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I don't favor "ultra dense cities". I don't like how uncomfortably dense NYC is - overcrowded sidewalks, lackluster amount of green and parks, noise pollution, dirty, garbage smell. But I think Korea and Japan manage to strike comfortable mediums.

But yes, accessible public transportation will generally require increased density. Most people in Korea live in apartments, so it's easier to make accessible public transportation.
There are entire cultures whose diet is plant-based.
TL;DR: In my opinion meat analogues will not convert meat-eaters to vegetarians, problem is that switching to vegetarian diet requires rather big cultural change on our eating traditions.

I hear where are you coming from, though IMHO it's a problem with lack of knowledge/tradition/culture of producing vegetarian/vegan meals.

If you would say that you're vegetarian to my grandparents, they'd imagine that you eat vegetable salad all the time, with occasional baked potatoes for hot meal, they cannot imagine a meatless meal.

From my experience people tend to think that there must be a 1 to 1 replacement for meat foods: steaks, sausages, cutlets, burgers, meatballs, etc.

IMHO usually great vegetarian dishes (tasty, easy to make, not expensive, etc.) are mostly different set from meat dishes. It requires a cultural shift, which is insanely hard to change in general western population, where it's common and expected to have ham/bacon sandwich for breakfast, meatballs and spaghetti for lunch, steak for dinner, and beef burger or ribs on a bbq on a weekend.

You need a completely different set of dishes to change that meat eating tradition and IMO tofu sausages, cheap soy steaks and other meat analogues will not convert meat-eaters to vegetarians (fingers crossed for Impossible meat projects to change that).

Anecdotal example from the same thread on Indian vegetarian cuisine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20652404

P.S. I very much agree with you on this:

> The theoretical advantage that artificial meat has is the lower amount of resources needed. Over time, because of this it can get much cheaper than real meat, at least if you don't factor in skewing of the market due to government subsidies.

Subsidies are really skewing prices of animal vs plant based products.

Where I am from pork is around 5-6€/kg, chicken 3.5-5€/kg, beef 10-30€/kg, milk 0.5-1€/l.

Whereas soy-almond milk 1.5-3€/l, soy meat analogues 5-15€/kg, mushrooms 3-15€/kg, etc.

There is no substantial price difference (mostly), which is spectacular to me. How it's possible to sell 1 kilo of chicken breast for 3.5€ is spectacular to me, when freaking beans cost around 3-4€/kg. How do they grow that chicken, when it's clear as a day that it requires probably an order of magnitude more resources compared to growing beans. I wouldn't even go how government is bending backwards for milk producers with tax incentives to keep prices "competitive", and I have no idea how pork is not 20-50€/kg, when every other year there's some disease, which requires to kill and destroy all pigs in farms in 500km radius.
Great, that means we can vote to require meat at every meal. Don't like it? Too bad, so sad, we have the right to control what you eat.
The article states food is responsible for a quarter. No one is claiming it is more than half. It is important to be quantitative.
I think (though I can't be sure), what they're trying to say is that it's still legitimate, but it's opaque, because nobody wants to talk about it. Because of that, it seems, to outsiders, like it's an evil black market, even though many people involved in it, believe that they're doing the right thing.
Kudos to OP for replying to every comment with the type of unbridled innocent optimism that is devoid from most marketing materials. I'm not sure I can use this until it gains a companion mobile app; but I'm glad someone is working in the space and that they happen to be very, very kind.
Vault cash is possible, but that costs upkeep too. It does limit the central bank ability to go deeply negative though, which is one argument for going "cashless".
> It's generally much more helpful to say what's correct than what's wrong, if only because there are so many more ways to be wrong.

So you should know what is correct before pointing out what is wrong? That doesn't sound right.

> Getting rid of a flawed but workable model without having a better one to replace it with is not an improvement.

This ignores the opportunity gained from not doing something. If "Myth Lists" aren't worth doing, not doing them is an improvement. You don't need to have a "better alternative", because "doing nothing" is already better.

Having said that, the article doesn't exactly show that Myth Lists don't work. It's just an opinion of someone who read one of these lately and didn't like it.
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True. But I never really enjoyed staying home for the evening in my big house in the suburbs either.
Yes, you are right. I have conveyed my point only half-way and I apologize.

What I meant is that methane is known to have a bigger heating effect than other greenhouse gases, like x28 that of CO2 if I recall correctly. This is used as part of the anti-ruminant argument, when comparing the effect of methane expelled by animals to the rest of greenhouse gas emissions.

However, if you take into account the reduced lifespan, that 28-time increase is definitely less relevant.
10% is a lot. It's enough to swing an election. And no idea what the 80% would think. Also, I'm interested in global solutions, not ones that are effective in one country only. Globally, there are varying degrees of support for fighting climate change. Especially third world countries want growth and say it's the responsibility of developed economies to fight it because we have polluted so much historically. The goal is to make it impossible for Bolsonaro to sell his meat to any country in the world.
But other people exist. Are you willing to leave the world in a worse place for them just because they’re not related to you? Also,

> My impact on the planet seems to be very temporarily and the damage I do will be forgotten in a hundred years.

