skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Growing and delivering the seaweed is among the smallest problems to solve. The animal agriculture industry already involves growing and shipping billions of pounds of feed. This is just a different type of feed, and it is seemingly only needed in tiny quantities, so it will be dwarfed by other expenses related to raising cattle for consumption.

The only thing missing is a profit motive...without taxes and regulations that internalize those external environmental costs, there's no motivation for cattle producers to add even this small cost.
Cremation puts 540 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere; the average human breathing puts out 2.3 pounds of CO2, so it's basically the same as breathing for an extra 234 days.

Or being an American for ~3 days.

We have far larger fish to fry.
This seems like an extreme case of “assume your hack will be used in production for years to come.”
I doubt that even spineless politicians would give up the same concessions for half the jobs and investments.
The primary issue with Slashdot seems to be the flame wars—they don’t have some of the features and the moderation like HN does to detect and prevent them. If someone mentions systemd, you know that the quality of discussion just went from “mediocre” to “terrible”.
Researchers Discover a Way to Bypass Hardware-Based SSD Full Disk Encryption
How are you so upset by an offhanded reference in one sentence? If he had replaced it by another bit of technobabble to justify why drones were unfeasible in that situation, would it have mollified you?
Lazy Ad Buying Is Killing the Open Web
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16119143.
Larry Wall on Lisp (1992)
Basic economics. There's no reason why farmers should switch to more expensive feed even if its better for the environment or cows. At least near term they will end up selling the same meat for a higher price to compensate for the feed, will sell less meat due to the price, ultimately hurting profits, and the plan will be scorned until it's abandoned. It doesn't even matter that seaweed is cheap and resource-light to farm, nor does it matter that only a small amount of this compound needs to be put in the feed. Shareholders will not tolerate more overhead unless forced.

This is the perfect place for government action to incentivize switching to this kind of feed, be it subsidy or tax break. Pollution is sadly profitable, and corporations need to be either fined for polluting or incentivized for reducing pollution; shareholders rarely see beyond quarterly profits, let alone the great economic consequences of pollution a century down the line.
It's not - I think OP is saying tax the animal suffering, not the eating of meat generally.
"Microsoft Linux" would be the most EEE thing they could do and I don't think anyone here expects that. However, it would be nice if there has been a bit less fuss about Microsoft going open-source. They should do just what everyone else does: extract useful software from your software stack, release it as free software and make the community a bit greater in doing that. Get your praise from the software you release, not from the fact that you do.

(To be fair, I think Microsoft engineers are actually staying low-key and just release stuff, while the management, marketing and fan groups are talking about how great Microsoft has become for FLOSS)
I would support this. The fact that the government can seize you, force you to live among people who are known to be violent and then not take responsibility when someone is assaulted or killed is insane. Criminal or not, if your person is under government control, your safety and health should be absolutely guaranteed.

On a side note the concept of private prisons is also insane. That a private company can hold you for profit is not right.
Re: if someone can get more done by using skills XYZ, maybe they'll outcompete firms not using it...

Some orgs might be, but they are better off hiding their secret from competitors, and thus we are not likely to hear about it.

Warren Buffett often expresses shock that universities and investment organizations ignore his well-published techniques, following BS and fads instead. He and other "value investors" have big bucks lasting decades to prove it; they don't. They only have silver words and catchy-sounding theories. IT is the same, I'm afraid to say.

The GREAT LIE of IT is that there's not a lot of real science in "computer science", beyond machine efficiency. It's much easier to do science and math to test and measure machines than it is the human mind, but code is meant for the human mind as much as machines. Humans make, read, and modify software, not machines: computers are just dumb automatons (hopefully) following instructions verbatim.
Will buy one the instant they support mice.
Not a breakdown, but here goes.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/whats-new/

Only goes down to 4.5, as older versions are already EOL.

The archived MSDN docs do have the older versions in case you are interested.

Which runtimes implement which versions of .NET Standard:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/net-standar...
This appears to be crank garbage, which is unfortunately not hard to run into when reading online about computability and related topics. Anything not computable by a Turing Machine is almost certainly not physically realizable (Church-Turing thesis), and if it were it would surely involve esoteric physics like black holes, not anything readily available to human brains.
Totally makes sense if they win the massive JEDI Cloud Contract as they seem to be a shoe in for.
Not surprising considering we're still in the early stages of smart contract adoption. I'm curious what this number will be in 2020.
Vegetables are not conscious, and they cannot feel and interpret pain.

