skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not always the biggest fan of regulation, but man do I hate loot boxes... They are really egregious in many games. If the industry hadn't taken it way, way too far, it might not be necessary. However, I think it's way past time they're looked at
1. May be outsource your user authentication to Google/Twitter/GitHub/Facebook or other identities via Open ID Connect.

2. Have you taken a look here - https://auth0.com/

3. YouTube is another source
social media has peaked? which sites are still growing in westernized countries?
TLDR:

"...the American state of Arizona — a Republican Party stronghold — is poised to take the lead on energy storage in the country as it tosses up whether to impose an 80% clean energy target by 2050. The proposed clean energy overhaul, called the Energy Modernisation Plan, would require an impressive 3GW energy storage to be installed by 2030, meaning it would overtake California and New York for the biggest storage mandate in the country."
The gp is still pointing out that causing suffering to other creatures is a downside of eating meat. While all items you listed are not necessary, only one of them has that downside.

Unless one argues with the premise that the killing/pain of other creatures is harmful, we'll only be talking past one another.
You can be against factory farming and not be a vegan.
The argument I have is mostly applicable to fisheries (i.e. this discussion re: lobsters); it doesn't have much to say about farming.

Lobsters, like much of our seafood, are just plucked up out of the ocean. If we don't eat them, an otter or something does.
Lol that is awesome. Thanks for the link.

I feel for the poor introverted guinea pigs of Switzerland though. No chance for a peaceful quiet life free from the squeaking of another pig.
"It's like Uber, but for guinea pigs".
is their enlightenment related to cheese ?
You seem to have edited this after my reply. The time to edit that reply has now elapsed so I will reply again.

In USA, while crime in general is punished harshly, killing people with a car is a good way not to do any prison time and pay minimal fines. It's an issue of fairness, especially when poor people routinely see e.g. "taillight out" citations they can't afford to pay turn into years-long struggles with the criminal persecution system. If this topic interests you, look into the various reports about Ferguson MO.

Your questions in this thread, while aggressive, never hit upon exactly what troubled you about my initial short parenthetical comment that I only wrote to qualify the overall short post. Was it "USA", "drivers", "poor", "protected", or "negligence"? Was there any one word you would have removed?
> Beyond that, however, these companies are exchanging humane jobs with rich human interaction for sweatshop/factory/gig jobs.

Stacking selves or doing robotic, scripted interactions as a cashier in a regular big store is probably not that much better than working in Amazon's warehouse.
Does that mean you're also in favor of ending state sponsored lottories, raffles, etc...?
Those drug addict musicians that track your every move online, sell your data, make billions from advertising, influence elections. Totally "not at all different".
Woohoo! Another data point!

https://bombich.com/blog/2018/02/15/macos-may-lose-data-on-a...
> backwards compatability

Eh, you get that with most languages, though.
I was curious so i did the OpenCL benchmark on my 1080 Ti in a hackintosh.

iMac Pro = 158 808

1080 Ti = 213 913

Reference: https://imgur.com/wfU94cb
Cell phones can receive GPS signals which are a very accurate source of timekeeping.
Hi Justin, long time no see. I don't know the answer. But please ask either DJ Delorie or better still the SiFive team. It's definitely only a very narrow selection of boards, and very likely $random_board you buy will not work.
Britain hit by earthquake as people report ‘violent shaking’ in homes
Is a Turing machine the best model of computation?
The Philosophy around procreation is still much debated, but my understanding is that positive utilitarians generally do not believe that _creating_ more lives is necessarily morally good.

While death is often seen as vastly negative (or infinitely, depending on who you ask), positive utilitarians typically reject the idea that procreating more / having more children increases total utility.
Speaking from a US perspective, a lot of people have a misconception of what "fitness" means in the first place. They think it means signing up for expensive and unnecessary gym programs and drinking twice your weight in protein.

