skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, whether something is "sentient" is a bit subjective, and whether eating a sentient being is okay is also quite subjective. If we strike that list item, we are left with the climate change argument.

However, they're also missing a number of other arguments, such as:

- difficulty eating a balanced diet
- inconveniencing others (must take into account vegan options when going out to eat with coworkers/clients)
- some meat sources don't particularly contribute to climate change (e.g. hunting/fishing on your own)

If your going to try to come up with a deductive argument in support of veganism, you need to take into account all major arguments on all sides of the issue (vegetarianism, piscatarianism, etc).

As such, I'll only accept this argument as a completely subjective argument because the climate change argument (and part of the sentience argument) entirely depends on how you source your meat, leaving the completely subjective sentience argument.
It's not really coding, but I helped with troubleshooting and analysis when Obamacare first rolled out.

There was quite a fire-- the front-end would crash, lines were endless, etc. The government quickly formed a Tiger Team, with contributors from various companies.

I didn't care for the way the legislation was formed, but I am proud of my involvement. I gave it 100%.
Phone makers are messing with Android's memory,and Google isn't doing anything
wrote an entire CRM platform for a niche which is still my business today. revenue is at ~200,000 $ per month, profit margin is >60%.

Tech stack: MySQL, Java EE, JQuery, Bootstrap and the like. No big frameworks. All hosted on Google Cloud.
The 8MB GS patch for the SBLive card is one of the most top-notch MIDI soundfonts I've heard at that size, and is freely available all over the place.
Agreed, blaming the customer (damn transplants displacing the natives that understand fine food!) was the low-light of the article.

Plenty of restaurants are doing fine; she simply didn't produce what people wanted.
It won’t kill academia but it may eventually lead to a large cut in academic funding or a determined effort to make a degree unnecessary for respectable middle class careers or both. Gender/Queer/Ethnic studies, cultural anthropology and sociology are overwhelmingly left wing. They are a branch of the academy and at the same time a sinecure for people who produce ideas useful to one side of the culture war. There’s no right wing equivalent, no department that is over 90% conservative where politics trumps the search for truth. And this isn’t something these people are trying to hide. They’re quite open about the primacy of their political mission. And the students who major on these subjects don’t learn any particularly useful skills. Eventually some Republican will run on turning state colleges into STEM, education and business places and gutting the humanities and social sciences. Once it happens one place it’ll be repeated. If half of the population sees universities as hostile to their beliefs and life why should they vote to continue funding them?

https://newrepublic.com/article/143844/liberals-cant-ignore-...

> A Pew Research poll released this week found that 58 percent of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents believe higher education has “a negative effect on the way things are going in the country,” versus just 19 percent of those on the left who say the same. While opinion on the left has remained fairly steady, on the right it has become decidedly more pessimistic over the past two years (in the accompanying graph, note the drastic shift after the poll taken in September 2015).
I'm leaving GitLab to help everyone work remotely
Yeah, an APU is plenty for most development tasks, specially for web development.
Stories like this are incredible. If you ever want to go into detail with this story in an article or something, I'd love to read it.
This isn't an article. It's your personal url. I think this is spam.
>> "If half of the population sees universities as hostil to their beliefs and life why should they vote to continue funding them?"

What is being said about universities could be said about a lot of things on the "progressive" left right now...
Everyone seems to be downvoting you but I agree. Our tech is not even nearly in the universe of good enough to strap to a 2 ton vehicle traveling at 100kph along random roads.

And by tech I'm including security, because that's the part that I'm worried about too. There's so much incentive for bad actors to mess with these systems, and the consequences are catastrophic.

Just imagine setting up a hidden 1550nm lidar jammer/spammer to confuse cars on a freeway. You could make cars crash and nobody would even know it was there. Even if it made only 0.1% of the cars just slightly more likely to crash, it could still cause deaths.

Also RCE and DOS attacks now the cars have remote start and other stupid "features" that increase the attack surface.

