jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Harming animals is not justified by the fact that they could have been harmed even more.

For the most part, moral consideration to animal suffering is a consequence of utilitarianism--the idea that all moral duties revolve around minimizing the amount of suffering and maximizing the amount of pleasure in the world[1]. Most moral philosophers who take animal rights seriously (chiefly among them Peter Singer, if you're familiar with the name) are utilitarians. But a utilitarian is absolutely willing to cause small amounts of suffering to alleviate larger amounts of suffering, because it's a net positive in the "pleasure calculus".[2]

If you're not a utilitarian, then suffering isn't a morally relevant concern and you base your morality on something else, usually some set of universal rules and principles governing interactions between people.[3] These rules and principles tend to be reciprocal by design, only governing how moral agents treat other moral agents. Sheep aren't capable of moral agency, so even from a deontological perspective you are unlikely to come up with any sort of moral duty not to herd sheep with dogs.

Let's be clear here: I'm sure you could rationalize some type of moral system where it's wrong to herd sheep with dogs, and I'm wary of this discussion turning into an exercise to do just that. But I don't think that's the type of moral system you would ever naturally arrive at if you weren't being tendentious about that specific point.

[1] This is a naive kind of utilitarianism: Mill's utilitarianism also takes into account the quality, not merely the quantity, of pleasure or suffering involved, and there have been further philosophical refinements, none of which change the basic point here.

[2] http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=599

[3] The textbook example is Kant's categorical imperative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative
> I love seeing this, HN members teaming up.

I feel really lucky here - Jason reached out to me to do this, and I think I got one of his best concepts and executed work. I almost feel a little guilty here that such an excellent concept/piece is on my site instead of his own.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Secret_Teachings

Thanks, I hadn't seen these before. Good stuff.

As a sidenote, I generally make myself available to anyone I have common interests with, as I do with pretty much all of this community. I've connected with a lot of people, but I'm always surprised more people don't take me up on my offers. Just today I talked out with a few people about various business things, in particular with one guy who is having trouble with a business partner's work rates. Turns out, I happen to know the answer to that (assign a market rate dollar value to every task, pay all those tasks before distributing what's left in profits as founder's dividends, let a person choose to do the tasks they're assigned for the pay or outsource it if not... set up correctly in a profitable business, this lets people work different amounts without friction) - anyways, in 20 minutes we covered a lot of ground, and I think chatting it over it'll help him.

So, yes, once again I'm available via email and all sorts of other ways, for whatever people need. Quite a lot of people take me up on this, but I'm surprised more don't. No downside, plenty of upside and all... anyways, feel free to drop a line if I can be of service in some way.
Well that's just the problem isn't it?

There is no way we can spit out cobolt programmers fast enough to handle the millions if not billions of machines handling critical tasks.

So in the sense that we can't just turn them off, computer are in control. But yes it is also out of control.
Looks like the author marked up mathematical notation using this:

http://www.mathjax.org/

...which must be broken for your environment.
>Anti-drug laws can also be great

If we assume a definition of great that allows the following sentence to be true: Racial discrimination can be great.
Flip this around and look backwards: how much exists from 1000BC–1000AD (using the "1,000 years to 3,000 years" figure cited by Cerf)? In popular knowledge, not much: Sun Tzu and Confucius, the Bible, the Kama Sutra, Homer, Virgil, Beowulf, Aristotle, Plato, Egyptian hieroglyphics. Machiavelli, Chaucer, and their peers around the time of Gutenberg are all "too late" in the 14th century.

These works survived because they were (presumably) important. Cultural understanding is important to anthropologists and shows up as well (e.g., graffiti at Pompeii). But how much is Crash Bandicoot going to matter in 3000AD? How wide will the cultural divide be? (What's a "computer"? What's a "button"?) What language will they speak?

Thus, the concern to me is less how we'll save everything, but more what are the important things to save? After all, the Iliad doesn't stand out among zetabytes of video games, cat pictures, and Kardashian re-runs.

Interesting aside: the Department of Energy is facing a similar, simpler challenge with the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site. Namely, how do you create signage that will work (survive, be understandable) for 10,000 years? (http://www.salon.com/2002/05/10/yucca_mountain/)
This optimization may as well become global when it'll come to hiring in the future. Quote from the post:

[...] what it is about the current stack that makes
solving the problem prohibitively expensive and difficult

Etsy, as a very successful PHP shop, surely understands that PHP codebase itself presents an expense in a form of non-hired smart engineers that pass on the company because they won't work with this language.

Plus, there are examples when the local optimization (i.e. staying with whatever legacy stack because it's proven) may lead to a global failure because of the unmaintainable "spaghetti blob" codebase with duck tape everywhere.
I'm talking more about delivering value and less about self-improvement. Both have a time and a place, but your boss is unlikely to look kindly on you saying "I'm interested in learning Python, so I've decided to rewrite our 1mm user web app in Python instead of fixing the bugs you asked me to, because I think I could make more money with that than PHP."
Have you tried contacting Dev Bootcamp for comment?
The Internet is an information network. There are only two things you can do with it: transmit bits and receive bits.

