skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A point that seems to be lost on most people who advocate for a plant based diet is that not all plants have the same environmental impact. Among plants as a class, there is a 60x range in the amount of calories provided per unit of resources required. So it matters a lot which plants you replace meat consumption with.

Generally speaking, beans, grains, and plant oils provide a lot of calories per input, whereas leafy greens and berries provide less calories per input than meat. So, if you replace your meat consumption with a bunch of kale salads and berry smoothies, your diet probably has a similar environmental impact to a diet that includes meat. But if you replace your meat consumption with beans, rice, olive oil, etc. then you're probably reducing the environmental impact of your diet.

I wrote a blog post about this:

http://www.richardjones.org/why-kale-is-actually-terrible-fo...
Ask HN: My school makes us use Chrome, how do I mitigate privacy loss?
My high school (Lewiston High School, 04240) makes us use Google Chromebooks and unfortunately Chrome just auto-updated to 69. We /have/ to use Chrome and there isn't another option, I tried sideloading app packages (DEB, APK, I tried every type) but it's blocked. Any ideas for mitigating the privacy loss? I know all my data is probably going directly to the school and whatever other government agency cares what I read, I'm just talking in general. At the end of the day everything I do is going to a datacenter, I just don't like it.
People are a resource, not a cost. Norman Borlaug saved one billion lives through improving agriculture. How many people like that would remain unborn?
Non-Twitter writeup: https://news.softpedia.com/news/chrome-69-does-not-delete-go...
I see your point, but personally believe that we shouldn't dismiss high morals of those who realized to work for misbehaving businesses. It is just impractical to think that these grounds are unbreakable in general, so why care at all. Why not give them vote box instead.
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For a government record of the development and implementation of government policy, that is a surprisingly fun read.

It's hard to imagine a public education campaign like this working today:

> Posters and brochures on rat control were widely distributed; displays were presented at local fairs, picnics and rodeos; and talks were presented to schools, 4-H clubs, agricultural societies, Chambers of Commerce and to just about anyone who would listen.

...let alone with this level of dedication from the educators:

> At a series of meetings with members of Indigenous communities, an Alberta Agriculture staff member ate warfarin-treated rolled oats while discussing rat control and the physiological effects of warfarin. He was able to effectively demonstrate the relative safety of warfarin to concerned community members, and they were able to move forward together.

It took about a decade for the program to work, but it did work:

> The number of known rat infestations in the border area increased rapidly from one in 1950 to 573 in 1955, and the numbers varied between 394 and 637 during 1956 to 1959. After 1959, the numbers of infestations dropped dramatically (Figure 3 [showing # rat infestations in Alberta hovering between 0 and 4 since 2000]). Hence, almost 10 years passed before an accumulation of training, experience and public education brought the rat problem firmly in hand.

And finally, rat control seems to be a point of genuine public pride. Something about regularly trumpeting government success in media is weird to me, but they seem to have earned it, and it's useful to keep people appreciative and aware.

> The discovery of a rat in Edmonton or Calgary receives full media coverage. In addition, the success of the program is reported by provincial or national media three or four times a year, and this success serves as a reminder to the residents that rat control is still an important program in Alberta.

Great link!
And they want your phone number :)
I was speaking specifically to their predatory "intro rates" and added fees which obscure the actual price of the service.
For the sound splitting, it's probably not extremely useful. You can however use this frequency analysis from video to synchronise audio with a video (for a music video where you want to use a studio audio recording with a video clip)
Windows used to have a little search box in the taskbar. All they needed back then was a better bing.
Deploy, monitor, and control your workforce's mobile devices from anywhere
> I have been lied to by a rat

...elaborate?
I use DuckDuckGo exclusively and don't feel like my life is worse for it. It really is good enough.

And when you also factor in that you're not helping Google build a profile on you, it's better than Google.
Kotlin and the rise of Multiplatform
> Google at the moment feels like a ruthless data driven company. “Our charts show that with this change people use more google services. It invades user’s privacy and pisses off a bunch of HN users but who cares? This will make us a trillion dollar company, and it is working!”

This. A million times. Be prepared for the next step: http://decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
What are they putting into these cookies

Cheap palm oil and other vegetable fats instead of butter, corn syrup instead of cane sugar, much lower quality chocolate than is generally available in grocery stores, various chemical stabilizers instead of eggs, artificial vanilla flavoring instead of real vanilla and so on.

Plus they obviously get everything at a massive discount since they're buying everything by the ton instead of by the kg.
In most medium size companies, think Fortune XXX, only IT is allowed to do that, after getting all the required approvals.

And good luck getting the cost center ID for the initial ticket submission to start with.
Flipkart Acquires Israel-Based Pricing Startup Upstream Commerce
Yeah, I got a call from SiriusXM about 60 days after I bought my Accord; Honda gave my contact information and VIN over to them. The person on the phone asked if I liked the 90 day trial and how I'd feel about subscribing.

