skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cattle's main problem is not their farts; that's probably just a greenwashing attempt to discredit a critique of animal agriculture and the need to switch to plant-based diets.

Some effects of animal / cattle farming:

Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Cattle farming is a significant contributor to methane emissions, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. Burps and manure decomposition.

Deforestation: land is cleared for cattle grazing and to grow feed crops, leading to deforestation and habitat loss. 50+% of pastures were originally forests.

Loss of Biodiversity: the expansion of cattle farming leads to loss of biodiversity as natural habitats are converted into grazing lands, animal ag. is the biggest driver of biodiversity loss.

Water Usage: cattle farming requires substantial water resources for drinking, irrigation, and feed crops, contributing to water scarcity in some regions.

Land Degradation: overgrazing by cattle can lead to soil erosion and degradation, reducing land's fertility and ability to support vegetation.

Antibiotic Use: cattle are often raised with the use of antibiotics, contributing to the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Waste Management: handling and managing the large quantities of manure produced by cattle is a challenge, leading to potential pollution and odor issues.

Oceanic Dead Zones: runoff from cattle farms containing excess nutrients contributes to the creation of oceanic dead zones—areas of water with low oxygen levels that can't support marine life.

Eutrophication: nutrient-rich runoff from cattle operations causes eutrophication in water bodies, leading to excessive plant growth, oxygen depletion, and harm to aquatic ecosystems.

Energy Intensity: raising cattle requires significant energy inputs for feed production, transportation, and processing.

Land Use Competition: competition for land between cattle farming and crop production can exacerbate food security challenges.

Indirect Environmental Impact: cattle farming's environmental impact extends to the entire supply chain, including transportation, processing, and distribution of beef products.
Why bother banning speech? In a world where your political allies will ruin the speakers life, laws are unnecessary and give away the goat.
I've only used Atlantis as well! We actually need to decide on a service next month. I haven't demoed it yet but I'm really aiming to use brainboard.co if it actually does what it says. It's priced per user, not some weird deployments a month price and it honestly looks amazing. Gives you a gui to move resources around, imports your current state, etc.
As a vegan of more than a decade, I say this maybe with a bit of resignation, but also with an eye towards practicality...? This is probably not an effective way to combat climate change.

Even if we got the entire world to go strictly vegan, overnight, it would be nowhere near enough of a cut in emissions to make a meaningful difference. And doing so would eradicate most of the world's culinary and lifestyle cultures, which are large parts of who they are. It's a good way to make lots of enemies while accomplishing little aside from a sense of vague self satisfaction.

Environmentally, losing ruminant food supplies that can convert inedible grasses into human sustenance would also be a shame (in a land use sense, vegetarianism would be better than veganism). We don't have the teeth or stomaches to eat most native grasses, unless we either GMO the shit out of them (or us) or else eat their seeds as grains.

I think maybe it would be better for people to spend their time, money, and energy on more effective changes (say, political or science or engineering) instead... bang for buck, overthrowing personal diets is so a huge ask for such a small return. Just IMO.
The way I've understood it is that BDs are inorganic as long as you don't buy LTH discs.
Spam isn't spam because of the volume, but because of the quality.
Note that you have an unshown assumption here.

That none of the participants lie and that you can infer niche effectively from the data. And that the ad can deliver the behaviour change

The ads are only cheaper if they actually find the niche people and change the behaviour. Otherwise you spent money for nothing.

The problem is that we have pretty good hunch from a bundle of clues that the data and org that validate these assumptions are lying.

We also have pretty good bundle of clues from the consumers that the ads are not hitting their niche pretty well.

So... We have an industry that breach privacy and lie, for a purported benefit based on seemingly false assumptions.

Maybe the results are not achieved.
I think that’s what MongoDB API does, albeit it’s not a relational DB [0].

[0]: https://www.mongodb.com/basics/examples
Nice article! Loved the Atari port of this game.
> On GNU-style systems (e.g., most Linux distributions), status=progress does not work and can be left away.

