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Not all pollution is created equal. Small amounts of nuclear waste stored in concentrated isolated locations doesn't impact anyone, meanwhile CO2 pollution is impacting the whole world extremely negatively.

> Is there a way of producing enough energy without pollution

Can't think of a single energy generation method that doesn't result in at least some pollution from raw material extraction, byproducts or remains after the end of the lifecycle. Maybe geothermal, but I don't know what goes in a geothermal plant.
They still host images for the versions of linux I cut my teeth on in the 90s. For that as much as anything I'm really greatful!

Redhat 4.2 Biltmore represent!
They probably have their own names for their own music and fewer people demanding they change it because its too centered on their culture.
You'd be talking 1970s or before, then? Anything from the 80s onwards has had plenty of electronics present. And generally been more reliable for it. Ftr I've owned and fixed hundreds of cars, and modern ones are much more reliable and need less servicing.
They are already much more expensive to run.

I replaced a 2003 Saab with a Tesla Model 3 and for our driving (about 40k km per year) the price difference between electricity and petrol ALONE makes up for the leasing payments.
The difference is that .git is only in directories that you explicitly set up as a git repository whereas .DS_Store, Thumbs.db, .desktop and similar get barfed wherever by the file manager without doing anything that a user would consider as a modification to the directory.
Star Trek: Prodigy has already used audio from previous movies and TV to bring back to life several actors from previous series. It's not exactly the same as this, but their dialogue was taken out of context to create new scenes and story.
To be fair, what a sufficiently clever application could do would be to try and naively open the file, note a mismatch, then do a directory walk comparing normalized filenames.

Still not great.
Yes, I mean it would be absurd to argue that there isn’t more systemic risk in crypto markets.

The question I keep pointing at though is, why does it matter? These are not retail traders. They’re institutions that are considered experts in their field and hold no customer deposits (aside from accredited investors, who are again considered knowledgeable enough to not need government oversight to invest).

Everyone here ostensibly knows the risks and their crash won’t tank i.e. the housing market or pension funds.
Linus objected to C++ partly because it has far too much implicit allocation.

If you look at how much surgery is required to make the Rust for Linux alloc work you can see he was quite serious. For example Rust for Linux Vec::push doesn't exist, because if the Vec wasn't big enough that's an implicit allocation, instead Vec::try_push is provided, which is fallible.

There was nobody proposing to even attempt that kind of work for C++.
If only there was some sort of global payment system where you could transact freely and no one could prevent you from sending or receiving money..

A system where instead of trusting banks and governments and other entities, we could harness the decentralised nature of the internet.

A system based not on trust at all.

A system where the total number of units of currency was limited to a pre-determined amount.
What makes you believe it won't be a thing (or a rebranded version of it)?

Unless any of the European countries (even the larger ones) wants to be crushed by the economic weight of the US or China they better stick together.

Even most Euro-skeptics seems to get it by now.

The fact that Russia is removing itself from the game of economics and has voluntarily killed of European dependency on their gas is reducing inner EU conflict.
isn't the halting problem a non-computable phenomenon?

Is P=NP computable?

I would imagine there's something interesting around computing quantum phenomenon to precision since it's not measurable?

I don't really know anything other the high level about those but I would love to hear how they fit into the picture
Other than "ridiculing the prospects of AI having impact on jobs / wages", what option do most programmers have. Most people do not have an option of a job change, or to cope with the new reality of the end of the high compensation age (soon, doesn't have to be in 2023). Accepting that the AI will soon(not exactly right now) restructure the industry doesn't help. Hence most people like to pretend it will just make some small impact and focus on living their life.
> “there is no problem because the government can simply create as much money as it wants out of thin air.” So they are implicitly saying that any currency has value because people believe it has value but don’t extend that generosity towards other assets where there is a clearly demonstrated group ascribing value to it.

Prior to 1971, federal reserve notes were backed by gold. Their value was generated out of thin air even then - a piece of paper with a promissory of gold is not a bar of gold.

Today the US holds thousands of tons of gold at Fort Knox and other places. Why? Why does it do this? I can assure you the 9 billion dollars worth of Dogecoin out there do not have thousands of tons of gold out there implicitly backing them.

