk of planting trees removes atmospheric carbon, but until it's out of the system entirely we're one forest fire away from wiping out decades of carbon removal.
I think this binary lambda calculus self-interpreter might be more beautiful:

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Or in non-graphical notation: (λ 11)(λ λ λ 1(λ λ λ λ 3(λ 5(3(λ 2(3(λ λ 3(λ 123)))(4(λ 4(λ 31(21)))))) (1(2(λ 12))(λ 4(λ 4(λ 2(14)))5))))(33)2)(λ 1((λ 11)(λ 11)))

See https://tromp.github.io/cl/cl.html and https://tromp.github.io/cl/Binary_lambda_calculus.html for details...
Wait until you find out your noble support of using big tech to "fight nazis" over the last four years was a key part in normalizing moves like this.
Coal is 60% of all carbon emissions. Phase out coal for electricity production. Just doing that would go far.
Wow. Thank you, looks like I was wrong.
Can you support your reasoning here?

Do you mean easy as in "technically possible" or easy as in "the people with the current political power and wealth will benefit from this change and will suffer the consequences if they dont?"

Climate change is the second type of hard.

As was, for example, "freeing the slaves", "giving people the vote" and other such problems that often needed bloody wars and revolutions to be settled.
Great point, but worker exploitation (like so many other problems) flow out of perverse rentier structures. In fact this is one of the first principles discovered about how rent works, termed the "law of rent" by David Ricardo over 200 years ago. I.e. that the rent collected from productivity will always be such that the remaining wages are only exactly as good as the "margin of production", a.k.a. the next best alternative to engaging with the labor economy, subsistence living. This is why you can have exploding productivity and still subsistence standard of living for labor, where the entirety of the excess is captured by rentiers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent
I guess the GP's suggestion is to let people think twice before getting any? Children are expensive without this tax but most people don't think 1 second about that because it is somehow a right to have them so the state will provide (and in many countries here, indeed they will). If you can clearly see that you and your better half will never be able to support them until they are 18 (which goes for many people already, without any ridiculous taxation), you might think twice about having any at all?
I'm still very skeptical how the measures will take into effect if they ever happen. In france the yellow vests protest was caused by a planned carbon tax increase on gas. Car dependent citizens rioted.

A carbon tax will reduce the living standard of everyone, and it will take time for society to readjust. I really think the economy will tank and take a lot of time to adjust to a green economy, as it's not only electricity, transportation and meat: it's also the production of cement and steel, landfills, chemical production, crop burning and deforestation, rice. There are tens of little things that once combined, emit a lot of CO2.

Road transport is only 12% of co2 emissions. So to be clear, electric cars are nice, but they're solving almost nothing.

Since humans generally compete against each other for everything, and since we live in an age of individualism and not collectivism, I'm quite pessimistic about humanity reducing their emissions, because the air is the single thing that is collectivized.

Edit: fixed grammar
The CASM scanning happens on device, right? At least so we’ve heard.

My sense is Apple is trying to keep CASM off their servers. Scanning phones before it gets there was their solution to what I assume is a government demand/ultimatum. “Do this or we repatriate your foreign entity taxes” or some other shit.

I too feel that Apple just caved and eroded trust that took decades to build up. The only way this gets sorted is the “screeching minority” continues to screech and brings other in. Notify state attorneys general, FTC, etc. will that do anything? Who know? My bet is that it’s the DOJ behind all of this.

Hopefully the plaintiff bar which are already preparing class action lawsuits will find a way to get documents in discovery that allude to government coercion. But then again I’m sure there would be a clever way those are not produced under some “national security” bullbaiting reason.

All we can do is try, and keep the pressure on.
Road tax (levied on road-worthy vehicles) in the UK, and I'm sure elsewhere, has been tiered by emissions for decades. London also has had the congestion charge and now ultra-low emissions zone (ULEZ) for driving through with inefficient (and now with almost anything) per day.

I know that's not quite what you meant, but I think it's probably more feasible to have multiple specific things like that than an overall tax somehow?

Even for companies, forcing them to account for their carbon footprint, auditing it, etc. just seems like it'd be more 'busywork' and open to loopholes to me than 'just' taxing specific purchases or activities.
“other tech experts“ want to keep Apple from using End2End encryption so they have a reason why they don’t provide it to their customers. With Apple‘s approach Apple can only decrypt Data hosted with them if the (false) positives are over a threshold. It‘s a pretty neat way to implement a usecase so deeply wrong. All other companies protesting now want to keep access to userdata in the clear.

Apple‘s approach is the only way to - at the same time - act lawfully regarding to EARN-IT act in the US and provide E2E in iCloud.

I really hate these laws, but Apple is not the problem here. Read up on EARNIT and the EU laws currently in the works. All communication WILL HAVE TO BE SCANNED by the provider. Beating the drum against Apple will just lead to E2E encryption being forbidden. What needs to be forbidden instead is any access to communication.

