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I know this is one of HNs hot button topics, so I will try to steer clear of the usual stuff but two points leap out:

"""So far this year America has averaged one shooting in which four or more people are killed or injured every single day. """

Holy cow. Is it me or do these just not get reported or just don't "break through"? Is there a site listing these?

Years ago in Ireland the local news always reported road deaths ("sadly two young people died in a collision yesterday ...")

the thinking was that by reminding people of the dangers, they would drive more carefully (at least that's how it was explained to me)

I wonder if a similar approach might improve the situation in USA?

Secondly, I usually respect the economist but i don't think the article lived up to it "one simple trick to solve mass shootings" title - I came away with a reasonable view that it's a complex mix of nut jobs, overton windows and gun availability. but there is no simple fix
It’s also worth pointing out that even if you don’t want to reduce the amount of meat you eat, changing the type of meat can have big effects. For example (and ignoring transport to the consumer), lamb produces about 35 kg CO₂ per kg of meat, beef 25kg CO₂ / kg, pork and farmed salmon 8kg CO₂ / kg and chicken 4kg CO₂ / kg.
Before the relicensing it even covered things like you suing them for violating a non-software patent resulting in getting your react patent license pulled (can't remember if it was general react license pulled or just the patent grant, I think the latter).
THe default for debian 9 was 100% of ram. I have 64 gigs, so it was a bit much (especially as I only have 128 of disk.)

The only time I've ever seen my[1] swap go above 500 megs was when I was running qterminal with a memory leak. It was a long running terminal, with a long running process that was extra ordinarily chatty.

4 gigs is probably enough for most people under most conditions.

[1] this is workstations. on servers, I've seen it happen all the time. Crucially it gives one time to react.
Well, that is why it so important that we have the IPCC, and now this special report. Food causes 25-30% of human made GHG emissions. Large part for deforestation, Methan emissions of ruminants and animal feed. Without including the transportation, packaging, etc. in the calculation it is still 23%.
As you can read in chapter 5 of the report.
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And if you don't want to wait for the government to require this you can already start today.

Buy only locally farmed organic meat. Don't go to fast food places or restaurants that don't specifically declare that their meat is organic and local.
If your definition of "frontend developer" is designer, then sure. Otherwise for any dev with experience, this is a dumb expectation. Part of a dev's job is to use the right tool for the job, and there's no sense in wasting time reinventing the wheel.

(I say this as someone who used to overengineer my own personal websites with the hottest tech stack of the week, but am now in the process of throwing it all away for a simple WordPress site.)
statistics is about explaining an observed
outcome in terms of its causing factors.

Isn't it the same for ML? When we train a NN to map input factors to the observed outcome, it will set the weights of the factors that do not influence the outcome to 0.
It's amazing right? Animals don't need to be moved. Animals don't make rubbish. Animals don't need things built for them in factories.

No need to worry!

I'm vegan btw.
The idea is that in most programs, you'd write code as if the annotations were not there. Annotations should, as a rule of thumb, not affect control flow of your programs at all.

But implementations should let programs access the annotations if the program explicitly asks to do so.

This lets us write "ordinary" programs, where the annotations are transparent, and "meta-level" programs, where the annotations actually do something - think IDEs, debuggers, message-tracing-annotators, provenance-annotators, etc.

The equivalence over values is defined so that annotations are ignored for comparison purposes. So `{ @a "a": 1 }` is equal to `{ "a": 1 }`.

[ETA] Implementations should take care to preserve annotations during round-trips; but to do so in such a way that "ordinary" programs don't even notice they're there.

Finally, annotations are the most "experimental" part of the design at the moment, so feedback on annotations in particular is most welcome.
I assume someone who uses a "group sex" app is sunk in such level of degeneracy that they don't care much about their reputation anyway.
We have a car free shopping street in Adelaide, Australia. It's fairly nice. I used to work in an office on that street and the one thing I miss that I didn't expect was how fast it was to get around. Now I'm working somewhere else and the places I get lunch from are the same distance away but navigating through the roads means it takes twice as long to walk to where I want to go. It's also just generally ugly and louder at the new place.
The food supply chain involves all three of those.
Methane tax IMO
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> I decided to make most out of my resources

They’re not “your” resources: they’re shared among everyone, including future generations.
Storage is not anywhere near limitless (especially not for the average person) and OSes do not do a good job of keeping themselves "clean".
Makes sense as long as the following assumptions are true:

1. UN officials are traveling by private jet

2. Private jets are worse for the environment than the meat industry

I presume you have evidence of the above that lead to your suggestion?
The CryptoCTF FAQ page has a link to this site[0], which helps explain what a CTF is.