In reality you can do it from anywhere, it's very simple, and there's no excuse besides physical disability or laziness. I work 12 hours everyday and sometimes 16, and yet ever since taking on this job where I sit in front of a computer for the entirety of that shift, I'm in better shape then ever. That's because I've developed a consistent routine of working out.

I don't have a schedule or use an app or anything, I just do push-ups when I get home and sometimes when I'm at work too. Instead of using the elevator, I take the stairs. It's just about doing something regularly. For bonus points, get good sleep and eat better.

Very personal anecdote on my part but I hate reading "not everyone has time to workout." How much time do you need to do 10 push ups if nothing else?
Futures of distributions
I stopped looking often at Facebook. I don't like their upgrade and more people are posting stupid things on the network. To be honest I don't care about it anymore. Instagram, whatsapp and Snapchat have taken over most of Facebook imho.
What is worse, causing pain or killing?

If we consider an extreme case of someone going through a horrible torture, but the next day waking up as healthy as before, and without some kind of mental illness, and without losing significant amount of his time, or opportunity, would it be any different than a game? Would most people try such a game, where they play for someone getting executed in middle ages?

My guess is they would, so fear of the pain is misplaced, and death is the horrible part. And therefore killing painlessly doesn't let one off the hook, since it is still killing. (And if one thinks killing is ok, then some amount of pain should be ok too.)
Things aren't as stable as there were in the past but the guides and supporting infrastructure has matured. Read around a bit at reddit.com/r/darknetmarketsnoobs (check out the noob bible especially) if you want to learn more.
Or rather: BSD tools are more backwards- and standards-compatible that GNU ones.
Sounds tricky. For example if your CPU has hyperthreading, cache misses in speculative execution could leak to the other thread running on the same core, because they share computational resources and the utilization of those is affected by cache misses in speculative execution.
>"What are you going to tell them? - Ok, we are sorry for what we have done, now we are going to be equal and you can compete for the same things? One group is dirt poor and disatvantaged, and the other has always enjoyed enough wealth to get proper education. How is that level playing field?"

Okay, setting aside the ethical and moral implications. The effects that you are trying to fix are impossible to unravel from everything else. No one is even attempting to unravel it, and are simply using race, wealth and gender. No one bothers to think something as simple as "oh - you're a poor white male whose family has been living in a trailer park for generations without education - let's try give you a leg-up" over any random black-female.

That is the fundamental problem and we're all beating around the bush. You can not fix cosmic injustice. It's done, and short of time-travel or planetary-sized super-computers, we can not untangle the mess of consequences it has caused. Anything less is just playing lip-service while neglecting the truly-needy.
"Animals kill other animals to solve their hunger and they do their best to end it quickly." is not entirely true.

Many animals will start to eat others without bothering to kill them; non-carnivorous birds will peck each other (not particularly quickly) to death, dolphins do gang rape for fun while having the ability to understand what it means, they also kill things like porpoises for fun (they can't eat porpoises and they're neither a threat nor competition to dolphins); predators in good conditions do "surplus kill" i.e. kill just for practice/fun without attempting to eat the victim, apes have been observed to eat parts of other apes while they're still alive, etc, etc.

The main difference between animals is that while less intelligent animals will sometimes simply kill things "just because" even if they don't need to and the suffering will be an accidental side effect, the more intelligent animals will sometimes intentionally hurt/torture others. Morality is orthogonal to intelligence. Romanticizing nature as something pure, "taking only what they need" and beyond evil is ridiculous idealism that doesn't reflect reality.
Not really, once you get the government involved in capitalism, even if it is well meaning, there are always unintended consequences.

But in the real world, would Obama regulate tech companies? Would Trump regulate banks?
Learning to Make Comic Books: Resources for Comic Book Creators
We used splitwise to do this at work for while. Its designed for splitting roommate expenses, but ended up working pretty well for accounting for who should pay for the next lunch.

When someone would leave the company we would settle up with cash.
An octahedron?
Thanks for great feedback!

