skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These questions are explored in greater detail in Lustig’s recent Metabolical, which makes a systematic case, although somewhat of a brief one (it's not the main point of the book) that heavy greenhouse gas emissions of the bigger greenhouse gases methane and nitrous oxide can be traced back to factory farming, in particular the high methane production comes from feeding our cows a corn-based diet (most of the emissions are burps, not toots) and nitrous oxide emissions are influenced (IIRC) by chemical fertilizers as opposed to traditional manure. (It might have also been that I am mixing things up and the chemical fertilizers create algae blooms which affect greenhouse gases...)

The corn etc. is cast as part of a greater addiction to processed food that has been growing, with one of the book’s slogans being ~“it's not what's in the food but what's been done to the food, and that's not on any label.” So in addition to these environment-harming practices you get the health-harming effects of excessive antibiotic usage on livestock, and so now we have to all be on probiotics: that sort of health impact is much more the point of the book. Being a Lustig book of course it calls for limiting consumption of refined and added sugars etc. But it is interesting to also see an evaluation of vegetarianism in regards to whether it improves the climate situation or makes it worse, etc.

The biggest kicker for me is, I have a physics background and love back-of-the-envelope calculations. Lustig does a back of the envelope calculation where if we take the estimates of how much of these obesity-related diseases are preventable, multiply by the cost of healthcare to get a rough estimate of how much spending is preventable, it turns out that Big Food’s (extremely generous!) profit margins are only a very tiny amount of what the processed food diet is costing us in healthcare. So the kicker is that in theory we could just ban processed food, keep paying Big Food that profit margin, and free up something like a trillion bucks to do something worthwhile with—if the world worked that way which of course it doesn't.

Worth a read if you are into this stuff, but I imagine the bibliography is more important than the main chapter.
Original HN discussion from 2020, for those who are interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22368888
It doesn't make sense to say that people have an "addiction to meat". We eat meat because it's a very nutritious food. We need to eat food to survive, to live, and to thrive.

If you 're looking for an addiction that harms the environment, then look no further than right in front of your eyes. Right now, you are probably looking at the screen of a smart phone that you will most likely throw away for a new one before the end of the year. You don't need a new phone every year, nor do the many millions of people who buy a new one each year, and yet so they do.

https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2018/12/11/right-to-repair-...
How does that work when the government admits to directly working with that private company to ask for specific posts and people to be censored? Is that still not a violation of 1A?
Cheaters aren't a strong enough reason to ship malware to users to monitor them. This sort of thing ought to be unacceptable.

This is 100% on the games industry. They engaged in an arms race with cheaters and now their ineffective solutions are worse than the problem they're attempting to solve.
"I only post 2-4 articles on there per month. But even then, I'm seeing ~50K views per month and this month I'm on track to earn $1000."

That's impressive. I'm clearly writing the wrong articles haha.
I disagree with this author's take on PGP. Perhaps the people they communicate with reply in plaintext, quoting the author...but that's not my experience. That type of behavior is an opsec failure, not a PGP failure.

A tool (like PGP) does not imply a privacy-guaranteed scenario. For an analogy, carrying a handgun does not make you James Bond, and carrying a lockpick does not make you a locksmith. They are just tools, and possessing one of them [like PGP] does not intrinsically include the knowledge and ability to use that tool properly.
Could only be an attack of spite, can’t really hold a ransom because the IPs of malicious traffic could be blocked or limits set after initial overspend. Perhaps if the botnet was big enough.
okay, replace the word with “action”.
Except that Norwegian oil money is only used for pensions and state investment. Your average Norwegian never sees the color of the petrodollars until their retirement, and they're still doing quite well.
I don’t even see the need for fish or zsh. Bash is fine for me, and I just don’t see the point. Sure, if you want to use something else, you should feel free to knock yourself out.

I do kinda wish I could filter out all the articles about other shells, though. They seem like a bit of wasted space to me.
> this answer reads as though it was written by someone who has not done any extensive i18n work in their life. Languages are not 1:1 translatable.

I argue that i18n is not translation.

It seems like you're making a point for solving problems beyond the scope of PL internationalization, including problems that are not solved when it comes to how english code translates to english natural language.

