skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> collective action isn't something we can rely on

> Governments need to tax CO2 emissions on the business side

Getting the government to do anything that impacts the profits of powerful companies will itself require heroic amounts of well-organized collective action.

> the incentive for a brilliant mind/leader to become the next Bezos/Musk via climate change technology

The problem is political, not technical. Moreover, people who become billionaires are averse to questioning the economic systems that prevent us from being able to take collective action to tackle climate change (and other systemic problems), because it has served them so well. That's why they build bunkers and space ships in the hope of personal salvation. They ain't going to fix this for us. It's collective action or apocalypse.
Do you happen to know if you can run NeXTStep on vintage Apple hardware or maybe SPARCstations? I have some various IIcx and quadras and sparc 10, 20, etc.

Maybe a pizmo macbook?
> It doesn't actually strike me as 'reasonable rate' [...] I (and many others) could get the same results for a mere $700k/year.

Surely, you can see the flaw in this logic though? If you set the salary too low, then only unqualified people will apply, and you'll be guaranteed to get bad results. You have to pay a competitive salary if you want even a chance of getting a skilled leader. Worse, it is harder turn around a company that is doing poorly than to cruise along at the helm of a well performing one. Which means that you both want to have higher standards when selecting a CEO of a poorly performing company, and also have to pay a premium to attract qualified candidates at all.
> there is no realistic scenario in which western countries can prevent CO2 from getting to dangerous levels

This is not necessarily true. There's a scenario in which the West invents viable carbon capture technology.
My friend is a camgirl and OF girl. I take most of her pics and vids on my iPhone. So I have thousands of nudes of her on my phone.

She's 24, but could pass for much younger. I'm paranoid that I'll get flagged.. Especially since all of her tik-toks with any skin shown, or any drinking get flagged.
Weeee! Back around again...
SARS2 made it to Afghanistan, you know.

Did the Taliban lock down? Of course not.

So we've done this experiment and you're simply wrong.
If you had to make that ride to eat, you would. If you did it regularly you wouldn't think anything of it. I have a hard time believing motorists are out there hitting cyclists out of spite.

People enjoy cycling on country roads with hills and no bike lanes. Some also enjoy cycling in all weather conditions. If you haven't tried it, it is a bit much to call it impossible.

That said, I think people should be able to consume energy however they choose, even drivers of "monstrous pickup trucks". If it makes them happy or they otherwise find utility in it, it is their money to spend.
Your best argument would have been to point out that Video Killed The Radio Star, Bette Davis Eyes, Young Turks, Total Eclipse of the Heart, Gypsy, Hungry Like The Wolf and Rio -- all very early MTV hits -- were all directed by Australian Russell Mulcahy.

> sourced from their 2005 autobiography

you do realize, right, that you can't accept the band's own authorized biography (i.e. propaganda) as a reliable source for how popular or successful they were?

> OK, you're trying to refute my assertions by interpreting my comments as (a) and (b)

No, no, no. I'm not interpreting, I'm not twisting, or inferring. You stated that Aussies were "uniquely well-prepared." You said that. UNIQUELY. You ARE saying that Australians were ready while others were not -- that's what "uniquely" means, literally. You also said "most videos were just of the group on a studio stage," which isn't remotely true.

Lastly, I call myself out for being petty and pedantic. Arguing the merits of this band or that band is ultimately futile, as is getting in a debate about something meant to entertain. But given the origins of my username, there's a certain obligation to set the facts straight here :)
> If there is anything covid has taught me its that collective action isn't something we can rely on

Thank goodness dummies like me have smart authoritarians like you to make decisions for us about what The Right Thing™ is :)
Unfortunately, phones are most people’s primary computer.
Why Valve Is Switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck's Linux OS
This is pretty obvious but still great explanation of the business owner position.

But i'm curious more about bottom-middle management level. In most of the tech companies i know they don't bear any additional risks.
Yes, with the caveat that it's a pretty widely held opinion that it is okay to "apply violence" in a few scenarios, a couple of which are to procure food via hunting, and to defend oneself or others from entities who intend to do (egregious enough) harm.

As mentioned in a sibling comment, force multipliers like firearms allow relatively equal footing for people that would otherwise just be victims in a violent encounter.

I don't think everyone has to agree on what is a reasonable amount of freedom wrt firearms.
If a whole forest grows and the whole forest dies, you’re right, no carbon is captured.

But if a whole forest is created and maintained, even as trees die and rot they build the biomass of the soil and undergrowth: every ton of life is carbon and heat energy captured - individuals live and die, but the overall biomass can increase, capturing carbon and energy in the form of healthy ecosystems.