As far as we know, this is not how climate change works.
> Which rules of the positive are you talking about? Your rules? My rules? Trump's rules? Hitler's rules? Confucius' rules? Jesus' rules? Mohammed's rules?

I'm talking about the ones that explain how to think about concepts, how point-of-view and experience affect what we perceive, how discourse can be used to further or detract from truth, etc. Basically, epistemology. Otherwise, how do you even presume to tell me that your physics is right? Because rockets fly? I think they fly because if you put fuel and make an offering of electricity to the gods of the ether, they will send it upwards—on what basis do you convince me, when I can rephrase everything you say to me as "the gods of the ether will it so"?

What has happened is that the Western world has created a shared epistemology and has done a very good job of laying it down and universally teaching it. So most of the time, we don't need to worry about right and wrong because the decision has been made for us long ago (and what does that say about us?)

Now, though, new questions are coming up—ethics in software engineering, bias in machine learning, etc.— where the universal model hasn't yet caught up and been agreed on, or where it is being challenged. And if we are not familiar with the process by which such things are agreed on, we are essentially letting other people make the decisions for us.

I totally understand the reluctance to empower the powerful, but I think education doesn't have to be brainwashing.
IRC doesn't provide any feedback on messaging. Messages are sent silently. However if you're quiet banned (mode #chan +b ~q:), you can still receive messages, such as the notification that the channel mode/ban has been applied, and you can still use channel commands, such as viewing the list of bans.

Ignoring a user is entirely client-side. You might be able to test it with a ctcp, depending how the client is designed and configured, and depending on their umodes (if ctcps are blocked) as ctcps are standard messages with a prefix.

Silencing is unlike Reddit shadow bans; firstly, it only applies to private messages, not to channels. Secondly, it has to be configured by the individual users, not by admins.
No the power dynamics has shifted. In the old days it is true that everyone pretty much knew lots about each other in a specific locality. But now a relatively small group of people (i.e. the big corps, ISPs and various 3-letter agencies) know everything about everyone in the whole world, more or less. This kind of power is unprecedented in human history.
I made a web app so I need Javascript to do so :)

I want to share with you something I've used back in 2013-2014. [1]

You won't need Javascript to use this ;)

[1] https://jrnl.sh/
It sounded like he already had experience with that. He said that flour always turns out like a “puck”, where this was fluffly. So, not exactly science-grade analysis there, but certainly a strong indicator.
In Vienna the central pedestrian tourist/shopping streets are open for deliveries until 10:00 or 11:00 in the morning, so if you go there at those times, it's quite chaotic. But then all the vehicles are gone for the rest of the day.
I can recommend openpaper[1] for desktop usage. Combines (multi page) scanning, ocr, automatic labeling and search into a nice gui.

If you have a network enabled scanner than can scan straight to an ftp folder, these two server based projects [2][3] offer even more convenience.

[1] https://openpaper.work/en-us/
[2] https://github.com/the-paperless-project/paperless
[3] https://www.mayan-edms.com/
Our stomach pH is very low, comparable to carrion eaters and some carnivores.

"It is interesting to note that humans, uniquely among the primates so far considered, appear to have stomach pH values more akin to those of carrion feeders than to those of most carnivores and omnivores"
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Our requirements for DHA and B12 indicate a diet rich in both - both found almost exclusively in animal foods

Evolution of the Human Brain: the key roles of DHA(omega-3 fatty acid) andD6-desaturase gene
https://www.ocl-journal.org/articles/ocl/pdf/2018/04/ocl1700...

We wean our young for a very short amount of time compared to other apes.

"Our model indicates that carnivory has a specific and quantifiable impact on human development and life history and, crucially, explains why Homo weans so much earlier than the great apes."
Impact of Carnivory on Human Development and Evolution Revealed by a New Unifying Model of Weaning in Mammals
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
This pessimistic comment made me link directly to the article, instead of linking to HN as I usually do, when I now sent the article to someone looking to learn a new langauge.
Unicode still contains a large number of box drawing characters. Some are broken into three, or even four parts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character
I use fastmail instead of gmail, but would love to be able to use inbox features. Maybe you can support other email providers as well?
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Thank you :)

I try my best to bring this appeal!
"Planned economy" is an incorrect description of the proposal, because planned economies don't just set prices but they also allocate quantities to producers and consumers (something which people would rightly feel unhappy about if you applied such a system to medical supplies).

The system being proposed in the US as part of the M4A bill is how almost every other developed nation except the US handles essential drug prices. The government negotiates the price with the drug companies and they come to an arranged price at which they are sold.