If your local authorities recognize the right to freely speak (and freely receive speech) you cannot commit a crime online.

In the case of buying or selling contraband, the crime occurs when the contraband physically transfers possession. The network is neither necessary nor sufficient to commit the crime.
An explanation being a description of the repeated pattern that was recognized and condensed into an explanation using pattern matching?
The Prior-Units theorem states that if you can put an idea into words, there exists prior units in proportion to the utility of the idea (so there's an infinity of novel but useless ideas).

Is there a variant of this along those lines but in regards to "someone made a movie about this"?
> However as soon as they learn to talk they universally forget everything.

A ridiculous assertion.

My son knows quite a few signs and often uses them alongside speaking, which can really help when he's struggling to be as clear (e.g. when he's frustrated).
Anime profits are actually quite low compared to other similar content.
I think that’s a good explanation. Literature can help persuade emotionally when people are otherwise not willing to change their mind based on a purely rational argument.

But what if you already agree with the author to begin with? Then it would seem less profound. Maybe that’s why I haven’t experienced any revelations yet from literature.

Perhaps I can find a great piece of literature I disagree with and it would leave me with a greater appreciation for art.
Well, if they're cutting out "wimpy" numbers, there is a little to be gained from lossless compression.
They had 17K messages in the first 48 hours (I realize those aren't orders, but still). Let's call it 5K orders. Maybe $50 average order. $250,000, or $125,000 per day in required float - to wait 7 days for Stripe they'd need at least $1M. That's from the beginning - it may have grown by now. So we aren't talking about credit cards or mom and dad type investment, unless you have a stratospheric credit limit or mom and dad are very wealthy.
I guess you can abstract away a lot, but there will always be questions that require you to go back to the math. For example: a use would be to set up a transformation that projects points onto a plane and a library could cover that. But consider the question of having a bunch of points and (paired with them) projected points and given the task of computing the original projection transform. If the library doesn't contain that operation you'd have to do it yourself.
It is absolutely about test availability.

Nations such as S. Korea are doing considerable and widespread testing and are able to protect their healthcare workers.

And S. Korea is not on lockdown and they have suppressed their outbreak.

Given that we're not going for 'herd immunity' in the short term, the only alternative is widespread testing, forced isolation and excessive testing of those with a recent history of contact of those who turn up positive.

This will take coordination, moreover, it will take fairly comprehensive testing.

I'm not sure if the USA is geared to do this. Maybe a few states, but not the others, which then creates problems.

If those $20 testing kits are available in volume, enough people will able to 'test themselves' and that will serve as a really good '1st pass filter' for the regular medical testing systems.
Have you seen COBRA prices? You could easily go from $400/month (group rate + employer subsidized) to $2k+ for a good plan that covers a family.
Gunpei Yokoi, the Nintendo engineer deserves to be appreciated.
Independent thinking, creativity, and self-directed learning are generally punished in school – until you reach graduate school, when they become superpowers!

So, hang in there! ;-)

[Not just grad school actually - really any creative project that you are in charge of yourself, from a research project to an app you are writing to a startup company to a play that you are directing or a book you are writing.]
Even with "a perfectly spherical, atmosphere-free Earth, with no obstacles as tall as you, with a uniformly spherical gravitational field", you're just not strong enough to give it orbital speed!
> should my oven manufacturer have to account for me wanting to turn it into a space heater if I feel like it?

No, because their failure to do this has no structural consequences for the market in ovens or space heaters. Apple’s control over the market for software that can run on 2 billion iOS devices, on the other hand, is a big deal. Some think it’s Apple’s just deserts for creating a platform that users like; others think the government should end that control using the antitrust laws passed to limit corporate power at this scale.
Paul who?
> As an NBA fan, I hate how ads keep getting crammed into every piece of equipment on the court, the jerseys, etc.

This reads like "I'm a fan of the NBA but I hate what the NBA does".
> Most people figure out as children that claiming the truth of something that is demonstrably false is a losing strategy.

So the video had no point then? Because the video I saw was about delayed gratification, not the strategy of truths and falsehoods.

And I still await a clear idea of where I made a claim of truth and was mistaken. As I've said in the past, if you can show me that clearly, I'll capitulate. I've been patiently waiting through all of your long-winded responses for this, and have been disappointed so far.

In fact, you now have changed your characterization of my posts from "truths and claims" to "opinions", which most of them were all along (the only claim I believe I made that could be considered fact instead of opinion was the refutation of your C++ references-and-pointers equation, which you agreed I was correct on).