As another commenter pointed out, if humanity just left earth tomorrow, it would take eons for CO2 ppm to fall, so we should be doing something proactive. Plus, planting and caring for trees is something everyone can do and gets us away from the “wait for a super villain billionaire to solve it” mentality.

Edit: thanks for the link to Azolla, hadn’t heard of that
These ice cream machines are very delicate and require 1.21 gigawatts of power to operate correctly.
The problem isn't deferring to expertise so much as believing that such deference makes you more intelligent or even knowledgeable.

For instance I know that I should not put diesel in my car. I know that it will fuck it up. The reason I know this is that it's literally in the manual. And the only reason I trust the manual is that it was written by the people who built the car. I defer to their expertise.

But not for one second do I believe that it means I know why I shouldn't do that. Or how a combustion engine works. Or that I can diagnose and repair my car's engine if it breaks down.
Try spoofing the useragent, or if your browser supports requesting a 'desktop version', then use that. I wouldn't use a phone to code though
This is simplest and best explanation, no doubt why he got his PhD in physics education.
Flexport is hiring engineers to build the future of global trade
In my opinion you fall under the first group of fervent mask wearers. The key words being "feel compelled". Group 2 certainly doesn't feel compelled, and group 3 only wears masks around kids if the other adults are also wearing masks around kids, but not because they feel compelled to by some internal source.
This reminds me of my friends that used to take over botnets and turn them on the C&C servers of other botnets. One guy tried to pay in bitcoin to get his botnet back. That would have been a couple million dollars worth these days... :-/
Are you me? Because this is me:

- Apple daily driver; fancy mechanicals for dressing up

- Utter boredom at the prospect of quartz watches
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Helm by Matt Tytel
They don't link to it among the links to Peterson's books (as far as I can tell) and they don't mention it in the interview, but Peterson's doorstop volume Playing at the World treats extensively of the roots of D&D. Looks like this Appendix N would make a great sourcebook (in the academic, not roleplaying, sense) companion to that book, since it mentions and describes lots of D&D's sources in (especially) fantasy fiction, but doesn't include substantial excerpts of those works.

[EDIT] Link (amazon, sorry):

https://www.amazon.com/Playing-at-World-Jon-Peterson/dp/0615...
Dams and carbon:

https://phys.org/news/2021-05-carbon-emissions-considerably-...

About dams and drought:

Dams may still have water, but for how long?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/today... (2015)
This is a better way to frame the discussion, IMHO.

The conversation is around Apple, which is critical, but we need to compare them to the rest of the industry, and discuss the government/citizen tradeoffs in that light. I.e., holistically, not per company.
Ever more centralisation of power is the EU's prime directive. If you believe power should rest with the people, you should be against the EU.
False positives are possible. Apple states that their hash function has about a 1 in 1 trillion chance of producing one.
The SEC Has Some Crypto Complaints
Probably not: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/07/ftc-r...
You left out fountain pens, which is something that often goes hand in hand with these other things.

If this had not yet occurred to you, well, let me be the first to welcome you to that particular club. ;) A Lamy Safari is a great place to start.
The difference is that the SPV is itself a legal entity responsible for keeping track of who owns it. (That's not to say it's a silver bullet, since SPVs can be and quite regularly are used to try and play accounting tricks to hide stuff from tax authorities.)
> happy to trade away 25k to get to stay home and run some errands during the day when the kids are at school.

That's definitely going to result in more happy families so I would be voting with 5 arms and 6 legs for this if I could.
Is that five million a year, or five million total, including the original two million? This isn’t saying anything about whether more children are being abused now.

Given how ubiquitous cameras are, I can fully imagine more pictures being taken, though.
Ahh, yes, what in the world would we do with the barely technical product manager filled with delusions of grandeur trying to re-invent the wheel and
"revolutionize" the UX with every release.
It's one of the top YouTube channels, they make money off YouTube ads constantly whether or not the professor wants to double down or not. The idea was to point out Kusenko knew it wasn't just a technicality that lost him the original bet even if he didn't want to admit it when conceding.
If you're genuinely curious, The CSS Zen Garden[1] is a great testimony of what people was able to accomplish with the the limitations of CSS2 while keeping support for IE6. That meant: A limited number of fonts, 1 channel transparency, no flexbox or grid for layouts, just floats and positioning. Fun times.

[1]http://www.csszengarden.com/
Your First Web3 dApp: React app reading real Ethereum blockchain database
Stingle is a privacy-focused open-source photo backup application
Nope - that's not correct: saying "there shouldn't be any pizza party" is a vote! If more than 50% of the people invited at the party say: "We should actually get salad!" - then, guess what? You would get salad.