Taking your logic, I can extend your argument in the opposite direction towards humans. But I have a feeling no one would condone that!
My vote goes for "S3" (Seattle's Secondary Site, of course)
I'm not sure what point you're making. When people believed in a flat Earth, or geocentrism, or miracles, those things did not contradict empirical knowledge of the world. Since then, we have established empiricism as the most useful tool for examining the real world, and expanded the scope of human knowledge considerably. I'm not sure what about that you might take issue with.
Some portion of the people experiencing homelessness is due to their being unable to afford housing in the city of their choice. Certainly, being unable to afford housing isn't helping anyone. But, as you so correctly note, it's almost certainly not the dominant factor.

With that said, there's some room for subtlety around land-use questions. For instance, land-use regulation can make it very difficult to build a shelter or a mental health treatment center. When the infrastructure to get people off the streets cannot be built, the most vulnerable among us will tend to stay where they are.
.NET Framework isn't depreciated in the same sense that Mozilla Suite wasn't depreciated while Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox was being developed. .NET Framework is, at best, on the equivalent of an LTS branch. You'll get bug fixes, but few, if any, new features. Microsoft is clearly making .NET Core the premier framework going forward and .NET Framework is expected to die.

If you ask Microsoft, they'll currently tell you otherwise, but that's because that's a bad idea from a marketing perspective. You don't let your customers know you're going to end of life your product that they used for 15 years until you have absolutely no other choice.
Is public transport really a driving factor for your decision on where to live? If it is, I just can't see it being a common factor for others. Most Americans I know are happy to drive if they can, and begrudgingly take public transport only when they have to (or when the cost and/or time savings is overwhelmingly in support of public transport, as it is in much of NYC). I would have to agree with the post above yours, that there is a drive among young people to live in large urban centers, if only to be nearer to culture, despite only being consumers of that culture. I can understand that drive, but it is far from the most financially responsible choice of residence for a large majority of people.
This is obviously hearsay, but I believe there are regulations in Aus that towns that discharge treated water have to discharge it upstream of their town, for just this reason.
> In the SaaS & ecommerce landscape, being beaten to market or having a competitor that can iterate faster than you means you're dead.

I understand how common this sentiment is, and maybe in some markets it really is true, but for the most part I just don't buy it that SaaS and eCommerce are zero-sum games.

I'm going against the grain here, but there are a lot of counterexamples -- look at all the time tracking apps, or all the fitness trackers, or all the file transfer software, or all the credit card processors. I'm pretty sure the number of actual zero-sum markets pales in comparison to the number that people believe exist.
Taste was my first thought as well, but rather than fishy, I would think if anything it might almost act as a tenderizer, adding natural sodium and umami to the meat. That does assume that the cows are eating it in a quantity where it makes any difference, but if yellow flowers can change the color of the milk, I don't know why seaweeds wouldn't do something to the taste.
Unfortunately Dallas is still in Texas.

Not really any different than Seattle, except Seattle has enough sway over the rest of Washington to keep it from going hard right.
> The writing is on the wall — Texas will turn blue sooner than later.

At this point the Democrats can't win for losing. If you field broadly likeable A teamers like Beto and Davis and still lose to comical villains like Cruz and Abbott, it's laughable to think the tide is really turning in our lifetime. Something big has to change, and I'm not sure what it is.
Couldn't disagree more. If anything, more money empowers and helps them fight against injustice and perhaps even develop small businesses / create more wealth. More money paid into taxes improves the infrastructure(i.e. security) as well.

In the worst case scenario security can be bought too. Money gives you power, especially in poor communities.
I see this sort of comment on every New Yorker article posted here. The style of the magazine is not efficient, short articles. Some people do enjoy longer form, descriptive writing, even if it could be summarised in a shorter article.
The "Angry RV Man" went viral on VHS in the 80s, and even though Google didn't exist it effectively ruined his life. There is a very sad documentary called "Winnebago Man" about his current life secluded in the mountains just to escape it.

Think of it, the last 30 years of this man's life made a living hell all so people can laugh at his angry outburst. In no way was this good for him.

"Star Wars Kid" lived through hell in high school, it certainly didn't help him either.

Its fine for you who doesn't have to live through it to just laugh it off. But these viral videos cause real harm to real people.
There is NO light rail link from Denver to Boulder, only buses. The money raised from Boulder residents via sales tax increases was spent on other lines.
> My favorite in terms of pointlessness

I heavily disagree. The main reason google was fined by the EU was their anti-competitive monopoly abuse, forcing manufacturers to bundle all their apps.
While I like chrome, its market dominance in particular on android is worrisome. Since Samsung can not offer another browser instead of chrome, but only in addition, this is the best they can do in this situation.
Instead of complaining about "duplication", I applaud them for their efforts.
>Among Texas cities, Dallas also doesn't have the tech talent pool and established network of transplanted tech companies that Austin already has, let alone the politics that many west coast tech workers (and Bezos) find attractive (although that point is kind of moot, because either way it's still Texas).