Here in Australia we don't have the same problems you have with run-away drug prices, specifically because our government both covers part of the cost of drugs when purchasing them (as part of Medicare) and negotiates the prices down.
Of course it would be great if everyone remembered everything, but isn't an "I don't know" better than an 80% guess? The longer I do this job, the more likely I am to say I don't know, when I don't know.

> Can you recall what this code you wrote previously do?

What it actually does might be different from what I remember. It might have been changed since then -- maybe by me, maybe by someone else. I might have made a mistake in the first place, and it doesn't do what I think. "I'm not sure, let's look at it."
Regulate the industries and trade, not people's behavior. It's much easier and you actually get results and people adapt to pricing by themselves. The reality is that we have a few billion people that are doing pretty well economically and they are going to be feeding themselves with whatever they can afford. Unless you can convince more than half of them to become vegans, that means demand for meat is going to go up, rather than down. A few privileged rich hipsters choosing to only eat food others can't afford is not going to be doing anything for this planet. It's not statistically meaningful. Not even close.

Industrial farming is the main problem here. We're literally eroding farmland by growing mono cultures (using pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, etc) whose primary function is to feed cattle that spends all its life indoors turning this farm produce into manure. That in turn gets mixed with urine to produce a chemically very active mix that produces all sorts of nasty stuff. It's stupid and massively wasteful. It's only cheap because doing that is being subsidized and stimulated by governments. Stop doing doing that and the price of meat goes up and people adapt their behavior. Unsustainably produced cheap meat is the problem.

It's not the only way to produce meat but the it is the cheapest one and it's only cheap unless you also factor in the cost of destroying this planet. There are forms of farming that are effectively carbon negative (i.e. they capture more co2 than is released) that still produce meat and other produce. We can actually start undoing a lot of the damage already done simply by farming more smartly. This starts by stopping to reward harmful behavior with subsidies. Lots of farmers are already switching to more sustainable production methods because it makes business sense. Removing subsidies for their unsustainable competitors will help them.
R&D is costly yet pharmas make margins only second to ad tech industry. Maybe I'm stupid but I can't reconcile the two...
> I'm surprised by how cheap the vulnerabilities market is

I think this has a lot to do with government agencies buying any exploit they can get their hands and there is basically no market besides that. I don't know if that is illegal in the US, but it seems that government is the only buyer.
That's the thing though - where I'm living right now in Korea you can! I'm not exaggerating when I say that everything is walking distance here - school, hospital, grocery store, kids entertainment places, food, etc. There are multiple playgrounds literally outside my building. And I don't live in some city center, it's a residential area.
The other one is:

> What’s the difference between statistics and machine learning?

> About $50k a year.
>It's all about who is writing it and why they are writing it, not the language. Well ok JavaScript has some legacy warts, but ECMAScript 2019 enables a variety of very well written code in a variety of styles, and TypeScript is icing.

Good languages kinda enforce some kind of basic rules, and prevent developers form making silly mistakes - because we all do them all the time. Those languages usually trade off the performance for safety though.

We should pick the safest language, that prevents errors and mistakes as long as we stay within allowed performance bounds.

JavaScript can be performant, but most of the times it isn't and it isn't safe at all. At least we have typed variants of JavaScript.

JavaScript by design was meant to fail gracefully - in the background - so the site works fine. Sadly nowadays sites are so JavaScript heavy that it isn't helping at all.

I generally prefer statically typed languages just because there is less ambiguity and function definition can help you greatly - you know what you put it, and what it returns.

With dynamic typed languages unless documentation is pristine(and in JavaScript ecosystem it is pretty varied from package to package) you are out of luck unless you look at the implementation.

bash and devOps code has their own special place in hell. bash has only one advantage - it works on any linux distro out of the box, and that's it. It is unreadable untyped mess.
Great link, thank you.

Regarding deforestation and so on, I think we must also take into account that "industrialized" non-pastured husbandry (is that the correct term?) is probably cheaper and easier than the greener alternative.

Sadly, it's usually a matter of profits and not a matter of environmental friendliness.
Uses right now are fairly limited. However advancing technology has a tendency to open up new possibilities unthinkable before
Bikes and public transport work well for people who can afford to live centrally, close to dense transport networks and within range of easy biking.

But if you're out socializing, you may be drunk (so unsafe to bike) and late (where transport networks start getting sparse). That's when taxis make more sense.
I guess this works if you run few well known apps which manages memory well (yeh right). Maybe recycle/restart in regular intervals. Some programs have 4-8GB limits and will crash by themselves. Or you have a watcher service and recycle/restart after some threshold. And probably your distributed system can handle a few nodes going down. But without memory they will start to act weird. With swap they will usually work, but slower, and might eventually grind to an halt anyway, but it will make it easier to make a graceful shutdown/restart.
Design. Architecture. Usage model. Let me summarize in a short point. Have you ever had the misfortune of having to use it? It died out and never caught on for good reasons. It certainly played a role in turning lots of OLPCs into less useful devices.
Never underestimate non tech savy customers.