Beyond all of this, your point that countries don't have printing presses that can generate am infinite amount of value is valid.
It isn't if you don't want them. But the person I responded to seem to want it.
Public transport won't substitute the need or desire for private cars. Improving public transport's impact will plateau at some point because people will always value the privacy and benefits of using their own private car.

You will never be able to create transport system where people take a bus in front of their door step, to the grocery store and back on demand.
I would have disagreed with you 5 years ago but actually I think you could be right. There are adjacent examples of transcendent human experiences being synthesized - eg people falling in love with that Replika chatbot.

I feel grateful that I heard the Mahler symphonies before the great flood of AI content, at least I will always have that. But perhaps AI could complete his 10th symphony…
It will be difficult as big manufacturers will lobby to relabel smart features as safety features which will make it hard to sell a car with a low safety rating. (This is already happening, squeezing out the makers of cheaper cars.)
It may be for some people that make that choice. This whole thread reeks of people that cannot empathize with a perspective not their own.
LineageOS looks like your best bet: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/sargo/
> Do you produce electricity without CO2 emissions?

I mean, yes, that is clearly the plan. A substantial proportion of EU energy usage is carbon-neutral already, and the current plan is that all coal & oil power plants will be closed entirely before 2040.

You can see current energy sources live on https://app.electricitymaps.com/ - even countries like Germany & Poland (famously fossil fuel keen) currently use 63% / 47% fully renewable energy today, and at the other end of the spectrum there's Iceland (100% renewable), Sweden (100% renewable + nuclear), Norway (98%), France (93%), Spain (86%) etc.

Not 100% yet, but heading in a good direction. There are of course other challenges, but on this specific point: I think it's clearly possible for the EU to get to a 100% renewable/nuclear grid by 2035 if they continue on the current trajectory.
As someone else with haemorrhoids, my Toto bidet seat really did improve my life significantly. I've now moved to the UK, where the lack of power outlets in bathrooms (and the fact that our flat has toilets with in-wall tanks) means I'm bidetless, and it's made my life worse again. :(
No. because Seaweed does not eat smaller Seaweeds.

Predator fish like Tuna can become heavier in toxins only because they are the top of a food chain gathering and concentrating said toxins.

Seaweed is just a plant. It grows, then dies if not harvested. It is no higher risk than wheat.
Geoffrey Hinton on impact and potential of AI
In my opinion, my ideal walkable/livable community is the university town. It has everything you need in walking distance. Most people who work in the community live in the community. Public transportation is well-used, to the point cars are often outright forbidden. Lots of greenspace, with good wifi through the whole town. Well managed library and IT infrastructure. Very inclusive and welcoming community, as they are arranged around the idea of incorporating new people into the community on a regular basis.

I'm one of those lifers that went to college and never left, now entering my 5th year as a professor. That's a lie -- I had 3 years in industry, and I just hated it. I mean, the people were okay, but "the real world" seems to be a euphemism for having to put up with the shitty systems and communities that everyone else has to.

But here's the thing (and sorry to rant for a minute), calling academia an "ivory tower" in contrast to the "real world" is an admission that we have to accept the shitty systems and communities past generations have built for us. Because with all of the craziness in the banking sector and tech sector lately, it's hard to convince me that academia is any more divorced from reality than other large industries out there that are trying to run the world. How is academia any more of an ivory tower than silicon valley? And aren't those silicon valley bankers and billionaires the ones who are trying to shape the world in their image, while crashing banks and laying off hundreds of thousands of people? To me, that is a dark tower, and one we should not be trying to emulate at a country scale; whereas my community, the places I walk, the people I work with every day, the relationships I build with them -- that's the real world. Or at least my world. /r

Yes academia is a bubble and unique, but at the same time, that's what allows it to be a place where you can have the things you say you want. Is it sustainable? You know, probably not, but at the same time many of these communities are over a century old. I know my University has plans for sustainable growth for the next 100 years. There's surely still work to do to make such communities more sustainable, less costly to manage, and larger and more widespread. But still, the university town is a model that proves we can at least build walkable communities in America. They definitely exist!
Show HN: TURF
Is there a tool that lets me analyze video and make this change, or does it generally require an audio interface?

