skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some counter points:

1. The number is around 14.5% in direct global emissions [1] according to the FAO, I cannot find any reputable source saying anywhere as low as 2.5%

2. Beef has roughly ten times more carbon footprint as Chicken. Beef has by far the highest CO2 equivalent per KG of product among any food [2] at 99.8Kg CO2 Equivalent, lamb / mutton comes a distant second at around 40Kg and Pork / Poultry are around 12/9 respectively [3] .

3. Looking at American consumption and emissions in isolation is disingenuous, USA alone exported 2.2 Billion pounds and imported 4.4 Billion pounds of beef and cattle in 2020.

4. Beef related food production is the leading cause of deforestation in many countries including Brazil [4] and a lot of it is export driven. There is additional secondary emissions due to this type of deforestation .

5. In addition there is substantial growth in amount of meat consumes as a country develops the impact of this industry is not just current emissions [5]

6. A lot the byproducts that become animal feed can also become fertilizer, if used in feed stock then likely it is organic and therefore contains fertilizer components such as Potassium , Nitrates etc that can be processed as fertilizer .

7. Even if there was zero emissions related to consumption, it is inherently a extremely cruel industry, the conditions in dairy/ cattle/ chicken/pig farms are horrifyingly bad to the animals, and use breeds that have little genetic variety, create potential outbreak zones for many diseases.

8. Pigs and Cattle are very intelligent species, it is especially cruel to breed species of higher intelligence just for food even if there were only humane farms.

[1] http://www.fao.org/3/i3437e/i3437e.pdf

[2] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6392/987

[3] https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food

[4] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/1...

[5] https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/133/11/3907S/4818041
Did you notice what drove the change in attitudes towards smoking?
Unless your dog burns fossil fuels you most likely only need to pay carbon tax on the dog products you use that were made using fossil fuels. Dogs don't produce a lot of Methane either, because they're not ruminants.
Are there mining fees to pay when you do that? I'm not up to speed on selling NFTs.
You might be deceiving your employer, but you're also committing tax fraud.

States already devote a ton of effort to take income they believe is rightfully "theirs". If you actually work from Oregon but claim to be a California employee, you're going to have to sign tax forms swearing to it. Oregon will no go easy on you if you find out you're actually a tax resident.
Could you help me understand the reasoning behind the editing rules?
"my other complaint is that you’re just creating a speculative instrument that doesn’t really do anything except hope someone else will pay more for it."

So like bitcoin? - The value is in what someone believes it is worth to be provably in control of a given asset. It also provides a great deal of social currency...certain NFT owners have identity wrapped up in them such that owning it extends social latitudes, as the reputational harm which could be done for being a ingeniousness actor far outweighs making a quick buck.
I'm pretty sure that a carbon tax was never considered in the Middle Ages.
For most people with solar, surplus energy gets fed back into the grid. So, from a policy point of view it kind of makes sense to not allow people to use inefficient lights, even if they're running a surplus. Inefficient lights can consume a lot of energy.

Have you looked at metal halide lights? They require specialized ballasts, so they aren't exactly a drop-in replacement for a standard bulb. The light quality is said to be pretty good, similar to incandescents, but they're more energy-efficient. I have an unfinished project to make an indoor artificial sun (basically, some bright lights projected through lenses to create parallel rays), which is how I started looking at metal halide lamps.
I on the other hand am looking for the drunk person taking the robo-taxi instead of their own car situation.
You talked about selling prints above...

Many NFT platforms attach legal terms that explicitly allow you to print or otherwise display the media for NFTs you own, artists generally grant permission for it or consider it a social convention that it is allowed.
> They can and do manage commercial and IP rights, artist royalties [...] and assure the authenticity and provenance

They literally do nothing of the sort. An NFT has no capability to restrict or monetize the usage of the work it is linked to, nor does its existence prove anything about the origin or authenticity of the work it is attached to. These are myths with no basis in fact.

By way of example -- I could, if I wished to, create a NFT associated with a public-domain photograph of the Mona Lisa, and assign that NFT to myself. This doesn't give me any capability to manage rights to that image, nor should it assure anyone that I painted it.
Yes, if you trade it on a marketplace such as OpenSea. You could argue that the benefits and upside of wash trading outweigh the cost (about $10 per tx).
With an NFT everyone has access to the exact same byte-for-byte copy of the art work, but one person gets to hold a special token saying that they have some special pseudo-ownership relation to it.

So, a more apt analogy would be Picasso donating a painting to a museum, but trying to sell you a certificate saying that you own the artwork, but you're unable to move it to your private collection or gain any additional access than the general public.