[0]: https://ctftime.org/ctf-wtf/
It's concerning because ultimately that money came out of the bank's profits.
The profits where derived from interest on loans which were paid off by responsible individuals.
This seems like part of a global trend of individuals being rewarded for being economic parasites.
I don't know about others but my lightmapper will certainly benefit :-P. Perhaps compilation times, for some stuff.
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Have an alert trigger when your RAM gets low? On desktop systems, I've literally never had any problems where I wasn't already aware that my RAM was low (and therefore made sure I saved my work etc) and on servers, I'm not watching them 24/7, so need alerting anyway. A tiny amount of swap only buys you a tiny amount of time.
How about we don't change the diet but change where the food comes from?

When talking about meat and damage to the environment, the only relevant figures are the ones associated with animal feed (e.g. water consumption per kg of meat).

Pastured animals, by definition, don't eat feed coming from the monoculture industrial agriculture that is depleting the soil and consuming all those resources, and which is also used to feed humans, sadly.
I don’t disagree with you. But as a thought experiment, consider you are being shadow banned right now, but are unaware? How does that affect your thoughts or argument? Especially if banned accidentally by an algorithm without intending to offend etc.

I think the next level of shadow banning (if not happening today) will be shadow supporting or shadow questions/responses. Where an entire thread keeps progressing to convince a banned user from investigating their true status by keeping the dopamine flowing.
Why should taxis be allowed. They are even worse than personal cars because they spend a lot of time driving with no one being transported.
Or just reduce your meat consumption.
I believe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity is literally true in this case.
You would need to get a large part of the global population to do it though, say 50%. And the prices for meat would go down, so you would need to convince the other half of the population not to increase their consumption.
Yikes. Add this to the long list of Google not following their own recommendations.
Isn’t the face of the earth mostly shaped by our consumer choices (including where you put you pension and savings). Everything else (like military, etc.) does only contribute minor. Who else if not us?
I feel like people have been saying this (lack of ethics amongst FB employees) for at least ten years.
1. Not really, the richest x% own and run the companies, and can spend more, but the mass of consumers of the products are spread across the wealth spectrum.

2. The idea to reduce the population based on some metric is a dangerous road to go down on.

3. By definition there will always be a richest 10% regardless of how many humans you get rid of.
While comptime looks extremely powerful, I'm really not a fan of how it's used for unconstrained generics. This is the same problem I have with C++ templates where an incorrect use of a generic function would result in an explosion of bizarre undescriptive template errors. Sure you can write these type asserts yourself, but it's time consuming and how many developers will actually do it and get it right? I don't know, maybe it's really not that big of a deal, but I much prefer how Rust does this using traits as type constraints (although at some cost of complexity, e.g. Eq, PartialEq, Ord, PartialOrd). Not to mention that by using constraints on the type system level, you actually get useful type signature documentation on what you can or cannot pass to a function.
Yeah. Modern factory farming practices are the reason why meat has become so cheap that its consumption per capita has at least tripled since the 50s.
Normally `date` is just used to display the date. It can set the time or read a file - but less often. Something like OpenBSD pledge(2) could be used to limit it after reading the options.
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> When talking about meat and damage to the environment, the only relevant figures are associated with animal feed (e.g. water consumption per kg of meat).

Cows fart.
I know you didn't make the original comment, but I'm going to put this one down as "stated as fact, no actual evidence"...
Or the anti-piracy ad from the IT crowd:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPEeaxI0OPU
Well it doesn't cost much to put it up there (among the list of things they seek), now that we know it's feasible even against big players.
Why? The emissions of a few individuals can be far higher than sustainable and it can still give a net-positive effect when their influence on society is great enough.
You can still park outside the city and walk the short distance or if it's too heavy to carry then most stores do free delivery for large orders.
It's not without it's problems, but ultimately the issue is too many humans. We can deal with that now or wait for nature to deal with us later.
If anything, writing my own website sounds like a waste of time, especially when there are so many good tools out there like Hugo, Jekyll, etc. and templates to use as a basis for any personal blog or portfolio.