Austin's tech worker population is peanuts compared to the East or West coast so I don't think it gives them much of an advantage over Dallas.
See also for in-process fuzzing: https://llvm.org/docs/LibFuzzer.html
> Abbott is up by 15-20 points in the polls this year

Careful making suppositions about politics based on a winner's party. Often it matters about the opponent strengths (or lack of). This is the same party-assumption failure people make about national elections.
The Open Source Definition as Copyleft Regulation
Lime testing rental of small electric cars in Seattle
Great point, but the articles mentions extremely small areas compared to the entire state over the period of decades.
See the "trophies" here: https://llvm.org/docs/LibFuzzer.html#trophies

Also: https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz
What's with the "Beer enthusiast" comment?
Thanks, we've updated the link from https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/05/supreme_court_neutr....
You can re-interpret the struct to a pointer (length would simply be truncated). Apart from that there wouldn't be any benefit: the pointer and length would be aligned no matter which position they take (on x86 and amd64 at the very least).
But how do you tax the potential land usage? Are you saying we should tax farmers based on how many acres it takes them to produce a calorie?

This could also have a knock-on affect of encouraging _more_ cruelty (if that's even possible at this point).
Ask HN: Difference between an Accelerator and a University?
Principally, how is an accelerator (like YC), as an institution, any different than universities? which just capitalizes on the selection bias. What is the net value added of the "education"? OR is it just a signaling factor and access to the alumni network. Considering the slim chances of success with any startup, do these add-ons really make a difference for the majority of startups?
One Reason That MIT Should Reinstate Scheme and 6.001 (2009)
> They reuse them, they forget them, they write them down on text files on their computer.

Writing them down in a textfile on the computer might not even be that bad _if_ they, as a consequence, are not or less reused.
You bet it does! https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2018/how-to-program-a-calculator-p...
The problem is see is not being able to go to .NET Core because of third party dependencies.

And we still have lots of them that until now haven't cared much about .NET Core.
What if Google unionized?
Why not tax cancer? If I eat red meat and don’t get cancer, then why am I paying an extra tax? It isn’t like my red meat consumption is causing other people to get cancer.
Even there, you need a fuzzer that can generate code that actually execute and does something you can observe.

Otherwise the output of a C compiler (as in the binary itself) is expected to differ even between different versions of the same compiler.
First of all you can tax cancer, you make people who engage in voluntary cancer-inducing activities such as smoking pay higher health care costs.

But secondly that WHO page is frequently cited by people who apparently haven't understood the numbers behind it. It's not worthwhile to tax meat as a cancer risk because the health impact is a rounding error.

According to the WHO:

> about 34 000 cancer deaths per year worldwide are attributable to diets high in processed meat.

That's the population of a village worldwide. To turn that into a death rate for the world population in 2015 is 34000/7400000000*100000 = 0.45.

That wouldn't even make it onto this table[1] of most common worldwide death rates. You can see rates like 15 for diabetes, and 115 for heart disease, both of which are strongly linked to diet.

If everyone in the world adjusted their diet so they wouldn't be overweight or obese, but kept eating processed red meat, then diet-related illnesses would be rare enough that nobody would even bother talking about them, as opposed to being the one of the leading causes of death in the western world.

Citing a WHO report which says that evidence of carcinogenicity is strong without context is correct but misleading. As that page points out you can have strong evidence but tiny effect sizes.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rat...
While I agree that we (where we is a reader of the NYT or other western individuals) focus on hyper optimizing our life towards a perfect, unachievable goal, I am not at all comfortable with the authors assumption that it is inherently bad to do so, and that we should instead be happy with a life of mediocrity.

Every single time humanity visibly progresses, it is because one person (or many) found a problem with themselves or the state they were living in and attempted to remove the problem in hopes of having themselves or their environment become more 'perfect'. If people today decide to stop progressing towards perfection and just be happy with what they have, then there will still be large swaths of people living in extreme poverty, dying from preventable diseases, and suffering from human rights abuses. I really do believe that it is imperative from a humanitarian perspective that while we still have problems in the world, we strive to do everything we can to fix them—and that not doing so is horribly selfish.
Very well put. Newly elected officials could be given a six month grace period to get any remediation efforts underway before their first tasting. Incumbents would not be eligible for a grace period.

One other point to add to rsync's comment:

One other point to mention is that rational choices cannot be made about things like pollution when measurement methods can be fudged and the health effects of specific pollutants are not necessarily well studied. Bottom line, putting it in one's own body is the best way to determine whether a sensible person would feel comfortable with the environmental exposure being forced upon citizens due to lax or imperfect regulation, or even imperfect science. Do I want to drink this discolored, foul smelling water just because it does not test positive for known carcinogens? Common sense is actually a surprisingly helpful guide here.