> A simple reading of this thread shows that I have merely been responding to specific claims of yours

I don't see that anywhere, actually.

> once you chose to make an issue of whether your C++-comparison based explanation was the only feasible one remaining

I also don't see this anywhere. What I do see is my claim that C++ is a useful comparison - but nowhere do I see myself claiming it is the "only" one, or the "only feasible" one.

Some of my quotes have been: "for the purposes of this discussion, it is very useful and illustrative to equate pass-by-reference to C++ references, and object references to C++ pointers, because the languages are similar and the concepts match up very well, and because these things are more explicit in C++" and "Seems like C++ is as good a choice as any" and "one could have defined everything without comparing to C++"...

> after I pointed out the flaws in your claims, you have neither accepted the point, nor offered any counter-argument

But you haven't actually pointed out any flaws in any of my claims.

> as if there was not already a growing pile of refutations stacking up against it

Please, point out the pile of refutations to the claim that C++ is useful in this discussion (not "only", just "useful)... especially since, refuting the notion that it is useful to someone means finding everyone who read it and getting them to admit that they found no use in it. If you do that, I'll certainly admit I was wrong.

> your sanctimonious rudeness

I see very little rudeness - the only clear cut case was in response to someone else who basically asked me what rudeness would look like and I gave an example referencing proggit. Care to quote any specific rudeness toward you? Be careful not to equate an unpleasant discussion with rudeness.

> your juvenile motivations

If you think truth is a juvenile motivation then I finally understand everything you've written.
Slack is from the startup culture. Do not expect any support for people who are not "up with the times" and crud.
What does "care" mean in your mind? You say were you livid and you expressed your lividity by talking to people? I think a lot of people "care" they are just not given anything actionable to do. Expressing impotent rage on FB is not really helping AFAICT.
The article indicates that bcrypt was used.

> Slack’s hashing function is bcrypt with a randomly generated salt per-password which makes it computationally infeasible that your password could be recreated from the hashed form.
They go into details about this in the post. It's bcrypt with a salt.
There is "a hat in time"[1] which looks really promising and is currently in beta.

[1] - http://hatintime.com/
"Slack’s hashing function is bcrypt with a randomly generated salt per-password which makes it computationally infeasible that your password could be recreated from the hashed form."
"Around Washington, D.C., for instance, middle- and lower-income neighborhoods, such as Suitland and Capitol Heights in Prince George’s County, Maryland, gave proportionally more than the tony neighborhoods of Bethesda, Maryland, and McLean, Virginia."

I suspect that the proportion of church-goers is higher in Suitland and Capitol Heights, and among church-goers there is a larger proportion attending evangelical churches that drum in a message of tithing, or at least of heavy contribution.
Possibly. It could also show a relative lack of initiative, or a failure to face an unpleasant truth or a lack of attractive options as spending 9 years on a startup that hasn't gone anywhere isn't a great resume item. The concept of a "dead end job" isn't limited to the corporate world. He may be able to live off of what he's doing, but I wouldn't want to be in his shoes.
I have to agree; reblogging is something I don't care for about Tumblr. Too bad Tumblr doesn't offer a way to allow people to opt out of it.
Does community have expert economists? I mean the traditional currency markets have been around for quite a while and a lot of really smart people participated in their development. Bitcoin has a small and immature community and there are a lot of things which require certain expertise and experience to judge about correctly.

It really depends on what school of economics you followed. If you follow keynesian economic rather than the Austrian, you will have quite different conclusion about the possible failure mode of bitcoin.

Is deflation bad for the bitcoin economy? Most bitcoiners will say no because they don't buy the idea of deflationary spiral and Keynesian economics plus their experience within the bitcoin economy informs their opinion.
A revolution? Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Kansas City?
Thanks, that's a good distinction I was overlooking. It does seem to be somewhat dependent on the network we're talking about though. Twitter swings far to the broadcast side, but Facebook seems to push the needle back towards a conversation model. Maybe not a super in-depth conversation, but I do often have discussions with people around posts that were seemingly pretty trivial, meaning there was at least some level of interest and discourse.
Sorry, that's wrong. Because of tax credits, many people make money from the US tax system. Here, read more: http://finance.yahoo.com/taxes/article/110492/millions-of-am...

> 15 million American households ... receive more cash from the IRS than they contribute in federal income taxes and employment taxes.
asymptotic!
One another opinion I came across recently is this - http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2011/02/11/taking-scientific-...
Do you have evidence that they are different people?

Until you pointed it out, I hadn't noticed the fact that the user name being used here is different than the name that the blog was posted under and different yet again from the person who chose to post it here. But I could easily see person A posting to a blog, person B putting it here, person A noticing the traffic, and coming here to comment with a user name that didn't match. So it is not clear to me that the person responding here is not the person who wrote the article.
Yep. I think the WPScan guy doesn't understand how the GPL works... and seems to think that having a "wrapper" around it for commercial/non-commercial somehow lets him circumvent the GPL intent.