My original point is that foreign excel versions already did help people. From there, improving compilers to make that work easier and less costly is a reasonable goal, or at least a tractable one. Some of that work is already being done for unrelated reasons (e.g. modern compilers offer interfaces for LSPs as well as error messages in formats that allow processing beyond reading for CIs — both of these changes benefit potential i18n efforts).
The problem with US keyboard is that it's most of the time an ANSI layout, with a missing key between Z and left-shift. I love the CSA keyboard because letters with accents are in direct access (a lot better than French Azerty) and {}[]() are positioned logically.
The point being made is that, if something is sensitive enough that you would hesitate to send it in the clear, you should send it over Signal or some other system that doesn't have the security flaws that encrypted email has. Given that that option exists, and that encrypted email isn't suitable for many use cases that people are tempted to use it for (and is therefore an attractive nuisance securitywise), there's not much reason to use or support encrypted email at all.
It’s very context specific to the state of a society but no. I’m specifically referring to women, not all disenfranchised groups.
If you have to tell people out loud “you’re losing my business!” it usually means they didn’t even notice when they did.
Kiwi Browser is a chromium based mobile browser with support for extensions. It is FOSS.
Well, Earth’s orbit is roughly stable, solar output is roughly stable but both have long term oscillations but within somewhat stable parameters. That’s just luck.

There are some effects that cause unstable feedback loops though. Rising temperatures trigger several effects that lead to even more temperature rise. Reflective ice caps melt, tundra thaws releasing methane. Frozen methane in ocean sediments melts. Similarly our planet has been through several deep freeze events, far more severe than ice ages. If temperatures drop too much the ice reflects too much solar radiation leading to more freezing.
The problem with zero trust and only sending what the player can actually see is lag. For example, sure, you could eliminate wall hacks by only sending positions of players that you have line of sight of, but that essentially eliminates any client-side movement prediction or other lag compensation and means you have to send each frames data quickly enough. This may work for some games that are less lag sensitive and as internet speeds improve, but its not currently a solution for most players.
9/11 and the birth of the Big Lie
It is such an over-engineered piece of crap that I regret spending so much time trying to use it. Use a templating language of your choice and some simple npm and Gulp scripts to build html and you'll be so much better off.
Anecdotally I've seen reports of people getting Covid more than once. So even the assumption that if Delta runs rampant through the unvaccinated population at least we'll gain full herd immunity that way is perhaps not true. Plus you always have people too young to be vaccinated or immunocompromised that will be a reservoir. I'm not an epidemiologist and claim no expertise but it certainly appears we may always have the threat of this virus in the background. Bleh.
Apparently, I didn't read the same article you read. What is your definition of "treat women badly"?

Do you not realize that when women are killed for driving a car or for speaking with a man, that they likely will say they are treated well, when they are interviewed next to their husband and family?
> societies that treat minority opinions and individuality badly are poorer and less stable.

Remind me what happened to the two states that, for the first, applied a simili-apartheid in half the country, and, for the second, held its population in an iron vice? Ah yes, they got to be the most powerful states in the world. And as the second failed, it got replaced by its quite similar little brother.
Sadism can definitely apply to a group of people. Individuals suffering is not antonymic to insufferable individuals so I don’t even know how to respond to that “argument”.
But I guess the more important aspect of the word "free" is that no one could gatekeep you from making a website, unlike app stores where there is a review process.
Political propaganda? Is it also political propaganda to show a patch of the Japanese flag? https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/22/media/top-gun-flags-intl-hnk/...

It's not the rest of the world's fault that Xi-era Chinese nationalism is so fragile and easily bruised.
Given that Steam OS is going to be (already is?) built on top of Arch Linux, and supposing that most Steam games that are "Linux compatible" are going to be targeting that as a base platform, this might not be as big of an obstacle as you think (provided Steam plans to keep the OS up to date).
> That people whose professional reputation and livelihood it is to keep well-calibrated fell for this

No, their professional livelihood is predicated specifically on the opposite: to lie to the public, but to do so convincingly. Falling for anything that fits their narrative is par for the course, since discovering and reporting truth is literally the opposite of their mandate.

Journalism is a profession filled by people who would push their own mother down a flight of stairs to earn a "Pulitzer Prize", a prize that is literally named after one of the most dishonest propagandists whose lies are directly responsible for the Spanish-American War and the fate of millions of Cubans for a century after.

These are people PROUD to win something named after this scumbag. They CRAVE it. This small fact is all you need to know about the character of the kind of people who choose to work in this "profession".

Imagine investment bankers scrambling over each other to win a coveted "Ponzi Award", or pastors working to earn a "Payne Award"
and the DC Sniper! if you were in that area

Man that time period must have been so much harder for adults than the teenagers at the time
Al Qaeda won the first time they made me take my shoes off at the airport.
Oh oh that's because he's 100% lying. Just trying to draw more people into the scam. Hacker news is such a naive place sometimes.
I'm not sure what you are disputing, are you saying the civil war was an act of gentle persuasion?
1. EDNS is needless when you are using your provider DNS. It is needed for public DNS servers. So it is optional, as is needless most of the time. Before launching Cloudflare DNS, the biggest public DNS service was Googles, who developed and implemented EDNS. Then comes Cloudflare and "the people with the expertise and interest" to rethink that.

