skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some places you can go for a 'natural' burial where you are minimally processed and simply placed in the ground in basically a natural material burial shroud.

In a lot of places, however, this is highly illegal and there are minimum requirements for burial (which can include embalming and/or a casket and/or a concrete and/or a burial vault which is basically a concrete sarcophagus that caskets go in).

Here in Indiana the only requirement is you have to be placed in a designated cemetery or graveyard 'within a reasonable time' however, pretty much every cemetery here requires a casket and a burial vault.

I used to bury people for a living and always found it so dumb, I'd have to excavate the grave, get chains under a vault and lift it with the backhoe, very slowly drive it out to the grave to prevent it swinging and cracking, lower it into the hole, go put the backhoe up, come back and jump down int he grave with a dust pan and get any dirt that fell into the vault and climb back out without knocking more in, cover it with a tarp and a piece of plywood then do prep an hour or so before the body was to arrive to have it ready for the graveside service.

Then... people would throw handfuls of dirt into the vault eyetwitch and after they left I'd remove all the fake grass and stuff, go get the small tractor, wrestle the vault lid into the front loader bucket, slowly drive out to the grave, wrestle it out of the bucket and get some straps on it, lift hte straps with the bucket and lower it down, let slack out slowly on one end to lower one side of the lid on, remove the straps, lower it more and then play 'don't crush my fingers' while I'm laying next to the grave trying to get the straps out without slamming the lid down and breaking it.

THEN I could put the dirt back and get back to cutting several acres of grass and walking around with a backpack full of diesel to weed eat while trying not to get sun poisoning again.

Man, do not miss that job.
I looked at it briefly, but the pricing is just so crazy.

Opted to buy a bunch of DIY gear and learn something in the process
Here's the basic problem: They gave a month deadline. That's not enough time to get permission for time off from work, book a ticket, take photos to show there is no city there, and submit, at least with the required degree of integrity (e.g. confirming GPS coordinates in some temper-proof way, etc. -- they'll just say you took the photos elsewhere).

There is no city there.

Pretending it's a fake conspiracy seems to be convincing people otherwise, though.

A contest with an unreasonable deadline seems, well, like a not very good attempt to prop this thing up.
Isn't that more relevant to a general climate argument than one about the world's ecological heartland being cleared with fire to raise cattle? And as an individual, isn't it possible to make small steps without huge sacrifices on both fronts?
This is how websites should always be. Great job!
New Harvard Research Says It's Time to Let Employees Work from Anywhere
What if your friend sees no value in their body after they're done with it and wants to be composted? Perhaps they found it the least impactful way to go.

Wouldn't respecting their wishes seem more important?
> If you are seriously concerned about climate change, pressure your government to impose a large tax on beef

Why not, but there are so many factors contributing to climate change that it's "suspicious" when people target one specific thing. It's quite difficult to be heard. Why should I renounce to eat beef, while other people have the right to have 3 kids, or to drive a SUV, or to fly to the other side of the world.

If it was possible, it would be best to integrate the cost of externalities in what we consume, so that everyone can choose to sacrifice what they value less. But maybe if we really had to pay for externalities, they wouldn't much that we could still afford.
Can’t wait for ad tracking to be regulated. The rising awareness about how tracked we are suggest the Wild West days are coming to an end.
It never occurred to me that daily/monthly could be useful, as weekly seemed like a sweet spot. I'll have a look at adding it! Thanks!
I haven't tried the super expensive stuff, but it tasted like seawater to me. Didn't really see the point of it.

At least with other expensive foods like saffron or truffles they are very potent and have pretty unique flavors.

Instead of caviar I'll just add salt next time.
Non-ionising radiation can cause harm. Ask welders (burnt eyes). Get a cheap auto-darkening welding helmet, put it on and point a TV remote at it. The levels of IR in the remote are small, but the sensors still activate in the helmet.
I think cups is doing this as well: http://localhost:631/
Looks like it just bundles a full build of the sqlite shared library, along with some kind of gross hacks. It bundles pysqlite2, which notably is missing a ton of features and improvements from upstream. I'll just compile my own, thanks...
The main problem with the earlier Tesla keyfobs is that they used a known-broken 40-bit encryption scheme that allowed them to simply be cloned by an attacker. I'm not sure what they fixed other than upgrading the crypto to something that wasn'y horribly insecure. That's also the reason they introduced the PIN feature.
It’s the same thing as the rhino horn stuff in China, it’s all a silly status symbol.
GTK still has extreme padding and wasted screen real estate around texts, images, lists and other component. Making a slim version and better designed UIs would probably make a lot of difference.
It can't come fast enough. It's a worthless methodology, band-wagoned to irrelevance.

