skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Encryption does not help, Apple still is responsible.
If Apple intends to let the user store photos in iCloud (or send by imessage) encrypted, they either have to keep the keys, so they can decrypt and scan the photos or or to keep the user from uploading incriminating content.
Apple found a third way: they will only get to reconstruct the keys if the user uploads too many pictures triggering alarms.
> Even if you make a (false) claim that they're only able to work at a call center and all other professions are closed to them, there are many different call centers that all compete for the same labour.

To be fair, being call center agent sucks in many places. Maybe you don’t get a camera installed in your home, but breaks are short, shifts are long and you get 5 minutes to eat lunch.

You can always go work for Amazon at the warehouse. But I’ve heard it’s not that great either.
They actually removed all the features that i used all the time.

You can't shuffle all songs in your library anymore, since they removed the songs tab completely. There used to be a workaround with a playlist of all your liked songs (which turned into all songs in your library).
That was killed too, so now the only way is by using a playlist and managing it manually. Playlists are limited to 10k songs though...

Generally they seem to remove features in every second update and i'll move on to another service after my current sub runs out in 3 months.
This is useful to understand what this report actually is. It lays out the physical science basis for climate change. The full impacts, and possible mitigations will come in later months as two separate reports. Finally, there will be a summary next September (2022).

Unfortunately, it looks like these won't be published in time for COP26 in Glasgow later this year.
Here is a list

99% of all the products you take for granted are using fossile fuels.

Medicin, contact lenses, paint, textiles, electronics, windmills, solar cells, concrete, asphalt, heavy machinery, most industrial manufactoring, all types of lubricants, plastic, mining, food production and I could go on.

If you like living you are going to need most of the above. In fact if it wasn't for fossil fuel usage the likely hoood of you being alive let alone as rich as you are today would be very small.

Energy is the industry that powers all other industries. You make that more expensive you make everything more expensive which means more people go hungry, less people can afford medicine, food production becomes more expensive and more people will die. It's really that simple.

If you really believe we can do without all these things I would urge you to live without anything that has been made possible by fossil fuel industry for a month. Then you will realize just how live giving fossile fuel actually is.
If you think this stuff is neat, there's a neat improvement on this using what are essentially video walls. Replacing the greenscreen removes the problems with green or white, and gives presentors/actors better idea of their space.

Tom Scott did a quiz series showing off the technology, linked to timestamps where he explains things:

https://youtu.be/zV14G-Sxu7M?t=781

https://youtu.be/Odq0ggVVRyM?t=545

https://youtu.be/RDsRFpVp0kk?t=597

https://youtu.be/xIDr5n9UIR4?t=479

See also roughly the same technique being used in the Mandalorian TV show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUnxzVOs3rk
There are loads and loads of cases like that. If they have good lawyers they don’t even see prison, at least in the US. But we must backdoor everything to catch them so we can slap them on the wrist…?
Continuing carbon emissions is going to kill more people in the future.
Yeah. As community owners ourselves, we know that engagement really is the number one problem when building a community or growing an existing one. This is why we really focused and put all our efforts on gamification. At its core, gaming is about competition — whether that’s against yourself or other people. It’s basically all about leveling up, trying to get a better score, finding the best loot, collecting the most badges, surviving the longest, and others more. Gamers take pride in being the best, and they also find a sense of belonging in games.
The nuclear solution has been there this whole time.

Too many solar / wind dummies getting in the way of this being a viable replacement claiming 'oh yeah these green sources can cleanly swap into coal/gas plants' while completely ignoring base load / growth requirements which nuclear can fill without being dependent on external variables.
> Only 12% of ROAD TRANSPORT emits co2. So to be clear, electric cars are nice, but they're solving almost nothing.

I just want to add, that so many people buy in to the idea that the solution to gas powered cars is electric cars. But I feel like the significantly climate friendlier solution is bicycles and trains. The latter requires us to really go outside of our comfort zones (in the USA anyway) and we just don't want to do that. Which is too bad because I would find a bicycle friendly city to be much more livable. I lived in silicon valley for 15 years and it was remarkable how hostile it felt to bicycles for how flat it all is.

But I wonder what are the other problems like this. Where we think the solution is an electric car (and lithium mining, and working long hours to pay off the price tag, and emissions when manufacturing it) when a better solution would be adapting to a bicycle-focused world. I think plastic pollution is one area where we think bioplastics or recycling are the solution, but a better one would be standardized glass bottles with municipal washing systems. And zero waste grocery stores. We really need those. I have collected so many jars to reuse and its amazing what we keep buying and throwing away with every container of food.
I saw the IPCC press conference this morning. I don't recall the scientists getting less concerned, in fact, it was quite the opposite. I am interested in where in the conference or in the report where they claim thing are less severe than they thought.

