skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
needs to be coupled with subsidies for alternatives, transport (public, electric vehicles, etc) and with the knowledge that a poor person will drive that old diesel car into the ground, so give them an incentive to switch.
Or just do what youtube does.... three strikes.

If you, as a creator get three strikes (for doing something wrong), you lose your channel. Why not the same for copyright holders... three false accusations, and it's the end.
> As usual the elephant in the room is the global population.

No. Thankfully, the global population is more or less levelling off. We know the recipe by now: lift people out of abject poverty (wherein children are the only ones providing for you at old age), combat child mortality (under which people have far more children to be sure that at least some grow up), and give women control of their own bodies and education (so that they no longer have to be child-bearing machines).

We've seen this work again and again, most strikingly in Asia. We know it works. If the same process happens for Africa, the world population will certainly level off.

There's plenty of problems ahead for humanity, but it seems that we don't have to panic about the global population anymore!
>The long term solution for both the environment and people's quality of life is not only to have an objective to cut emission but to have an objective to cut population.
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>Now, that is a very sensitive topic and so everyone prefers to ignore it.

No. You are ignoring that countries whose population is increasing are, per capita, not emitting much. Please compare the eqCO2 per capita in Africa vs Europe or USA. If we ask a minority to curb their pollution, we can easily fix the climate problem. But those who emit the most ask everyone to not have children... because they refuse to change their behavior. This is a sensitive topic only to the minority that is responsible for the catastrophe.

Again, I beg your to research who are polluting more that what our ecosystems can endure and tell me why we should block human beings from procreating vs asking the culprits to curb their crazy consumption/pollution and leave the rest of the world alone.
The consequences seem very simple - once this system is in place, it's only a matter of time until a state actor, be it China or US or Russia or pretty much anywhere goes to Apple and says "hey this hash matching algorithm you have there? If you want to keep operating in our country, you need to match <those> hashes too, no, we won't tell you what they are and what they represent, but you have to report to our state agency who had those present on the device".

Once the technology exists it will be abused.
> I'm slowly trying to switch to a lightphone (non smartphone)
International fraud is a really interesting problem. I've proposed a mandatory international money transfer insurance that would pay out in case of court decided fraud. It would make doing business with corrupt countries that look the other way on fraud within their borders crack down to preserve their international market access.
Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
I've been observing this trend all over lately and I don't like it as well. So many people don't care at all whether the information they are getting is true or just fantasized by some "journalist" on a paycheck with a page views KPI. It feels like it is much more important to media/publishers to entertain rather than inform/educate audiences, even at the price of their (long term) reputation.
True. But I was thinking that since a million people have died there would be some dent in carbon
Only if the tax isn't redistributed.

Most poorer people would get money in such a system.
2030/35 is a trojan horse because it is far too late. That's 15 years from now, and vehicles easily live for 20 years, so when people born today will be 35, there still be ICE cars around.

Thats not a measure to help, thats a fake measure to stop goverments from actually doing something effective.
Minefield warnings kinda usurp clothing labels from experience.
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- https://github.com/auth0/repo-supervisor
- https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets
- https://github.com/trufflesecurity/truffleHog
- https://www.gitguardian.com/
- https://github.com/eth0izzle/shhgit

All these tools can be configured to scan the repositories and generate alert when credentials or API keys are encountered
How would that work on a Linux phone?
You might want to clarify the relevance, and perhaps relevant sections, of that 11-hour video.
The reason you are wrong is that stopping (or even slowing down) climate change goes directly against the way the world economic system is set up.

Basically, to stop climate change in the next decade (which is already far too late to stop catastrophic effects, which are already beginning and will only get worse) we must significantly reduce the global economy. There is simply no way to keep growing growing the economy without also growing CO2 emissions in the near future.

And of course, global economic recession is not going to be acceptable, in an economic system predicated entirely on eternal growth (where "growing too slow" is already considered unacceptable). So, climate change action will be slow, small, and entirely too little to avoid the most catastrophic scenarios.

Better to see 10 more years of economic growth before a massive collapse, instead of 20-40 years of slow economic shrinking to a more manageable, carbon neutral world, right?
I like "Climate Catastrophe" more than "Climate Crisis" which is the term in vogue in left wing circles here in Britain. But I think I still prefer Climate Change because to me the other terms fail to relate that what's happened is we've hijacked earth's systems and it's changing in response.