Hell, I can’t even find time to pick a template and design the look and feel or choose what content to put on my own website.
That's fine but the reason I use the extra bits is to try and make a character unambiguous for a reader who does not know my handwriting habits. In the case of Z I do both - your suggestion and put a bar across it. 2 gets a small loop at the bottom left.
Thanks for the feedback. However, I don't understand quite what you're getting at. Can you point out the wording you find confusing? I don't see anywhere that it says all records are equivalent.

Re: distinction between form and content, that's the intended aim of having separate "semantics" and (two) "syntax" sections. The idea is that to compare Values (i.e. to know which Value you have!), you work in terms of the "semantics" section, not in terms of any particular surface syntax.
I think I agree, though personally (not as a counterexample), this only targets the environmental aspect of avoiding meat and leaves behind the ethical decision around animal consumption to some degree. While reducing subsidies and other benefits would go a long way here as well, there are still some animal byproducts that have a relatively low ecological footprint and effecting changes to these through legislation still seems premature and heavy-handed in the current political climate in most any country.

It seems to me that for those considerations, bringing new perspectives to consumers to try and influence their choices at the store is one of the only practical options for now.
It is not so hard to believe if you look at a graph like this one: https://www.resilience.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Biomas...
From the linked page in the blog of the late Michael Kaplan:

>I'd go look for it but I don't want to move off this page.

The dark days of not having browser tabs...
Well, so far I have no kids. My impact on the planet seems to be very temporarily and the damage I do will be forgotten in a hundred years. If I have 1.4 kids (my expected number of kids), it will take a bit longer but still damage is decreasing at fixed resource consumption per person.
Which subsidies is meat getting? The ones that go to the agriculture industry responsible for feed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy#United_St...
I work from home 25 days per month - I moved well away from the city, bought a massive house next to a beautiful surf beach and my kids could not be having a better time if they tried. My partner did the same. We make over 400k joint, all from home and in a very cheap part of the country. I can't even get over how lucky I am.
Better dial down on the fiber intake, then!
Unlike cars and travel it's hard to make the argument that humans depend on access to meat so making it 700% more expensive via tax would effectively shift consumption patterns with few if any downsides.

The problem is that no politician (perhaps outside green parties) wants to do this, because of the fear of becoming unpopular. We simultaneously need a shift in people's attitudes towards meat.

I have been a vegetarian since I was 17 (I am 37 now). It has always fascinated me that becoming a vegetarian was only very little effort, but somehow people are extremely attached to meat. I never talk about being a vegetarian, but when people find out that I am a vegetarian, they often acts as being offended and having to defend themselves.

We need to show people that there is a middle way where you can still eat meat (e.g. maybe once a week) but still drastically decrease their footprint.
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Yes that is the point. If you account for calories, proteins and fats (as essential nutrients next to let’s say water and dry weight), butter doesn’t look that bad. It is still worse than average, so - check: app.eaternity.ch
See https://archive.is/3S2ur
Let's open an history book an review what happens when the government controlls the food production.
Not true. I'm in India and I got on the beta early on.
> There were plenty of them driving, slowly, and loudly beeping. Enough so it was simply impossible to walk without constantly having to move over for them.

Where in Denmark was that? I don't see any loudly beeping delivery cars in Copenhagen.
It's good to see them putting the emphasis on eating less meat rather than cutting it out entirely. I do eat meat but I find myself eating less and less these days as non-meat alternatives become more appealing to me. I also don't eat "cheap" meat as I'm concerned about animal welfare. But I do take offense to vegans telling me that I'm evil because I don't fully embrace their choice of lifestyle and I'm sure most meat-eaters feel the same way.
Nobody has 'screwed China' more in the last two hundred years than the Chinese themselves.

The commendable lifting on millions of Chinese citizens from poverty need not have been such a momentous task had the State not spent decades pushing those very same citizens into poverty in the first place.
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From the article: “But it would indeed be beneficial, for both climate and human health, if people in many rich countries consumed less meat, and if politics would create appropriate incentives to that effect.”
Thank you so so much, Daniel.

Your kind words mean the world to me. It's such an amazing feeling to receive positive feedback on something you built from the ground up.

I will continue to make improvements to DarwinMail each and every day.
What gives you the right to control what people eat?
Commonly and economic allocation is done. Each food is attributed those emissions to the share they have caused it by the money that was spend for it by the consumer. The question is: why was there a additional cow in the first place. Part of it was the butter.
It's the burps, actually.

