skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally see this argument pushed by vegans whose central issue is really animal rights, which is a valid concern, but the claim that a 100% vegan world, all other things being unchanged, would be one free from fossil-fueled global warming is simply not true.

Generally speaking the claim is that significant amounts of agricultural energy go into growing grain for animals, and that domestic animal populations result in methane emissions, so eliminating the animal populations means less methane and you'd also need less agricultural production as everyone would eat vegan diets, if I've spelled it out adequately.

However, this doesn't change the need for electricity generation and transportation fuel to move food and materials around the world, or from farms to cities, or for industrial production and heating and cooling, so that's where the electric vehicles, solar panels, wind turbines and storage systems are needed so we can phase out the fossil fuels from the energy mix. Yes, that's going to be cheaper and more sustainable than trying to expand uranium fission.

Furthermore, in the pre-industrial era in North America for millenia there were large populations of bison, estimated variously at perhaps 50% of the domestic cattle population (which is where the biogenic methane is coming from). For example:

(2012) "Historic, pre-European settlement, and present-day contribution of wild ruminants to enteric methane emissions in the United States"

Overall, enteric CH4 emissions from bison, elk, and deer in the presettlement period were about 86% (assuming bison population size of 50 million) of the current CH4 emissions from farmed ruminants in the United States.

There are plenty of decent arguments for eating less meat, but I don't think 'fixing the climate' is really a very strong one.
On the other hand, I've consistently found you can often get what you want just by asking for it. A lot of people seem unwilling to do this.
Clarence Thomas’s Abortion Opinion Revisits Same-Sex Marriage, Contraception
DTCC is not a government entity and not very transparent. One other thing people overlook is that RH and others make money among other things by landing out stocks to short so had huge exposure to counter party risk on the meme stocks they have lent out to shorts. Which made their interests even less aligned with their customers.
https://github.com/ParkMyCar/compact_str

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/t33hxp/announcing_com...
Ditto. I use the Bloomberg terminal in a professional setting too. We buy it for the data, this barely has any it looks like.
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For recreational scuba this is misleading. The cert is proof of going through training at some point, which differentiates you from someone who has never been breathing under water, cleared your mask and reg, and knows basic buoyancy control. These skills are not intuitive so the main thing is exposure, which the cert proves to a large extent.

Dive shops with more advanced dives ask for total and recent experience as well, and sometimes require you to do a refresher or dive with them once before they take you on the advanced dives (deep, night, high current, overhead obstacles etc). The OW cert is a big contributing factor, but it's not the only data point.

That said most other recreational certs are useless and just a money grab, even including advanced, imo. Shops generally rate OW+30 recent dives higher than OW+AOW, and rightly so.
> If we don’t investigate, what signal does that send to bioterrorists?

Have there actually been any bioterrorists?

I remember that after September 11th 2000, there was a scare regarding envelopes with supposed Anthrax in them, and that fizzled out as a false alarm (AFAICR).

Now, there's plenty of other kinds of terrorism - private and state-run; and there are chemical weapons of course. And in ancient times, I read that dead bodies would be catapulted into besieged cities.

But have there actually been groups of people over the past, say, 100 years who tried to release a malevolent virus into a civilian population anywhere?
It's the Butterfly Effect, for sure.
> Greenwald

...has become such a huge tinfoil-hat kook that it taints anything he's ever said and done. I have no way of knowing when his brain-rot started to affect his writings, so I can't really trust the shit that seemed so convincing back in 2003 any more.
If you're pumping water to grow grass in the desert just for the beef, there are better uses for the water.

However, cows have the unique ability to turn grass into protein, so if all an area can grow is grass, cows are a great way to get calories out of it. Properly allowed to graze freely, cows can be a net improvement on a particular ecology as a carbon sink (manure is an improvement to the soil), but shipping the harvested grass to feedlots is indeed an ecological disaster.
Were you part of the Copilot demo/preview? It appears that doing so leaves your github account in some sort of mostly enrolled state for Copilot that lets you tweak these settings compared to an account that wasn't part of the preview that just takes you to a "start your free trial" page.
I think Grand/Urban Challenge was the last great project and success. The openness for participation was unprecedented resulting in lot of different startups taking part (from a "serious" point of view for example that Lewandowski autonomous bike was in the GC 2004 basically an utter laughing stock of a failure unimaginable in any "serious" setting, yet it was there too, and happened to be one of the key starting points of the modern autonomous industry). I think that success kind of scared the "serious" system so that even for Urban Challenge they already had a parallel "crony" track, and seems there haven't been such an open project since then.

