skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think these figures are pretty misleading. First of all, they only look at calories, not protein. If you wanted to replace all the meat and dairy with equivalent protein substitutes you’d be looking at huge amounts of land for growing soybeans, peanuts, tree nuts. Replace all the milk with almond milk and you’re still dealing with huge water and land use for a product that has inferior protein and nutrients.

I don't follow — I get my protein mostly from grains and a small amount of legumes. In Australia, about 2/3rds of all crop production is grown as animal feed, and 90% of the food given to farmed chickens and pigs are grains [1].

> Second of all, you can raise livestock like cattle, sheep, and goats on extremely rough terrain. Good luck growing soybeans on a bunch of jagged cliffs. Those areas may be highly inefficient in terms of land area per gram of protein, but it’s not going to be productive farmland otherwise.

And you can grow crops inside vertical farms within urban areas.

[1] https://www.veganaustralia.org.au/impact_of_a_vegan_agricult...
yeah the dept of interior released a pdf

https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/uploads/oas_flight_t...

they call it a 'government edition', if you search that term in the PDF the first few matches give some details
The millionaire next door (Free Audio Book) The best-selling book in America
Unfortunately for people in NY, you still have to pay income tax there no matter where you live in the US. If you're lucky you'll work in a state with no state income tax and it will be a wash, otherwise your tax preparer is going to have a fun time.
Plants leave roots in the ground and carbon in soil. No till farming practices of grains and corns sequester massive amounts of carbon into the soil. We dont need to do anything special just quit doing things wrong.
Unprecedented Levels of Ransom DDoS Extortion Attacks
Makani is closing and open sourcing their technology
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/ioxux2/security_by_...

(security by obscurity ) is camouflage, not armor.
man this absolutely broke my heart when I read it, thanks, that was the wake up call I needed to take this stuff more seriously
Here is a summary of what I read on community building.

- Shared struggles are stronger and last longer than shared interests (That is why a forum for solopreneurs (struggling with so much…) might have a more supportive vibe than a photo community.).

- Be an active and bold moderator: Answer questions quickly and be a role model

- Create clear guidelines for posts (What is allowed? What not?)

- Delete everything that violates the guidelines

- Let users flag posts

- Hunt and ban spammers

- Use captchas for newbie posts
45 minutes - write a simple API matching the spec in one of the 3 languages on your/our laptop. Use Google if you have to. Someone will be in the room to help answer questions. API should be functional. Returning fake data is fine (or provide data in a sqlite db)

45 minutes - do code review of this extremely buggy code like you'd review a coworker's code

45 minutes - presentation on a technical topic to one or more members

45 minutes - behavioral. Let's talk about failures, conflicts in your career. Who are your role models? What do they do well? Leadership abilities, career progression

45 minutes - troubleshooting. Here's a docker container. Make this thing work.

Rate all these on a scale of 1 to 10. Sum up the scores. Keep calibrating across all your candidates.
Hmm, the site design is rather similar (done by the same person): https://drownattack.com/
It's a higher order composition of functors. Lack of Commutativity still applies and is the factor for why the codomains aren't equal not associativity. It's all pedantry though. Overall you're right.

Intuitively the composition is similar enough to function composition that is has the same basic ruleset and is how I'm working out the logic in my head. Think of the functor as a tuple of the accumulator and the value: (acc, x), and the function is just an op that takes in this tuple as a parameter and spits out a new tuple (acc, z) with the next value in the list.

I addressed it earlier here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24449271
I feel like this is scapegoating "Big Oil" a bit. They made a product, we know it's bad for the environment, as a consumer it is up to you to make the choice not to buy/use it, or limit your use. We've known that recycling was a bad/underutilized solution for a lone time.

When I'm buying most products, I'll look for (and often pay a dollar or so more) for glass with metal lid. Unfortunately there are SO many products that you can't get without plastic. It is everywhere.