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EARN_IT_Act_of_2020
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-sa...
I dearly hope the Greens will not win. Reducing consumption is an extremely tricky problem, and likely unfeasible without creating large amounts of poverty. I'd rather live in a rich, powerful nation with strong workforce and military rebuilding after each storm than being stripped my last rights and eating worms while a tiny elite still enjoying the freedoms we once had. Please do not fall for the propaganda.
It's getting closer though. Over the years I've noticed it becoming closer and closer to the Japanese sort.

I only wish I could get 3 dollar negitoro maki here.
Sure, there were, but things changed. Can you tell me how you see this 'right' realistically being implemented in the public sector, which is the largest employer in the western world (government, agencies, schools, universities, military, hospitals, non-profits). I have two school children which were taught by Zoom and it was a disaster. As a taxpayer, I want my children to be taught IN PERSON in real classroom - because the results are much better. Pandemic - fine, we'll stick to Zoom, but if there's no threat, real classroom. Let's say you make it a 'right' so every teacher can choose how to teach. Suppose most teachers opt to teach remotely, while most parents choose in person in classroom education. What then? Your only option either to force those teachers who what to work remotely only to work from school OR hire new teachers, clearly stating that they will have to work from the class room. So basically, you don't solve anything.

Same with most other public work - let's take police. Yeah, if you are a beat cop, you've got to pound the streets. But you are a detective. Can't you say that you want to talk to witnesses and suspects from your home via Zoom? Sure witnesses might chose to visit the station, but you don't want to do interrogation in person, because you think that it can be done just as effectively from home. Or hospitals.

The more you think about it (at least in my case) the less idea of 'remote work right' makes sense. Option - yes, right - no. It simply makes things worse, not better.

If you don't understand it, try flipping the situation around. Try justifying 'the right to work from office' for a person like me (which is not totally true - I can work both from home or office, I just prefer office for social reasons). Let's say I get hired by Basecamp, which is remote only with no office. I then claim that 'work from office' is my right because whatever. It's just a type of spoiled entitled brat that am. Now Basecamp or any other fully remote company is forced to rent an office just for me and maybe a few others who also share inclination to work from the office. Meanwhile, there are a ton of 'office vacancies' out there that I could have easily applied to given my background. How is it fair to Basecamp?
Passing the CO2 tax to the consumer is exactly the solution.

In the UK we had a sugar tax. Soft drinks were taxed by the amount of sugar inside. Practically overnight it became impossible to buy drinks containing more sugar than the tax minimum limit. It wasn't illegal to sell them, but no corporation would waste money on a silly thing like taste.

The point is that the profit motive that has got us into this mess, can get us out of it too. Price in the externalities.
They make you go through hoops and remember you - after a few requests the paywall emerges.
In this modern day, with publishing costs steadily falling, their demands for payment have become ever more demanding
Sketching – A Language for Creative Coding
I agree their conclusion was ridiculous. However, it seems equally ridiculous to conclude “even though they specifically said white, they must have meant black, and for you to read white into their argument is a willful misconstruing of their argument.”
Plastic straws are social media outrage about a tortoise and has no significant impact on global warming. People upset about plastic in the ocean should be focused on ghost fishing nets.
I was also struggling to convey this point. I think you've hit the nail on the head.
There's a well-known correlation between site speed, and selling more stuff. So, the idea that a shop wouldn't be interested in having an efficient website is incorrect.

As for backwards-compatible drop-in upgrades. They do exists, and people do use them. Making them easier would go a long way.

An example would be migrating a wordpress site to be statically generated — there are plugins and services that do that.
> It also seems like the PhotoDNA hash algorithm is problematic (to the point where it may be possible to trigger false matches

A post here some days ago (since removed) linked to a google drive containing generated images (which displayed nonsense), the hashes of which matched those of genuine problems images.
Sure, and i have no objection to what you are saying.

This thread however was where I was making a separate point that helps this discussion by removing confusion or assumptions on how Apple’s proposal works.

Perhaps you may have misread what I was saying ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Cli...
Can air-conditioners capture CO2, collect fuel while keeping you cool as the world heats up? [1,2,3]

Humans added fossile fuels into the atmosphere and oceans already. This won't disappear completely for a thousand years [4], so we need to find ways to remove it.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/90342957/what-if-every-air-condi...

[2] https://duanetilden.com/2019/05/18/using-building-air-condit...

[3] https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/may-4-2019-brain-resuscitati...

[4] https://skepticalscience.com/why-global-warming-can-accelera...
> The US could do it if they were prepared to threaten sanctions or millitary force.

… in the 1990s, not today. Doing that today would just hand the world to China.

The Iraq disaster and electing a humiliating clown and con man as president have taken quite a toll on US power.

Meanwhile the rest of the world has grown.

The US is just no longer what it was, and doesn’t have nearly the “soft” power it once did. The huge military is of little help on this issue.
I mean, if they didn't make it worse then the product managers and 'product' teams wouldn't have anything to do, would they?
There is "Clean coal" - a political lie that coal from US swing states is more "clean" than coal from China.