I'm sure there's many more malicious scenarios you can imagine.

Everyone on here seems so keen for these self-driving cars to take over, but there's just so many avenues for abuse and our road laws are not set up to handle all the complications.
More than 100 stolen bank card
Google Earth Reverse Engineering
I don't know how secure it is when a cop sees you drop a bag of heroin behind a bench instead of just shipping people stuff.
I'm an IT/SysAdmin type guy so I don't really code beyond web stuff at a hobbyist level, though I did do CompSci at uni way back when. However when I followed my partner overseas for a few years, the only job I had while away was working in a computational research group at a university.

I was brought on to provide a nice looking web UI for an online system that scientists could use to submit jobs to a server running molecular dynamics simulations. After finishing the job queue and interfaces though, I had plenty of time to spare. So the boss asked me to try and run some necessary manipulations on the uploaded PDB (protein data bank) files, before they would be sent to run in the simulation.

It's still the only time I have ever actually used direct material from my undergrad degree at work - using Dijkstra's algorithm and standard deviation to discover protein structural features, then manipulating them. It was also the only time I ever used the Python I spent just one semester learning a decade before. With all those libraries, I can understand why it was the language of choice my boss' field.

I made a log of the jobs as well, and in the 5 year since then, over 10,000 jobs have been submitted, helping scientists from dozens of countries all over the world. It's also the only code I've written since my uni days which isn't just typical web app type stuff. It's just this pokey little online service but I'm really proud of it, and I hope I've contributed to humanity's progress in some tiny way.
You'd love to know that Telegram works on PC too.
I switched to Backlog too. Despite it being rigid (wee, being japanese product says for itself) and having small issues here and there, I can't complain much.

Most important points for me with backlog are:

- impossible to define task/issue additional states.
- email notifications are not working sometimes
Not U2F. App/SMS 2FA can be bypassed.
Dead drops can’t compete with USPS. They require a court order to open your package and even then can’t charge anyone with possession. All they do is send you a “love letter” and people have reported receiving future packages just fine.

Millions of people use dark net marketplaces. The war on drugs has fueled their growth and more serious crimes like identity theft have benefited from it.
MOOCs Suffer from Some of the Same Problems as Traditional Courses
Microsoft had the same problems when launching their microservice platform (Service Fabric). They relialized most of their problems went away if they gave their stateless service the notion of state and so they did. Most MS services, including Azure itself, now runs of something similar to K8 but that is state full.

Service Fabric powers many Microsoft services today, including Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, Cortana, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Intune, Azure Event Hubs, Azure IoT Hub, Dynamics 365, Skype for Business, and many core Azure services.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azuredev/2018/08/15/service...
The Three Body Problem (which I recommend highly) begins with a terrifying scene during the cultural revolution. I think most Chinese people are generally proud of modern China. They know it has problems, but they see problems in the west too.
Oh wow. I remember that. Cool to hear of your involvement.
Thank you for your great answer.

I read an HN poster the other day saying they ONLY use news aggregator sites because they are afraid of venturing on the web now. A little part of me died inside because the hidden corners of the web where you learn something new are the best virtue of the internet to me.
In 1987 I wrote about 150 lines of 68000 assembler that applied a low-pass filter to every sound heard by the towed-array sonar system on the Los Angeles class fast-attack submarines. I was an intern (co-op) and nobody even looked at my code. But it fixed the problem that had been plaguing the ANN-BQQ-5D system, preventing it from going into trials and 'management' just shipped it once the tests started passing.

Compared to other things (including some of the ID3 tag processing code that's still in Windows today, and OLEView) this seems pretty important.
If you're doing it locally, you'd ideally use RAID with a battery backed unit and your fsync essentially end up going to memory.
.sh is Saint Helena's country code tld, so it doesn't need to have anything to do with shell scripting. It's not like the site is fine.bash or something...
A ringbox mailbox multi-threaded implementation.