Being silent - not voting - is NOT the same as voting against something. Not even close.

If the real reason for why over 50% of the people don't vote was because they don't like any of the parties then they could join up and create an alternative. But this is not what happens.

In the real world when you don't vote you're doing two things:

1 - you're saying you don't care because you find all the options not to your liking;

2 - you're also saying you can't be bothered with creating one.

As long as none is preventing you with addressing the second part: you are making a deliberate choice to not engage in the democratic process. You understand the consequences of that (in)action and you accept them. In no way that invalidates the choices made by the people who engage in it.

Saying that you CHOOSING not participate in the process makes it invalid is an offence to the people who fought to give you that choice and to the people that - to this date - are not given that option.

I'll say this one last time: this defeatist attitude towards the democratic process is exactly what the political establishment and the lobbies who enrich them are counting on, and this is why I considered it one of the main issues with democracy today.

The Official Monster Raving Loony Party [0] is doing more for the cause of democracy than people who decide that nothing is going to change, we are going to get anchovy pizza, so why bother with voting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Monster_Raving_Loony_...

Edit: Fixed typo - twice
See also:
https://github.com/keiichiw/constexpr-8cc

This tool embeds a C compiler as a constexpr, so in theory you can do all the work at compile time and just output a static string at run time. But currently I am having trouble getting it to work, so it's perhaps not so glorious other than the amount of time it takes to compile.
It sounds like you and me both prefer what the author of this piece calls "combat culture": https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ExssKjAaXEEYcnzPd/conversati...

I'm with you – I want people around who can call me out when I'm wrong.

My read on what the author is saying: imagine if you or I didn't have anyone to call us when we don't know what we're talking about. Imagine if we didn't have people who would tell us that we were asking questions without doing due diligence beforehand.

That's one side of what it's like to work without anyone to give you useful feedback when you're wrong.

On the flip side, useful feedback doesn't need to be "smashing without mercy." It just needs to be direct and care about accuracy (e.g. Marilyn's review of Bill's code in the post).
It's the story I remember reading on the news article. Anything else would be fabrication.
Apple, do your scanning bullshit on US and Israeli politician, government, and bank employees.

And, political/financial elites of course <-- That's where you'll find child abuse a la friends of Jeffrey Epstein

Target the people who need targeting.

No one needed a CSAM scanner to know Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, et al. were (and probably still are) diddling children. Their friends and colleagues knew it and some even engaged in it too, for years.

This is a power grab. There's zero concern on Apple executives' part, for children. If there was, they'd be leading the charge against the Jeffrey Epstein & Israeli Mossad Honey Pot conspiracy.
> move iCloud toward end-to-end encryption (which would be a good thing for privacy, right?).

"End-to-end" encryption is nothing to strive for if you're destroying the ends. With this change, the "ends" become the users themselves. By embedding an agent acting on behalf of Apple/government, the device in front of end users is no longer a tool but rather an adversary. This is computational disenfranchisement.
You fit into the "uninformed" group, as there is actually little risk for children.
Thats cool but please don't take me wrong when I say VMs are no fun. Perhaps some hardware exists that is so bog simple but yet relatively performant and is available from the shelves could run this on bare metal.

I heard a few years ago that Intel Atoms are basically supercharged 486s.
This is true, but also so what? I’m serious. So what? What’s your point? Fuck all y’all I want burn coal because you did? What’s next? Demanding to play with gasoline and open flames, because someone else did?

This is childish behavior that focuses more on trying to trying to score some sort of shame points rather than say… survival. I hate[+] to be the one tell you, but those very people you think you’re supporting, are the very ones least capable of protecting themselves from climate disruption.

[+] This isn’t true. I actually enjoy it.
Rails are cheap if you setup an iron golem farm.

There is a dupe mechanic with TnT that allows you to build machines that explode stuff without consuming TnT.
kids need to see faces as part of their development, not sure how any of your post addresses that. in the countries you mention it is still not expected for young children to be wearing face coverings while among their peers.
Aye, where do the wheels get the energy from? Actually, more seriously, is there any point where the net torque on the drivetrain is zero?

Assuming you're happy that, so long as the wheels are low-friction, that's no difference between "Downwind faster than Wind" and Upwind, and that a single design of craft can do both Downwind and Upwind, then all you need for the "dead air" part is to store energy in a battery, spring or flywheel.
Coming from a person who started writing UIs back in the 1980's, where one needed good assembly code to be able to do display text files in text mode, I am seriously impressed how effective browsers are in rendering HTML/CSS.

For a bunch of scripting languages stacked on top of each other, with byzantine levels of backwards compatibility and alternative ways to define the same things, thats seriously impressive optimisation techniques in the browsers. And they are pretty consistent, too. Absolutely awesome.

