skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He says: refraining from consuming animal products, argues Foer, is one of the most significant actions individuals can take to help prevent global warming, along with driving less, flying less, and having fewer children.

But, Agricultural production makes up 9% of our greenhouse gas emissions.[1]

The largest categories are:
- Transportation: 29%
- Electricity: 28%
- Industry: 22%
- Commercial and Residential: 12%
- Ag: 9%

As for individual action on climate change am I the only one feeling like things are so focused on beef production when, looking at the grand scheme of things you should start biking everywhere you go, quit taking flights across the country, put some solar panels on your roof and stop buying stuff you throw away?

Wouldn't each of those actions have, potentially, a far bigger impact on climate change than just beef reduction?

[1]https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
If it was a law, it has since changed. The IRS has the W-9 form specifically for the requesting of an SSN (or EIN if a company). At my job I require it before issuing a non-employment related payment that will get reported to the IRS on a 1099-MISC.
Then what does it do?

> WARP, instead, is built for the average consumer. It’s built to ensure that your data is secured while it’s in transit. So the networks between you and the applications you’re using can’t spy on you.

Isn't that what ssl does already lol? What a load of sham.
We do far more than train them with "mediocre handwriting". We introduce letters by showing script (which is a confusing style almost never used anywhere in the real world) and insist for years on the correct shape to use on this totally obsolete style.

Any of the activity you mention would be a better way to train manual dexterity.
> I can't even begin to express how nutty this idea is. MIT's existence is certainly in the national interest. MIT is the world's best university for training engineers and the world needs good engineers. The more, the better. The better they are, the better. MIT is also excellent in other fields as well. I.e., stuff that the world needs.

Yup! The world needs American engineers and scientists. MIT is a fantastic school. I'm failing to see how it's irreplaceable compared to University of Michigan, Georgia Tech, University of Washington, UIUC, my alma mater...

> But getting a job here isn't egalitarian or "fair". The people who are hired are hired because the people hiring them believe that they are the best candidate for doing the job. Modulo affirmative action considerations, etc.

Sure! Nothing wrong with that! I'm sure that can still happen if it was affiliated with UMass Boston. Public, less-selective institutions like UNC Chapel Hill do lots of fundamental research too.

> At MIT, every undergraduate student can participate in research. Often with the leading expert in the field.

That's great! I did undergrad research and I'm sure lots of undergrads do!

> Regarding sailing being for the rich, it costs $90 a day to rent a four-person sailboat on the Charles River. Anyone in Boston can do this who knows how to swim and sail. Divided by 4, that's $22.50 per person for a day of sailing. Is this really a sport only for the rich?

Interesting aside, but that's actually a lot more than I expected for a sailboat on the Charles and I was looking into it earlier. I know a few people that sail and it seems like an awesome hobby. Guess I'll have to re-evaluate.

> There are plenty of other great schools. MIT can't take everyone who is qualified to attend MIT. No college can. On the other hand, there are plenty of other high-quality choices for education. You don't have to go to MIT to get a high-quality engineering education.

Yup! I went to a lower tier institution and got an OK quality education. But if you're really going to claim that other schools also provide high quality engineering educations without the social engineering, hate to say it but I don't think you're making a great case for it!

Look, the way I see it is:

1) Either the "MIT woman/man" is so much better than everyone that doesn't get in (like myself) that the cost of re-evaluating the influence of these selective institutions would be enormous to world productivity or

2) These schools are good, but them being selective isn't actually that beneficial to the national interest more than brownie points in a credibility name drop and the specializations that exist there because of the added credibility.

I simply don't see this argument working without admitting to being fundamentally superior.
where do you get your gyokuro from? the last time I had it was literally almost a decade ago and I absolutely loved it but I haven't been able to really find it except for expensive online retailers that strike me more as vanity brands than anything. but if you know of any good sources, id love to check them out
This account has been using HN primarily for political and national battle, which is against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. We warned you about this before and ask you to stop: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20727426. If you can't or won't stop, we're unfortunately going to have to ban you, because this is an abuse of HN. The site exists for intellectual curiosity, which is not compatible with political agendas. Would you please take the spirit of this place more to heart? That means posting on a variety of things that gratify your curiosity, rather than on just a single topic that you're fighting about—regardless of what that topic is or what your position is about it.
Matt Stoller <https://mattstoller.substack.com/about> and Ben Thompson <https://stratechery.com/about/> are two of my favorite bloggers; I find their analyses fascinating!
Yes. He hasn't been editor in chief for long; the Crim editorship rotates around through top departments every few years. I wouldn't take his position as particularly determinative.

Shawn Bushway's take is probably most representative of the field. If we're going to be taken seriously (insert Arrested Development shot) we need to be able to deal with this.