But we need to get the message out that step 1 is to not use plastic, which I think was missed in most education. Also note, I believe most of the education came from governments trying to reduce landfill, not from "Big Oil" themselves.
This has always been obviously true. The only sense in which the (original) phrase has any meaning is with respect to cryptographic primitives. And even then, all a cipher is really doing is "obscuring" data. I've never really heard anyone other than Steven Gibson subscribe to the silly phrase.
"A very crucial technology" to whom? For what purpose?
We are doing this right now at scale for healthcare integration. My team lead gave a keynote on it at CodeBEAM this week!
Any idea on where I could read more about this? in particular, what happens to people with two nationalities (i.e. US + another one)?
What caustic attention? A popular blogger whose name is publicly available but not mentioned on the blog had his name posted on Twitter? Why does he perceive this as harassment and persecution?
If you're an amateur, you have to put in extra time to get your app into shape.
> The downside was there aren’t enough people, but remote addresses a lot of that.

That's a big assumption! Wouldn't that imply there are software engineers who don't work in their field because they can't find work where they live? It's safe to say that most already relocate to where the money or work is.
Uwagi is used for performance reasons only, once you have a language where its not a problem, it immediately goes away. I haven't seen anyone using it with Go for example.
The biggest problem with all the discussions is that 90% of the people don’t know what they are talking about. A lot of people (and I don’t mean you specifically) treat alsa and PulseAudio as interchangeable but they’re at different levels of the stack. Most PulseAudio installs run on top of Alsa and it’s almost always possible to skip the PA layer and output to Alsa directly so long as the applications were built against libasound as well (and you configure PA not to automatically open your Alsa device).
(Edited for clarity)

Sure, and it's a good point that I think companies should consider instead of downright rejecting this option.

There are implications though:
- What about equity grants? A lot of comp in SV based companies is based on equity (both liquid/illiquid). If you are hiring someone on a pure cash basis vs other people who are not - what kind of dynamic / incentives that will create?

I'm very curios about hearing your experiences working in freelance capacity for a US based company though, it sounds like something I would like to do at some point (as of hiring someone), and would really appreciate the ideas
> Publishing your own weak papers is one thing, but citing other people's weak papers? This seemed implausible...

This is practically required by reviewers and editors. If you wade into a topic area, you need to review the field and explain where you fit in, even though you know full well many of those key citations are garbage. You basically need to pay homage to the "ground breakers" who claimed that turf first, even if they did it via fraud. They got there first, got cited by others, and so are now the establishment you are operating under.

And making a negative reference to them is not a trivial alternative. For one thing, you need to be certain, not just deeply suspicious of the paper, which just adds work and taking a stand may bring a fight with reviewers that hurts you anyway.
The Day the Sky Turned Orange
On “Learning to Summarize”
Is it true that the super-rich pay higher tax rates? My understanding is most of them have great accountants, and the salaries they pay themselves are generally very low. They use loopholes (intentional or unintentional by the government) to avoid the high income tax rates. Which is why I find the whole fantasy around raising income tax rates to tax the rich to be a smokescreen, and not very well researched. It'd hardly affect the super-rich. The top 1% will mostly be salaried people who can't use the loopholes.
> I live in Massachusetts and we have a substantially lower overall tax burden

Not according to https://taxfoundation.org/state-local-tax-collections-per-ca... (state+local per capita) or https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/state-collections-... (state only per capita).