And it's not nearly as dangerous as publicized.

Methane's lifespan in the atmosphere is much, much lower (think two orders of magnitude) than carbon dioxide [0], for example.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_methane
Maybe we should also stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry close to 1,000,000,000,000$ yearly.

Not saying we should not eat less meat or anything, just saying there might be more we could be doing if our governments weren't corporate/billionairs puppets mostly.
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Speaking as someone who took the same stance as the commenter you're replying to, reduced meat consumption was indeed a side effect in my case without it being a conscious choice - mainly due to cost and inconvenience.
> When your highest seat of the government does pr0n stars, well, the bar is pretty low.

So by that logic JFK and MLK were also pretty low? Oh wait--I'm not sure they were doing actual porn stars.
That's like saying because we can't fix everything, we should fix nothing.

There's no need to include everything. HN is selective. It's in English. The reason it can't have posts about the responsibility of SV towards the tech and social impact they make is because that would pierce the veil of fake narrative that supports SVs continued unexamined influence.

The reality is the mods are not the tip of the spear. There are others mods above them who intervene to set policy and crush off plan posts. A truth this place can never acknowledge.
How the hell does this possibly warrant a patent?
It's the only reasonable method I know for renting a car.
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The presence of general type level programming does, however, mean that you can build decent preconditions on types. Which will get you further than you could in C++.

I’m more concerned by the typeid switching, but maybe it’s got a proper structured mechanism as well.
We can't even accurately estimate the cost of a complex project given our choice of tools

We've been building bridges for thousands of years, and still the relatively simple bridge they built down the road from me took 2.5 years to complete instead of the estimated 9-12 month.
No matter what you feed them, compared to other livestock animals cows are a fairly inefficient at turning feed into meat, meaning you need to dedicate more land to agriculture when it could be forest instead and thus a better carbon sink.
Trouble with organic is that those cows live longer, hence cause about 60% more Methan emissions, till they are slaughtered.
I was asking about:

> Recently, I wanted to read a quite old paper as it connected to my recent research. It was published in the 60s, in a journal that has housed some extremely ground breaking work in my field. But you wouldn’t get that impression from their elsevier site

The OP is describing how all journals are treated the same, despite the the fact that they are essentially mini societies, some with more important histories than others
Hey, thanks, that was interesting.

It doesn't look like it will be widely available for a few years at least though.
Berlin's public transport was perfectly fine for me just like a large city such as Amsterdam is (which is where I live). If it adds anything of substance: when we were in Berlin we were on babymoon, my partner was 6 months pregnant at that time. Also, I've been in Berlin on several occasions. As a Dutch person, I find German people rather friendly, with a near-excellent detail to service and hospitality.

Actually, the worst part of the whole travel was the way back with the ICE. The part in Germany went great (apart from having terrible LTE connectivity but I also saw loads of forests and such so that makes sense). It just stopped at the middle of nowhere, in Bad Bentheim, in December, with snow and all. The train wouldn't go further in The Netherlands. The DB allowed us to remain in the train with the heating on while NS (Dutch Railways) got another train instead which took an hour to arrive, was less luxurious as ICE, and was full. At the same time I caught a flu on the last day which was setting on during the train travel. Together with all our baggage, and a 6 months pregnant partner who I don't want to carry much. Fun times...

OK, one more point to make: German people are attached to cash money instead of cards. So sometimes I could not even pay with card. I like it, in a way, because it adds to privacy, and there's a nostalgia feeling, too. But if I'm used to card, it also feels like a step backwards.
If their higher emissions aren't at least indirectly necessary for their high influence on society, then while it may be sustainable and net-positive, it isn't necessary justifiable because better options exist.

People with a "high influence on society," however that's measured, can't just do whatever they want because their existence is still net-positive.
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This

If you really want to have an impact while still eating meat, just stop eating beef/lamb altogether

The amount of food and water needed to produce 1kg of beef meat is just insane

Eat poultry or fish instead

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

>Cattle is the worst at something like 15:1. Aquaculture, specifically tilapia and catfish, is good at under 2:1
The methane turns into CO2. Which means for the amount of carbon they release it's strictly worse than the same amount of carbon released as CO2.
I would speculate that when compared butter vs meat consumption, butter would be consumed probably an order of magnitude less than meat.