I told her I never tried it; the car had CarPlay and I plugged in with Spotify right away.

She didn't even bother trying to convince me to use the service. "Oh, yeah, I can see how convenient that is. Let us know if you ever change your mind."
Keep in mind that Google dropped the motto "Don't be evil." So this change is in compliance with Google ethics now.
It's free, and if your 'cure' doesn't work you can imply the person didn't try hard enough.

Same reason why most 'magic potions' include hard to achieve steps (steal church parchments, estract the liver of a dog, etc.).
Isn't it native to assume all the Engineer oppose to this ? Some, maybe many will be happy to work on this. This is not an illegal thing that is enforced and has severe punishment.
There are some negative comments about the amount this farm produces but at 3500 acres and 75 tonnes of meat, I very much doubt they are attempting to maximise their output as a farm, especially considering the other camping and nature activities they host.

It is also an estate which will have other land uses so I would be more interested in seeing what would be reasonable to expect of the same amount of land used exclusively for farming cattle in this way because I think this could be a lot higher.

Then we can argue about whether this is scalable ;-)
That link just loads a blank page for me on iOS. Weird.
I also "like having spots of news that aren't strictly technical mixed in", but you described the article as an inaccurate short-sighted advertisement...
Adobe's new AI technology claims to answer questions you didn't know you had
I know. I used GitLab as an example because git is as ubiquitous in development as email and just as prone to centralization. Plus, the recent funding news made it the most obvious example since people are concerned.
Boxy – An Inbox-inspired macOS Gmail client
Nobody thinks linux has beaten windows
But are there any moral corporations left? It feels like you can just keep running.
This is considered insecure. Firefox devs think that prompting the user for permission does not inform the user enough about the risk. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674718.
True, in Europe high taxes take an additional toll, also the salary situation is so that it's basically impossible to get 200k in Europe if you're an employee.
UK Intelligence Agencies Have Been Spying on Privacy International
Facebook has started hemorrhaging key executives and the timing couldnt be worse
I disagree. The defect is not that you can't kill these tasks, the defect is that the I/O wasn't terminated by a timeout somewhere in the kernel/driver.

> where they insist that they know better than the user and artificially constrain them "for their own good".

I'm not sure where this comes from but if it's the intended design of linux (to not be able to kill tasks in the uninterruptible state), then that's their design. You're free to design your own operating system without this limitation -- though it likely means just taking the other side of the tradeoffs involved here.

It's not as if linux designers think "tasks holding resources that can't be killed by a sysadmin are a good thing" rather instead "letting tasks currently executing kernel code to be interrupted is a bad thing." And you could imagine other solutions that might liberate you from the dilemma entirely, but then that wouldn't be linux anymore.
>steal church parchments, extract the liver of a dog

How are these "hard to achieve"?
Apple could already make tons of money off of user data right now. Do you not think people have suggested this within Apple? It'd be ridiculous to assume so.

They are leaving a ton of money on the table taking their privacy stance right now.
I will keep using Google Chrome, no matter what they track, or what cookies they keep. I have nothing to hide, I just want a really good browser, which Chrome is.
I've been wondering what I will use once Inbox finally shuts down, and through the multiple discussions I've seen on HN I've never seen anybody even mention Boxy. This honestly looks like exactly what I've been looking for.
Fair point. While I disagree with the article, I enjoyed reading the discussion around it, so I'm not quite sure whether I'm happy or sad it hit front page?

Mixed feelings, I suppose.
>Can you get on a blacklist erroneously? Yes.

Can any random adversary easily have you blacklisted just for fun?

Can some Wordpress or other such service you run with your own email get you in trouble?

What about any when viruses (and botnets) in any PCs you have in your company go bezerk with your account?

And so on...
Some of the iPhone XS photos in this "review" look very similar to photos on Apple websites. Reproducing photos or text from other sources without attribution is plagiarism, no?
Hi guys, looking for feedback for my first ever website, thank you
Such a state doesn't make a person have will over themselves.
Going to a mailbox just to read it is a gateway to a time flush: process instead
Most of time standard power supplies and cabinet of these Desktop does not support 1080Ti power consumption.
Not a good one use or argument itself?
>I've been running my mail server for 10 years now, I got on blacklists 2 times

So how's that an argument that "it's fine"? Sounds like 2 times more than a regular person would want to deal with such issues within a decade, much less a small company. And it can take long to clear those things out if you're small fish...
It offers a pretty limited list of user space utilities: http://node-os.com/docs/Commands.html

It does seem interesting, just noting that their rhetoric might be a bit off base.
I work for a software company in the HIE space. We like to say, "When you've seen one HL7 message, you've seen one HL7 message."
Are you Aussie? If so...definitely not guns!
Their competition is not going to be ‘another search engine’, but ‘the thing that replaces search’. DeepMind had the potential to grow to something revolutionary, and they bought that
Nope, you didn't misconfigure it, NFS behaves like that by default. In fact it's really hard to configure it not to that.
Your harsh tone and eagerness to dismiss anything with which you disagree even remotely is probably why you're shadowbanned. I would suggest rethinking how you frame your arguments.
It appears like they are trying to defend their "lessened impact", which still results in the mass murdering of innocent mammals . . .
You should first ask, can I & others change the company from within.