That seems like a pretty raw deal to me.
Ok so this why the Librem Phone has physical kill switches
They didn't say that.

> In practice, farms regularly use synthetic fertilizers. They might cut down trees to clear fields for animals. They use heavy, oil burning equipment. These, and many other practices, actually increase atmospheric carbon, and for that reason should be discouraged.

I cannot say anything wherever cows really are inconsequential wrt the warming effect, but it definitely goes against what's generally said by climate scientists.
That there are real visionaries in NFTs does not change the fact that the zeitgeist of the community is centered in the shitNFTs, not in the visionaries, nor does it change the fact that for the huge majority of participants the phrase “I love the art and the community” is largely a lie and a basis for a pump and dump.
The term for this is "Veblen good" [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
Global cooling was a specific reference to cooling caused by particles emitted in areas with no air pollution laws. Oddly enough, it faded away when standards were raised.
Hasn’t Banksy setup a whole pipeline to do just that?
Can someone just… for the love of god start writing _practical_ examples?

Ex: “I need to sequence these image processing operations in this manner while dispatching side effects at the specific steps. Let’s look at how we’d structure our code using monads to accomplish this.”

See that makes sense doesn’t it? :)

Stop with the mathematical BS, 99% of engineers won’t need to know that to solve a _business need_
If I have a NFT concert ticket, how do I get into the concert? What do the people at the gates do to determine that I may enter?

Do I print a piece of paper? Do I show them a picture on my phone or something? Can't the previous owners of the NFT show the same picture? Can't anyone show the same picture on their own phone?
When reading that there and not knowing the name, I thought it for truncated somehow by my mobile display.

The name sounds like a parody.
I wonder if we'll ever get to the point where robo drivers will report suspiciously shaped carryon items (e.g. "CA-SF-69420 reporting in. passenger spotted carrying human shaped object wrapped in a tarp. bleep bloop."
The problem with discord isn't that it's closed, it's that you don't own your own data.

The difference between open and closed is meaningless for the cloud. Give me the raw storage used by any piece of software and I can knock out a script that will serve it. Give me any open source network and without the data you have a ghost town no one will use.
There's actually great synergy(sorry) between self-driving AI and would-be drunk drivers. The only downside may be the need for additional investment in cleaning services.
Discipline: never an end in itself, only a means to an end.

there's always this:

https://www.dgmlive.com/

this also recently published:

https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-king-crimson-resurr...

At the West Palm Beach Rock Festival in 1969 the original lineup was one of the bands that almost nobody there had ever heard of. But no-one had ever heard anything like it.

Jimi Hendrix also had some consideration for joining them but did not live long enough for real collaboration.

Greg Lake ended up in Emerson, Lake, & Palmer.

Jon Anderson appeared on some dates once they had regrouped.

When Wetton joined he was easily pulling his weight in a 5-piece, seemed a little nervous on their first American tour though.

In the three-piece lineup, each year Wetton came back literally twice as strong as before.

By the time he was in Asia, that was the time I can not forget the vocals shook the back rows of the indoor stadium as much or more than the bass, like I had never seen before or since.
Facebook pixels are on like 95% of major websites these days, so unless you block them they have a pretty good profile of your interests.

Even if you block them, they definitely have your contact info and a shadow profile for you thanks to your friends, who definitely gave facebook access to their contacts at some point. The contact graph has enough info to help them figure out where you might live, what school you went to and where you worked.
They could easily show provenance info (author or collection name) in addition to the badge. Your fake image will be spot quickly.
He also created a painting that, upon being sold immediately shredded itself. They pulled the plug halfway through, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXKE0nAMmg4
Interesting. Are such behaviours necessary to feel content as a human?
"Move fast and break things...in SPACE". That doesn't sound like the process I'm looking for in such things.
You make a strong argument. I think this is a case where we'll find the global optimum somewhere in the middle.

Deforesting the amazon to grow corn for cows is something I'm sure we can all agree is bad.

Should we use livestock to eat cover crops and waste products like corn husks and cobs? This way we reuse waste and produce high quality protein to supplement our diets.