I find I have this problem with Chromecast and YouTube. I think I would be pretty happy if I could set up yt-dlp to grab video, assist the audio of needed and then play the video.
In Germany new residential buildings have to be built with parking space for the residents, and I now often see those either having chargers or being planned with the later addition of chargers in mind. Condo buyers also see this as a selling point, so there is market pressure (not sure how this looks on the landlord/tenant side yet).

But we have lots of residential buildings from the 50s and 60s still used, so it will take a couple decades for that to really have the required effect. My guess is that parking spaces with chargers will become a differentiator for shops and employers within the next 15 years.
> I don’t think that EV implies software overkill. I hope that some brands will carve out a niche for simple EVs with real buttons and low “smartness”.

As of now EVs are synonymous with software overkill. Hence your hope that some brands WILL carve out a niche.
Producing isn't actually enough, let's talk about the full cycle.
Even if you produce it cleanly, you'll need to store it + production of the turbins ...

And battery production (and mining for materials) pollutes the environment as well.

So let's not compare only parts of the system ... let's be real here
Arguing against a strawman is not a useful discussion technique. I was talking about public transport exclusively. Go to London or Tokyo and ask people living there if they would prefer to exchange the tube/Tokyo metro with individual cars.
That website claims the median software engineer salary in Ukraine is $60,000 and $47,000 in Russia.

Both are way too high to believe.
>Rental cars for the occasional exceptions, ownership for whoever has to use them regularly, that's still basically fine.

I'm really looking forward to the government knowing and controlling where I can go!
Technically humans have radioactive breath, too.

It's not generally considered an important factor.
Afaik it is just some (quite a few) type traits, like std::is_class and such that you could not write yourself without compiler intrinsics.
> If you need to read tons of fat books to be aware of all the nuances of the language, then the language has failed its goal of being a useful tool to build things.

You should probably judge usefulness the language by how much software was produced using it.

> No wonder that C++ is increasingly becoming a relic confined to the cemetery of bad technological ideas, no new software is being built in it at all, and Rysy and Go are eating all of its cake.

Do you have any data to support this? Where i work (one of FAANG) we don't use Go at all and rust is limited to only certain types of applications. Other stuff is either python or c++.
The title is not misleading at all, as a phaseout is not a ban, but a gradual transition. And as the lifetime of cars is limited and there will be no new CO2-emitting cars to replace the ones that go away, this ban of new sales will see these cars removed completely at some time, gradually. That's a phaseout.
Kanten is a Japanese processed agar product that is refined to jelly and then sun dried into fiber blocks. It is virtually tasteless but added to soups and salads for texture.

It doesn't have to be monadically appetizing to be a delicious dietary staple.
Given the enduring niche of physical media, why would a person choose non physical media for the artwork and leaflet experience? Would there be a UI that afforded the user thumbing through stacks, sliding the carton out, admiring the art as it is opened and an artifact unsleeved to be mated to a player?

I suppose something like that would be possible with NFC (with write durability improvements). The NFC holds a token allowing for the play of a particular album. For each non-cached play, a new token is generated and sent to the NFC. The album represented by the NFC can then be loaned or resold like the old way of physical media. Maybe even let the NFCs go bad after a few thousand token rewrites just like how vinyl and tapes wear out. It would have no improvement over old media other than having a large and fragile IT infrastructure.

Vinyl record sales outperformed CDs in the US for the first time since 1987, according to a new report. Just over 41 million vinyl records were sold in 2022, to the tune of $1.2bn (£.99bn). Only 33 million CDs were sold, amounting to $483m.

https://www.bbc.com/news/64919126.amp
I got down-voted heavily on reddit for this idea, but I still think it's genius: Everybody gets a card with their yearly CO2 budget stored on it. For filling up your car at a gas station, but also for consuming electricity, taking a plane or buying stuff (except low CO2 food) a corresponding amount will be withdrawn from your card.

The card is credited weekly, so you can't overspend too much of it. Your saved credits will decline slowly over time. Of course all has to be balanced considering socio-economic factors.

The great thing is you can sell your credits to rich people, so it would even reward you for staying at home giving you sort of a minimal income.
e-fuels are the equivalent of carbon offsets.