Wrt. original post - interesting how the catechism is different from the today's dominating approach of "we don't really know what we want, just have a very vague set of desires, lets try to achieve that small goal for that sprint which hopefully will move us in some desired direction, and we'll see after the sprint where it would lead us, and where we can make the next step from there."
Inflation-proof bond is paying 9.62%. Here’s how to buy it
I remember the elevator thing hitting me pretty hard back around 2010/2011 when I had a job on the 9th floor of an office building. I realized that almost every single person stepping into the elevator would immediately pull out their phone and start playing with it. Even for a 3 floor ride that would take literally 5 seconds. They genuinely couldn't bare to not be entertained for 5 seconds.

I assume things are even worse nowadays.
Now that app makers have realized we're muting our phones and disabling app notifications, they're doing them within the apps... It creates dependency and anxiety. The best way I've found to deal with the constant prodding is to simply leave my phone at home or in the car nearby whenever I want to enjoy a day or moment. It's a device I paid for, it shouldn't cause me stress.

Google and Apple can easily set up reasonable standards for app makers, but they chose not to, because they themselves are tied to the constant financial greed of the ecosystem. There is now no way to buy a highly useful device that isn't laden with advertising capabilities, and robust enough for you to disable tracking... The only way to limit all of that is to simply leave the devices and step away from them for sanity.

Talking to real people creates more dopamine for me than the Internet does now, it's a gift... We shouldn't ever take our ability to talk in real life with people for granted, because the Internet is turning fast into a distorted reality bent on spamming us for profit and scams now more than ever, and no one there cares about the damage they do until it shows up in their own households (far too late to fix the problems they caused).
The & in &str is like the & in &[u8], str is like [u8] (an unsized type), not like u8. A &str is a "fat pointer" (pointer + length), unlike &u8 which is a regular "thin" pointer.
While I heartily agree with most of your comment, I must strongly disagree with the third paragraph (this is exactly what I'm doing my PhD on):

> many scientists won't go to bat against this kind of land use change. A self-respecting scientist won't say that converting croplands to monocultures ready for insecticide use lead to biodiversity die-off because it's hard to actually track the fluctuations between species

Although you are correct that the details are complicated and different species respond in different ways, the overall picture is abundantly clear. Intensive agriculture with large monocultures, simplified landscapes, and heavy fertiliser/pesticide input is wreaking havoc on biodiversity around the world. The scientific literature has been very explicit about this for over twenty years [e.g. 1-5], and lots of scientists (including my colleagues and I) are actively engaging with farmers, NGOs, and policy-makers to find workable solutions to ameliorate the problem.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00782.x
[2] https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1253425
[3] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.03.002
[4] https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14606
[5] https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abg6995
I am not a fan of living in urban centers, whether bike friendly, walkable or not. It is generally a shitty experience, noise out of control, cost of living through the roof, crime, too many laws, tiny apartments, high home cost, worse schools, traffic and density of people, high property taxes, drunkards on the streets and annoyance of tourism.

Unpopular opinion: Classic American sub-rural living. Live in outskirts of Denver in a large cookie cutter 4 bedroom house and a Ford F-150 truck. Lots of resources, not a single thing to be annoyed by and cheap cost of living. No gentrification, people are kinder and nicer. Absolute bliss.
It's a list of liveable cities, not partyable cities ;)
Is there any certification for which preparing for it would teach me how to recap/repair vintage personal computers from the late 70’s onward?
> Every country is or has been bad in some context in different times

When has Russia ever been anything but bad?
I think you missed the phrase "in abortion" in the sentence you quoted. You may feel that those positions are contradictory or hypocritical, but it's disingenuous to act as if pro-choice people agree.

Edit: also, if you're going to wade in to an ongoing discussion, it's nice to respond to the thing we're generally arguing about; don't just pluck one sentence fragment out and start a new discussion over it. When someone says, "I think X, therefore Y", they're arguing that X is true enough in this context to support a belief in Y, not that X is always true in all contexts, which is a much larger (and therefore, easier to argue against) claim.
depends on the meat and the non-meat.

There is carbon-negative beef, and there are plants that require enormous amounts of artificial soil additives. Probably the biggest factor is whether the meat comes from a ranch in your general area and if the bell-pepper in your salad was flown in from holland.
My graphics class instructor was Jack Bresenham. The class was given in Borland's Turbo Pascal, but I asked for permission to write my code in the then-new Turbo C++ (since Jack knew C, I was sure he'd allow it).

