skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you of the impression that if everyone just ate beef, chicken, cheese and milk that we would cut emissions drastically?

No.

> You know that animals eat food, and the food they eat is grown in crops, and the crops use fertilizer ... right?

Yes.

> Even if emissions associated with growing crops are higher than expected, if the number of people that they feed is higher than the number that can be fed through meat, then reducing meat consumption is a win.

I disagree, because plant-based food is inferior, therefore it is a loss. From a pure nutrition perspective, meat and dairy isn't as inefficient as you might think.

You could probably cut down on some emissions by feeding people Soylent or some other food that had better been served to livestock instead, perhaps you can even brainwash people into doing that voluntarily. That doesn't mean it is a better outcome.

> If 30 percent of methane comes from industrial meat farming and 20 percent comes from industrial rice farming but our industrial meat feeds 1 billion people and our industrial rice feeds 2 billion people, I don't understand how that's an irrelevant concern.

It's not just about feeding people, but feeding them well. White rice is probably responsible for the huge rates of Diabetes in Asia. Brown rice is poorly digestible. Altogether, it is not very nutritious either.

> It's very convenient to form opinions in such a way so that no personal changes in consumption are ever required.

Don't get me wrong, my opinion is borne out of self-interest, it's not about moral grandstanding.

Even if a meat-based diet was better for no other reason than being more delicious, it wouldn't change my position fundamentally.

You're very welcome to change your consumption, just don't force it on me.
The likelihood that people who created Electron don't understand caches or cache locality is close to zero. That's an oversimplification. Electron is a large project that does many things… there are many reasons why it could have been slow. Today there are many Electron based apps that are quite decent.

> Knowing how to maximally exploit a CPU is way more important than knowing eight different Javascript frameworks if good software is your objective. And frankly, learning Node is way easier than figuring out how to structure basic, bare-bones Javascript so that it leverages your L1 cache.

Learning Node isn't easier than learning how to structure basic, bare-bones code that leverages L1 cache. In fact, it's quite the opposite. You can learn cache locality as a concept in much less time than you would learn Node (or any programming ecosystem for that matter).
I can't help wondering if some of the down-voting in this case is intended as ironic.
Well, no - not if the linear no threshold theory of radiation dosages is correct. If it is, then that diffuse radiation leads to cancer just as surely as acute radiation exposure.
Contrast in a design affects a user's memory
Isn't a bit to high profile - the perps risk attracting the attention people a bit more serious than overworked police fraud squads
Yes, old people are also an imperfect proxy for the workforce as a whole.

But this experiment which is designed to make it impossible for participants to retire off the money proves even less about people's likelihood of retiring off free money than the natural experiments where they're encouraged to do so.
Overcoming Perfectionism
No, I'm very sorry report that there are exactly zero areas of human action, practice, or thought that aren't infested with ideology.
Dr. K (a Psychiatrist who is also a Twitch streamer) recently touched on this subject with a very popular streamer (write-up/video linked below). He explains some of what you're saying and I tend to agree with you.

Dr. K suggests the brain is optimized for efficiency. If something is not seen by the brain as being unnecessary, then the brain is unlikely to trigger a response that motivates you to complete the task. The example used was going to the restroom - your bladder fills up and your brain tells you it's time to go. Motivation in areas of life was seen as being similar.

In the case of laziness, the bladder filling up is analogous to, let's say, shame reaching a level to where you're prompted to finally clean your room. Obviously increasing shame would be less than ideal, but there are other means for motivating yourself (e.g., purpose in service to others, duty, dharma, etc). He also draws a distinction between apathy and detachment, which are also part of the problem.

Anyways, I'm not sure I agree with everything he said/says, but it's worth checking out and an interesting perspective nonetheless!

Source: https://www.healthygamer.gg/asmongold-talks-to-healthygamer-...
Just shows that most people are not hard materialists.
If his boss/company weren't desperate for the contract, they wouldn't tolerate crazy shit like this. If the customer has no incentive not to ask for whimsical shit all the time, then they're absolutely going to ask for whimsical shit. This is especially a huge problem when you are dealing with a group of people rather than project-manager to project-manager, although that doesn't sound like the case in this story. At any rate, here is my take: find a better job for a more financially secure company. Then you won't have to deal with flakes.
I use chemical imbalance as a convenient terms for friends to explain that there is nothing they can really 'do' at the time in that particular expression of symptoms. "It's Chemical" is something they can understand.
The candidates that a company chooses as important enough to give a job offer will be a biased subset of the population. However, employment law limits the severity of this bias along some important dimensions, and we're able to enforce this law with the help of statistical tests. The same applies to journalism and the galactic-scale sins of omission that are currently occurring.