Many people credit a small group of Microsoft employees for getting the company to embrace open source. This group grew from within as I'm told.
From reading the article, they do not fix the numbers of cars, so it is likely that the number of cars has a greater effect on flow.

Improvement in roads always lead to more cars, beyond what was expected. Entire suburbs get created when roads improve!

From the article:

"the removal of main roads does not cause deterioration of traffic .../... some motorized travels are not transferred on public transport and simply disappear ("evaporate")."
During "its bad, but not that bad" situations over the last couple decades I've had positive results with dropping the init level to single user mode "1" and then going back to normal multiuser mode which historically could be any number "2", "3", or "5".

Obviously this doensn't help with processes stuck in a kernel call. But for other sorts of malfunctions, or simply testing init scripts and their dependency tree, there's really no reason to reinit the kernel and check the filesystem and all that, and it can be very fast compared to a complete boot process.

This is not exactly a "gui-generation" solution for problems, but it has occasionally helped very quickly clean things up.
> No one one wants an odd-sounding name

Odd-sounding name are specifically what I looked for when naming my daughters. No one wants a banal name !
Any other benefits that are different? 401k details? What are the specific differences in the health coverages? Maybe startup A’s health coverage is worth the extra money. Other, non-health-related insurance benefits? Vacation time? So many things to consider in the package.
Former Bay Area tech worker here, also working remotely now from Central Europe. IMO if you are already making SF money and working remotely, you have it made. Keep saving 10k and enjoy a more relaxed life. Your kids can learn English from youtube, duoLingo and Khan. Maybe your city has an American School or something equivalent.

You have to decide if career climbing is what you really want, because along with that comes long hours, stress, likely a lot of business travel and other headaches. Personally I don't have a hard time keeping up w new tech and to fix the working alone thing I work at a co-work space. I get as much social interaction as I want.

If you really want them to be in a native English environment then move to the US but not the Bay Area. cost-of-living arbitrage! You can literally live anywhere since you are already remote. The US is full of beautiful areas, just take your pick.

Re: ageism, it will be the worst in the Bay Area. Other places are more open to workers with experience.
That has already been done with video auto play.
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Is it the responsibility of a corporation to be moral or is the responsibility of the shareholders and customers to keep them moral?
> It's become more important to produce the appearance of progress and effort than it is to actually make progress and thoughtfully apply effort.

That's why I'm sceptical about going to work on the autonomous vehicles tech (although it is tempting). I'm affraid there's been so much money and hype around it that "failure is not an option" - i.e. companies will sooner see another Challenger disaster than admit that they're not on track for their announced goals.
I first tried DDG years ago. It really wasn't great. The results and astetics were not up to snuff. I went back to google. About a year ago I decided to try DDG again. I've been using DDG ever since. Maybe once a month I'll google something. I use chrome only for google products like gmail.
Fee collection is NOT police work. Its for people who have been told that their pension and salary depends on more "fees" being "processed"
> A point that seems to be lost on most people who advocate for a plant based diet is that not all plants have the same environmental impact.

I am reminded of the vast amounts of water used to grow almonds
They are lotsa shades of gray and (virtually) every company does things that are somewhat fishy.

But, IMO, Google has gone to black
> If you doubt this’ll work, test it on a dog which is completely red.

This really confuses me. Why does the dog need to be red? Also, if someone ever tested it, it should be obvious to not work...
> However, telling the workers to "just quit" won't solve anything. In fact, it guarantees that the company will have a higher percentage of people you morally disagree with leading to, by your moral standards and actions, a more evil product.

Not necessarily.

Thank God Albert Einstein "just quit" as opposed to returning to Germany to influence it from the inside and change it from within.

Perhaps that engineer could go on to work for companies that care more about privacy and help them succeed, or explain to others why he left and convince others to as well.

Movements are not collections of popular supermen who do extraordinary things. You make it seem as if, unless you can completely change the course of the company, don't bother. Same as "don't vote your vote doesn't matter."
There's at least that many in DC.
If I remember correctly, that's what Google said when Chrome was introduced. Browsers at that time did not adequately support their services, so they made their own browser.
I can assure you that no vegan replaces meat with kale salads and berry smoothies.
You know what, I think I will just do both since both are exceedingly easy to accomplish.
But the ski rental problem as described there misses the same factors as the AWS example: it does not account for the additional costs of ownership vs renting.