For me, crisis and catastrophe are too immediate and too direct. What's insidious about the climate is how diffuse and difficult to comprehend it is. Additionally, while I do expect a lot of peoples lives to get more difficult in the coming decades (at least re: weather) it is by no means the end of the world, excepting of course island communities and countries for whom it literally is. That I am happy to call a crisis.
I wish there were more videos of the history of MTV's lower third graphics, their house style, and the evolution of those over time. Watching MTV as a kid I loved the look of the station, and how it never stood still for very long.
Fortunately it’s a lot less than 40% unless you only count the US. The EU is a climate leader. China is not a democracy. Even in the US economical realities are already more important than the cries of rednecks.
You would rather move the goal posts than acknowledge the issue?
The rich will support the burden of climate adaptation because the income from the tax can be used directly to help mitigate climate change.

The vast majority of flights are taken by a small minority of people; they're taken by the richest. Take the United Kingdom as an example: 70% of all flights were taken by 15% of people [0]. It certainly isn't the poorest taking these flights.

So taxing flights will have less direct impact on the poorest than one might think.

Having said that, I think a charge on carbon is more fair than taxing flights directly.

[0]: https://fullfact.org/economy/do-15-people-take-70-flights/
I mean, that same situation already applies right now without this system being deployed. China already can mandate Apple to scan all iCloud or on-device photos for certain images etc. if they wanted to.
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When I was a kid, that was what I believed in too. And that is what most people would say if they heard it for the first time.

What most people do not do while saying this statement is taking the context of the change in average temperatures around the world. What should be shown are graphics like this XKCD [1], which puts in perspective the average global temperatures in past 22,000 years. (spoiler: the last time Earth's average global temperature was 4 degrees below the average global temperature during the 1970s, the Earth was covered in sheets of ice). This is where we have well and truly allowed climate change deniers to take over and spread misinformation.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1732
Giving the finger to such requests works well enough for software engineers, but most jobs don't have an equivalent bargaining position.

That's why we need protective laws and regulations for the workers. What governments aren't allowed to do, companies should probably not be allowed to do either.
I think it's sad that the "think of the children" argument has been (ab)used so much that people are becoming numb to it.
Machine learning could help develop cures for Covid-19 and other diseases
> There is no way that Jeff Bezos owning Amazon shares makes me worse off.

They use their market dominance to reduce the income of authors resulting in less choice and lower quality books for you to read, while increasing the price of available books.

They use their vast wealth to buy out or strike deals with competitors, preventing any challenge to their hold on the industry.

As market maker and participant they use their exclusive market data to undercut their own providers resulting in more hoarded wealth for them but a less creative and productive society for all.

They engage in continual astro-turfing which alters public debate away from whatever is really going on and toward what the mega wealthy owners want people to believe.

And much much more.
I don't know the extent to which that's true. If even one of the many big and worsening storms causes enough damage to breach on a single occasion then the whole city floods to whatever level it would have otherwise and your efforts are for nothing.
the question is, should those people be using open source software and reporting bugs if they can't be part of the solution to resolve it?
I can't stress enough how enormously sad and true this is. The system is broken.
WhatsApp/Facebook critizing Apple for privacy… that’s hilarious.
Show HN: Rust CLI tool for migrating Jekyll blog posts to a Gatsby website
Some indicators: Amount of money raised, number of employees listed on LinkedIn.
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This year has proven that climate change isn't just a long term problem.

Manhattan was engulfed in smoke from the west coast. People were flooded out of their homes in Western Europe. And heat waves across the west coast lead to dozens of deaths.

I'm probably missing things happening in Asian countries due to consuming western media.

We can look at our response to Covid as a model for how we might respond to climate change slapping us in the face. If that is a fair comparison, I am worried.
As an Australian, I'm wondering how much longer Signal will be available for download here...
>On the flip side as a customer I wouldn't want my personal data to just float about the country into people's homes with loose security?

exactly this is my point, too.
See https://european-pirateparty.eu/child-protection-through-sca....

> Not only searches for known pictures and videos are to be legalised, but also error-prone “artificial intelligence”, for example to automatically search text messages for “luring” of minors. If an algorithm reports a suspected message, message content and customer data could be automatically forwarded to law enforcement agencies and non-governmental organizations worldwide without human examination.
The problem I find is that when apps are created for the common-denominator, they alienate the power users that usually create the content that the rest consume.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)

The Twitter app for example, is perfectly ok for me as a lurker/consumer -- but is most often criticised by the people who i follow (and who are active tweeters)
Things to know about the new UN report on climate change
I was working on updating my personal dev blog which used to be on Jekyll and wanted to try out Gatsby for increased flexibility in making my own things. Along the way I realised that the format for Markdown posts in Jekyll blogs is slightly different from the one used in Gatsby (Jekyll relies on a specific filename format for slugs and dates, whereas Gatbsy reads this data from frontmatter blocks in the markdown header).