It's a hand-wavey solution to keep the status quo.
Indirectly related:

I did an audio space animated thing using the canvas bouncing ball, and then I wanted to add arbitrary obstacle with lines at are at 90 or 180 degrees.

The math gets a magnitude more complicated immediately. Changing the angle of the ball doesn’t do that, but taking the walls off of the coordinate system does.

You go from simply adding a positive or negative signed number to some other situation where you have to calculate the vectors of all the bodies involved.

I’ve always suspected there’s some elegant solution that I’m missing.
They had announced that with ID.3. Yet the result was slightly different.
It is that simple. Chinese “laws” created in such a way to keep American social media and tech giants out. We can just create our own corresponding law.
Theoretically no, but practically the big manufacturers lobby to label smart electronics as safety features, so if you want to sell a simple car, you face the uphill battle of explaining why it scores low on safety ratings (which are mostly a checkbox-list of smart features).
I think it's the unresorped magnesium that causes diarrhea by osmosis. At least that's one of the supposed mechanisms. I find it irritating how confidently you present your half knowledge, especially since you're giving medical advice.
I was trying to find an answer to your question and found a great website I thought I should share, documenting when Samsung EOL their devices. Oldest mobile device (not including smart watches) to have security updates is the Galaxy C7 from 2017. Genuine device support only extends as far back as 2019 to the Samsung S10 though. I found Apple's list also, which I'll share below.

https://endoflife.date/samsung-mobile

https://support.apple.com/en-ie/guide/iphone/iphe3fa5df43/io...
I tried to see if this info was available in SteamDB (and it probably is somewhere — I’m just not finding it in an easily-accessible way), but my feeling is that most games on Steam are still Windows-only.
Gonna try this during the weekend
> Real low-level assembly language probably is easier to really understand and reason about than C++, isn't it?

No. There's no comparison. Assembly is far harder.

Assembly can be completely unstructured. It can jump into the middle of a subroutine. OS permitting, it can be self-modifying. You have to have a very clear understanding of how each instruction can affect the condition flags. Instead of getting very familiar with the C++ spec, you're getting very familiar with the chip spec.

You can write clean, understandable assembler. To do so, you have to have self-discipline. You have to resist using all the things that the assembler makes possible. But you can do that in C++, too - and should.
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I've found it particularly useful for drawing SVGs.

Also allows mixing in new code blocks one by one, so you can have a REPL-like conversation and add/overwrite JavaScript functions one by one.

Screenshots and install instructions in the GitHub readme.

Taking suggestions for any other kinds of structured output to render, too!
No. ICE engines vehicles used to be much simpler but they have gotten increasingly more complicated to meat emissions standards.
I don't think it's necessarily contradictory. Apps could get slower with their own updates (more bloat, less efficiency due to testing on newer devices) while the OS itself gets more efficient.
> In the non-crypto world, providing services in a country usually requires setting up a legal entity in said country.

For this statement to be true, you have to modify it to "in a pre-Internet world" or "providing financial services."

Hacker News is providing an information and communication service in almost 200 countries where it has not set up a legal entity. You can say financial services are special, and the US does. Some countries like China say that information services are special, that people shouldn't be allowed to criticize the CCP, and enforce that however they have the power to. But the world would be demonstrably worse if we said "every website in the world that is accessible to Chinese citizens living in China should follow CCP censorship laws."

Maybe the world is also worse off for the US's assertion that financial services are a special kind of website that the US can regulate globally simply because some Americans visit them.

At the very least, the rest of the world should have some say on a policy that affects what kind of online businesses they can run. But of course there's no mechanism for them to, since only US citizens can direct US policy.

Also, think about how impossible it would be to run a website if all countries enforced their local laws on all websites, simply because some of their citizens use foreign websites. The US is doing something that it would be unworkable for all countries to do, simply because it's the most powerful country. That alone should be a hint that it's a morally and politically questionable and based on raw power, not fairness; a fair policy would universalize better across countries.
> or at least it did from 1990s to 2010s.

You write it yourself. Up to the 2010s.

The majority of phone users use zero features - with the possible exception of the camera sensor - that where not also available at very high quality in 2013.

For phones, I currently see zero reason for further hardware upgrades.
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Tell him to read the article.