Mark my words, remote work is worse, and will destroy careers.
No. Singapore is a tiny city state with a service based economy
People on the left constantly make fun of Trump in any conceivable context. Guess they're all assholes.
Are you really saying that because China is refusing to buy soy beans from the US, that makes the US to blame for China buying more soy beans from Brazil?
It’s Official: The MBA Degree Is in Crisis
>> Feels like a disrespectful way to let someone go.

What is a respectful way to let someone go?
Sorry to hijack your post, but I wasn't aware of emojis (flags only?) being available on HN.. there's no mention of them in the guidelines nor FAQ. What are the rules / guidelines on them? Are they (emojis in general) available in comments only or in titles of posts too?
Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Is an Economic Indicator
Hmm, as I understand it, the US/China trade war you're referring to has been going on for about a year, total[0].
Looking at the graph for soybean production in Brazil, the increase in the past year has been pretty small and actually appears to be a slight slowing of the growth curve[1], even if the export curve looks rather different. I guess you could make an argument that the trade war has driven the increased deforestation over the past 12 months, but you could just as easily blame any number of other factors, notably including Brazil's current president who has rolled back a number of important environmental protections.

Not every problem needs to be exclusively the fault of the west - it's okay for other people to do things wrong as well.

0: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-exports/u...
1: https://gro-intelligence.com/insights/articles/in-race-for-c...
>Beef is like 2 % of humanity's emissions.

Methane emissions from beef cattle account for about 2% of GHG potential. Tropical deforestation contributes to about 10% of our climate impact, most of which is driven by beef farming. There are also significant non-climate impacts of deforestation in terms of biodiversity.

Beef is a big deal. It's not the biggest deal, but it's one of many things we need to address. Electricity generation and transport are being rapidly decarbonized thanks to new technology, but there's no technological replacement for old-growth rainforest. We can generate electricity with PV panels, we can run a car or a ship on batteries, but we don't have any sustainable option for things like jet aviation and beef; for the foreseeable future, the only option is to drastically reduce our consumption.

https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/stop-deforestation/bee...
People love meat. I've had discussions with (otherwise) intelligent and responsible people - they suddenly turn irrational and irresponsible when talking about the amount of meat they consume and its shitty effects on everything.

It is going to be really difficult to convince people to consume less meat, increase tax on meat etc.

Not saying we shouldn't try, but it is a tough problem to take on.
Presumably the tax would make beef unpalatable to the wallet driving people to choose alternatives like chicken or lamb.
In Poland municipality provides a place in ground, but for at most 20 years. After that the place is recycled for another burial. You're free to buy it though to prolong that term and in my opinion it's quite common among the elder ones.
I'm confused, did yahoo stock value peak before you turned 18 years old or something?
Reminds me of Record of a spaceborn few, a book by Becky Chambers.

It goes into detail how on a generation ship the bodies are composted and become nutrients to grew new food upon.
So ironic that the NYTimes, where this article is published, is itself one of the worst offenders. The article clearly states this as well:

> Among all the sites I visited, news sites, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, had the most tracking resources.

So hat-tip for the self-awareness. Now how about "sweeping your doorstep" ?
Yeah, there's some truth in that.

The newest Chevy Bolt has more range than a base Tesla, btw. Progress moves on.
And yet large scale abuse keeps happening. We have regular huge scandals of psychiatrists abusing their power on a large scale. This makes your message that it doesn't also happen everywhere on a smaller scale, a very tough message:

There's indeed nothing dubious about ECT: it creates temporary behavior changes ... and permanent cognitive impairment. There is no real argument about this. If you're a psychiatrist, can you quickly remind me of "the first duty" ?

The problem is not even that it doesn't work. Like aversion therapy it works. In the same sense that a bullet to the head is very effective against back pain. You're causing a MUCH bigger problem than you're curing.

Here's the links with psychiatrists getting caught at large scale abuse, mostly for money, with sex a second reason, and it seems sometimes literally just for ego. From selling children to brothels and paedophiles to directly pimping out "patients" in the local prostitution scene. All done by psychiatrists, social workers, psychiatric nurses and "child protection":

https://www.france24.com/en/20190627-italy-arrests-18-allege...

https://nltimes.nl/2019/06/17/victim-sexual-abuse-youth-care...

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1257/aer.97.5.1583 It turns out NOT treating seriously kids with "serious" psychological problems has ... better outcomes than treating them.

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

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/norways_hidden_s...

http://www.childpact.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Reform_s...

It goes on and on and on. EVERYWHERE. US. Netherlands. Italy. Japan. China. Australia.