Criminology has thus far mostly avoided the replication crisis, so there hasn't been much reckoning with sloppy research -- much less with a major figure in the field just making up data. And the co-author network here touches on several of the top programs, so there's plenty of drama.
I assume a lite site like this doesn't having any kind of rate limiting feature so it would be simplicity to brute force a page's password.
Wind and solar just aren't viable at the scales needed.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/10/large-scale-w...
WeWork Turmoil Puts Spotlight on JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley
Maybe we should try a system where there's no property and the state takes care of every aspect of the citizen's life.

People wouldn't need to work as much and the government would be honest and nice to everyone (except filthy dissidents).

I'm sure it won't end in a totalitarian bloodshed.
Loser pays (the English rule[0]) can apply in the U.S. but is quite uncommon. Most of the time both parties are responsible for their own legal fees[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_rule_(attorney%27s_fee...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_rule_(attorney's_fees...
I just looked at the 'Device Catalog' of my Google Play account and it says it's compatible with 82 Xiaomi Devices. Weird!
You mean there aren't really hot girls in 94027 zip code looking for a date?!
So how many of the images that have been linked to are child porn?
As an engineer who needs to deal with multiple platforms, I use an hybrid approach, connecting my personal X1 carbon to one of these latest macbook pro with the special keyboard. I definitely dislike the keyboards on these modern Apple laptops, I do a lot of terminal typing and not having the press feedback on the escape key kills the experience of typing fast. I fell the macbooks were made for home users and lost contact with the IBM PC. Besides the pros get really hot when under heavy load. On the TP I have a very customized version of Arch installed and it works fairly well.
This is not a high-quality response; please be polite, and point out any actual errors you see.
If you’ve ever needed to buy something that your government doesn’t want you to or get your money out of a country that doesn’t want you to remove your money you’d have a different view of cryptocurrency. Scam is not how I would classify all of them at all. I’d classify them more as a mechanism of freedom. You may find yourself singing a different tune when the current QE house of cards falls and you want somewhere, anywhere to put your money that is safe and untouched by the financial fraud and usury system we currently call banking.

Kin has more in common with banking than crypto. It was just a blatant money grab by a company with low enough morals and the stupidity to do so and think they were above the law and wouldn’t be punished for blatant disregard for securities law.
I came here for this. In fact, that fiasco is the only reason I recognize Kik the company.
On a free product, I have no problems with shadow bans.

On a paid product, shadow bans seem like a pretty clear case of fraud.
Cyberpunk 2077, here we come!
> First, there's a clear (and artificial) skewing of supply-demand curves.

What makes it artificial?

Also, there's strong evidence that roughly twice as many women have reproduced than men across human history [0], so if we're reducing it to a number game women have always had the ability to be more picky than guys.

What's different today is Tinder/OLD let's them access a much larger area, whereas in the past they would have to find a partner within their local community. Dating apps may look unfair on paper but they're just a more efficient dating market than in times past.

So to sum up my point, I'm struggling to see a solution here. Human nature can't be rewritten, no matter how hard we try.

[0] https://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/the-missing-...
Wind and solar just can't scale to what is needed to stop climate change, and if they did scale that high, would become active in increasing climate change themselves. Never mind the complexity of keeping power on 24/7 when your predictions of wind and solar availability are off.

It isn't statistics, but cold hard math.
It would be nice to have a dating site where potential matches were verified, including height, weight, and photo. Perhaps have them visit a kiosk in a participating business to get a photo taken from a standard angle (no "myspace" angles) along with a verified height and weight (stand on a scale!)
I am a regular HN reader. I just would prefer to not make it public just yet, hence the throwaway.

I am based in the Bay Area, happy to meetup with whoever thinks they might be interested in joining the project and has skills. (or skype if someone is outside the bay)

edit: I see two posts calling post/idea sketchy, I will maybe choose my wording better next time, and I promise it isn't.
If a customer asked me to use this time tracking software I'd be outta there in no time.

Any customer who's singularly focused on you not shifting them and not the value you can bring is gonna be the worst customer you've ever had.
Recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21053140
A Planetary Computer to Avert Environmental Disaster
Am I missing something obvious, but can’t the perception of being open be solved by having bright shop lights next to your store window?
> The Fed has been maintaining emergency interest rates for a decade now. When do we expect the emergency to end and rates to go back to the good old 3-5% band from prior to 2008?

The emergency will never end until the US defaults. When the Fed started quantitative tightening, by something like 25 bps, it caused the markets to tank. The Fed is no longer an independent institution; just like Yellen made Obama look good, Powell is making Trump look good. The right thing to do is raise interest rates to 10-15%; I suspect the real rate is somewhere there, possibly even higher. It will be very painful in the short-term, but recovery/rehabilitation always is.
Yep, having used Tinder's paid boots and seeing no results. And then making a new profile with the same photos and bio! and getting results within minutes left me feeling rob and manipulated.
I’d like to add onto your list:

* PCBs can act as integrated antennas.