If they can buy a notebook with processors or 16 processors they will be second one because bigger numbers means better.
https://simpl.fyi/ that's enough for me
I've been here since 2013 and I noticed a massive improvement in the submitted articles and comments once dang became a moderator. Thank you dang and sctb.
I use Hugo. It's easy, static and there are large number of themes. Also writing content in Markdown is great.
Changing work life balance – I'm working now four days a week
>benchmarked

This is what this story is really about. People not instrumenting their systems, no benchmarks, no real clue how things will perform under load.

Swap or not swap: it doesn't matter what you do if you haven't benchmarked the system before you set it up - in this case, its your customers who will tell you, eventually, how your software behaves ...
I used Inbox very heavily when it came out and loved it, but then I moved away from GMail in my attempt to de-google as much as possible. I now use the Spark[1] mail client. Its good, not amazing, but good.

This looks nice, but of course being tied to gmail means I can't use it.

[1] https://sparkmailapp.com/
From the WP article you linked:

> Methane in the Earth's atmosphere is a strong greenhouse gas with a global warming potential (GWP) 104 times greater than CO2 in a 20-year time frame; methane is not as persistent a gas as CO2 and tails off to about GWP of 28 for a 100-year time frame

And once you take positive feedbacks into account additional emissions can be problematic even within "short" timeframes.
iPhone.
Nice job dehumanising anyone who is not well-off enough to afford risky investments. Vast majority of people who participate in this system will never be able to own shares by design. So 80-90% of people are not the public?
It is approximately 200.000 new humans every day. Or an entire new Germany every year.
"[...] animal products and feed", straight from the image. Sadly, no distinction. I would assume that it's mostly subsidies to feed. I am unable to find any sources on subsidies to meat directly.

I'm all for removing subsidies to monoculture agriculture.
Swap (her solution), xor the kernel should just OOM kill Chrome; but spinning the disk for half an hour to accomplish border-line nothing for a human that has long since gotten bored and left is pointless — the behavior noted in the LKML post is severely annoying, and not productive.

My previous team was also a "no swap in prod", and this behavior bit us more than I care to admit. The devs were occasionally on the side of "swap for safety", ops was religious no-swap, and ugh. It can take 10+, 30+ minutes for systems encountering this to resolve to some meaningful conclusion, and half the time, I'm desperately trying to ssh in so-as to kill -9 the errant task anyway but ssh is paged out, and I wish the OOM killer would just do it for me instead of Linux trying to page everything through what feels like a single 4KiB page. I need to play around will sysctls more on some sort of test rig.

On AWS instances with EBS disks (most instances), disk is basically network.

I once suggested "cgroup'ing" (loosely speaking) the entire system into two rough buckets: one for SSH, with enough dedicated RAM that ssh will never get swapped, and one for everything else.

Also, I feel like the number of devs out there who understand that mmap'd files — including binaries/libraries — are basically mini-swap files when memory pressure is high is really low; more than once I've diagnosed a machine as "page thrashing" to get back "what? but it has no swap that cannot be?". Well, pgmajfault and disk I/O metrics don't lie.
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this suggests taxing meat as a function of CO2 production, as opposed to price taxation. This would automatically reward local production (the same additional tax for an imported cheaper meat as for a local but more expensive meat, hits the cheaper one harder)
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> Lots of propaganda on here against Brave for some reason.

Lots of people on HN make money with ad networks or are otherwise invested in the concept of harvesting user data.

Same thing happens with GDPR.
>But it's a tricky thing because we don't wanna remove the incentive to invent new drugs.

What incentive is there to produce new drugs when they are making plenty of money gouging people on price with the old drugs?
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I’m going to deliberately gloss this: the ‘Achilles Heel’ is to use the actual owner’s face.
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Hey there!

I am really sorry if you cannot use DarwinMail right now. I'm currently building out features that users have requested and keeping the bugs to a minimum.

Adding more clients is high on my todo list though as I don't want anyone to be left out :)
Because the journal is online. Data should be stored somewhere so I choose Gaia Storage. [1]

I have explained more about this in this tweet: [2]

[1] https://github.com/blockstack/gaia

[2] https://twitter.com/pixelwerk/status/1159532787843706881
From the N-gate proprietor

> these are people who spend their lives trying to identify all the ways they can extract money from others without quite going to jail

I don't think this individual understands how diverse this community is. I was a teacher when I started reading HN, and now work in the charitable sector (albeit tech centered).

I know musicians, educators, academic scientists and historians that read and participate here. We're not all founding or working for startups.