All that would happen is that regulations would begin to be enforced or modified to match the improved perception of reality informed by the tasting.

Think about it this way, climate change is a fairly abstract concept that is much easier to ignore than the fish dinner sitting in front of you that was caught in water your administration declared safe.
Tech companies are serious about liberal politics.

Part of that is ensuring they keep things as center to slightly right as possible and toss some money at social causes to keep their rep.

If the democrats actually won consistently they might start to shift left. These companies do not want a strengthened left wing in the US.
Requiring that the ride is on the cheapest possible uber kinda dampens my enthusiasm for this. I thought it was a nice gesture for people that don't get around as well, however (at least in my area), the cheapest Uber option (Express) often requires a 5-10 minute walk. At that point, you might as well walk straight to your polling location. I suppose it could be useful to people in more rural areas, but I don't know how usable Uber is in less dense towns.
True but I think some of these issues are also fundamentally harder to tax. Everything uses land and water, the problem is how much cattle use per calorie produced.

I suppose you're saying we should tax usage of these things based on calorie produced?
Sure, but it is not evidence that this deplatforming actually resulted in reduced adoption of hateful views - only that these views were shared on Reddit less frequently. It may be a good result, but it is not evidence that deplatforming actually reduces these views in society as a whole, which is what the above comment claimed.
I highly recommend Richard Feynman's talk [0] on imagining physics from the BBC series "Fun to Imagine":

"In the case of science, I think that one of the things that make it difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It's very hard to imagine all the crazy things that things really are like."

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zZbX_9ru9U
Any word on why those judges recused themselves?
I admit I’m still totally unconvinced of the value of hooks. This code looks more complex and abstract than the simple class model. Still, it’s good to see some resources!
That's voter registration, not votes - and it's specifically because we vote with paper ballots instead of computers/phones that hacking into any official computer system won't allow you to change the results.
I fully agree. Giving breaks in terms of property taxes directly affects our schools. So we're just shooting the upcoming generation in the foot to keep jobs here "today"
Ground Warfare in 2050: How It Might Look
> migrate there instead of away from there

Citation, or are you guessing? Which state has the most people migrating to it? To determine whether they are educated, the reason for the migration can help.
No. A partial oracle never gives a wrong answer, it's just allowed to say "I don't know."
Well, to be fair Modula-3 and Eiffel did it first.

And I bet Sciter is younger than any of them.
Does sex addiction really exist?
I am not sure if the word inhumane can be applied to animals but reading about innovations in meat industry usually makes me sad. I am not advocating that everybody should become a vegan, but cutting one's meat consumption by let's say 75% (eat meat every other day and cut your portions in half) shouldn't be that hard.
Are you referring to the GI Bills that allowed flight to new suburban developments or something else?
Ask HN: Task list/to-do tools like Trello, but with checkboxes?
I've been trying to find a webapp task list/to-do list that is basically the same as Trello, but with checkboxes on the cards so that I can tick them off once complete.

In Trello I like the columns feature where each list is a column on my screen (one for each project), but once a card is completed there is no feature to tick it off. At the moment I'm just setting a green label which kind of solves it, but isn't the intended usage of the labels feature.

I've tried some of the Trello power-ups but can't find anything that does what I want.

What other web apps exist that can do this?
During the confirmation hearings Kavanaugh repeatedly explained his high-school (and presumably college) activities by defensively and repeatedly emphasizing that "I like beer".

Regardless of any good/bad quality of it, he was clearly defensive and memorable, and many memes were born. I'd suspect that ~arstechnica~ [Edit: Guardian, link was changed since I first read it] is showing how "hip" and "with it" they are by bonding with their audience on this point - so far as I know, some of those both those for and against Kavanaugh's confirmation made fun of that exchange, so while I'd not be surprised to find an anti-kavanaugh tilt in the author, I suspect the inclusion was for less political and more marketing reasons.
Julia: dynamism and performance reconciled by design [pdf]
This does happen. Apparently Chicago diverted the sewage and pollution in the Chicago river so that it would flow into the Mississippi river rather than onto Chicago's shores of Lake Michigan:

https://waterwars.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/a-brief-history-o...
It's policies, not people. You can see many Democrats winning in many areas as well as Republicans in Texas. Many in Texas are issue-oriented. That many don't understand why likable loses to villain-like I think is a larger problem than the actual choice.
I wonder if it doubles the PCIe lanes as well as the core count and memory channels.

It is .. interesting that they are only at 1.3x EPYC for Stream. I guess it is a mix of their lower core count (48 vs 64) mixed with their likely higher memory bandwidth (12 channel vs 8 channel).

I'm looking forward to AMD's New Horizon announcements tomorrow.