I mean how bad does it need to be before one can reasonably say "abolish the whole thing". At mimimum there need to be strong guarantees tying the hands of psychiatrists and social workers, and making sure the enforcement of patient rights reaches deep into every institution and all social work facilities.
If their data happened to end up in any of my backups... If their IP address happened to be in an archived log file...

At some point, the cognitive, operational, and risk burden of serving the EU can easily exceed the value of doing so.
I can't remember if it's the same with chrome, but firefox actually uses its rendering engine to render the window chrome as well.
World’s Largest Forest (In Siberia) Has Been on Fire for Months
Can anyone give a pro/cons analysis of a ML variant versus of a Lisp variant. Let's say F# versus Clojure?

One of the general arguments in Lisp vs the world is that lisp is more concise. F# is really concise. It has datastructures as intrinsic part of the language syntax (just like Clojure, i.e in F# [|,,,|] is an array and in Clojure [...] is a vector, so more or less the same thing). Furthermore, the type inferences concierges the developer through the regular bureaucracy involved with strong type systems so effortlessly that you seldom notice it ... unless your code does not compile, in which case it's wrong somewhere and you need to fix it (which you needed to do anyway).

Ok, so for the sake of the argument, let's say the syntax is equally light for F# and Clojure, and their support for immutability is in the same ballpark. And let's remove the argument "a type system is an encumbrance" because that will only lead to situation specific debates - one side will say that massive refactorings are a pita without types, and the other side responds that in Clojure you can use data schemas and should have unit tests anyway. And those discussions never lead anywhere conclusive.

So, besides the above mentioned topics, is there anything general one can say of the distinctive advantages of these two languages in specific situations, including how their two different ecosystems and runtimes affect the calculus?

I suppose it's extremely rare to have experts who have participated in any large scale industrial developments with both of the languages, but if there are, it would be really nice to hear their opinion. And the things I listed as "outside of the discussion" might actually be critical, who knows...
Alternative solution for keeping track of where you stopped watching series : watch them with mpv. If you quit with "Q" instead of "q", it will remember the position. Then, whenever you launch mpv, it checks if one of the files is in its list of positions (using absolute realpaths).

mpv series/*
Q
# continue from where I stopped
mpv series/*
If you enjoy reading about map design, I highly recommend this article:

"A YEAR OF GOOGLE & APPLE MAPS - How much do Google & Apple Maps change in a year?"
https://www.justinobeirne.com/a-year-of-google-maps-and-appl...
Learning over Symbolic Data: Knowledge graphs mostly contain symbolic data which are connected. Learning over such a data is indeed a challenging task in Machine Learning (ML) where ML models mostly work on vectors. Knowledge Graph Embedding properly addresses this challenge. The core idea is that there is an equivalent vector space for the symbolic KG space that follows the underlying structure. KGE aims to map symbolic KG to a vector space.
A small (?) part of the answer is likely to be found in the massive amount of testing: https://sqlite.org/testing.html
Deep Learning for Programmers (GPU, CPU) Clojure Book Release 0.7.0
If anything, electric cars have the potential to last incredibly long. Combine with composite or aluminum body and the body won't rust away on an otherwise perfectly fine car.
The wording in the C FAQ is that arrays “decay” into pointers when you pass them to functions. Which they explain as the reason why you can’t know the size of a passed array (at least in standard C.)

The C FAQ is pretty old though, I’ve always wondered how much of that advice changed in C99/C11... from cursory googling things don’t seem to have changed much.
> ending of routine embalming in many cultures

Interestingly, routine embalming is actually relatively new. While embalming itself has of course existed for millennia, it wasn't widely practiced (at least in the West) until the American Civil War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embalming#History
I don't find it disrespectful if that's what the person wanted.

I don't see why it's any worse than burying them and letting the worms eat them, or burning them, crushing them into dust and scattering that dust into the sea.
I thought it would be about making a Transformers like toy using 3D printing or something.
I agree. That’s part of why I want to see how this goes down. It could end up being nothing. Or it could end up in many different crazy and interesting ways.

It’s a spin on the Brewster’s Millions type problem. Lots of money to spend with particular restrictions.
You really think ail deforestation is driven by the poor people, and not by the Brazilian meat packing corporations JBS, BRF, Marfrig and Minerva?
Slavery is still very widespread in the meat-packing industry in the region, I do not think the 'poor' have much agency in this<
If only the UK had a real property tax.
New framework defaults in Rails 6
Or be eaten: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7383903/How-... [warning: Daily Mail]
No effect of monthly supplementation with vitamin D in older people
Thanks, but I was looking for an India-wide statistic, like a graph, so I can see how fast (or slow) we're making progress.
Or if they do see value in their body as returning it to the earth and continuing the circle of life.
Can I recommend Consolas. :)
Related discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20767618
Brazilian here. Meddling with politics could backfire hard, being wrapped around the flag with foreigners booing him could actually bounce back his popularity.