I figured it would be a good occasion to write a small Rust project (I'm very new to Rust) so I made a tool to batch update my posts, with loads of options to choose exactly how to migrate the files. Pretty impressed with the speed of Rust as it processes about 30 blog posts instantly (despite having a regex that scans the entire file), I'm almost sure if I made a node.js tools it would have been slower.

It's published on cargo and can be installed from there, I've also been trying to use Trust (https://github.com/japaric/trust) to automatically generate binaries in CI for people to install, although the deployment isn't working yet.
> If the system detects any matches

This part isn’t true. Unless a threshold of multiple matches is reached, Apple won’t have a complete key to decrypt anything.
Don't quite know what you mean by "locked in warming" (nor didn't have time to look at this report yet), but the previous scenarios have massive scale future magic carbon takeback tech baked in. I assume if there was something like that ongoing on a global scale and almost no new emissions, 1.5 degrees might be theoretically possible?
Most families are dysfunctional, to a greater or lesser extent. So many people come from dysfunctional families.

Sure; if the custom in your family when faced with problems is to drink or drug, then it won't be surprising if you take the same approach.

My limited experience of people from flawlessly functional families is that they tend to be - um - boring. I find people's flaws and weaknesses make them more attractive and interesting. YMMV.
At least remove subsidies from all air travel, and add a carbon tax on top. Would make train much more competitive on many routes.
Rastafarians where right:

- Don't eat meat

- Don't use plastic

- Don't use cars

- Grow your own food

- Love the earth

And yes Babylon is literally burning.
I think “tough hurdles” is a perception more than anything. I left recently to live and work in Europe and they approved the application in 2 days and didn’t ask any questions. All I provided was some proof of my new employment.

The stupidest part was I had to sign something to say I wouldn’t return within 3 months or I would get fined and go to jail.
I’ve lived in Aus most of my life and it still boggles my mind how much they treat their own citizens like criminals.
Covid-19 deaths have been all but invisible in the larger scheme, at least to date.

Far more signficant has been the global economic shutdown imposed by quarantine and containment efforts. That's somewhat reduced fossil fuel usage, though that effect has also been limited. It was enough to show up in BP's annual review of global energy usage though, released about a month ago in July:

https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/stat...

Submitted at the time though there was no discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27798644
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Best worst stadium left in the country. Just a great mix of fans. And I never skip a Dodger dog. I'm amused but not surprised (guess I knew) that Farmer John is retailing the contents of that long, succulent piece of head cheese street meat around the country. It really always was
special dog. But what sort of sick lunatic would order a pack of that shit off Amazon? If you ever catch me eating a
dodger dog outside of chavez ravine, please just take me to the hospital and have me committed.
They can't. There is no possible future where Apple would ever intentionally expose itself to CSAM in order to verify it. It's a complete catch 22.
We need both. We can't just ignore all individual action just because there's worse offenders.

Everyone collectively doing their part will have more of an effect than sitting on their arses and blaming fossil fuels.
I'm not sure what exactly is a 'healthy' relationship with food, or when the last time any significant fraction of the human population had attained this. Maybe before agriculture, but even that is dubious.

I'm not convinced it is possible at current population levels.
Expectation : Political rivals and enemies of powerful people will be taken out because c*ild pornography will be found in their phone. Pegasus can already monitor and exfiltrate every ounce of data right now, it won't be that hard to insert compromising images on the infected device.
>You might not believe them but they are pretty clear on that point: “we will not accede to any government’s request”

What makes this time different from the other times they acceded to government requests?

Reminds me of the old Apple ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjmVN7mAMwc
What I also like about the book is that it speaks very practically: Gates doesn't put the onus on developing countries to reduce emissions. Instead, he shows how the developed nations need to allow people in developing nations to reach the status of developed nations while reducing their own emissions.
Why not a carbon tax that's used to pull carbon out of the atmosphere? It's pretty much inevitable that we have to pull carbon out of the atmosphere at scale at some point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_fee_and_dividend

>A carbon fee and dividend or climate income is a system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address global warming. The system imposes a carbon tax on the sale of fossil fuels, and then distributes the revenue of this tax over the entire population (equally, on a per-person basis) as a monthly income or regular payment.
> Our relationship with food is unhealthy

Your American relationship with food is unhealthy. Our relationship with food here in France, and many other countries is perfectly fine.
I would say what should be done is to move on from that and move discussion and consensus-building on how the problem should be addressed.