When designing the address bar I actually have thought about phishing - thanks for reminding me.
Modern cities go through this all the time, growing and shrinking and growing and shrinking, just to slightly less extreme extents.

You'll very often see a popular side of town fall out of fashion, the buildings get torn down and now it's just empty lots while another side of town is built up and is now fashionable. In 20 years, the buildings fall into disrepair and since rents are so cheap back on the other side of town and empty lots abound, the other side of town is now rebuilt.
Anecdotally, I'm one of the people who walked away from Facebook this year, due to exhaustion, disinterest, disgust, protest, or other (negative) reasons. I don't miss it and won't be going back.

Amusingly, after about a week, Facebook started emailing me to try to entice me to come back. So I logged back in to disable those emails.
That Grumpy BSD Guy: A Life Lesson in Mishandling SMTP Sender Verification
Even if the masses have yet to lose interest, there's certainly a group of us that lost interest already.
They would have sold 15 million of whatever was in the box labeled 'iPhone X.' Especially given the absence of competition in the all-important "Just sell me a phone that doesn't completely suck" category.

The notch was a disturbing design decision not because it was all that awful, but because it was a run-of-the-mill faux pas that should have been obvious. You don't have to be an expert at human psychology to realize that people won't see the extra pixels you're giving them on either side, they'll only see the "missing" ones in the middle.

It seems that Apple is so focused on the details that they're starting to overlook obvious things. Ever proofread a long document, combing through the footnotes and spending hours on the spelling and grammar minutiae, only to realize later that you overlooked a glaring typo in an 18-point subheading? That's the notch.
Yeah, the simple act of creating the life doesn't have utility in any interpretation, I think; people just talk about the utility of procreation as a sort of Net Present Value on the projected utility that life will experience. Under positive utilitarianism, all lives either experience positive or zero utility, so it's never a net negative to have more of them.

Most positive utilitarians further posit that all [evolved, rather than maliciously-engineered-for-the-sake-of-cruelty] lives likely contain at least a little happiness/reward/satisfaction (positive utility), and since the unhappy moments just axiomatically have zero utility, rather than negative utility, all [evolved] lives should "sum up" to being worth creating from their own perspectives—though creating additional lives might make marginal global utility go down, for Malthusian reasons (ten starving wolves that each live for a year aren't don't have as much utility as one well-fed wolf that lives for ten years.)

Personally, I don't like positive utilitarianism very much—but it's important to understand, since it seems to be the intuitive stance a lot of (often religious, but not always) people have without realizing it.
Do the laws mention protests or not? Why don't we have laws to protect drivers who kill other vulnerable people like road construction workers, hitchhikers, etc.?

Oh, right, because we don't actually want road construction workers to be killed...

ps. you left off the "half a" immediately before "dozen". It does change the meaning.
I am a bonded gangster.
Ethereum founder warns cryptocurrencies 'could drop to near zero at any time'
Click bait.

What I describe below applies to APFS sparse disk images only — ordinary APFS volumes (e.g. your SSD startup disk) are not affected by this problem. While the underlying problem here is very serious, this is not likely to be a widespread problem, and will be most applicable to a small subset of backups. Disk images are not used for most backup task activity, they are generally only applicable when making backups to network volumes. If you make backups to network volumes, read on to learn more.
Crayola's New Pen Writes on Any Surface Using Melted Crayons as Ink
I have also lost a large amount of weight and kept it off for over a decade by changing what I eat.

In my case, I cut out refined carbohydrates (white rice, white bread, pasta, potatoes, etc.) and sugar (sweetened beverages, desserts). I still eat plenty of carbs that come with a large dose of fiber, such as oatmeal, peas, and beans.