Also the positive sides seem interesting, could you also link the section in the IPCC report?
Agreed, except:

> It's not rocket science. The whole "this is impossible" stuff is just bullshit from the people who don't want to do it. Most of the moonshot stuff is trying to come up with a technical solution to the political issues, and that's hard.

If all recorded history is anything to go by, the moonshots are probably our best realistic hope, because technology is easier than politics. The "people who don't want to" use existing solutions have all the power and it's going to be very hard to convince them to change their minds; they're protected by the common folk because they have the "high ground" of having their interests be aligned with short-term interests of regular people, while the required changes will necessarily inconvenience everyone in the short term.

No, we shouldn't be counting on new technologies to get us out of this, but it's still by far the most likely outcome out of possible futures where we do get out of this.
Also "only 12%" as if that's nothing. If other things are both easier to tackle and make up >50% then there might be a point ignoring this eight of the problem for now, but it's not.
Check your timelines. Every single variant, dominant or not, originated before vaccines were available...
You're right in a sense. I would certainly notice the change if it happened very quickly. However, I would quickly adapt and think it was just normal. (Mind you, my room is about 17 C at the moment.)

Certainly, if someone told me my room was going to be 2 degrees hotter permanently, I wouldn't think twice about it.
Very few people fly. 3.5% of emissions can be cut just by inconviniencing a few. Sounds easy and will not impact many peple.
The problem is not necessarily lunatics who deny the reality of AGW, but energy companies, industry, and their political agents who have known the reality for over half a century. Lunacy was purposefully propagandized and indoctrinated to protect their power.

We are past the window for incentives -- we have sufficient observation of how individual incentive-guided action plays out in a finite world built of externalities. We are in the window for action: nationalization/collectivization of the offenders, forfeiture of their assets, and redirection into massive creation of renewables, sustainable industry, carbon capture/mitigation, and global relief for the people displaced and impoverished by climate and food disruption.
> talk with them and interact with them (and not mainly the paperwork about them) - then you could easily spot abuse everywhere and take action

My impression is that the abuse is easily spotted, and paperwork done, but that often not much comes of it. We (USA) don't actually seem to have very good systems for handling things once they're discovered, partly (largely?) due to lack of resources.
Eastern European here as well. This year is definitely not your average warmer-than-usually year. Both the winter was extremely cold here where I live (down to -30C) and also there was prolonged heatwave spanning from mid June to end of July with temperatures well in +30s and no rain for more than a month. It will have negative impact on agriculture for sure, especially crops.
On the other hand, watching on the news the recent floods in Germany and Belgium I recall seeing similar events in those countries in the pre-global warming times (when most of us knew nothing about it). Then they told us that the reason for the floods is excessive drainage and elimination of swamps and wetlands. They are supposed to act as sponges taking and absorbing excess precipitation and then releasing it when the rains are over. That made a good point because where I live we have plenty of swamps around us and never see such floods apart from seasonal spring thaw induced ones (which are more or less predictable and controllable). So maybe we should not put all our bets into getting all carbon out of atmosphere (which is no simple task) but also see if local ecosystems can be fixed to achieve some quicker wins.
The per capita argument makes sense from a human perspective, even for any culture globally, as it is an appeal to fairness and equality.

However, the natural phenomena governing the planet's weather does not care about anything other than absolute CO2.

Fair or not, absolute CO2 is the number that matters for the planet.

We can come up with a mitigation or fairness mechanism, but in the end the planet works just like a virus or a script, it's a complex mechanism that you cannot negotiate or reason with.
Can confirm. Managers think their reports are pawns for their political moves.

I often ask my manager what exactly is their job. If they don't provide as much value as their reports, I switch teams immediately.
> I don't know what scnr means

Wiktionary tells me it stands for "sorry, could not resist".

https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/SCNR
Do people remember music players like Fb2000, MusicMonkey, Winamp etc?

In these apps, you just had to have normal windows operations, like drag and drop, select multiple things, copy paste and many more things you just... did with computers. Also, if you wanted to list all songs by singer X by genre Y... you could just do that. It's just something music apps could do as a basic requirement.

Now spotify makes drag&drop like ~somewhat~ work, but you still can't sort your music and at least the 1/4ths of the screen permanently shows an empty "connect with facebook to have 'friends'" sidebar, that can not be minimized.

It's funny to me how the invention of these JavaScript apps has thrown computing back by a good decade.
If you look at how careful Win9X was designed and researched, and how careless 100% of the current UIX is designed (mostly blindly A/B testing I guess), it is such a contrast.