Should we graze cattle on natural grasslands like the great plains? Especially in rotation with human foods, like the cover crops mentioned before?
A signed print of a picasso painting would quite likely go for quite a bit, even if you could get the same print sans signature for $20 in the gift shop. Even one created post-death by family foundation etc as a limited edition probably would. Some people do value the scarcity and it being tied to the creator more, think an NFT represents that and thus pay more money. (I personally am not interested in owning NFTs, but "people spend money on scarce things I wouldn't spend money on" isn't exactly a new phenomenon)
That's a hobby farm. They both still work full time day jobs. She's a nurse, he's in marketing (remote work). I guess that's what HN really wants-- having it both ways.
Michael Crichton, the author who has researchers overwhelmed with lust for research grants as the evil people in his novels.
Yes it’s very like cryptocurrencies, full of grifters, gamblers, fraud and snake oil salesmen and of course marks who think this ‘revolutionary’ technology is going to change the world and believe the made up prices and wash trades are real.

Most of the visionaries have left cryptocurrencies because they realised just how riddled with fraud and grift the ecosystem is so what’s left is people attracted by the money. I expect NFTs will have the same trajectory.
I've always thought along the same lines. But whatabout methane being 10 times the pollutant?
I'd implement a high price on carbon(-equivalents) and let the market figure out where it is cheapest to reduce emissions first. I'd probably also get rid of many subsidies.
That still doesn't make an MLM, MLM's have a specific meaning.
Depends on the public statements by the university and whether they followed established policy.

If the slandered him or unfairly harmed his reputation, they could very well be liable for economic loss.
Naw, too complicated. They'll just pit us against each other, cull us here and there maybe finish us off with robots.
I wouldn't say NFTs are money laundering - there are some interesting use cases. But the setup of NFT makes it easy for say a drug dealer to conduct business on the blockchain and launder earnings by selling "digital art" to his customers.
Or, as faculty (and support for faculty, as I have been) are recommended to do in this case, you simply pass it onto people and departments that basically exist to deal with such situations. Or you don’t respond at all.

That being said, I can’t fault the professor for his response. It’s natural and human to do so.

And clearly UCLA also agreed because within 3 weeks all the complaints were dismissed despite the campus uproar the professor describes.
All right, but assuming I have a dynamic DNS setup, how do I connect to one of the hosts in my network?

I think most OSes do that privacy thing where they periodically randomize the suffix of their v6 address.
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Which is different than an MLM.

Honest question though: how long does it have to go on until it stops being a pump and dump in your mind?
I highly recommend reading the (albeit long) PDF copy of the complaint. It is not cut-and-dry like your comment makes it out to be.

According to the complaint, warnings by UCLA to not take action against the professor, were ignored. So it was not "an unfortunate situation where largely things worked the way they were supposed to".
They definitely care about safety. I don’t doubt their dedication to preventing accidents. My objections come from their hand waving away disengagements from the official results, shared with both regulators and Alphabet leadership. This was done to make their lead look greater than it was and to hide the slow progress with simple, required driving maneuvers like yield signs and unprotected left turns. My position had me handling driver issues directly and what the reports said did not line up with their, or my own, extensive time in the actual car.
The concept of disinformation as it's used today, and Doctorow touches on this in his essay, is itself infected with bias. We all can point to true and correct information that was at one point or another labeled as disinformation when it actually only was inconvenient to one or more powerful actors.

Personally speaking, the label has come to mean to me something other than "false information, intentionally spread". To me it has come to mean "something that could be false, but someone definitely doesn't want it talked about".
It would be very informative to discover the true extent of the burial goods and hints at the ceremony involved. There's a lot of lore and speculation and it can't all be right.
I'm able to add comments using my current unofficial Android app. These apps just work around the requirement by issuing some sort of HTTP requests similar to the site itself.
You might enjoy this project that got a lot of excitement behind it.

https://www.lootproject.com/
It’s not even a statistical argument. This doesn’t even make it to the part where there’s a fake proof. It’s just… a bunch of stuff.
Aside from how absolutely sad the humorlessness of society these days is, it's also a catastrophe that we've taken humor out of the critical tool belt. H.L. Mencken has a great quote about it, something along the lines of the most good being done in the history of man by people throwing cats into temples.
Not that many people recognized that Eno composed the the first little Windows startup tune for Microsoft's Windows 95.

Maybe one of the most often-played compositions for while there.

Repeated by probably more un-necessary restarts than users actually intended . . .
Came for the cynical comments, stayed for the tears (个_个)
Perhaps you can email Universal Talent Agency and tell them they are wrong. Trademarks and copyright infringement exists in the NFT world, just because you can mint an NFT doesn't mean you own the art associated, particularly if you didn't create it.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/uta-crypt...

https://meebits.larvalabs.com/meebits/termsandconditions
Taiwan would work too perhaps ? Maybe even South Korea/ Japan as well.
Is that really a problem with C/C++ or an issue with the X Window System?
IANAL, but it seems like from the PDF copy of the complaint, the university did not follow policy, in fact they disregarded a warning not to take action against the professor.

