skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re ignoring my point. Every single day the average person will actively benefit from the direct, quantifiable harm of individuals animals — your lunch, your dinner, there’s probably at least one animal’s suffering associated with it. Every year tens of billions of animals are slaughtered after spending their lives in inhumane conditions.

How many whales are there on earth? How many lions? 50,000 at most. You could put a bullet in the head of every lion on earth tomorrow and it would be a drop in the ocean compared to the hundreds of millions of farm animals that would be killed _on that same day_. And the lions at least wouldn’t have spent their lives packed 10 to a square foot in a barn dying to sickness.

There are some incredible, highly regarded documentaries (planet earth, blue planet) that do far more for educating people about animals than viewing that animal in a cage ever can. If zoos actually created any sort of compassion in visitors for animals then we wouldn’t be having this argument — all they create is fascination in a select few species we’ve deemed to be interesting enough, and what use is that to the animals being tortured on a scale millions of times greater.

Exotic animals are just a tool used to support an entire species cognitive dissonance.
So we should have not fought Hitler?

Also he did NOT support torture and was an author of a bill that was passed that forbid it.

You are idealistic with no understanding of the facts.
The entire premise is based on a questionable foundational assumption. The argument goes that you pay for an education but that can’t be taken back in bankruptcy proceedings or recovered when defaulted on. I’ll agree that what people pay for is an education, but what makes that education valuable in terms of employment is the paper that proves you have it. If the college won’t validate your attendance and degree what do you have except an unverifiable claim that makes you indistinguishable from candidates that don’t have a degree?
That wouldn't fit most definitions of democracy (which would be variations of "every person gets a single equal vote"). Most companies are more of an oligarchy.
That's because the US government is not organized as a democracy, but rather as a republic. The Senate is not intended to be democratic, it is intended to be a deliberative body of representatives who come to consensus on legislative questions. It's quite a large deliberative body, so its method of consensus is superficially akin to democracy in that many questions are answered through voting, but it isn't, and was never intended, to be democratic in the pure sense. Along the same lines, it is only recently that we began democratically electing Senators.

None of this is by accident, and was done this way for similar reasons as companies have for running themselves un-democratically.
The Year of Eich: Adumbrating Quotes from JavaScript’s 1995 Launch
Additionally can I get a refund for the $30,000 I paid in student loans? That was like 2 or 3 years worth of savings for me at the time.
Even better, post the link on Twitter or LinkedIn directed at Richard Branson. He strikes me as a reasonable guy and he's always on social media so I'd say he will see it and respond.

Otherwise you'll be stuck at "your call is important to us..." forever.
because if you don't set your privacy settings everyone can see your transactions?
The zeitgeist is even worse than this post suggests. The common thread is that no-one can stand out. There are no exceptional executive's, the are "leaders who lead from behind". We see the horrible effects of this false humility most clearly in Elon Musk. Determined he was, to be the one suffering the most at Tesla - And the result is a man bearing all the markings of a mental breakdown, tearing the stock to bits with tweets that could only come from a man who's been suffering for far too long.
- years (continuous endeavor): find existing data sources

- months: convince management to give access to data source

- weeks: try to find the connection string

- days: clean up the data (mostly converting dates to yyyy-mm-dd) and importing/exporting csv files

- hours: load data in database, write simple SQL query and simple visualisation

- seconds: brief moment of satisfaction
> How many whales are there on earth? How many lions? 50,000 at most. You could put a bullet in the head of every lion on earth tomorrow and it would be a drop in the ocean compared to the hundreds of millions of farm animals that would be killed _on that same day_. And the lions at least wouldn’t have spent their lives packed 10 to a square foot in a barn dying to sickness.

I can't really keep repeatedly refuting generalizations like this. Please re-read the emphasis I've been placing on the sorts of facilities I'm defending.

> There are some incredible, highly regarded documentaries (planet earth, blue planet) that do far more for educating people about animals than viewing that animal in a cage ever can. If zoos actually created any sort of compassion in visitors for animals then we wouldn’t be having this argument — all they create is fascination in a select few species we’ve deemed to be interesting enough, and what use is that to the animals being tortured on a scale millions of times greater.

They've done much more than what you've described. Please re-read my post.

Here's a great start since I'm principally focusing on one facility which can be a model for others, in case you need a particular reference: https://nationalzoo.si.edu/conservation

If you can, I'd encourage you to read it with an open mind.
Companies in the west are democratic, but the voting rights are held by the owners of the company. If you are a citizen, it is your country and you get a vote. If you are an employee, it is not your company.
> while tigers may have statistics showing a better life than in the wild

And who paid for those statistics and what measures did they use? I'd love to know how you quantify a tiger's happiness.
Actual conservative sentiment would be, once you marry her, sleep with her. Worked for me!