But government regulation is only effective against individual bad actors in a democracy. When the regulators themselves can be expected to be corrupt, government regulation is a cure at least as bad as the disease. Unfortunately, I don't see much hope for the US mainstream until a "Sputnik moment" happens that makes it clear to even those gaining the largest relative advantages from the status quo that they too stand to lose big if current practices continue. And that'll be too late for my family if the Sputnik moment takes the form of Taiwan falling to the PRC.
How Pandemics Wreak Havoc – and Open Minds
> by mainstream historians and anthropologists

Indeed it is but mainstream historians and anthropologists are not the arbiters of good science. The criticisms, that I'm aware of, come down to incomplete research on Yali (not a critical aspect of the narrative and absent from The Third Chimpanzee) and an over-enthusiastic pre-emptive argument against a neo-darwinian interpretation of genetic data.

I agree with carterklein13, Guns, Germs, and Steel is near the top of my list of influential books.
Sure, but in the case of TikTok, there's one less intermediary in the chain trying to hack your voting decisions.
Because people unsurprisingly love meat.
I suspect it's because HR doesn't know the difference.

It is easier to learn C++ if you know C, but it's a good point, they're not the same languages, and have diverged greatly over the years.

I would understand that back in the days of C++98, but C++11 and newer are really very different languages. Proficiency in the earlier language specs doesn't guarantee any such in the newer specs -- as I learned when I came back to dev work in C++ and had to update my skills quite a bit working in C++11 (I learned C++98 long ago and had worked exclusively in that for quite a while).
It's to cut down on the tedious arguments. If someone posts something stupid, you could get into a long, drawn-out argument with them that goes nowhere and clutters up the comments, or you just click downvote and move on. Same reason for upvoting rather than "posting 'me too' like some brain-dead AOLer". [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos
Oh yeah, absolutely, I just meant that all (leavened) breads contain yeast, I suppose it's a defining feature; so it's not 'yeast vs. starter', it's 'yeast from a packet vs. yeast from the air'.
If you are civil you get less down votes, but some opinions will automatically get you a few down votes no matter how insightful and well worded.
Funnily enough, the Tweet made me immediately think whoever wrote it speaks French natively. In French grammar, there needs to be space before any punctuation with exactly two parts (e.g. ":", "!", or "?"), and it's a common error for French-natives to do the same in English.
I'm an unverified nobody and the same thing happened to me, was unable to tweet up until about 8pm EDT.
I've seen downvotes that are applied to factually correct information but that goes against the herd. A simple rebuttal would suffice as we tend to do in the technical stories. Political stories on this site are insufferable.
I think the idea is that downvotes require a minimum level of karma (and thus ideally habituation to Hacker News norms around not simply downvoting content that you disagree with).

But... I don’t always see that being applied. I regularly upvote graying content that I vehemently disagree with if the commenter is making an earnest point in a respectful way. I do sometimes wish that the downvote button came with a selection box for what norm was being violated, because I think downvotes should require more thought and carry a little more friction.

That said, a friend asked me just yesterday if HN was the last place on the Internet I still comment, and I realized it is. On balance, I find the discourse and application of voting to be generally acceptable and better than other forums that I’ve mostly given up on.
Efficiency is something I can get behind, but of what? Forgetting dollars and cents for a moment, what if we measured the health and happiness of a population. Using those measures times the population would be the plus side with environmental impact on the minus. This only works for a closed system and import/export and sharing of scientific results plays a part.

I guess my point is if Pakistan were able to keep their population healthy and happy with less GDP per capita, scientific input or output, and less environmental impact per capita than Romania, I'd say they were doing alright.
Compose: An ML tool for labeling data
Compose lets you structure the labeling process by parameterizing prediction problems and integrates easily with Featuretools which automates feature engineering. Definitely worth checking out!
Show HN: Text 2 Speech 2 Text, RxJS
I disagree. As evidence: games are way more complex, have enormous teams, and manage to simulate an entire game world rendering render hundreds of thousands of polygons 60 times every second. Twitter crashes my browser.
Wouldn't the bend radius only be <25mm if you were winding very densely? At sparse winding, you aren't actually bending it much.
His channel has only been running for a few months and I think he's still finding his style. I too prefer it when he sticks to describing the prototypes and what he tried to get these things to work. None of that takes away from the fact that he's doing some really cool projects and I appreciate that for what it is. I almost wish he'd do like Colin Furze does and split it into a showcase video and a build video.
The most promising coronavirus vaccine comes from the public sector
In fact, isn't the point that the 'ideation' of mental illness as a chemical process seems to further the process somewhat, and therefore some degree of refactoring needs to be done of the language used so that we 'un-know' the details well enough to treat it subjectively?

Fascinating conundrum.
I think there has always been an implied exception for doing things for their pedagogical value. In the case of my previous comment, I think it’s pretty clear that I’m talking about production code.