* PCBs can easily mount connectors.
Why Your Startup Needs a CRM System?
I don't doubt they could do it if necessary. Disruption would probably be minimal. But like I said, I don't think it was ever on the table.
As an American raised on typical things you find at an average grocery store, I had to kick sugar like an addict as an adult. Now I can't bear pretty much any kind of soda or processed food without tasting an overwhelmingly gross level of sweetness. I can't believe I liked this stuff as a kid, but I just was never exposed to anything else.

As a kid you grow very tolerant to high sugar intake, to the point that even a Coke or Pepsi tastes only very mildly sweet. You don't really realize just how much sugar you're consuming. Most of the cheap food is loaded with sugar (to hide the fact it otherwise tastes bad, maybe? I don't know why), and many families avoid paying for anything more natural because they can't afford it; or even if they can, they feel it's a rip-off compared to the plentiful, cheap food at their local grocery store. Generations are being raised on that garbage. It certainly beats malnutrition for families who would otherwise just go hungry, but it ingrains such awful tastes and habits.
If you believe that the millions of plains bison that roamed the grasslands of North America led to topsoil reduction... you'd be wrong. Industrial feedlot and processing plant meat production is nothing like meat should/can be raised. You just don't know it; you've been decieved.

If you believe that children raised and mentored by loving parents, training them to "move the needle" beyond what their parents were able to accomplish is a net negative to humanity and the biosphere... you'd be wrong. Sad little oppressed kids being primarily deceived by their "peers" and generally ignored by parents/teachers isn't education. You just don't know it; you've been deceived.

I'll deny the hateful, screeching, dark, negative dialectic of the climate apocalypsists all day long... because it's wrong. 7 billion humans caring for their family lands can repair the planet; 7 billion downtrodden subjects of liberty- and wealth-robbing tyrant governments; not so much.

As for me and my house, we'll put on our hardhats and break out our engineering skills, and push back against the selfish, nihilistic "totalitarian impulse" of the ignorant elitists, sending ranting little girls to the UN in an attempt to deny us the ability and capacity to do the R&D that actually improves our planet.

Let the down-voting begin... Don't be deceived, though; the smugly superior, soft-handed, flabby chattering political class who are ready, willing and able to sacrifice you to accomplish their little totalitarian redistribution schemes won't shed a tear when the time comes to march you up to the chopping block or execution wall.

Its only then that it'll dawn on you: they said they were loving and accepting of us, but they actually hated us. Your neighbors, however, love you and need you: exactly the opposite of what we've all been deceived into believing.
isn't this the job board model too? Indeed, ZipRecruiter, Linkedin?
It didn't stop us making it illegal to discriminate against other races/religions in this exact same scenario.
Very well, thanks a lot for your advice. I will try it without AdAdway.

I currently have only one app that shows ads (Easy Currency), and it still does it despite of AdAway being up and running, so I assume AdAway is not of much use for blocking ads in apps because they are fed in a different way.
Punch `China exit ban` into your favorite search engine.
Lol, that's a great story; if only that sort of thing was practical, how much more fun life would be :-) I actually had the opportunity to do something similar not too long ago. I'm a beginner learning to program and I had a little puzzle that I got from my grandma ~15 years ago. You have a tower of blocks with symbols on them, and have to arrange the blocks so that all of the symbols on each side are distinct [1]. The problem was small enough that I could just model each symbol as a prime and check uniqueness by seeing of the product was equal to 2 * 3 * 5 * 7 * 11 * 13.

[1] https://imgur.com/vTZotGC
When an account is established, we usually tell people we're banning them and why. Shadowbanning on HN is mostly for new accounts that show signs of either spamming or trolling. You're right, though, that there are still false positives in such cases, and those suck.
So the cop says they get whatever video they want no matter what, but Amazon's PR department says otherwise.

Maybe this was a NSL situation and the cop unintentionally spilled the beans, or maybe it's just weasel words by the amazon PR rep. Technically what they said specifically ("a valid and binding legal demand properly served on us") doesn't necessarily mean anything has to be signed off on by a judge. It just means the police have to make a legal and binding demand which shouldn't be a problem if handing that data over to police whenever they demand it is part of the binding terms of their contract with police.