It came time to demo our work. Everyone else's code ran at least 5 times faster than mine. How could this be? Well, the Turbo C++ compiler was on the "immature" side at that time and produced really inefficient binaries. While the Borland Pascal compiler was mature and created code that ran really quite fast. Lesson learned. :)
Wow, that got a lot of downvotes.

Yes, 0.10% is dramatically lower than 20% or whatever. That's my point.

And yes, FDIC insurance is a thing. That's also my point.

And yes, younger people almost certainly haven't ever owned a CD themselves, but that wasn't my (somewhat rhetorical) question.
> Are you too stupid to drive? Crippled in some way? Economic problems? Have some criminal history? Alcoholic?

I recently got my driver’s license, first one, at an age far far above the norm for America, even if you factor in New York.

In a long and so far pretty successful career in tech, this has come up exactly once in a professional context, and it was my fault because I was asking about the lack of public transit options during an interview. CEO asked “why don’t you just get a license?”

My colleagues usually find out sooner or later that I don’t (didn’t) drive, because I’m very social. Most people are fascinated by the possibility. At the very least it’s a conversation starter.

I regret not getting the license sooner, but the kind of ignorant and malicious questions listed above have never, ever featured in my unusually long pre-DL experience.
Is webpagetest still a good way to test web performance in 2022?
We are training a large group of users to automatically click "agree" on a random box that appears on the bottom of the page (GDPR). Absurd.
I've got an ever-growing "LinkedCringe" screenshot album on my phone. Always good for a mean laugh.
VirtualBuddy: Virtualize macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon
> The belief that there's an "innocent third party" involved in abortion is a vreligious belief; I don't see why the court would enforce that but not other religious beliefs

I think you missed my point on this, i was speaking in terms of things that drive they activist attitudes, not any specific legal distinction.

as belorn said in their comment to you, in certain legal cases we consider the unborn child as a person. You don’t have this sort of strange legal dichotomy with a innocent third party with contraception or gay marriage
I asked one question, and seemingly you heard a different, dumber one.
Five Points was once the worst neighborhood in the United States. It was razed and replaced with Columbus Park. Now its a safe center of the community in Manhattan's Chinatown.

Gangs in Chicago were concentrated into a few high-rises owned by the public housing administration until the 1990s. The buildings were razed in an effort to curtail the rampant crime within them. The unintended consequence was that the once unified gangs were displaced throughout the broader Chicagoland area, and were able to grow immensely without the constraint of their former static, well-monitored domiciles. This effect of housing displacement leading to increases in both the frequency and geographic distribution in crime has been documented in other cities like Atlanta.
True of most inkjets, but tank-type inkjets have water-based ink which is supposed to be more resistant to drying. The tanks are also "dumb": no sensors to check the level, or check that you are using approved ink.

How well does it work in practice? Well on my Epson ET4500 I get a few clogged jets every two or three months, but running a cleaning cycle has always cleared them. A bottle full of black Epson ink costs about £7.50 and seems to last about 1000-1500 pages. Colour has the same price, but I don't use enough colour to estimate low long it lasts. There seem to be several alternative ink suppliers.

This isn't a universal recommendation, just a response to your specific points. There is a premium for the tank models, so whether they are worth it depends on the amount that you print.
Looks pretty polished already, good job! And sounds interesting. It's a good focus on one thing which is important as differentiator to other social networks. In the past there was Path [1] which allowed only 50 friends, but was more generic. It's also great to go freemium from the start instead of ads or trying to be fully free until you run out of money.

Some questions that I didn't find answered in the FAQ or elsewhere:

- Why does the birth year go into the app settings and not the profile? And 1950 is the default?

- What's the Ferris tag in the app? Like a "secret" identifier? In the settings section maybe this coulb be explained a bit.

- In the app settings notifications are off by default. Is that intended? It's nice as it reduces distraction, but with the interactions on the app being less frequent already (one activity every now and then per friend with just 20 friends) I can imagine notifications being necessary to build traction (not the app itself, but also as a participant, when planning activities, I probably would like my friends to know without them having to actively open the app, especially for spontaneous activities).