As far as rolling your own crypto goes, I think the advice should be “only try it at home and don’t ever use it in production even for yourself”.
You don't think part of the reason they don't have customer service is that the # of people they'd have to employ is huge?
A major issue is that a single cartel controls medical(physicians/AMA). It's not necessarily science backed, so this leaves non science issues filled with tradition and authority.

Are lifetime outcomes really better on all these Drugs? Maybe after you already created drug addictions, a different drug would help.

Prior to drug use, I imagine therapy, monetary support, education, etc... Would all be better than 2020s brand name Adderall.
There's a difference between ideology and an ideologue. One may believe in something while at least attempting to compartmentalize it's influence over ones work. I feel like that sort of self-restriction is increasingly absent in much of the professional and academic world.

Yeah, sure, everything is political, but that doesn't mean you are obligated to inject your politics into everything.
Facebook is not your country. You have zero say in who is in charge at Facebook or what Facebook does with your data. Even if they aren't compelled to share your data with any government, history has shown that they will sell it, not just to the highest bidder, but likely many times over. History has also shown that they will spend little effort to go after developers who misuse this data according to their TOS.

I'm not saying this is worse than TikTok, but it is certainly not better.
first encountered the butt gun when I was in Thailand. It was the first major upgrade I got for my home when I was back in the states. Using toilet paper feels so uncivilized by comparison.
Did you not watch the video?
TSMC plans to halt chip supplies to Huawei in 2 months
Most Dangerous Places Around the World That Are Not for Fearful People
Tim Cook’s careful but profitable dance with the Trump White House
Exactly. What I think people lose sight of is that people with chemical imbalances do, is to create all sorts of behavioral coping mechanisms in their daily lives before they ever see any type of chemical intervention. Once they get that chemical intervention, they then need to deal with the psychological and behavioral issues built up over the years of dealing with a chemical imbalance.

This isn't like a simple infection, where you take a pill and it will go away.
What about claims that small rocks fall at the same speed as heavy rocks? That is something true that everybody incorrectly thinks is false.
Would Edge for Linux be a valid test for Edge/Windows? Wouldn’t there be things like text rendering which would be platform specific?
10th Anniversary of the Stuxnet Virus – What Is Its Significance Today?
How to Build HTML Forms Right: Styling
We've actually seen Facebook use their data for Political purposes and profiting.

They are about as Anti US as any country.
You can't understand that people like meat, eggs and dairy and that they don't want to miss out on them?
Seriously who designed a system that habituates people to giving out 2fa codes over the phone?? That's explicitly a weakness of the 2fa system, nobody should ever read out or forward their 2fa code.
If anyone else struggles with anxiety I highly recommend the DARE book. It's essentially CBT but framed in a way that finally really clicked for me.
that's almost what the author did here, they found an "unused" github handle that they liked: "yg" and wrote to support to claim it. No need to have friends at GH.

https://dev.to/yg/how-i-got-two-letter-username-on-github-i1...
American politics are ridiculously small-c conservative across the board. Try and get the american left to buy in on any loosening up, if they catch even one tiny whiff of something a libertarian might also believe in it'll be seen as enemy action and the position must be resisted.

For example, I've heard it argued that the modern success of the LGBT movement can be traced back to Clinton getting a blowie and the dems deflecting from the perjury he committed by making it a public issue of sexual freedom/privacy. I'm not doing the argument justice here, but I tend to give it a bit of weight because the left is so comically bad at "sex positivity" that it's barely more than a new flavor of sex negativity with different boundaries.
LOL, I've been programming Haskell full-time professionally for 10 years and think that Haskell is very effective for practical tasks. But in this case I completely agree with you. That quote fits this thread perfectly.
I've mostly gotten out of Politics on Instagram. You see them?
A People’s History of the United States. It opened my eyes to a past I didn’t know existed, which helps me understand the present.
I agree. I should have said "how can the NYT not come across looking biased" on the issues of masks and climate change (or any issue with a scientific consensus that one side inexplicably challenges).
> I believe the motives and outcomes are more in my favor when it’s my country doing it.

This makes zero sense to me, particularly when the argument is applied to the US. If anything, European companies seem to be taking privacy and consent much more seriously out of necessity than American companies do.

The idea that an American company is more aligned with my interests because I'm an American is completely laughable.
> Every customer service rep that works at any of those places -- all 500 or 5000 or 50,000 of them -- can pull up info on anyone at any time. The only thing that prevents that is rules. There are no technical countermeasures.

Yup. Doubly so for sysadmins, many of which have abhorrent data security practices.

My personal solution is to use cover names, disposable phone numbers, and unique email addresses (the +
trick is insufficient) for most services. My assumption is that the data is eventually either going to leak, or be used to threaten or harm me in some
way.