However this article describes CO2 capturing and storage technology. Something that could definitely help us in the coming decade.
> since we're now also dependent on it for enforcement

This, I think, is the root of the problem. In the case that Amazon takes control of the situation (you don't really have a relationship with the third party seller; you have a relationship with Amazon), then despite what they claim, they should be held legally responsible.

In the UK we have a legal concept of "vicarious liability". An employer is liable for an employee's actions, regardless of culpability. The employee could be in breach of all agreements and instructions from its employer, yet the employer is still liable. We also have harassment laws. These should be extended to allow victims to hold Amazon liable as if they're a first party in the case that their "third party" sellers are untouchable (as they usually are). Amazon (and other companies) shouldn't be allowed to act as a middleman without also taking on that liability. It should be up to them to recover their costs from the third party, not the consumer.

This would correctly incentivize the big players to ensure that their third party sellers behave. Instead, what we have right now is a legal system that allows them to effectively collude to shirk that responsibility entirely.
Železný had a completely different revolutionary technique, hence his success.
The web creates emissions, but I also wonder about how much it saves, with things like video conferencing, and making physical technology obsolete (the waste of optical media, like DVDs springs to mind).
>Individual action won’t solve this problem.

Although from an individuals perspective it makes sense to change on your own terms rather than waiting for it to be forced on you.
Supply wasn't the only factor: disease, troop morale, sabotage, etc. Few generals would have prolonged a war if they could do anything about it.
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Pretty oppressive carriers over there in the Land of the Free. Is there a way to port over your number to a better carrier?
Switching what devices ?

High pain to me is no more transport, overheat, empty shelves.

Reducing devices seems like a freebie
Pointer variables in C are declared in an odd way, as `int (*a)` rather than `(int*) a`. I suspect this is also due to B's legacy.

In B everything was an integer, and there was no separate pointer type. It had only pointer operators that could be applied to any integer.
Imagine being a victim of CP, knowing that all over the world people hold in their hands devices storing artifacts of your terror.
Short introduction to definitions in the field of applied economics, see OECD and WHO publications for details. A living salary is a colloquial phrase, more precisely we should talk about the net equivalised household income. Gender and marital status is irrelevant for the calculation.

Let us assume both household's single earner brings in 15382 €/a (EU-27/28 average net income for 2013). Household 1 with two juveniles and one child is 6688 €/a, poverty. Household 2 remains 15382 €/a.
It’s only Monday and it’s already my favorite typo of the week.
If you're a nation-state or a group that wants to sow discord and distrust in another nation's citizens and their neighbors and institutions, what better way to do so by framing people, some significant and some insignificant, with CSAM?
That is untrue for any of the 5 accommodations I lived in since coming here 11 years ago. Sure you can cherry-pick something that happened to you arbitrarily, project it to whole country and have a stereotype (untrue in this case).

But what we do have is general respect for everybody else living here (unlike f*k the rest like in many other places) - which means we for example don't run wash machine during late evening/night in our apartment, within building having some 50+ apartments.

There is also shared wash machine area in the basement, with dedicated time slots for each family if they want, and there are plenty of slots for Sunday, just like any other day. So much for the restriction you faced.

Some might find some restrictions annoying and infringing on their basic human rights, but the general Swiss logic is more about 'your rights end where other's rights begin'. As a parent of a newborn I definitely like this approach.
I meant, keeping the windows open are bad while running the dehumidifier/filtering.. as it will constantly battle to keep the "fresh" incoming air clean/dry, you might as well switch it off then. Most houses are very "leaky" anyway around windows, doors and so on, so for some rooms it is kinda pointless to use in. So for bedrooms, bathrooms and other smaller areas where you can shut the doors and windows and let it do it's work, it works very well! But a bigger area like an open plan kitchen and lounge, rather just crack a window or buy a larger dehumidifier/filter but then you have to battle noise and electricity usage. If you have pets that sheds a lot of skin/hair, the filter will also clog up faster but you will have less of that animal smell in your place. If you have pets that pee/poo in your house, no amount of filtering going to help you with that.

Overall, I do recommend people still buy one, they are helpful for all sorts of things.
Good!

I'll just mention though that I think there is some double dipping going on here:

"Every" Norwegian seems to be happily thinking that they are using green hydropower, while at the same time the green certificates are sold to Germany.

Not saying this to discourage you guys, what you do makes green power more viable. Edit: The problem is Norwegians are living happy lives thinking they aren't contributing from power at least and nobody is telling.

I only want to help lit a fire under the feet of Norwegians :-)

And personally I could accept a small extra fee to get certified nuclear power ;-)

Edit 2: feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
Having kids myself, I agree that public sector education was awful over Zoom - and yet private sector education seemed to do very well. For me, that's the biggest risk of all - those who already have fast internet, fast computers, large home offices will benefit. If mass home working becomes a thing, those already living in cramped, poor conditions are likely to suffer so the former can avoid a daily commute.