Here's my reasoning. If you are expecting someone else to make you happy, you're in for disappointment. It's just human nature, one or both of you is going to disappoint the other. My apparently contrarian take on relationships is when you are ready to become selfless and start concerning yourself with making other people happy instead of yourself a) congratulations, you are now an adult human b) you can find someone that you can decide is worth the effort, and then stick to it.

And you may be surprised to find that selflessness and happiness are highly correlated. That's also human nature, IMO how we are hardwired to live as social beings. There's some great ancient literature on the subject, and I don't think it is a principle which changes much over time and culture.
Interesting anecdata but not directly relevant to our operation. You assume a high cost for choice. We explicitly selected our culinary category and business model and have developed our technology to support broad choice at low cost. We are not inventing new dishes and hoping for "the next instant hit street food" (a fickle venture as you rightly point out) but instead offering existing dishes and allowing consumers to make and potentially share their own changes.
Alive and ticking
History, English, Philosophy, Communication, Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Linguistics, Political Sciences...

The cultural/gender studies I tend to lump in as subsets of those major subjects. I used to laugh at them coming from a Sciences background only to find that any advancement I could make filled me with doubt that the world was ready to use it responsibly.

These fields are critical. We have no chance of being able to really breakthrough our major problems as a species without being able to understand what it means to be human, or even what the same damn mundane things look like from another culture or person's point of view.

Trying to hand off something so portentous as something like halfway successful ubiquitous facial recognition to a society so poor in the humanities as our society today is like letting an infant learn to walk in a minefield. If we can't even coexist with the people around us without trying to strip everyone of civil rights, or getting into pissing matches about borders, we've got a long way to go before we start messing around with massively disruptive technologies with high social impacts. The recent social media fiascos and trends toward weaponized disinformation causing panic and hysteria should be evidence enough that we as people need to pull back and shore up the basics so we can at least ATTEMPT to try to reconcile the new avenues of life opened up by global interconnectivity of data and logistics with some of our more basic fears and prejudices to which we are ALL still subject.

For heaven sake, with enough attention to detail, and a convincing enough Facebook profile, you can influence the sentiments of MASSES of people. It doesn't matter whether truth or lies... It gets said all the same. During Lincoln's time as President, he said something very poignant during the lead up to the Gettysburg address when he was staying at the Wills House, composing the Gettysburg Address.

>"In my position, it is important that I should not say foolish things...[If you can help it! Is exclaimed from the audience]...It very often happens the only way to help it is to say nothing at all!"

Imagine the horror he would experience to find out that we as a people have devised a technology that forces EVERYONE, not just one in a position of power to have to express the same torturous care in crafting our communications lest our "foolishthings" exact a cost through bloodshed or imprisonment?

None of that can be done without good communication, understanding, and empathy for your fellow man. We all don't have to agree, and war will always happen, but Goddamnit, we should be able to formulate a better excuse than "It's the war on <insert nebulous concept here>". That can only be done with a thorough understanding of the ways we communicate as people, cultures, artisans, polities, etc.

And EVERYONE has a duty to know this stuff, or at least be aware enough of it to keep themselves safe from those who would use it against them.

It isn't easy, but it is the only way.
I'm more interested in the story's headline: "Can zoos be redesigned for a more ethical generation?"

I'd be interested to hear precisely what the headline's author meant by "more ethical", and his/her reason for believing that the current generation is more ethical.
thanks for sharing. Cool idea. (PS we're a baremetrics customer - keep up the great work! :)
I don’t read articles from Business Insider because they forbid content blockers. No thanks to their cruddy JavaScript trackers.
Yeah, most of this thread has kinda garbage responses.

Even if you did a CS degree and then did a BMath with a statistics major you still wouldn't have all the skills you would need, though you'd have a great place to start off from. There is an art in kinda guiding / interpreting the mathematics that's hard to teach and most people in the field kinda pick it up through experimentation. I'm sure it will get more formalized at some point, but I don't think the formalization will be all mathematical or scientific; I think much of it will be making explicit how to think about certain domains or a system of process that are useful.

Also I think there is a big difference between Data Engineers, Data Analysts, Data Scientists, and AI researchers.

Depending on the field, an AI researcher deals more with idealized forms and is much stronger on the mathematics of machine learning.

Data engineers are usually stronger on the CS topics that deal with scale.

Data analysts, even the very best ones, tend to be weaker on the CS, the math, but tend to be the strongest at quickly understanding data and making it intelligible to decision makers. I'm not knocking it—I was an analyst at one point—it's just the truth that some positions take more skill than others and most great data analysts tend to treat it as a 3 or 5 year stop before levelling up to management or a more technical role.