Forking the code from before the license change is an excellent way to keep free software free - and yes, I think he'll have to get permission from every prior contributor before he can legally change the license.
I'd argue bitbucket has more features. At least in terms of granular repo permissions, they are way ahead.
> I need the format on save

Check out Preferences -> Tools -> File Watchers.
There's actually evidence that there's tissue damage in the longs (read, potentially permanent damaged lung capacity) even prior to symptoms, and of course, even after recovery, in young people too. This thing is no joke. There's good reason to believe even many young people who get infected will have permanent damage and for given the correlations between lifespan and organ health, it's not unlikely that this damage to the lungs results in years of lifespan cut decades down the line.

That's just a little tidbit on people who don't even show any symptoms. Then there's many people hospitalised who're literally in a state of feeling like they can't breath for weeks, it's absolutely agonising. If you want more, just look up the pictures of coffins laid out in Italy and the military trucks transporting out dead bodies. These aren't hoax images or videos (although some do circulate). I don't see how the comparison to flu is apt.
> including young and healthy ones

I'd be interested to see the stats on this. I also hear that the success rate for patients who have to be ventilated for COVID19 is pretty low. Given that the vast majority of deaths are 70+, one of these statements isn't correct. Either ventilation is pretty successful after all, or many young and healthy patients who are hospitalized for COVID19 are not vented.
I don't think so unfortunately. According to covidtracking.com, NY is getting about 25% of its samples back positive, compared with 12% for CA. If they were testing more intensively, you'd expect the positive rate to be lower.

I think that the tech companies doing WFH two weeks ago and locking down a week ago are starting to show their great wisdom.
>blanket testing has been tentatively shown to be an effective way to halt the spread of the virus.

Testing does not halt the virus. A test is just an indicator to see if you have it or not. Even if you could test for Corona as easily as you can for drunk driving, it'd still do us no good if you don't actually take some concrete steps to halt the virus.

If you have mild symptoms, you don't need a test. You need to stay the fuck home. No symptoms? Avoid going out if you don't need to.
I bet this is different for Dictyostelium purpureum (a slime mold with kin recognition), because loners that join the stalk would improve the survival of their genes. Whereas this species, Dictyostelium discoideum, will form stalks with unrelated strangers, and thus always faces genetic pressure creating loners and cheaters who don't sacrifice themselves to join the stalk. It just turns out that mutating to not join the stalk mutates something else (they don't know what) that hurts your reproduction more. Source: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/us-and-them-am... (Carl Zimmer, 2006)
Could this, however, be used to create random bit streams for use in one time pads? I'd imagine it could solve the problem of sharing the large keys beforehand since you could generate it on the fly.
I feel like this is just going to end up being a website with no usage because no one has spare ventilators. But I really hope they prove me wrong.
AIDS was not easily avoided. The blood supply was not screened early on. Many people early in the epidemic were infected from simple transfusions. Famous American tennis player Arthur Ashe contracted it and died in this manner.
IMO the real meaning of GP comment is "modern medicine", not only ICU and ventilators. How high would then COVID-19 fatality rate would be?

Of course, back in 1889 there would be also multiple aspects that would lower the rate, if only the average density of populations.
Bezos doesn't event want to fly cargo on 737 MAX-8? Surely they sell at a nice discount these days?

Weird.
OMG, excellent catch!
Well I was drinking way more pepsi max than I was tea, but overall whatever caused the improvements from cutting them out worked. And those symptoms happened to be in line with caffeine addiction so it's quite likely
Any relation to Syntropy (www.syntropy.com), the joint venture between Palantir and Merck?
That's what Xx means often. Leads can depress teams' output, maintain it, or enhance it, and he presumably enhanced hugely.
> cutting down forests to plant crops

And then feeding most of that crop produce to our livestock. Eating plants directly solves the problem: we'd have abundance.
It was 200 patients.
I think the fact that they have been able to recover all critical data soon and will even update the event table over the next few days clearly displays their competence.

Github isn't facebook and not seeing the last week's "activities" timeline for a few days isn't really that much of a problem.
Thx -- will do.
Who cares? Wolfram|Alpha is a pretty nice service (disappointing compared to the grandiose announcements, sure, but nice nonetheless) and even if it weren't, DDG wouldn't be negativly affected all that much.

Now, if W|A were to fund a genocidal maniac there would be a point to boycotting DDG – but for Wolfram being an asshole?
Yes, but you don't have to teach your child or dog how to like rewards or dislike punishment.

Nor do you have to wire your children to empathize with others: asking "how would you feel if Timmy took YOUR toy?" is enough.

Teaching a being with a moral sense is very different from creating one.
Absolutely agree. I didn't even see it till it was mentioned here.