- I can only add friends when knowing their Ferris tag. When a friend doesn't use the app yet, I have to explain what it is myself. Maybe you could add an "invite via mail/link" feature, where the friend (not on Ferris yet) sees an explanation what Ferris is, can sign up and then automatically the Ferris friends relationship is established

Good luck with the project!
Is it $16/user/month or $16/university/month?

If it’s per university, see if you can have someone Venmo you a few months worth of subscription (to prove the model) before worrying about anything else. But it’s gonna be hard to make a living at this price point. Consider raising your price by 100x and see if they still love it then.

If it’s per user, see if it works for non-universities. If you can, let them use it for free, get a case study and go sell to every other industry, they will all be easier. We started our SaaS in a similar way at a lower price ($5/user/month), 10 years on we’re still rolling and we have never charged our uni a dollar. Feel free to email me if you want any more advice on this.

(Not a lawyer.)

ps. What does your app do?
I did find it ironic that this is a long form essay that would be of most value to those with limited attention spans.

I agree with the content, though I've never had a problem with mobile devices as they're for zombie content scrolling rather than creating that takes a normal OS and program distribution. i.e. I can forget my phone somewhere all day no problem--not sure I'd easily make it through a day without my primary (or secondary) personal laptop.
I fight this with the pomodoro app on my smartphone. Starting a "tomato" gives my subsconscious the permission it needs to ignore distractions for a small window. I can't say that this completely offsets the distraction, but it does mitigate it.
That ICEpower PCB amp looks like an affordable little unit.

Big capacitor is 330uf 400V.

You should hear what one of those caps "sounds" like when included in its own kind of vacuum tube circuit.
I like to think that the gods mankind and corporations create, artilects, will see mentally disabled and geniuses the same way - it will only care whether or not they are good people, since their intelligence is incomparable to the artilect.
Apple Rumored to Announce 'Game-Changer' AR/VR Headset in January 2023
This is very much up the alley of what I was looking for. Thank you!
I hate when people post stories (often with pictures) about some sad or amazing or whatever story, and they make it seem like it's about them. These are always written in the first person, but if you read all the way to the bottom it will say "credit: somePerson", or something like that. Sometimes it's phrased to make it seem like it's a photo credit, which is the worst.

These stories get all sorts of traction and comments because people misunderstand that they're not the OP's story (and honestly, many of them are probably complete fabrications.

I wish there were a way to report such comments to LinkedIn, either as downright deceptive or specifically as a type of 'stolen valor'. Is it reportable as misinformation? Maybe so. But LinkedIn probably loves this stuff because it increases engagement and makes people feel good when they use LinkedIn.
The US is vast, things are great where I’m at.
I love this comment! Feels like the perfect words coming from a great direction.

Adding on:

- the perfect is the enemy of the good

- it gets easier, you just have to do it every day

- we forge the chains we wear in life - jibjab hotdogs
Why just those two options? There are, of course, others...
Is it the case that autistic people often relate to one another better than they can with the non-autistic?
Tom is one of my favourite creators. Such an entertaining dude.
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Take a look into the source. I've only cast a vague eye so far but it looks like it reuses quite a lot of well regarded stuff including VNC, so I'll take issue with "shady and sketchy".

If you skim read that thread from HN where I also learned about Rust Desk then there is no consensus about "sketchy". Searching for the word "security" gets a discussion about SSL/TLS and some pontificating.

I'm no real expert on IT security but I do have a Nessus license and a box to wield it from. I've run quite a few firewalls from Fortinet, pfSense, Juniper, hand crafted Linux, <various others>. I have 15 VLANs at home 8)

In my office I have a pair of Dell S funky devops switches worth around £20,000 sat on the bench as I plough through the 2000 page manual. I've got over the lack of old school stacking (why do they still have a stack LED indicator?) They have a LACP mediated VLT domain link running at 200Gbs-1 (Gb/s) - two physical wires. Now, do I partition the 100Gb links into four lots of 25Gb because that will allow more flows. Ok let's look at how this thing is used: iSCSI for data and VMware. The iSCSI links are 10Gb to the M series SAN so more links seem indicated.

I also learned Ansible on Thursday rather rapidly because I can deploy these beasts with it (they boot Debian and have Docker installed already, which is adorable!) and coincidentally, I need a non MS way of getting at Windows boxes from Linux. Ansible doesn't need a client app.

It's getting busy in IT. I'm 52 FFS (and absolutely love it!)
Why would we privilege air and water transports when they're the hardest ones to electrify by far? We're in a climate emergency, and should be doing the opposite.