This table has a breakdown of state revenues: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/stc/tables/2019/FY2... I don't see any significant revenue sources, relative to sales or income taxes, that might offset the burden per individual. And in California corporate taxes make up 14% of state revenue, but only 10% in Massachusetts.
OK, this is the first time you mention government, so then you acknowledge there is a problem but you are scared that the government can get involved? I don't see how free market can solve this since there is a duopoly that is happy how things are at the moment(they don't want to compete on the 30% tax)
Hmm. In the context of cryptocurrencies, I wonder what incentivizing defection would look like? eg. if several entities are colluding on a 51% attack, what mechanism would benefit a defector controlling 20% while screwing over the other colluding 31%, thus warning the non-colluding 49% of the collusion?
If everything was left up to consumer choice, we’d be driving gas guzzlers and the ozone layer would be already gone.
Venezuela Is Tearing Apart Oil Pipelines to Sell as Scrap Metal
Nikola's (NKLA) house of cards crumbles as GM acts like nothing is happening
If you think about it, the net result will be a transfer from workers to executives and shareholders.
I think you underestimate the amount of carbon we dug out of the soil if you believe that no-till farming will sequester even a fraction of that back in reasonable time frames.
Just because people repeat tropes about California or any other state doesn’t mean they’re actually based on data or fact.

According this data [1], Ohio has a higher overall tax burden than California. Does anyone from Texas criticize Ohio’s tax burden? No, because Ohio isn’t part of the demonization of California as a liberal regulatory dystopia.

In reality, California is a pretty normal state with normal people and many of the same problems as other states.

If you’re in Texas, the overall tax rate might be only a percent or two different than California, at least according to my linked chart.

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-bur...

If this data is flawed, I’ll be glad to eat my own words.
First - "artificially" - citizenship is not 'artificial' goes far beyond some academic credentials.

Second - far from being 'loss for rich gain to poor' - it's a 'gain' for the educated class of a poor nation, a 'loss' for the upper middle class of a rich nation, and a 'bigger gain' for the rich/capital class of the rich nations.
What are the plans for bridging the ecosystem?
- Is there a Linux compatibility layer?
- Is there X11 support in Orbital?
- How difficult is porting Linux apps?
- I absolutely love the idea of using a memory-safe language for an OS, but realistically people will use whatever language they feel comfortable with for writing apps.
- Is it possible to write applications in something other than Rust?
I suppose the truly religious environmentalists can buy indulgences in the form of carbon credits. Airlines offer them so the people guilty about travel can pay the owner of a forest to do nothing. Not perfect because you still make carbon, but at least you don’t have to pilgrimage in a sailboat like Greta Thunberg.
FreeBSD has a pretty broad linuxkpi layer for Linux drivers on FreeBSD as well. E.g., the Mellanox FreeBSD NIC drivers are really Linux drivers running on this framework.
NYSE Signals It Will Exit New Jersey If State Taxes Stock Trades
I've been meditating almost daily for several years, and I've read numerous books and tried many different methods. I found this app very helpful, and I'll probably incorporate it into my routine. The technique relates closely to the root of most, or maybe all, mindfulness practices, which revolve around feeling your emotions and their sensations in your body. At the same time, it is a very simple practice, not heavy on theory, that anyone can try immediately. Really, really excellent work--thank you for building and freely sharing this.
This time it is forced by a pandemic... the economic incentives for companies using this strategy are no longer defined by management's choice
The bluetooth stack on linux only supports SBC due to license issues.
Most companies sprint away from actual sexual activity, or photos/videos/drawings of such. (Not books though, for some reason.)

Especially payment processors, which cause serious bottlenecks in the ability of people to pay for services online.

Apple seems to be in the majority from where I look.
I think you and the parent are just talking past each other and you really agree on the same thing.

I don't see this as a new wealth transfer though, I see it as the cessation of an ongoing wealth transfer. I think the parent does too.
BigBird Transformers
My real problem with BT is how unreliable it is. I'd like to find someone who never had an issue pairing some earphones or headphones and had it working flawlessly every time.

There are many variants of BT audio and they don't all work the way you would expect. It's still not rare to end up with lag if your combination of hardware, software and receivers don't have compatible technologies like aptX.

For me the unreliable and lengthy pairing process is the major pain. Takes out the earbuds, wait at least 10-20s to get them connected, then wait another 10s for the phone to realize it needs to output to the earbuds. More often than I'd like, I have to put back the buds in their case and take them out again to force a reconnection because the phone or one of the buds said it was connected but isn't getting any sound...