Whilst I'm sort of proud of the 'word at a time', always contiguous and zero copy aspects of it... the important bit is the metadata.

All the optimization was really to allow me to record metadata around...

* When was a message posted?

* When did it start to be handled?

* When was it finished being handled?

* What was the correlation ID? (ie. the ultimate causal source of the events chain)

...and then extract this data into a sqlite DB and either query that directly or to create message sequence diagrams with the mscgen tool.

Why is this important?

Because I have lost count of the really hard, gnarly real time bugs I have solved using this tool.
This is, without a doubt, the boldest and most impressive backhanded compliment I've ever read on HN.

I have no idea what A16Z's returns for their LPs are across their funds, but this could literally be right out of a movie script.

**SCENE**

GENERAL PARTNER is chatting with potential LIMITED PARTNER
over cocktails.

LP: The fund you're raising... the thesis, it's...
interesting. You've done a great job with your last
three funds. But I've read similar things from
Andreessen's team that make me think they have a
better grasp of the space - wouldn't my money be
better invested with them?

GP smirks and calmly reaches towards MARTINI GLASS,
casually picking the toothpick, olive still attached,
between her thumb and index fingers. She places the olive
between her teeth to the side of her mouth, grasps, and
pulls the olive off the toothpick in one swift motion.
She carefully places the toothpick in a napkin, stares LP
in the eye, and pauses just a moment before aggressively
biting down. She finishes chewing without breaking eye
contact.

GP: Ah. Yes, they do market themselves as visionaries.
It's completely intentional. They're fantastic at
marketing, PR, and brand building. In less than a
decade, while generating very unimpressive returns,
they've built one of the strongest VC brands in the
world. They're phenomenal at it. They do it so well
that they make it look easy, but it's not at all.

LP: So if I'd like to make money...

GP: You got it. How much are you in for?
Nice. I suspect there are quite a few Illumina engineers secretly cheering for you.

I'm in touch with a community of microscopy folks which includes the maintainers of Micro Manager. I'll send this link around, I bet they'll be interested.
> science Literature which first came out in 1979, continued to publish during the campaign against spiritual pollution and continues to this day under the name of Science Fiction World.

Here are some interesting trivia about Science Fiction World

- Nearly all of Liu Cixin's work was first published on this magazine

- The publisher was located in Chengdu, Sichuan, it's an official member of Sichuan Science Society, which is under direct control of Communist Party Sichuan Committee.

- One of the chief editor of SFW, A-Lai[1], who is a Tibetan, also a very established award-winning writer. His most famous work is about the conflict in feudal serfdom Tibet in the 20s century. A very interesting novel.

- SFW was once considered the largest science fiction magazine published by volume. In 2010 there was an online campaign from its staff requesting step down of Party appointed president & chief editor, LiChang.

- LiChang was also responsible for opening another magazine lineup, the famous Magic Fantasy World. Because of the LotR and Harry Potter influence. The magazine was discontinued in 2013.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alai_(author)
There are a whole bunch of tools but you really only want something simple that gives you an infinite loop that runs every time a message comes in and gives you access to the current message as an object
> It is one of the most commonly used framework in serious industry projects

I'd love to see a source for this, because I do not believe it for a second.
Ripple Effects of the Shutdown Reach the GPS System
Great book to practice and learn Linear Algebra concepts, more importantly get back again for a refresher when you need to.
Not work under Debian 9.x

$ ./nbody.bin
./nbody.bin: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by ./nbody.bin)
Plenty of people see it as the Democrats in Congress who are holding things up. (After all, there is universal agreement that border security is important. Also, many prominent Democrats have pledged support for physical barriers in the recent past.)