I'll admit I'm not giving amazon or the police the benefit of the doubt here, but I also have zero reason to.
Ironically, the U.S. is the safest place from the USA's surveillance network, when no warrant whatsoever is required to collect information by hacking into a foreign entity.
Resistive losses are that high? The signal integrity issues are going to cause unacceptably high error rates.
My 2012 one jammed up one day and the glass actually shattered upon a click. Still works and somehow I'm not getting splinters, but that's definitely an inherent flaw in the physical keyboards as batteries expand over time.
They're doing nothing of the sort.

All software will have bugs.

There's no good reason to accurately broadcast to the world what specific version you're running of anything, ever.

It's not advocating leaving your production systems to rot with ancient software because you've hidden the versions. You still need to stay vigilant. But the reality is, 0-days happen, and not all bugs being exploited are reported/fixed. Keep the version hidden, or hell, broadcast a completely different software/version altogether.
>The US system has a ton of issues, but I still take it over these European systems. Have I been floored by medical bills? Yes, from my dentist, from my wife's heart surgery. But I somehow managed — and we both received instant, high-quality help.

You are not the norm.
>> Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider, these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society. [...] The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time.

~sigh~

Snow Crash - like 1984 - was a warning, not a manual for building the future.

> Echo Frames are designed to protect your privacy.

That page is careful to always say "protect your privacy". The privacy of everyone else in range of the microphone apparently isn't even worth mentioning. That responsibility is implicitly (and silently) pushed onto the user.
Not sure this is the correct forum but I know of others who have gotten help from this org. https://saa-recovery.org Maybe a place to start pulling on the thread to find treatment.
People absolutely have to part of the in-group. Television advertisements work.

I know several people with listening devices in their home. Each time it's been demonstrated to me, you know what they do? They ask it to tell me the weather.

That said, the headphones do make sense. Seems everyone is trying to avoid any sense of being around other humans as often as possible. Better to isolate yourself from the outside world when you're forced to go about whatever rat-race life you live than be forced to interact with society.
I mean that's true of the phone in your pocket today, what's your point?
You've now gone from "everything is processed" to "processing is not real" to "maybe processing depends on my mood" to "whether it's processed is unclear".

And you say I'm talking nonsense.

It is unclear whether your meatloaf is processed or not. Welcome to the world, lots of things are unclear, but still exist.
Are you sure? it sounds like the good old USA to me!
It's no more presumptuous to assume OP is a straight male.
I really doubt you had a buddy that worked for Unilever who told you "Lipton uses the cheapest grade of tea (dust)" and that companies add non-tea additives.

This is a rumor that's swirling around sites like "Food Babe" but is pure nonsense.

See: https://www.unileverusa.com/news/press-releases/2005/lipton-...
Poor Fred Wilson. He tried hard to hawk this one, including a crypto hail mary but evidently there's still some sanity in the private markets!
In general restrictive diets simply end up restricting calories vs. previous eating habits. Hence losing weight.
Trying to corner a market is not a new idea. A forgotten incident from the 1980s: the Hunts brothers thought they could corner the market on silver. They spent about $6 billion buying up silver futures. That's about $30 billion in today's money. They briefly controlled the majority of all the silver coming out of silver mines, and thought they could dictate terms to industries that needed silver (such as the photography industry, which needed silver for film development). The price of silver skyrocketed. However, over the last century, silver has become fairly democratic. Most families have some items of silver lying around. When the silver price peaked, millions of families began rummaging around their homes, finding what silver they could, and then selling it. The price of silver crashed, and the Hunts brothers were forced to declare bankruptcy.

Cornering a market works if the supply of something is really limited and new supplies can not be quickly created. Maybe WeWork thought it could do this with office rentals? If so, it seems it lost the bet.
>Jamie "doesn't give a shit about Bitcoin" Dimon. So he won't just hop on any bandwagon.

Don't you mean Jamie "we'll setup up our own cryptocurrency[0]" Dimon?

[0] https://www.jpmorgan.com/global/news/digital-coin-payments
I remember using or seeing something very similar for phpBB (a free software bulletin board web app). I think that kind of functionality existed for most extensible boards.
You're not wrong they are deeper problems, but you say these things as if M4A would cause them when they are happening now. I was recently asked by a dentist if I wanted a special kind of cleaning. She then nervously admitted that it wasn't necessary, but she "wanted to make sure." M4A won't fix all the problems, but it would definitely make things better, and hopefully, lead to people demanding more.
Anecdotally, I'm on my third magsafe 1 charger. They are all shit. My GFs current magsafe 1 has like 3 patches of tape throughout the cable after the block, and a big beefy wad on the L connector. I've ran into a couple other people still rocking the 2012 mbp, and they are all on their second or third magsafe charger too.

They used to not have that grippy coating and I think those smooth cables worked great (until I ran over mine with a desk chair), even the original ipod cables were pretty solid in my experience, but every L shaped magsafe 1 is a time bomb just like any other apple cable these days.