Are there any UIX designers or frontend devs here on HN?
How do you deal with essentially being representatives of the dark ages of your profession? Are you embarrassed, or do you yourself think that your "craft" doesn't really matter for the bottom line? Or has design already been replaced by AI/ML anyway, and we are all yelling at windmills here?

I really wonder how you release something like Spotify et. al. as, say, a lead designer or lead frontend developer, lean back in your chair and go: "Yeah, I did a good job here".
What I find more ridiculous in Linux is the argument limit of processes. On a machine with 64GB of RAM I still often get "Argument list too long" when invoking commands with wildcards, even if the total size of all filenames combined is much less than 1GB.
The media is controlled opposition keeping people from hearing facts that oppose the regimes facts.
Messaging and chat control
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cement_kiln

1400 degree to make the cement part of concrete.

You could may be reach this by solar concentration, but currently we do burn stuff to make concrete.
This vector has been opened for a while. Companies are not allowed to provide E2E encryption anymore, they have or will have (see EU) to scan every picture they host or transport for you.
This is not an "open source Shazam". It is an open source interface to a closed product. I'm not flagging it because maybe someone finds it useful for something, but the description is simply misleading.
If there is anything covid has taught me its that collective action isn't something we can rely on and is a lot more wishful thinking about the state of humanity rather than a sober look at the reality. Governments need to tax CO2 emissions on the business side and pour the money into carbon capture technology in the private space through investment and perhaps some sort of bounty program (you get $x for each ton you capture). The greatest hope I see for the future of humanity is the incentive for a brilliant mind/leader to become the next Bezos/Musk via climate change technology and to do that the incentives have to be setup to make it happen. I'm past hoping for people to do the right things en masse.
Tildes – a non-profit community site driven by its users' interests (2018)
Of course you use the intuition of experts within that field when building models, that's a given. I don't see what is wrong with that, that's how all models are built.
But what is it that you're trying to say about climate models? State your own assumptions please, I don't want to keep playing this guessing game.
Cross species transmission is rare and while some cases have been reported, they're really the exception rather than the norm.

If there was really that big of a risk where we'd need mammals to isolate as well, then veterinarian services the world over would have collapsed under the weight of house pets contracting the virus.

edit: curious about the downvotes. Perhaps you have proof that has eluded the virologists researching SARS-CoV-2. Please do speak up ;)
Am I looking at the right article?

The one I read was about using CO2 in generators instead of steam.

edit: ah it was text on an image at the top that mentioned "clean coal" I didn't find it by text search so was confused.
The point is to show that the system is very sensitive, and that the folk wisdom of "2 C is just 2 C what's the big deal?" isn't valid.
How to configure Git to push only your current branch
Ah, I didn't realise that, assumed it was a legal requirement
I am a fan of composing programs personally, https://composingprograms.com/

Very well written, concise, and helps with getting a novice programmer going with Python. Which is a huge selling point to practically minded new programmers because you can trick them into it with "this is the best way to learn Python read this."

I haven't compared it to SICP though, which is much longer.
The Wikipedia article offers some further interesting citations.

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

James F. Welles, Understanding Stupidity

"The term may be used to designate a mentality which is considered to be informed, deliberate and maladaptive." Welles distinguishes stupidity from ignorance; where stupidity means one must know they are acting in their own worst interest in that it must be a choice, not a forced act or accident. Lastly, it requires the activity to be maladaptive, in that it is in the worst interest of the actor, and specifically done to prevent adaption to new data or existing circumstances."

= = =

Otto Fenichel, "The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (London 1946)"

"Every intellect begins to show weakness when affective motives are working against it". He suggests that "people become stupid ad hoc, that is, when they do not want to understand, where understanding would cause anxiety or guilt feeling, or would endanger an existing neurotic equilibrium."
Do what we do in Vic, Australia: Add usage tax for EVs, with only a narrow timed limited vehicle discount for standard range EVs. And not a single ICEV co² tax in sight.

That'll help (the oil companies).
No it's not and you have not a single scientifically demonstrated foundation for that kind of claims.