2. I assume that commercial companies are here to make money, not "a better future" (besides the better future for the shareholders).
If they implement something, the first question is how do they make money with it.
The critics of the Public Choice model, (who all seem to be socialist academics, a cohort known for its puissance at both government & industry...) would have done better to have their own TV show, written by someone who could cleverly show why the Heath/Wilson/Callaghan-style governments were the best the UK was going to get, and why the viewer should appreciate that.
In case younger readers are unaware, this really may have been a motive in itself — GWB was famously quoted saying “he tried to kill my Dad”.
Deep Implicit Layers – Neural Odes, Deep Equilibirum Models, and Beyond (2020)
That’s probably true in many, or even most cases. Even so, what do you think about the example of the formerly successful company that now can’t retain engineers? Even if the benefits were entirely intangible, this still ultimately has had an effect on productivity, right? Intangible benefits are… benefits!

I think the benefits were quite tangible in this case; I can elaborate as much as I can while maintaining my anonymity if you think it’s relevant.

EDIT: more formatting. Can’t type today.
> We're looking at the wrong end of the problem. We need to limit what consequences can come from being recognized. Like an "you can only be hassled once a year" policy for cops.

In some of Asimov's science fiction mystery short stories there was something like this [1]. Police had technology called a "psycho-probe" that could essentially read your mind, with a slight risk that doing so would cause permanent severe brain damage. Because of this risk the law was that a person could only be probed once.

That had some interesting consequences.

First, if someone who had never been probed was tried for a serious crime juries were reluctant to convict.

Second, a lot of criminals tried to get charged with crimes serious enough to get probed. Confess to a crime you didn't do in hopes of getting probed, cleared, and gaining immunity from probing for any future crimes you do. Even if you actually have to do a serious crime to get probed, it could be worth it to do so and serve your time to get that immunity for when you resume your criminal career when you get out.

[1] Definitely in at least one of the "Wendell Urth" mysteries collected in "Asimov's Mysteries" [2]. I'm sure probing is a big part of "The Singing Bell" and I think it was at least mentioned in "The Dying Night".

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimov%27s_Mysteries
This would be funnier if Chrome for Android wasn't trying to shove tab groups down my throat for the ninth time. This time without an obscure flag to disable it.

Looking at why established users complain about Firefox isn't why billions of people moved to Chrome, from many sources. It was the default on our phone and that makes it an obvious desktop choice.

(Not to mention it does do some things nicely, I just much prefer FF for webdev)
I agree entirely. Now help me understand something… why have signal and telegram and everyone made proprietary formats and centralized implementations instead of an open email2.0 that they also support immediately?

This isn’t my field, so maybe someone has?
Ah that might be a bad translation from German. When you put water on the hot stones, to get some steam.

I just checked the English Wikipedia on sauna (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauna) and it seems that the English language does not have a word for this?
Ajv JSON Schema Validator
This happened to my Samsung S20 Ultra camera ($1500~) and Samsung refused to even look at it. I think they're aware.
> Wolfram has an.. issue in that he focuses on qualitative results (he runs simulations, eyeball it and tell something about it), but, I'm pretty excited by this development.

That's a good way of describing his weakness!

His excitement about some experiment is directly proportional to:

1) the interestingness of some unproven result,

2) that he imagines is proven based on his personal inductive overgeneralization,

3) of a perceived qualitative result,

4) from an actual quantitative experiment,

5) that he post-selected for said interestingness,

6) and that he claims to have discovered first.

He has good ideas, but it seems to always be wrapped up in huge amounts of meta hyperbole.
The 2400G came out in February 2018 so your system is 3.5 years old at max?
There's so much low quality blog spam out of medium that all my Google searches automatically get -medium.com suffix
I'm trying to use brave search as an alternative to google, since it is an actual search engine that does indexing as opposed to DDG, and I don't want to use bing either.

What upsets me is that there's no way to add it as default search in a browser, on purpose, because they want you to have to install brave browser to do that. Nothing upsets me more than when someone deliberately makes their product less useful. I do not like Brave, but I will use the search engine for now.
I had a computer with an US ANSI keyboard a few years and I don't remember it to be very easy. It's annoying to compose accents, it's worse when you have to switch to another OS or another computer. On Windows, it's a mess when you have more than one keyboard layout activated. And it's terrible when you have to type « » or æ œ like : « J'ai mangé des œufs pour Noël »
I don't mean about:config, I mean editing the CSS directly.

Yes an update could break your CSS fix, but if you follow the beta releases then this isn't a problem. You usually have at least a few weeks to update your patches before the release goes out.
> The key thing is here:

> > over the first six months of 2020

This also implies that most of the employees already knew each other and worked together before being forced into remote work.

One of the biggest problems with switching to remote work is that people carry over the in-person relationships they were already comfortable with.