As for something the west could do, I'm not an expert, but I think offering to foot the bill for police and inspectors in the area would go a long way.

Most logging and burning in the Amazon is still illegal, but it's very hard to police a huge sparsely populated area[1], and our government is dysfunctional even when it tries. The average Brazilian has little to no sympathy for the criminals, but is ambivalent about paying more for police in the jungle far away. It would be a lot easier to argue for more officers if someone else was footing their salaries.

[1]The rogue logger only needs to win in a small area, any small area would do. The state needs to win everywhere.
Yes, i'm a DevOps engineer. I have to say, we use the Google Cloud and many Google Services, this makes live so much easier. Before that we managed everything ourselves on bare metal with debian VMs.
We keep our pubkeys in sldapd... Since ldap is mainly read only, fairly easy to have many read only replicas for redundancy.
That's due to the GNOME HIG, which I agree is ugly. But GTK+ itself will render whatever padding you ask for.
> that local kubernetes clusters or even bare metal clusters are hard

what's so hard about k3s, kubespray or minikube?
the only problem k8s has, that without a linux dev machine you are going through the vm pain. but anything else is just simple.

btw. using mac sucks when trying to develop with local k8s. windows is better/okish, but it's best to run directly on linux.
> The only solution is to replace the class system with something that provides unconditional dignity for all.

I am really afraid of comments that state that there is only one solution for a social problem. Speaks a lot about the mindset of the commenter. Please, do not be that person.
You'd hope so, but I'm not quite so optimistic - given that the business model of the internet seems to rely entirely on ads, and a notion that the better you're understood, the better you can be targeted. The thing which really concerns me is the fingerprinting techniques, which really cannot be avoided, even if you are technically literate and privacy concerned.
Some cultures, like Tibetans and Zoroastrians, practice “sky burial” where they literally leave the bodies out for carrion, sometimes even cutting it to pieces to make it easier for the vultures to get at.

So our ideas about what’s respectful are based on the expectations that are culturally coded into us. When new systems arise, we’ll come up with new ways to imbue then with gravity and respect.
How do you identify Open Source projects to contribute to?
I'm looking around for Open Source projects where I could contribute to. There are tons of them with varying degrees of maturity, wild variance of tech stacks (and hype). It is a tough decision since my time/energy is limited and the opportunity cost weighs heavy in my mind.

I am personally working in the DevOps/CICD space so it would probably make more sense to invest time/effort in a project in that space. I was looking to kubernetes -I want to get experience in Golang as well- but I was somewhat deterred by the complexity of it. Both functionally and -perhaps more importantly- the developing-experience complexity. Anyhow, I'm now at the 'paralysis by analysis' stage and I'm wondering how other people have dealt with this chaos of options.

Do you contribute to OS? How did you go about selecting where you'd contribute to? How did you get past the no-joy initial stages where all you got was a steep learning curve with little or no help?
Leggaly this Portugese marmelade is now defined as jelly marmalade. The definitions are basically the stuff our grandmas considered one or another.

We also have pekmez, jam, marmelade. Pekmez should have the least added sugar and made out of chunks of whole fruits (mixed) cooked/melted. Jam has a bit more sugar, but I think it should be out of one fruit. Marmalade has more added sugar and can have more less desirable parts as core or pits. Jelly marmalade is just marmalade with more gelatine.
Project Based Tutorials in C
Yeah, non-ionizing radiation from the Sun is harmful, e.g. when you looking at the sun via naked eyes, or forgetting to use sunscreen. But those are not normally considered as RF.
EFF's Privacy Badger and Firefox's (experimental) first-party isolation go _some_ way to mitigating this bad behaviour. But taking special measures shouldn't be necessary.
If said friend wanted to be composted after they expire, I don’t see anything disrespectful about it.

I don’t particularly enjoying thinking of my own demise, but I do know I would rather my death be as least impactful on the environment as possible, and I’d hope that friends & family will at least smile knowing that was my choice.
Given the dwindling space for burials:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bisnow/2017/11/03/urban-cemeter...

and the energy/greenhouse gas emission costs of cremation, I can see this taking off.

There's a picture and caption not discussed in the text:

> Katrina Spade, upper left, the founder and CEO of Recompose, a company that hopes to use composting as an alternative to burying or cremating human remains, looks on Tuesday, May 21, 2019, as Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, centre, signs a bill into law at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash., that allows licensed facilities to offer "natural organic reduction," which turns a body into soil in a span of several weeks. (Ted S. Warren/AP Photo)

Was Spade involved in bringing that legislation about?