At the same time, I increased my intake of animal fats and dairy.
ICOs aren't decentralized. They are tokens sold by an entity that premine them and generally control most aspects of the project. There might be exceptions, but I can't think of any.
What is Debian all about, really? Or: friction, packaging complex applications
Your depression theory has some resemblance to reinforcement learning. An agent learns to estimate the value of any state and to predict future states. When the value function is corrupted, it might get stuck in a very bad local optima. The way to escape is to try more things (to do random actions that might take you out of the loop). In RL, there needs to be a balance between exploration and exploitation. Depression seems to be a problem of too little exploration.
Monopolies almost always create a better experience, at first, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to become a monopoly.
Although, the initials are PEGIR. If only they had been PEGR or PEGAR.
2016 as you could easily see if you'd opened the link.
The stoic may have imperfect assesment of the opportunity's true value, but in LH the assesment is way more off - it's basically always zero for all opportunities.
Ask HN: Back end analogue for Elm?
Hi, I am finding Elm to be an amazing technology for frontend​ development: I like the functional paradigm, type-checking, algebraic datatypes, but more than that, I love the reactive architecture. The functional reactive architecture with effects.

I am aware of a few Haskell web frameworks, but as far as I know they are not based on FRP.

Has anyone had any experience trying FRP on the backend with a ML-like type system?
I’m not the parent poster, but yes, that sounds like a great idea.
At the very least, all purchases should include info about the randomization. It shouldn't be legal to sell randomized products while keeping the randomization secret.
The title clearly qualifies the claim: "MacOS may lose data _on APFS-formatted disk images_"

I didn't know there were APFS-formatted disk images (new in 10.13). Even when you consider the many different kinds of disk images that macOS supports, there's a pretty clear distinction between disk image and a backup of your startup disk, made to another partition in another drive.

Any additional clarification would get into "MacOS may lose data on APFS-formatted disk images (disk images, not disk-to-disk, as in another volume..." territory.
If I understand correctly what you said, I think it worked. It took ~30 mins for the first "I dont use fb anymore because it's evil" reply. Unfortunatelly, not great debate started in the quaiet timeframe
I went on a tour through a slaughterhouse when I was a teen, as part of a school trip. Didn't want to go, but my stepfather decided that it would be "good for" me. I made it clear I didn't want to go and he laughed. He loved the power trip of forcing me to watch animals be killed.

It really messed me up. I won't eat red meat mostly as a result of this, but also because my family were also ridiculously poor cooks. (They were so bad that you wouldn't believe it.)

The smell of the animal fat has stuck with me for nearly thirty years, I can even smell it overpowering the fragrance of perfumed soap. Hand sanitizer, pump soap, and vegetable based soap are fine, but if I have to use ordinary animal soaps, the smell reminds me of what I saw.

I watched a cow be electrocuted, "stunned" they called it. The guide told me that it didn't feel anything because it was in a deep state of shock.

Ever been shocked by a cattle electric fence? When I was 9, I was. You can't move immediately afterward because of the shock of the event, and when the second blast hits you it hits really hard. I felt three of those, it was only when the third struck that I could move, and have no doubt that they were agonizing.

Shocking an animal to stun it, so you can slit its throat and let it die painfully while you dismember it, is no happy little picnic for the beast. This is no easy, painless death. I'm sure it would be agonizing and drawn out over several minutes, and by the time the animal recovers from the shock enough to express its suffering, it's already in pieces and can't.

Roll on lab-grown meat.

Side note: not completely relevant, but I have been attacked by a dog, and I was in shock through that as well. The worst injuries really hurt, but the adrenaline from the attack made me able to get away from the dog. The minor skin injuries I couldn't feel, because the pain centers were being overwhelmed by the worse ones. Between this, and the cattle electric fence, I'm sure they suffer.
Agreed. I like JSONata a lot, even though it's the dark horse among JSON traversal languages. I've had a good experience parsing semi-unstable JSON with it.
There isn’t one that I can think of. The Internet is accessed using just a handful of browser clients. That in itself drives most users to start browsing at only a few websites.
These perceptions are notoriously subject to bias: first, to sample bias, because no one reads all the posts. And second, to whatever the bias is called where we notice what we dislike or annoys us far more than what doesn't, and thus overestimate how much of it there is. We see this most of all in claims of HN's political bias.