It's the new hires who suffer most, in my experience. When everyone else has months or years of in-person relationship building and a comfortable network of people within the company, it can be hard to break in.
The vaccine does not stop 70% of transmission. To date sufficiently large RCTs have not shown that the so-called vaccine reduces transmission by even 1%.

Mutation rate also doesn't have anything to do with transmission. At all.
Another aspect of the study is it's primarily measuring proxies to reach conclusions - for example: because email is used rather than zoom, they assume (following various theories) that nuance is lost. Maybe, maybe not.
That is a great movie! Have you watched Tremors?
It’s a cool app but I wonder why there’s no way to change font size, even on iPad when my eyes are waking up or other low light situation it can be hard to read the forecast panel in landscape mode etc..
Not the original poster but I’ve tried it a few times. Absolutely love the customizability of the methodology, but for me the interface was a bit sluggish feeling for quick entry and getting a larger overview of my tasks.

Things like page loads were quick enough, it was more that I was never _quite_ sure how to do things. It would be kind of close to other task management stuff I’d used, but just different enough to slow me down significantly and that initial and immediate drop in productivity made me look for other alternatives.
They already know about the problem; they've known for years now.
There is so much I do not know about dns.

I thought: I ask dns server about domain, they return an IP address. I connect to IP address and they in turn can see mine.

So why does cloud flare need to a) query domain for IP address on my behalf? Can’t they just do it on their own behalf and cache the results?
B) why do they need to hide my IP address information from the domain? Aren’t I going to visit the destination regardless?
What a tragedy. Lese-Majeste towards civil servants and politicians. Of all the things to be less cynical about, we must be less cynical about the motivations of those that seek temporal power!
> For those too young to know, being slashdotted was a term for your website going offline due to too much traffic, named for (and primarily used on) the site slashdot.com

A current term for the same thing is the “HN hug of death”, as HN can drive the kind of effect slashdot used to (in part because it has become the new center of gravity for some of the kinds of discussions that used to drive traffic from Slashdot.)
There is so little mathematical notation to learn though. A typical high school course has like a couple of symbols and a few keywords to learn, that can't really be the main reason you had a hard time to learn math when other courses has hundreds to thousands of words you have to learn?
Previously on HN:

* Update in ajv package broke webpack (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19125507) - 2019

* Show HN: JSON-Schema validator Ajv – the fastest and the most compliant (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10206319) - 2015

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Can you buy stocks with central bank reserves? I get that QE drives yields down on treasury bonds and this makes them less attractive but are you sure this isn't about regular people selling their bonds and getting stocks instead?
New Mexico only has 4.9% and all the rest
> So, for example, it recently turned out to be possible for eavesdroppers to decrypt messages without a key, simply by tampering with encrypted messages. Most technologists who work with PGP don’t understand it at a low enough level to see what’s wrong with it.

This is news to me, but I’ll admit I’m one of those technologists who doesn’t understand it enough. Can anyone point me to more info on this?
Aren't To Don'ts counter-productive since there are 99 things you shouldn't do and like 5 things you need To Do. This is akin to using blacklist as a sysadmin instead of whitelist since there are hundreds of potentially dangerous and unwanted apps which need to be blacklisted but in reality there are 10 apps that you actually need and use which are easier to pinpoint and whitelist.
Nope, I'm not obese. I exercise everyday and eat right. I am a very bad competitor for it, especially since the survivability of COVID is so high. I may not even be eligible; I'd have to check.

I don't know what to tell you if I look like a good competitor to you.
I think Google Clips was sort of like that:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...
This can be independently verified by running a reverse DNS lookup, which asks the name server for a magic domain: 1.2.3.4 becomes ”4.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa”, which then yields NS records for the actual domains served from that address.
What makes you say this and what would lying bring them? Looking at their profile clearly shows they've been an active Medium poster for the last year and a half, and probably don't have a deeper association with the platform than that authorship.
Great point that onboarding is not just about getting to know the project, tools, and environment. There is the extremely important personal connection side of things.

Interesting that you have a prepared project, rather than have them work on contributing to a something "real". Is this a function of your company doing client work? I'm at a product company, so can see more benefit with having a contribution to the product, but I would like to understand this aspect more.
> sinecure

Wow this is a great word. Hadn't heard it before. Thanks for sharing.
If it's just incoming photons, a photovoltaic element that does not need doped monocrystalline silicon might be a valuable find.
I think payout is just one idea. The point I’m making is that I support the government incentivizing fitness through the levers it typically uses to incentivize behavior, like tax benefits, regulatory burden reduction, access to entitlement programs, etc. within reason of course.
>Their inability to verify the claims
This is circular logic.
Don't forget when you wanna upgrade Webpack but you can't because Storybook still only works with the old version months in