Of course, I am sure it generates a lot of CO2 for all that effortless eyecandy.
Now I think I'm beginning to understand... At first, wind propels the vehicle, moving it forward and turning its wheels. Its wheels turn the propeller which slows down the air, even the air in front of it. The energy lost by the air is now the energy that moves the vehicle!

Indeed! There is no requirement that the vehicle must be slower than the wind! I think understood it!!!
Crunch in IT: Useful or Harmful?
> If we agree that Apple was right in 2016, it stands to reason that Apple cannot be compelled to modify its CSAM filter to capture arbitrary contents

The government or whoever will regularly add hashes to the list. Those hashes can be for anything and it’s not like Apple has any way to verify what they are for. Apple doesn’t really have oversight on what they’re doing if I understand correctly, all the trust is in whoever creates the list of hashes
In the water, there is no static friction and no velocity-independent friction. If you push a floating boat, it moves.
i've been toying with the idea of a bot that generates enough of an income to pay for itself, effectively removing the need for a person to associate itself with it

is there a chain of hosting providers and payment methods that would allow, say, a python script to effectively host itself on its own value?
You are confusing encryption with access to encryption.

Apple ALREADY has access to all you icloud photos. Period. How do you think they offer them to you via website and various sync services.

So they can encrypt them at rest or in transit, but their KMS or whatever gives them access ALREADY to these very same photos.

This illustrates I think how bad this convo has been from the HN side. A lot of bad info out there on this which makes the totally overblown responses even worse.

Heads up - your phone ALEADY uploads photos to iCloud if you let it, and those photos are accessible by Apple ALREADY.
When you’ll need to do things on a global scale such as a sea wall that would say protect the eastern coast of the US it would definitely fit into geoengineering.

By this definition a small scale carbon capture process that is borderline effective is considered climate engineering but managing 1000’s of km of dams and dikes isn’t.
So if the camera goes away, the child abuse won’t happen? Somehow I doubt that.
They've updated the title. The title now reads: "U.S. Senate Bill Threatening Crypto Industry Moves Forward"
It was weird to find out that it's done in the first place! I didn't know moderation took a post that hits front page to become HN's more than the author but can see now how it makes sense. Thanks for answering and for keeping a great community going for so long!
Yes, you understand correctly. The problem with that being? It's a manipulative tactic no matter who does it.

Also, if your contention is that governments are doing it, therefore it must be okay; I'd like to direct your attention to the Tuskeegee Syphilis experiments, MKUltra, or any of the other sketchy things the United States (or your local government) have been caught out doing.

The majority doing something immoral does not make it okay. Pragmatists be damned. There are things that should not be done. If you want your people to take vaccines, you bend over backwards to ensure you bust open everything hidden that could be reasonably construed as putting one over on people.

You also need to be willing to accept that some won't play ball. Period. Then move on. Not even public health gets a pass for degenerating into full on authoritarianism. Not if Liberty means anything.

And no, I'm fully behind vaccination. Voluntary vaccination. As on people agreeing it is in their best interest free from external coercive forces, be they political or economic. Otherwise it's just thuggery by people wearing nice suits.
Then please also wear a tinfoil hat, that would make me feel more secure, too. I think it reflects the sunlight and thereby prevents global warming, that will otherwise kill us all.
> Were there 20.3 million arrests of offenders?

I don't know of any data from the US but in Switzerland the Federal Police pre sorts all reports from the NCEMC and around 90% are unusable [1] and cannot be acted upon. The remaining 10% are then forwarded to local authorities. There is no data I know of what the final conviction rate looks like. But from what I have gathered from local news paper these departments are usually short staffed.

I suspect that the situation is similar in the US.

[1]: https://fedpol.report/en/fedpol-in-figures/fight-against-pae...

Edit: Fix typo: persorts to pre sorts.
Its been a while but yes you could at least use the sheet as your db intake, they might also have other, cleaner options, but it does pull it down on a regular basis automatically, you dont need to trigger each time.
That's a pretty idealistic view. I guess the issue boils down to whether you believe there are things in digital realms that are illegal to possess.

For comparison, it's pretty obvious that there are certain things in physical realm that citizens shouldn't have. So it would be wrong to claim "my things are mine and no one should be able to inspect them or take away from me, no matter what those things are". Examples for things citizens should not posses: weapons of mass destruction and slaves.

Apple et al argue that CSAM should be digital content that nobody ought to possess. So while you're obviously technically capable of storing it, it shouldn't be legal.
This was all pretty mundane until he pulled out the belay glasses - this guy is living
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