I tend to agree with Cher, which doesn't happen often. She says that Democrats can be seen as heroes if they compromise on the wall to re-open the government. (But if they do not do this, Cher believes the Democrats will ultimately suffer for the fallout.) Time may tell if she is right or not.
Machine vision applications to inspect inkjet printheads during manufacturing. You've probably used a cartridge my apps inspected.
Taking a guess: ML is just too good. Don't forget, it's also a signal to leave surveillance areas, eg "last seen driving into the desert". Any kind of outlier behavior is PART of the detection model ... that's where probabilistic models gain leverage, in fact ...
Iceland's Northern Lights: Beautiful sight, risky drives
I would also say that market conditions for lemons also applies to the job application process since quality signaling through a resume is still pretty hard.
>Saying "hi" for fun to other civilizations isn't even something we do on our own planet with our own people.

We do that all the time, in as many ways as we can think of. From the top of my head:

- amateur radio

- sending lasers signals to the moon and waiting for it to get back

- chatting with random strangers on internet

- the Arecibo message on space

- SETI is basically trying to catch an alien "hello"

- sending "messages on bottles"

Really, sending "hi" in imaginative ways for no reason is a very human thing to do
I listened to them. The audio books are truly wonderful and immersive narrative (all 96 hours!). I can’t recommend them enough to hard sci fi fans. Although I did have a few false starts with the first book.
Wow. I couldn’t stand the first book of this series. Interminable, I never built any empathy for any of the characters.

I’ve been told it gets better after the first book, but why would I subject myself to another book after my experience of the first?

Anyway, to each their own, but as a huge sci-fi fan, I generally love the Hugo winners and nominees. The Chinese sci-fi that’s been nominated has all left me cold.
The state is paying the price for two decades of anti-tenant rule. So long as no one is working to repeal the Costa-Hawkins (and to a lesser degree, the Ellis Act), the noose will continue to tighten around Bay Area quality of life and raise the price of doing business in all of California.

A similar problem with sky rocketing housing cost occurred in the 70's True rent control was established in the communities that needed it and the threat of it in other communities stabilized prices. And California 1972-1995 is unambiguously a success story. In '95 Costa-Hawkins passed, and prices have been rising faster than the 1970-1995 period ever since. With an accompanying rise in homelessness.

Particularly interesting about Costa-Hawkins, it was soundly defeated when written as proposition measure and only passed the legislature by one vote and with strong backing from the real estate industry. But today it has somehow become politically impossible to repeal. Unless California has become a lot more conservative since 95, it is clear money in politics and political advertising are to blame.
True, true. I guess the real question is where we draw the line between "science", "research" and "poking a bear with a stick." :)
China is Black Mirror
Its certainly not the default in Australia. Only a few people I know have iPhones. SMS is always the default messaging app unless you have added the person on something else which is a bit of a mess between different services.
Not wrong, but several standard deviations outside of the norm.
Its a legitimate question. If you want to compare Python and Node, then you have to address the elephant in the room.

Or, at least one of the elephants in the room.
The war on drug has to be one of the top contributors and financiers of crime and criminal gangs.

Imagine a world where criminal gangs don't have access to the money they make through drugs and a government that doesn't have to spend huge amount of money on drug laws enforcement because drug trafficking would be much less lucrative in the existence of legal access and you get fewer and very cash-strapped drug gangs, and government making money from taxing drugs.

Surely such massive savings and earnings can be spent to help problem users and reduce violence, no?
Show HN: Simple framework for JavaScript apps
Excellent summary. I'm reminded of the old saw, "The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed".
Canadian ATC sends pizzas to U.S. counterparts working without pay
Maybe if I described such a network using pigeons as the underlying physical layer, and multiple journals took it seriously, then yes.
I read the first book in that trilogy, and it struck me how much it was a product of the Hu Jintao era. Under the presidency of Xi Jinping this book would have never been allowed. Way too snarky about the Cultural Revolution (I mean, in it there's a university professor that gets literally lynched by 'revolutionary' students because he refuses to parrot some party line. And that's just chapter one), and the Xi administration are not known for their sense of humour.
Lime Reportedly Pulls Glitchy E-Scooters Following Abrupt Braking, Injuries
Can't Remember What You Read? Blame the Font, Not Forgetfulness
Excellent point. When I'm talking with a first-time founder, they'll ask me what I think of their idea. Sometimes I'll say straight out: you shouldn't ask me that question, because if I answer you shouldn't listen to me.