Using fossil fuels is saving more lives, in fact it's making it possible for billions of people to live today. That wouldn't be possible without fossil fuels. In fact most of us wouldn't be here.
For anyone concerned about climate change, the most important thing you can do is cast a vote for a political party that the issue seriously.
and that's why we have this mess: because of people like you in the governments of this world only thinking about theur personal, short-term gain... it's fucking ridiculous. don't you care about future generations and the way they'll inhert your planet?
Seconding Lisp in Small Pieces. I was so impressed with it during my student years that I even translated it into Russian. They don't lie about this “profound sense of enlightenment” once you finally get it.
Do mandatory reporter laws work like that? I was under the impression that you had to report something if you saw it, but you had no obligation to be actively scanning or to compromise encryption to do so. For example, I don’t think S3 does any active scanning and you can definitely shove any encrypted blob you want onto their servers with no obligation to give them a decryption key.

IMO this appears to be Apple either a) trying to preempt future criticism or regulation or b) responding to some behind-closed-doors pressure/bargaining with US authorities.
The Shuttle's exploding stovepipes (2020)
Steam turbines are HUGE compared to gas turbines. Think of the turbines on an airliner.

The main reason they haven’t built many Coal burning or nuclear power plants since 1980 is that steam turbines are uneconomical compared to gas turbines.
I think you're right on all points. Unfortunately there's not many other people doing any of this stuff.

MightyBytes and WholegrainDigital, seem to be the leaders in this space.

Which is why I'll be sending them a long, annoying list of things I think can be improved.

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the idea of the MozLink thing is that you reduce the number of clicks it takes to find your website — and so reducing the number of requests made to servers.

It's not a very good metric.
Nah, people dismissed these warnings when they were new in 50s, applied at best patches that made them feel good when problems became apparent in 90s and so on.

It's not fatigue, it's ostrich politics. "If I don't look at it, it will go away." But it's not a predator, it's essentially a force of nature. We had this kind of (then social) problems being ignored lead to huge revolutions in the past. But this time, getting the head of a few lords abd ladies will be insufficient.
New York will figure out how to save itself. It's all the poor towns and cities around the world that will be obvious problems.
Aren't trees a very efficient and cheap way to capture CO2 from air and store it in a safe way?
> give up personal transportation

Wtf? Nearly every human has personal transportation built in. It's called having legs.

>you're going to end up asking humanity to give up much the lifestyle it's grown accustomed to over the last 150 years.

Which is a totally reasonable ask considering the climate.
> But the whole premise (i.e. the concern) is that there's too much CO2 as an atmospheric gas and it would be better if some of it were instead somewhere else.

Yeah, everyone gets that.

Burning wood is net zero. The point is we don't want net zero - we want net negative.
I agree. You could probably say though, that once you decide to implement anything that's not `eval $1` you jump to the next level that forces you to parse the input and then use your built-in primitives to implement themselves. I think any minimal interpreter for any dynamic language will probably end up being pretty simple, though not necessarily as elegant as Lisp's. But elegance aside, there's nothing groundbreaking here.
My trivia league was blocked by Heathrow's airport wifi because of "games/sports". I contacted Boingo, who told me they don't block websites (? okay, so then your client operates a rogue blocklist that uses Boingo headers for the error page -- that's even worse). I also tried contacting some sort of pseudo-government safe browsing list to see if it was their blocklist being used by Heathrow and got no response.

The annoying thing is not the false positives: these things happen, and mostly it's not all that urgent to resolve immediately. The annoying thing is a total lack of obvious appeals process to resolve a false positive. At least the OP's example is on GitHub and thus can easily be issued.
Job security trumps UX every time, because if there s no need to change something there is no need to keep the team to implement that change.
Diesel generators run on any kind of oil including kitchen oil.

For emergency generators, that would be enough. For everything else we use oil for, not so much.
Not everyone, but it's probably a good strategy to convince as many people as practically possible. Because all measures with material impact will involve large reductions in the quality and confort of life for most people, so will almost certainly be quite unpopular.
The government believes you might have information about a missing child and are withholding it. They are about to restrain you against your will and search your rectum without your consent.

The reason this violation was able to take place is because…

> It’s all an invasion of privacy until you’re sitting on the other side of the table

The thing about privacy and the government is you must always envision yourself on the wrong side of the table, because you are. Right up to the point they are inside you. [1]
Your right to privacy is your strength and without it you are a slave to forces you don’t understand, can’t see, hear, taste, or smell.

Privacy or lack there of changes who you are and how you act. It changes what you say and why.

Be very careful how you submit to surveillance. The privacy you forfeit can never be recaptured.

[1] https://news.yahoo.com/mexico-man-sues-over-repeated-anal-pr...
One problem I see a lot with these LED walls is that in close-up, the details of each individual LEDs destroy the video quality especially in live streamings that have to use ABR (or similar).
The problem with carbon reduction is that carbon production is a multi-billion dollar global industry whereas CFC production was not.

Quite often in human history the hard problems are only hard because people profit from those problems not being solved.