This isn’t really an accurate claim. How strange.
so the only way to save the world from the seemingly-inevitable doom spectre of climate change is to have not too many cows, but also not too few? we need to get together as an entire global species and determine and strictly maintain some Optimal Bovine Population Threshold?
Alright. Sounds like it's not for you then. That's okay.

I don't know what you want us to say here. If you don't like it then you don't like it. No skin off of anybody's teeth if egypturnash isn't convinced.
Your opinion is not universal.
I'd really like Meta and TikTok threaten with withdrawal from the EU, after subsidizing the EU budget with violation fees. The thing is that then it might create a junk information void which will be promptly filled by Russian propaganda. They're already vehicles for propaganda distribution but more easy to regulate and control than lots of other small channels spreading misinformation.
Sounds weird when you ask the question that way, but if you ask "is there a non-black marble in the bag?" the answer is clearly no. So the question is more like: Should "all marbles in the bag are black" be exactly equal to "not(is there a non-black marble in the bag)".
If a bag contains exactly one red marble at the start then all marbles in this bag are black is in fact false, but when you throw in a black marble the value does NOT suddenly become true, as the red marble still exists, which is exactly the point of the scenario: adding a black marble to a bag where that claim is false shouldn't make the bag suddenly become true, and it still didn't in your example... it would, though, if the empty bag were defined to be false (which it should not be based on this argument).
Inbound emails is definitely one of the most frequent feature requests we get.

We already started to investigate it and I hope we can ship something in the next couple months.
Happy to.

BIMI is worthless. It's a carrot to get your marketing department on board with setting up DMARC because they are the most likely to push back due to fears of the project affecting their email deliverability. You have to fully deploy DMARC to setup BIMI.

Now, BIMI and the costs to "verify" your mark is pushed by exactly the same people who tried to sell you extended validation SSL that would turn your browser address bar green when you visited a site that had gone through this verification.

Just like with EV SSL, BIMI has no positive impact on user security. They're just as likely to open / not open an email with BIMI as they are to visit a site with or without EV SSL. In some cases, it's actually worse.

The only benefit to BIMI is it gives you another place for the marketing department to stick the logo so they'll stop fighting the DMARC rollout. That's it. Otherwise it's total waste of money and time.

Wrote about it here: https://www.brightball.com/articles/enterprise-challenges-wi...
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I care about this - spoke with my wife and her comment was 'think of the children'. I then asked if she trusts this government to keep it just to 'children' type stuff and her mentality shifted.

The criminals will always find a way - but everyone else will be screwed. Apart from the polticians and the rich, of course.
The mistake of `null` is _not_ that it exists at all - it's often the case that you can't answer a question, and it's extremely useful to be able to model your inability to answer a question! The mistake of `null` is instead that it forces every reference type to be an optional. This is a mistake because some things can in fact be known. In practice, when everything is optional, it's so boilerplate-heavy to enforce the condition "this is known" at runtime for every property that everyone inevitably ends up not enforcing that condition most of the time; the bugs arise when one side of a boundary assumes for expediency that the other side has enforced it.

It is in general very reasonable for a function to return an optional bool; think of `List.tryHead [false, true, false]`. What is unreasonable is for all boolean functions to return optional bools.
Again for those who choose not to read, the answer is probably not.

I love this article, because I've had to discover this independently.

The specific point that I realized was the following: You know the whole mindmapping thing with the bidirectionality and the fancy graphs and so forth?

That's REALLY appealing to us for the following reason: We, as humans, are already very good at it. It's literally how our brains work.

But also, consequently, that's why the apps suck at it -- we do this WAY better than they likely EVER will. That was one of those "once I realized that, I was enlightened" things in this space for sure.

I've just kind of found that, good bookmarks/article tools (for me that was Shaarli, and later Shiori) and then just making notes to myself ALL THE TIME, even if I don't read them as much, does a much better job of this. I'm the real computer here :)
Curious to learn about the different, potentially more valuable problem that you mentioned about? Is this for Replicate OR Continue?
Years ago I ran a photo collection that was based on a WordPress blog, I rolled out around 30+ images a day (each as a separate blog entry) on a sustained basis for more than two years and was pretty aggressive about creating incoming links.