Data Scientists generally have the skills of a data analyst (though they have trouble dumbing things down at times if they came here from something other than an analyst position) with some of the skills from the other two.

The way some application code software developers dismiss a whole sub-discipline is kinda embarrassing.
What about dates instead of marriages?
It wouldn't, it doesn't. This is a company buying in web-filtering from another company. There's no legislation forcing them to do this.
Ask HN: Switching from Python to Java Dev.
Background: For 3 and half years out of school I joined a startup that uses Python. Now I am kind of bored and also the future of the startup doesn't seem so bright. I researched the market and most Python openings are either for Django or AI|ML. Now at the startup I didn't work on either of these. Considering purely job opportunities and pay should I learn Java along with Spring Boot? Investing in AI, ML seems to be exhaustive and I dont know the prejudice that may exist while hiring AI, ML software developer(preference for masters and PhD candidates). What would you guys recommend solely on the basis of opportunities and renumeration. Side note: I started React couple of months back. I am open to suggestions other than Java.
It's from both personal experience and from discussions with others.

It happened to me for every project that I've started. The first time was a drag-and-drop CMS; this industry quickly attracted several VC funded competitors and they were very fast in terms of development so I had no chance to compete on my own and so I gave up after 3 years.

Second time was an open source project; a full stack Javascript framework. Competitors (MeteorJS and other smaller ones) also started spawning up and I was struggling to keep users so I extracted a small part of my project and spun it off as its own standalone open source product - That was maybe 1 or 2 years before MeteorJS decided to do something similar by spinning off Apollo.

Thankfully MeteorJS spun off in a different direction than me so my project was able to survive and achieve linear growth year on year since.

I have other stories from many colleagues I worked with over the years (as a contractor for many different companies) so I'm basically sure that what I'm saying is correct. I'm pretty sure that my social circle is an accurate representation of the 'typical developer/entrepreneur' as well; I'm pretty sure that this is the majority.

Oh and trust me, a big company will take over this space eventually. Their product will do more and integrate better with other products.
The patterns generated from the Big Bang are awesome-it looks so simple and so complex at the same time.
It is survivorship bias when someone says "they're not lucky, they just kept trying and failing until they succeeded." The vast majority of people don't have the time/money/talent/resources to keep trying new ideas again and again until they succeed. There are many who use their life's savings, sacrifice their relationships, drain their personal health in pursuing an idea. Whether or not that idea is successful is dependent on many factors outside the person's control. The uniting factor is that if that one idea fails, that's it. That was that person's one shot, and now they've lost everything and have to go back to the grind.

Being able to fail yet still having the resources try a dozen more ideas comes down to where you are starting from, and luck plays a huge role in that.
Respectful existence. Lone mothers with 2 kids should not have to work on 2 places just so they and their kids have something to eat.
"Basically anything involving evopsychy explanations for anything is very likely to be sigh-worthy."

I think you misread the parent comment, as well as mine. Consider this:

"Human brain is like a peacock tail: it's a product of the sexual selection. It's too huge of an organ."

That doesn't reference evolutionary psychology, but rather, that describes Fisherian Runaway:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisherian_runaway

Fisher pre-dates evolutionary psychology/behavioralism by several decades. Fisher put his theory forward back in the 1930s.

I agree with you that most of the modern evpysch stuff is poorly thought out.
I recently found out that my company’s information security and IT ops team have licensed Splunk. They use it to analyze machine logs, firewall logs, etc.

My team focuses on traditional reporting (data in oracle, manipulated with SAS, sometimes statistical modeling with SAS, resulting in reports/dashboards presented with QlikView).

The IT team approached me to ask if we wanted to explore any use cases of Splunk for my team. I’ve looked around a bit and don’t understand this stuff enough to know if there are any. We generally are working with health insurance claims data, and have no problems being able to process the data we need using oracle/sas.

Any ideas spring to mind that might make me want to invest time in looking at this?
EURUSD: Sets Up to Recover Further Higher
I don’t think most “data scientists” can do b = (X′X)^(−1) X′ Y right off the top of their heads either.
There's No Room in the Room of My Own
Hmmm maybe because it is? This is like High Times taking offense that they’re treated like a drugs magazine.
Except i'm a dev and a teacher.

And i have yet to met a teacher who's anywhere close to have the deadline challenge a dev has.

Somebody not learning is a failure but that's life. A line of code not working on time, well, that's the entire product not shipping.
What can you learn from the lottery...
Free doesn't mean devoid of law.

The law can chain you up, or the East India Company can chain you up, and it doesn't make much of a difference.