If none of the PII overlaps with me, it becomes a lot harder for such an event to affect me.

The only downside is that sometimes you get companies (Airbnb, Instacart, some
others) that have CSRs that demand a government photo ID to do certain tasks. Of course I don’t have any documents for these cover names, so usually the workaround is to just abandon that account, make another, and re-place the order or transaction in a way that doesn’t flag it for
manual review/intervention.

Works pretty well for me most of the time.
the easiest solution is a "bum gun" type setup that is common in South East Asia: https://www.google.com/search?q=spray+bidet. I can't imagine living without one
Could also be a #4 that additional data has been exfiltrated that hasn't come to light yet (the DMs of said accounts perhaps?).
That's the part that I was struggling to figure out. I ended up purchasing some reusable vinyl window stick material from a hobby shop, but have yet to test it.
Solar Orbiter: Sun probe's first images reveal small 'camp fires'
Anna Karenina - I'm an eastern european raised in the US. It was really eye opening.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Proposed UBI amounts would barely even cover health insurance premiums and deductibles on the individual market for a single person, let alone a family.

If UBI were to replace social services like general assistance, housing assistance, SNAP, WIC, CHIP, Medicaid etc, it would cause many people to choose eating over healthcare, or paying rent over seeing a doctor and eating.

In my opinion, general UBI needs to be issued alongside programs that target specific issues that are endemic to our current economic order. That includes programs that fight hunger, and the lack of access to affordable housing, healthcare and education.
I've thought a lot about the plight of newspapers, but still struggle to get my thoughts into black and white. I apologise if this ends up overly wordy and/or makes no sense at all.

The way I see it the newspapers are now facing an existential crisis, and I personally see no easy way forward for them. Print sales have been on the decline for the last 20 years and with it a decline in their ability to sell valuable advertising. I think we all know that newspaper prices are subsidised by advertising, so falling advertising sales, will inevitably lead to a rise in newspaper prices.

With online advertising dominated by the big internet companies that leaves a small slice of the pie for the newspaper publishers, and correspondingly a need to chase the algorithms to try to get clicks. This, inevitably, is leading to a race to the bottom to chase every last penny of advertising.

The only way to save themselves is to get people to pay for journalism, but this presents many obstacles. Nobody wants to pay for anything on the internet - we have all been trained to expect everything for free. Even those of us who are willing (and financially able) to pay for journalism now have an expectation of being able to access a variety of sources and won't necessarily want to pay for subscriptions to a variety of publications. Far too expensive. Unfortunately, a paid news aggregation site seems like a pipe dream right now. No publication wants to lose their brand under someone else's banner; and you can't really blame them for that.

Even if you could find a way, no one would be able to agree how payment should work. A payment per article click would just lead to a similar situation to today, with click-bait headlines designed to draw you into clicking on poor quality articles. We all know that micro-payments haven't managed to make any kind of traction.

So we have the current situation where those publications that do have quality journalism have a hard time getting reader attention away from a deluge of click-bait articles designed to stir base emotions so they will be shared widely by incensed readers, thus earning more money. Those that can are having a hard time finding funding, usually relying on a mixture of advertising, begging for reader donations, and paywalls.

Meanwhile, the industry as a whole is on a slow death spiral whilst readers are begging for ways to get articles from a wide variety of sources at a fair price, but no one can think of any feasible way to offer this.

That's my own personal, probably biased and non-objective, view on the situation. What do you all think? Am I right? Wrong? A complete idiot? I'd love some feedback.

Something else I'd love to know: how many of you out there have subscriptions to one or more news publications or make donations to a small news publication?
I suggest you read more about Chomsky here. It's a [PDF] but still very interesting. - http://mileswmathis.com/chom.pdf

PDF document. About Chomsky himself.

The document is 505kb strong/large, if that matters.
I don't really understand the busybox step? Can someone expand on what is happening there?
Is there a way to do GPS navigation on a PostmarketOS device like this?
> Congratulations, you don't even live here and you've been enlisted to take sides.

Excuse me?

I don't think that I need to live in the US to see what an absolute mess the US government response has been e.g. to Corona, or to conclude that statements made by Trump are alarmingly often incoherent, not following a clear train of thought, and often just utterly moronic (drink bleach to cure Corona?). I think it's safe to say that the vast majority of Europeans (at the very least, pretty much everyone I know, even those that lean rather conservative/to the right) are essentially flabbergasted about what's currently going on in the United States.

> Are the GOP obstructionist creeps? Yes.

If only!
Because it is less popular and generally server-focused, hardware support has always been thinner.

Jumping OSes without looking is dangerous. It might go better next time after a review of the hardware compatibility list:

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.1R/hardware.html

If you want a preinstalled system, start here:

https://www.freebsd.org/commercial/hardware.html