Most voters are not actually "deniers", it seems outlandish to me that so much handwringing is made over these people. Every article, time after time, it's so tiresome. Deniers are a few % of the population globally, and even in high denier country like USA it's somewhere under 15%. The deniers aren't preventing improvements from happening.

The problem is corporate, political, and international corruption and collusion that inhibits radical change and shuts down even any serious discussion of alternatives. The denier is a wonderful scapegoat for them to blame though.

I'm not a denier in the slightest, actually the opposite. However I disagree with the direction of some of the proposed "solutions" and I've never seen any serious discussion and analysis and alternatives put to the public to vote on. It's always framed as an us vs them issue, you're with us or against us, a disciple of the denier cult or the science cult. The problem is they say you must trust the science, and from there they draw the line a little further for you and tell you you have to trust their global economic plans.

Sure I trust the science and the scientists completely. I don't trust politicians or their lobbyists to actually turn that science into fair, equitable, effective policy. I think they quite like providing two bad options because that pleases their owners and allows them to put on a big show of fighting those evil leftists/rightists while not actually doing very much.

For example, I don't agree that a country with high emissions intensity of production should be given concessions that give them any relative advantage in production over countries that have far better emissions intensity of production. That will create incentives to move production to higher emissions countries, so I think it should actually be the opposite. I also don't agree per-capita quotas or concessions are a good idea because that creates perverse incentives to increase population growths and restrict living standards.

Stating opinions like this has resulted in some pretty astounding vitriol and hatred spewed at me (not on this forum but other parts of the internet and the real world) from people who have been extremely vocal in proclaiming how much they want solutions, and how much they value diversity of opinion, open discussion, etc. And never has it ever resulted in open minded discussion or genuine attempts to understand other points of view.
Economics 101, like all Science 101 courses, is simply wrong and doesn't reflect the world except vaguely from afar. Trying to understand the economy through the lens of economy 101 is like trying to launch a rocket to the moon using only Newton's laws of motion.

Successful governments pick economic winners and losers all the time, and don't let chaotic market forces decide if they need an agriculture sector or R&D.

For a simple example of just how misleading econ 101 is, look at the effect of a minimum wage: by all accounts, it slightly increases employment, the very opposite of econ 101's prediction.
It's also a little known fact that in a lot of operating systems the whole 127.0.0.0/8 is mapped to the local machine. I was able to fool my pretty tech-savvy friend by telling him that my IP was 127.23.85.66 and he even asked why do I have a public FTP server (I didn't) so it definitely worked :).
They should have thought about that before going in the cloud business. I mean, the amount of nastiness you'll find online is beyond belief. Just ask any person at FB who is tasked with reviewing posts.
I blew my entire weekend trying to move off iPhone, to something more trustworthy (a problem that's getting harder, because of some other things going on): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28111995
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Technically not possible without severely grasping assumptions. It would be more likely you would create a collision and have calculated an image of a duck (south african whitenoise duck).

Problem with all this is that the images of naked children made by their parents is CP in the eyes of its consumers.

Perceptual AI is the best approach, but produces a certainty < 1.

In my cryptography course I had a project about invisible watermarks and secret messages in imaging. The first hurdle was beating partial images and compression, so most early algorithms worked in the frequency domain. At that time it was basically an arms race between protection or deletion of said messages and I think that hasn't changed.

Conventional file hashes can be beaten by randomizing meta data since a quality hash function would immediatly create a completely different hash. Never mind just flipping or probably just resaving them.

If you create a polynomial approximation of frequencies or color histograms of an image, you have a relatively short key indicator. But you need a lot of those to even approach certainty. Could always be an image of a duck.
Given current events on the US west coast (where I live) I've been quite curious about seeing the global trends quantified as well. I'm most curious to know about changes in variance over time, but collecting (let alone analyzing) a global dataset that goes back far enough would be a bit of a task.
You’re putting words in my mouth, don’t do that. I just explained why workforce oversupply gives employers the possibility to do things they do.
One of the biggest problems I've come across are older people who say or think "I've got mine, I won't be alive when the shit hits the fan, so I don't care." If you can address that aspect of the problem, then you're probably half way there to solving it.
Dual tech worker couples making more than $400k in Silicon Valley are wealthy, and always have been. There's no suddenly about it.

They aren't ultrawealthy members of the capitalist class, sure. But they are definitely wealthy, and pretending that they aren't is just phenomenally out of touch.
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