The copy-and-pasted emails contained in the complaint also sound like slander to me.
You asked for what the reason was.

Several people have told you the reason.

They've pointed you at the specific law and CL guidance in quesion.

It seems you simply don't like the answer. I'm afraid we're unable to help you with that particular problem.
> any of the useful functions of NFTs have long been possible and many orders of magnitude less expensive using public key cryptography or digital signatures.

A major useful function being the ability to buy and sell with purely digital money, was that possible before?
Yes I think Bitcoin is bad as well. Speculation is not productive, and this particular form of it has negative externalities - costs the rest of society is forced to pay, which is both bad and unfair.

Proof of work is far too expensive and wasteful, and the necessary private key discipline to not lose all your coins puts it out of reach of normies (immutability is a bug not a feature for normies), and it’s deflationary which discourages circulation, and it’s got high transaction costs and slow speed, and just massively inefficient. So it fails as a currency, which it was originally pitched as.

Lightning network papers over this (an admission of failure in many ways) but just trades off with new vulnerabilities and further degradation of the original promises.

Make whatever digital assets you want and attach value however you like but own up to the limitations and costs. And pay for your own negative externalities, don’t force them on others.

In most of these projects I feel like it’s the aura of blockchain that’s being sold and not the substance because the actual promises of blockchain (immutability, trustees, decentralization) are always undermined in some way. I wish people would just be more honest about that.
A large asteroid impact would do it.
"I suspect the problem lay with the professors response to the student, as opposed to anything else"

Please let's not go there.

The initial request was pretty bold and condescending.

The response was slightly ill mannered, but that's just tone.

Both the request and response were within bounds however.

'The problem' is not 'the Professor' - it's an institution that enables radical elements of the student body who generally don't speak for the group at large, or who intimidate otherwise, to dictate authoritarian terms. This is due to fear, the fact that students are seen as 'customers' instead of students, and, frankly that a not insignificant number of faculty side with the students.

By your own account is seems reasonable the prof didn't do something very wrong, in which case, the reasonable thing to do would have him publish another, conciliatory note and then move on.

The Prof. was arbitrarily maligned, frankly in trying to uphold what he believed was actual law, I don't know why you would think that companies are protected from defamation/libel/slander. We'll have to see how that works out.

[1] https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/personal-injury/harm-to-reputat...
Is your belief system so weak that thinking an ancient myth could have been inspired by a real event is that dangerous?
They say to never attribute to malice what can easily be attributed to incompetence or stupidity. I think the extreme version of this is when emergence through stupidity appears to be a global conspiracy of super rich/geniuses. Humans do love stories and legends. They distract us from the truth which is that the world is exceedingly mundane.
If only eating the rich will help save the planet then I'm in.
That depend on your country. I would save closer to $2500 on the budget model. Other than that you are completely right.
Some artists will also make archival prints to sign and send to provable owners, like the Fidenzas.
No, they would just be more profitable but not more efficient. Large farms select the most profitable crop but that can often mean a lot of ecological harm for a crop that isn't being used to feed the local area, as it might be exported to markets where it fetches a higher price. Like cotton grown in water scarce california since water is very cheap for these large farmers, which is used to build mattresses in mexico. Smaller scale farmers who might show up at a farmers market grow a variety of different vegetables. There are still these sort of farmers in southern california in santa barbara county, out by san luis obispo, or in ventura or east of the redlands past san bernardino. They grow all sorts of produce on their land and bring in to sell in local markets, as these heirloom varieties are usually too fragile for mass export. Not sure about the central valley.
It mentions it some way down the page.
That's because HN's software now rewrites links to the canonical URL, and https://elis.nu/blog/2021/09/dynamic-css-color-themes-with-s... includes

<link href="https://elis.nu/" rel="canonical">

I've put your intended URL back up there but you might want to fix that in your HTML :)
Yea but they need to distinguish between the stationary objects that are inconsequential to the car.
What does this change compared to the current status ? Terraform/Pulumi/AWS CDK already use AWS API. Is it just about having consistent API calls naming ?
Moreover, they still exhibited the art.
I suppose you could grasp at that straw, but the reality is that grain farms always use diesel and electricity, not just "heavy, oil burning equipment", no matter how much you might think they don't, and that's multiplied by a factor of 10 when you feed that grain to a cow.