Because of that, it's best to post links to specific posts to give examples of what you're talking about. You might find that other people read those posts quite differently, which can be interesting in its own right. Alternatively, if they're posts that break the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), we should moderate them. You, and anyone else, are also welcome to email such links to hn@ycombinator.com.
Barkod Sistemi
How did you acquire the visitors? Did they indicate interest with a search or click to get to your site?
How would the extra structure help?
Animals kill other animals to solve their hunger and they do their best to end it quickly.

Not always. Weasels and their relatives engage in surplus killing. Cats regularly play with their prey, clawing them and batting them around for fun, many times without even eating the dead prey animal.

Dolphins are known to devour a shark's liver and leave the rest of the animal to sink, dying a slow death.

Humans are animals. There's almost nothing we do that other predators don't. The difference is that we use technology as a force multiplier of overwhelming magnitude. There isn't much difference in kind, however.
More Russian bullshit.
From the article:

> Punish it for success and you send a strange message to entrepreneurs and investors.

Bezos is one of the wealthiest people on the planet. Do they think breaking up Amazon at this point is going to discourage anybody? Like maybe the fact that you can become a billionaire but probably not a trillionaire means I'm probably not going to launch my idea.
Now that is funny!
On the contrary, my Apple computers have lasted longer and have been more reliable than any other computers I've ever used.

While my dad gets a new PC laptop seemingly every 2 years, my Macbooks last 4-5 years easily while taking a whole lot of abuse.

And since Apple products tend to hold their value really well, there's a thriving second-hand economy for these products that doesn't really exist for other manufactures. So older products get re-used by people looking for cheaper Macs or iPhones or whatever.

One last point: no one really upgrades computers anymore, especially not laptops. Desktop computers are rare in the home now, and the people who are really spending a lot of effort into maintaining their desktop rigs are gamers and video professionals. Upgrading becomes a moot point when a system lasts as long as 5 years. By that time, there is far newer technology and upgrading is no longer worth it or feasible (newer motherboard types, incompatible RAM pins, etc).

The best way to do good for the environment is to create a reliable product with sustainable materials that serves it's purpose for as long as possible and then continues to deliver value through re-use. That's exactly what they're doing and it's the smart way to do it - it becomes a natural part of the product lifecycle with no additional effort required from the customer.

Yes Apple do highlight how "green" they are, and you can read their annual reports and decide for yourself if it's a deserved point of pride or not for them: https://www.apple.com/environment/

I will say they are probably one of the more transparent manufacturers in the industry, with initiatives ranging from carbon neutral office buildings down to the material sciences level in their products.
So stupid. 250 pounds of beans were harvested. That is less than 2 (150lb) bags of coffee. This is pure novelty.

Just because someone can get a coffee plant to grow coffee in California does not mean the coffee will be any good. Coffee grows in a lot of places, really good coffee takes particular terroir to grow really well. E.g. low grown coffee generally doesn't taste very good and altitude alone isn't the answer. The combination between altitude, soil, climate(cold at night, hot in the day) makes the bean develop slowly and generates more flavour. This is not speculation, this is information that coffee agronomists understand.

So, it's totally ok for somebody to sell expensive coffee as a novelty. What is disappointing about this article is it extrapolates from a sale of 250 lbs of beans to a "Gold Mine", implying that other beans grown in California might be sold at a similar price. They won't be, because they will likely be very poor quality. With the extremely high costs of production of the coffee, it likely won't be profitable except as a novelty.
While I still eat meat, etc, at times I do think about what kind of suffering animals, etc, go through. I often come to the conclusion that we should just let them be - their lives, much like ours, are short-lived, and they deserve their little piece happiness.

All this reminds me of Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by Ernst F. Schumacher - a great read.