Free markets are kept free by intelligent and benevolent legal force.
That’s not conservative.... that’s just bad advice. She won’t be happy if you are just in it out of obligation and you won’t be happy either. If you have kids, they will be able to tell and I’ve never known kids that are happier in a house with two parents that don’t want to be there than one where the parents are separate and healthy.

It’s also not being a good role model for your kids to set the expectation for them to stay in a unhealthy relationship.

True, marriage should never be treated as disposable but if only one person is working on it, it’s timr to leave.
I think this was the article - https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a36228/ballad-of-the-s...

See if this matches your idea of

"borderline psych cases"

> As a leading climatologist who spent many years studying the Arctic at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at Ohio State, Box knew that ...

>Jeffrey Kiehl was a senior scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research when he became so concerned about the way the brain resists climate science, he took a break and got a psychology degree. Ten years of research later, he's concluded that consumption and growth have become so central to our sense of personal identity and the fear of economic loss creates such numbing anxiety, we literally cannot imagine making the necessary changes. Worse, accepting the facts threatens us with a loss of faith in the fundamental order of the universe. Climate scientists are different only because they have a professional excuse for detachment, and usually it's not until they get older that they admit how much it's affecting them—which is also when they tend to get more outspoken, Kiehl says. "You reach a point where you feel—and that's the word, not think, feel—'I have to do something.' "

Doesn't match mine.
I don't know how else to describe it when I see a starving bear with mange, infested with parasites. Misery sounds like the most appropriate word for it.

It's not controversial around here to say that humans are having an enormous impact on the natural environment. The distinction between 'zoo' and 'wild' is not a binary one; humans effects are seen in both.

Lots of people have this romantic image of the wild as this pristine place where everything lives in beautiful harmony. In reality it's much more like the Hunger Games than we'd care to admit.
> Please re-read the emphasis I've been placing on the sorts of facilities I'm defending.

Please reread my comment, I am talking about farms (specifically chicken farms where 10% of chickens will die before they reach 1 month old because they are often packed 50,000 to a barn and not cared for), not zoos. I am not arguing that some zoos don’t do fantastic conservation work, I am arguing that it’s comparatively meaningless when you look at the wholescale abuse of animals perpetrated by the absolute majority of humans on this planet.
> I think one bit that's still missing remains the ability to move people back into previous positions without loss of face or income if they don't fit in the new one.

Don't know where you are at but my manager literally did just this by switching back to an individual contributor role and retained the same level. Also, managers and individual contributors make the same amount per level so he didn't lose any income.
Yes, they were popular as far back as 1860. I think the Kanji 拉麺 means pulled wheat (Chinese) noodles, but many of them are cut which confuses me. Modern Japanese Ramen comes from the early 20th century (~1912?) and is distinct because the broths were much lighter flavored (like miso, shoyu, or pork bone) and less funky than those traditionally from China. The latest trends in Tsukemen ramen challenge this tradition as they go for stronger flavors.
We’re so obsessed with stopping cheaters or lazy good-for-nothing’s that we’ll privatize at all costs. That’s including, oddly enough, publicly distributing the risk those private institutions take on. Why not just cut out the middle man and have the government pay for the higher education of the low and middle class directly?
Haven’t heard of that company but can say one of the major issues is regarding how information is passed happens via server comms - it seems that company is implementing edge? - so data stays locally and isn’t transmitted to external parties. Depends how intense about privacy you are heh

Checking out their AIR you need a “base hub” that amplifies the signal from weaker devices (android, etc.) - cool concept but not sure how techy you are to dive into that..
Is this a real article or just brilliant satire?
In a free society, yes.
evil ui dark patterns
>> "Granted, even this information gets tainted: narcissist parents, for example, might come across as their parents being nice, but them not being nice to their parents."

You can tell a lot about someone by how they treat someone they don't like. Some people get downright cruel with people they don't like, and it's a huge red flag because some day they may find reason to not like you. You're just setting yourself up to become a target once you find yourself on their bad side.

You sometimes see this when someone's hating on a public figure. They insult the person's weight, appearance, and speculate about their sexuality. I am never surprised when these people turn out to be abusers and harassers.
Came exactly to make this point.Whig history applied to ethics I guess. Same old navel gazing.
No, the UN Did Not Report China Has ‘Massive Internment Camps’ for Uighurs
It’s worth pointing out that some (many?) animals are in zoos because — for one reason or another — circumstances are such that they are otherwise incapable of surving in the wild.

You’re right that enclosure size is mostly determined by business concerns rather than animal satisfaction. Practically speaking, however, the enclosures can rarely be large enough to completely suit an animal’s needs.