And I'm not talking about a cheap Chinese Android phone with a pair of crap $20 earbuds. I'm talking about iPhone 11 Pro with Sony 1000XM3.
It's not the equipment, had similar issues with an iPhone 8 and Bose headsets, and with various dongles and computers.

A friend recently thought his new Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones were not working and asked me to have a look. Took me 15 minutes to hook them to Windows properly. Turns out there are multiple devices that appear (but not at the same time) during the pairing process and if you connect to the BLE stack, you don't get the headphone functionality... (what functionality you get is a mystery) and of course, no mention of that in the documentation.

Wireless audio is important enough that we shouldn't have to settle for these subpar experiences. Although BT has made progress on the audio front by providing protocols with lighter overhead and latency, it's still not particularly suited for audio (no high quality transmission, mono/stereo only, no multicast, lengthy connection, ...)

It is what is is, but it's not what it should be.
To build a financial system completely separate from the state. To avoid fiat currency, if you desire. To conduct commerce without government interference whatsoever.

This is not a pipe dream. This happens every day in increasing numbers. I’m sorry if you don’t like this.
"your manager has decided that your work is now less valuable "

No - this is supply and demand. There are two sides to the equation, not one.

Someone working where there is no taxes, and low cost of living, will value the employment opportunity differently.

The 'clearing price' for the 'trade' will thus be different, even when all other factors are otherwise the same (i.e. the workers skills and abilities are identical.)
As long as you don't have two kids...
It may be more useful to look at tit from the angle not of "value" but of compensation. For the employer to acquire your services, they have to compete with other companies and part of that competition is going to be on how much you are paid. When you leave to another place with a different COL or different job market, the amount competing companies are willing to pay decreases.

Sorry for rambling.
That's true. Unbelievable though it is, FAANG guys/gals are comfortably in the top 2-3%
When Prophecy Fails
Cory Doctorow has created a kickstarter for his latest book, the third in the Little Brother series. It's an experiment in self-publishing ebooks and audio books outside of the Amazon/Audible ecosystem and without draconian protections.
Can you give examples of what you consider cancellation and not? For examples is Scott Alexander, a well known blogger, having is full name (which is only sort of a secret) posted "cancellation" in your eyes?

I think the issue may be that you're defining cancel culture in a way that's very different than what most people in general, and in this thread, do. That's not wholly your fault, but it does mean that the conversation probably won't be fruitful.

I ask this mostly because I'm having a hard time coming up with a lot of examples of what you mean by "cancel culture" outside of the 3-4 well trodden examples of "cancellation gone wrong" (Justice Sacco, and the recent examples from the Atlantic Article "Stop Firing the Innocent").
I think it would be reasonable to make big property tax increases in the areas encroaching on forests.
Rising Stars Taking the Design World by Storm
So companies are finally telling employees: Take a pay cut or take a hike.

Now putting aside that "scarce talent" or "skilled engineer" myth most companies are just fine working with half ass CRUD app peddlers. And they are about as much in demand and as much a commodity as crude oil in 2020.
Does your example classify as a game? Who are you playing against? Usually nature isn't consider a "player" per say, but rather just defines an environment. Otherwise, a game consists of three structures[0]:

• a collection of participants, or players.

• Each player has a set of choices, or strategies, for how to play/behave.

• Combined behavior results in payoffs (satisfaction level) for each player

Macroeconomic theory handwaves and says assets are generally bounded above by some non-binding constraint to rule out this behavior you've pointed out, for the record.

[0] Lazy google search result scribbed liberally from https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~avrim/598/lect0504GameTheory.pdf
You can raise livestock on rough terrain, but the vast majority of the world's livestock is not raised like that. Meat prices would explode if we did that. You don't have to ban all meat to get most of the effect, not everyone has to become vegan. Livestock are part of a healthy agriculture; for example by turning waste into manure. Grazing is also important for maintaining certain biomes.