Feedback from people in the target market is hugely valuable, especially if they answer in individual terms. E.g., I will/won't buy because X. But feedback from people not in the target market is rarely useful, especially when it's in theoretical terms. So unless I have some specific expertise, I try to redirect people toward the people they should actually be talking with.
https://zcoin.io/important-announcement-zerocoin-implementat...
Wow, that's a chilling story. I'm glad the author's grandparents (and others) were given this opportunity. I'm also glad we got to read about this.
>I’ve been told it gets better after the first book, but why would I subject myself to another book after my experience of the first?

I was not a huge fan of the first book either but saw the potential. Second book, The Dark Forest, is the greatest of the three (IMO anyway). Third book is also amazing. Definitely 'endure' reading through the first one and then you'll be rewarded with 2nd and 3rd.
I am quite stupid.
Really points to how low cost robotics could potentially revolutionize food in cities with impossible living conditions for the poor.
Which drum company? I'm an aborted software developer and jazz drummer by trade.
In 2008, I submitted a talk titled, "What if you could ask a book a question?", where I planned to show how it's technically possible to create a query layer around (seemingly) unstructured content. The idea was chaffed as silly by organizers.
I don’t have a ‘work’ [0] but I do have a very stable 100/40 connection at home that is very rarely pushed to those numbers.

I’ve set it up this morning, I’m running a relay but NOT an exit node, as per Tor’s recommendation. I’ll keep an eye on it and my network connection.

Further advice welcomed, I just want to do the right thing. Thank you.

[0]: And when I do ‘work’ it tends to be at the sort of place where you absolutely could never run a Tor relay!
a/s/l?
Not sure why I'm being downvoted for this comment. But man, seriously?
It's frustrating that there's no trusted source of supply for device batteries, at least for the DIY market.
What would our life without Internet be like?
> the average monthly rent for a one-bedroom apartment at an insane $3,447, according to a 2018 rent report by Adobo. The U.S. Census revealed in March, the median rent in San Francisco in 2016 was roughly over $1,600/month. These numbers are worrisome in a few ways: 1. The egregious rent amount that is required for somebody to live in the city today. 2. The jump in median rent in a mere two years. 3. The $1,600 median rent from 2016 also included rent-controlled apartments which indicates their rapid disappearance.

median != average

Fun example: In 1987 the average starting salary of University of North Carolina geography graduates was over $100,000. In 1986 Michael Jordan graduated.
'This small company was created by three developers who found a joint calling: getting fucked by previous experiences in startups' - YCombinator 2020?
>Plenty of people see it as the Democrats in Congress who are holding things up.

Yes, we call those people Republicans.
>> However, ignoring it is not an option any more, so out of fear, people chose sides. Taking one side means having to make empty statements and then being (for the most) left in peace. Taking the other side means having career-ending events happening to you.

I don't understand- why is it not an option to ignore "it" (politics in various humanities fields) anymore? What are the "career ending events" that could happen to me, if I ignore those politics, as I do?
Someone's been out of academic life for a long time. Sign up for the colloquia at your former institution. STEM ain't gonna help you. They're as bad as everyone else.
You may have just made my day! Link for those interested: https://m.ign.com/articles/2018/11/14/ea-announces-command-c...
I think if “he left surveilled areas for no registered reason” is something that law enforcement observes and considers evidence of criminal activity, we’ll have well and truly lost any semblance of being a free society.
It seems to run at around 10 frames per second and take a thousand milliseconds to respond to input. It also takes way too many taps to add an item to an order, which makes the input delay especially painful.
With such high power, how can you do maintenance work on these systems? With two wire systems, it is at least possible to avoid ground and short circuits.