The analogy doesn't quite map for all aspects so I'll stick with the ski example to show it's not specific to cloud computing: Owning skis has a load of associated costs ranging from simple to more complex: storage, maintenance, carrying them to and from the airport, having to spend a lot of energy on the decision of which pair to buy as it will be expensive to change my decision later, having the general background burden of owning another thing that I have to think about on some level even when I am not skiing.

All these things are ultimately paid for with money directly, or time, or mental energy that I could be spending on other things. What's the cost of all those combined? It's really hard to say and may even extend beyond a simple economic function and get into the philosophical arena. But you can't deny there is a cost and you can't ignore that cost when evaluating if renting is more or less expensive than owning, over an arbitrary time period.
Ahh yes, corporate laptops.

At our enterprise, we have HP ultrabooks or however they are called. Windows 7, 32 Bit. You know, it has a decent i5 on it, but there is some specific bottleneck making it terrible. Every employee that sits in an office has this piece of crap.

Takes 3 minutes to start IntelliJ. Since some years ~50 developers were able to get Macbooks, luckily I am one of them, else I'd just be pissed off every single work day.
Well once everyone obeys this law... I'm sure they'll figure out something else wrong for everyone to pay them again. And therein lies the problem.
When you say "we agree" - does that include the people that end up unemployed because the expected value of their work is less than the minimum wage? Whereas had they been allowed to work for less than minimum wage, they would have been able to build a track record of reliability, reducing the risks of hiring them in the future and thus increasing the expected value of their labour?

I would love to see the data, but in my experience of growing up in a very poor neighborhood, getting a foot in the labour market is the difficult part; once you are in, moving up is relatively easier.
> I think you can already build Docker images via Docker within travis CI, [...]

The nice think about plash is that you don't have to worry about "official" support.

> [...] due to /sys being read-only.

Dammit, no, so yeah, apparently unfortunately for regular docker containers (not privileged ones) you need to disable unsharing in plash (export PLASH_NO_UNSHARE=1). In that case the only requirements are chroot, a rudimentary mount binary and overlay OR unionfs-fuse and root access. So it should even run in BSD/Minix/macOS and stuff like that, BUT the mountpoints will not get cleaned up. For an instance running for a while that would be a problem, for a temporary docker container not.
This has not been my experience, nor my wife's experience. Instagram shows more of what you click on, so it's entirely possible you are clicking on trash, so they're showing you more trash. From what I've seen, it does a pretty good job of reflecting your viewing habits.
This is the future. Any socialist government needs to control the society one way or another. Free speech is not compatible with this system regardless if defendants of socialism say otherwise.
We have had luck begging for "just one" to try it out. Then run some benchmarks. We were able to show that the one developer with the fast workstation compiled faster, and therefore was more productive. A few numbers with dollar signs and management told IT to stop stalling and get everybody a good workstation - things happened fast.

You need to repeat that every couple years though.
Given that you would say that everything in our life is determined at birth? We just don't have enough knowledge to fast forward the simulation?
React-Virtualized: Why, When and How you should use it
If either were really a problem we would definitely all be ill by now.
Thank you for this! My Thunderbolt displays looked like garbage this morning, and I suddenly regretted upgrading to Mojave until I found this.
Not much that I can add to this conversation, but let me share a pet peeve: the phrase "save the world," which is used indiscriminately in so many contexts that's its devoid of meaning.

Save the world for whom? The tacit answer seems to be: for humans. Most vegans, including me, are vegan because we find the exploitation of animals morally unjustifiable. Our world includes the nonhuman world. And by being vegan we are saving it.
I don’t think there’s reasonable hope.

Mainstream people dont need and dont value products being great in every detail.

I don’t know what they need. But as google is still successful with a search engine that used to be great a decade ago because it delivered results for exactly what i was looking for and nothing else, and now is more a „whatever you search, we‘ll serve you some results no matter if words you search really appear there, they seem to be happy being served anything wether it’s what they ordered or not...

For the minority with high demands on products his is difficult because we have to look for new providers again and again after the logic of growth makes companies shift to cater there products to the mainstream... after using us as beta testers and advertisers.
Bleeping Aliens and Boom Ops: Lessons learned producing my first course
Always ask about a companies profit and revenue streams in an interview.
This is awesome - the invisible trick really works!

Try it for yourself - you will see people staring at you but you will know you are invisible!
I disagree. Specifications require implementation, and the implementation literally comes out of the engineers' fingers - if none of the engineers agreed to implement something they thought was unethical, then it's mostly irrelevant what the product definition says.