What we need to stop is industrial meat production. Americans eat nearly 100kg of meat per year. How about we reduce that to 25kg like in Turkey for a start. That's still a steak per week.
Sorry if this is nitpicky, but since you made a point of saying you were going to write it out..

The world population is ~7.8 billion. 0.00000001% of that is 0.78. If you drop the percentage, it's still only 78 people. And that's assuming every person in the world is an iPhone user.

I think the slice is obviously bigger than that.
Tree-like timber charging stations for electric cars in Denmark
Because browsers are now actually mature operating systems with many, many features and APIs.

I think a lot of people actually as much or more applications in their browser these days than normal applications. A lot of times they don't realize they are running an application though until it freezes the browser or pops up a window begging for money. But it's amazing how much code is downloaded for seemingly trivial applications sometimes.

But anyway if you take Chrome as an example, they are literally adding just about every OS feature including accessing USB devices.
What's the weak points (except not-very-easy-to-learn and complication speed) of Rust? It listens perfect in every other aspect from the Rust promotion articles.
When you cut pay are you more likely to lose your best and brightest, or those without better options? Sure, maybe it helps the bottom line now, but lowering wages to reduce head count is the best way to ensure brain drain (in most cases, obviously there are exceptions to everything)
CA has a capital gains tax, also an AMT. And it's generally not possible to escape much of CA taxes (most SV founders/CEOs anticipating a big payday shift domicile to FL and similar tax-free jurisdictions for this reason).

The state also extended the eye-wateringly high top tax bracket for another decade or so, I think... Even with all that, with this year's debacle, CA has probably blown through its rainy-day surplus and then some.

The numbers do not lie. CA taxes the high-earners and rich quite heavily (to practically Scandinavian levels).
A father's heartbreaking attempt to save his family from a raging fire
- FAT32 became the only filsystem people use for external drives due to cross compatibility

- The QuickTime container became the container for AAC audio, ISO MPEG4/h264/h265 video, HEIC, AVIF

- Zip files have become a generic container used in all kinds of formats (Java jar files, Android apk, Microsoft office documents, usdz, etc )
> If there was a sports-like betting site for future decisions that major open source projects are going to make, I would put a thousand dollars on "Cargo/Crates will implement namespaces."

There is, sort of! Assuming you choose a semi-reasonable timeframe (5? 10 years?), I’d be happy to take the other side on Longbets.

I believe there’s even a reasonable argument to be made that your bet is societally important, as the rules [1] require, based on your final paragraph. Roughly your take is that over time, efforts realize that the naïveté of youth misread the battle scars of what came before. crates.io having namespaces or not is just the mechanism for this debate :)

[1] https://longbets.org/rules/
To be blunt, this is CAs own fault.

I remember a couple of decades ago people were talking about how they weren't allowed to clear or perform controlled burns on the dead underbrush. People can think they are doing good but are actually being shortsighted, causing more problems than they fix.
Hmm..I think outsourcing to poorer countries is happening for many decades now so nothing new here. Also "democratizing opportunities" sounds like corporate speak for cost arbitrage.
More because the Inetrnet came and allowed every vendor to sell directly from their webpage instead of going through the distribution channel, making retail software stores obsolete

There are two platforms that drive 100% of the mobile phone industry. One (Android) allows other distributors in the platform (even if they have to go through loops like sideloading an app and then allowing that app to install other apps). The other will kick and try to destroy you if you try to do something like that. Is that legal or anti-competitive in the US & Europe? We'll find out...
I don't see why my older comment would be downvoted. Obama initiated the legal process against Assange and Biden never once stated a lack of support for it. What in the world would make any of you think he'd somehow change that tendency if he won? Trump, for all his mendacity and nonsense, has at least floated the idea forward here and there and has just enough vindictive weirdness to plausibly decide to do such a thing.
No, they are talking specifically about the syscall being API and ABI compatible. That means binary compatible by definition.