In the first few weeks I noticed that Bing had flagged me as a spam site and they seemed to do a manual review, then did a complete reindex, and were sending me a lot more traffic pretty quickly after that.
Man I love Haskell.
Gibson himself wrote about this in Distrust that Particular Flavor unless I'm gravely mistaken, cities need interstitial spaces for living and working
Firefox is standing there, without a dance partner.
> However, in order to actually measure that, when a user comes to your website you need to know which of your ads they've seen.

That may be the case, but so what? If an industry can't function without abusing people, I would argue that it shouldn't function.

But this doesn't mean the industry can't function. It just means that advertising becomes less efficient (i.e., more expensive). Which is fine -- if it's more expensive to operate in a manner that approaches being ethical, I don't see that as a real problem.
> it is literally their job to capture the entire thing and whatever else they can capture

Their job is to maximize shareholder value, and if attempting to capture the entire thing reduces shareholder value, which may occur in this case, they're not doing their job well.
Twitter and youtube had chronological feeds for years.
I care. Deeply. I don't have time to do much and also realize how this is getting ignored. I usually don't have the patience to make the case properly in conversations with brilliant people that don't get it.

This said I believe it needs to start with education. However there's not enough focused effort.

Powerful AI coupled with weak privacy can have dire consequences. Privacy must, and I hope it will become a top priority.

A basic site with a manifesto or RFC (like 12 factor, semver, etc.) that can easily be shared and evolved would do it. It should be backed by EFF, Bruce Schneier etc. Maybe it already exists. If so, let's learn about it.
Your host might eventually drop the Node version you are running on, and then the house of cards come crashing down. You might have a dependency that doesn't support the new Node version you need to run.
every regulation favours big companies in the trivial sense that there's a non zero cost to comply with any rule. However this is hardly a reason to not have rules, we also don't let startup companies throw waste into the river.

Smaller companies aren't somehow inherently virtuous, if they can only exist by violating user privacy even more so than large companies, I'd rather deal with large companies. Small companies aren't an end in itself. Banking is another good example of this. Canada has five big, heavily regulated banks and has not had one bank failure in a century. In the US tax payers bail out SV bank
The point was (explicitly) that it would be awkward to add the n=1->0 corner case.
My crazy/naive idea is to build stable countries in South America and Africa to attract migrants and asylum seekers. It would be more economic and palatable than tackling regime change/culture change in troubled countries (mexico, el salvador, iran, afghanistan) where these migrants came from and lessen the need to beef up local infrastructure. Isn't this how cities emerged in the past?
So happy to see this was useful!
Genuine question: would you please quote where I dismissed the entire study? (note that I have slightly modified the wording of the first sentence since your original reply - the original phrasing was:
>>> "approaching" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this title - far more than is supported by the abstract (imo)
)

I was critical of a single word in the title.
Someone wrote a book in the early 1900's that due to changes in the world economy that war was obsolete because there was no economic benefit to it.

Then WWI and WWII happened and people realized the book was stupid. But more modern thoughts are the author was right but culture hadn't caught up to the new reality. Why did the British Empire fail? WWI and WWII sapped it economically and it couldn't industrialize it's colonies and provide governance people would accept.

Suspect Xi and his buddies haven't caught up culturally to the new reality either. And so like political leaders in the 1910's and 1940's are making obvious terrible ham-fisted mistakes. China probably would be fine if they ran it like a more top heavy version of the EU or the US. But they aren't.
humans are not much different from slime mold,,,actually all live is just evolved version/part of gigantic slime mold. humanity might take wrong turns or die out,,,but it the end it does not matter,,,live/slime mold will go on
I was going to post this, abstractions almost never work out well as the code base changes
> Naturally, they're going to say "web scraping uses resources, stop it!"

that's the expected cost of publishing something to the public internet. People are going to access it. No one has a right to complain when people access something that was put there for the public to see. Scrappers can be dicks about it too, they can get lazy and endlessly hammer away at some server or repeatedly pull down the same content because they messed up, but we don't need need litigation for that. If something raises to the level of DoS that's already covered under existing laws.

> it's completely in keeping with what amoral corporations locked in constant battle would be expected to do: maximize benefits to themselves while minimizing benefits to others.

Maybe we need to rethink giving some of these corporations the privilege of corporate personhood if they are just going to make things worse for everyone else while only enriching themselves. We don't need to allow parasites and pillagers to take whatever they want at our expense.
I did a vanilla playthrough w/ no console commands to get my fair share of achievements.[1] That base is from beta, and doesn't really function correctly anymore.[2] At this point I feel pretty done with the base game, though I suspect I'll do another "from scratch" playthrough w/ the expac to celebrate its launch. I have something like ~1100 hours in the game, and it still brings me great joy. Vanilla certainly owes me _nothing._ However it's really the joy of finding mods and playing their scenarios (or creating my own scenarios) that keeps me coming back to the game. Ironically I'm currently working through Space Exploration with friends; I sure hope we finish before the expansion!

These days though I find the "burner" gameplay provides me very little enjoyment. I detest the "punching trees" phase of the game mostly because I've spent so many hours with my engineer at Max Power Level. (Maybe it'd be different if I had gotten bit by the speedrunning bug, and learned how to optimize that bit of the game.) Even my "most vanilla" playthroughs these days usually have at least:

- "far reach"

- a factory planner

- some kind of warehousing/loaders

- an /editor'd in crate of supplies to build power, some labs, and stamp down "the mall"

- some kitted out modular armor and a personal roboport (to do the more finnicky builds; though I've watched some speedruns and my base building micro has gotten a lot better.)

- LTN(!) - I love trains, and this mod's take on trains just gels with me.

[1]: The only ones I have left are to do a "lazy bastard" playthrough which requires enough consideration that I wanted to do it by itself in a challenge run, and the rest are all the top tier production based time sinks, which I'd rather do in a map tailor generated to be a megabase.
First time caller, long time listener:

You have a blog too! Hurrah! I celebrate your entire catalog. If you start another podcast, please be sure to mention it on oxide and friends. It was crickets over there in the "On the Metal" podcast, but when you guys made that last episode I had 2 years of oxide & friends, so perhaps that was ok.
It’s as if they actually don’t want to introduce unnecessary regulation!

Or they weren’t paid enough in legal and illegal bribes before, if you prefer the cynical take.
Your proposal would break all of logic and mathematics.

"All marbles in the bag are white" is equivalent to "For all x, if x is a marble and x is in the bag, then x is white". Since the antecedent is false if the bag is empty, the statement is true by material implication.
This is 100% why Hacker News has more of a community feel to me. Everyone sees the same content, and discussions aren't heavily segregated by topic the way they are on Reddit. So we get to see the same people share opinions on a multitude of topics, which makes them seem more human than on Reddit, where you're likely to only encounter certain people in certain subreddits.
It's interesting seeing the reactions from other websites/orgs after OpenAI publicly announced GPTBot. Tons of people blocking GPTBot outright (made a small page that track this: https://wayde.gg/websites-blocking-openai)
Caught my eye too. I'm pretty sure they were signed reduced giclee prints of larger original watercolors. If they were originals, they're executed in an uncommonly small format which is somewhat ridiculous from an artistic efficiency and control standpoint. I've known some miniature artists in the past and it tends to be the 'only' thing they're in to, but eccentricity dies hard...
I don't mind it. If a business is providing good software, and they have to make a license change to prevent someone from wholesale copying the work and selling it as a direct competitor, I'm for it! I'd rather have the sound business _in business_ and continuing to provide good software.
I'm not sure if that's logistically the best way, but yes, a healthy ecosystem is a matter of balance. Extremes tend to be bad. For another example, climate change is ultimately because we have too many greenhouse gases, but if we had no greenhouse gases, everyone on earth would freeze to death and it would be an icy wasteland. The problem is things are way out of balance.

In essence, I'm not saying that our current meat practices are ideal. I'm saying is that it's just not a simply self-correcting problem.

Cattle contribute about 14% of emissions which means that it won't reduce enough to solve climate change by itself, it'll just mean no cows, then no grasslands, and then no species that depend on grasslands. It'll just be another gradually worsening affect of climate change, not a self-invoked solution. The solution to anything with the ecosystem is a sustainable balance.