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Ethics isn't based on what causes suffering / well-being.

At best, it takes those things, along with many others, into account (and usually from the side of a specific community, not across the board).

Specific ethics have been adhered that caused tons of suffering to people (The Spanish Inquisition was a protector and enforcer of certain ethics, for example. Homophobia was also based on ethics, and when slavery was a thing in the US, it was totally compatible with the Southern ethics at the time -- you could be a well respected gentleman considered totally ethical and own 1000s of slaves -- that you also beat to work and so on).
> safety as a core value

If it was a core value, how might these events have unfolded differently? Would it have happened twice? Would they have kept the details secret from the pilots? Would it have happened at all?

The "thoughts and prayers" feel-good wording used throughout is demonstrative of legal and moral blame shifting, and shows a lack of ownership of the issues that preempted any of this unfortunate result.

For them, this is just a stock market issue, and they'll be fine once everyone forgets.
I eat Octopus because they are delicious, not because I think they are dumb. I know they are very smart, but this fact doesn’t makes them less delicious to me. Also, the fact that I —and millions of other people— don’t feel any affection towards these cephalopods makes the argument of “farming octopuses is unethical […]” less agreeable.

Many people in America eat cows, while they are considered sacred in Hinduism.

> […] Numerous videos on the internet of octopuses escaping from their tanks or stealing fishermen's catches have fuelled a human fascination with the only invertebrate that the 2012 Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness considers sentient alongside mammals and birds.

Mammals and birds, I hope everyone read that.

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People are going against my comment thinking I am on the wrong side of the argument. And I feel like explaining my point of view even further will just increase the anger in the people that already expressed their counter arguments below. We will see if the public agrees with the thesis in this article and changes their eating habits to protect one of the hundreds of animals that are also considered sentient.
I think simply ever having used Messenger does that - mine never shows up otherwise, even if I’ve just cleared out my messages. It reminds me of the dark pattern which got me to uninstall Messenger, where they’d send push notifications with fake alerts from your friends which when opened were simply telling you that the other person had Messenger.

The net effect is that I uninstalled all of their apps and only use https://mbasic.facebook.com/ a few times a month
I'm more referring to the backend technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDSL#VDSL2_vectoring
"... sentient alongside mammals and birds."

...which we farm and eat like crazy!
Thank you for your work! I use Unison on Fedora almost every day. The version is 2.40, which IIRC is the default you get from "dnf install unison".

My use-case is that I run Unison on two computers running Fedora, to implement a form of "sneakernet" file sync. Work computer <-> usb thumb drive <-> home computer.

I wasn't aware that the exact version of Unison was so important. Will start paying attention to that.
Somewhat relevant: SHUNTING-YARD
I have whole life insurance. It's for a fixed amount, which would pay off the house with a little extra so my family would be okay.

And importantly: once you get to a certain age the premiums start going up significantly, and you can't get it past a certain age IIRC is 65 on my policy.
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Sounds about as reliable a news as the WMDs of yore...
No it does not make more agreeable. We had slavery back in the day, in some instances we still have it, but just because we have enough ppl doing something does not make it more “agreeable”. Ethics is not something dictated by a number of ppl sharing a belief.
Octopodes [ahk'top'uh'deez] are super smart
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The issue OP seems to have is that while “X damages the environment” is a claim that science is reasonably well equipped to answer, “X is unethical” is not.

While scientists claiming that farming octopuses is damaging to the environment falls within reasonable scope of their work and expertise, them claiming that it is unethical may not be so, yet the author is lumping both together in the same introductory sentence.
El Chapo is picking up the tab, apparently.
Half a Millimeter is huge! Just finished replacing a part of my truck that required a 5.5mm socket. I had a 5mm, 6mm, 1/4, and 3/16, none of them worked.

The M.2 slot requires downward pressure.
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>Should the author not write their own opinion from their own ethical context, but rather keep it to themselves, since other cultures might disagree?

Yes.

At a minimum, they shouldn't state their "own opinion from their own ethical context" as some kind of universal fact: "it's not only deeply unethical (...) scientists say".
> For example, one of the distance estimation algorithms used in the Cornell paper, developed by two researchers at Taiwan's National Chiao Tung University, relied on a pair of cameras and the parallax effect. It compared two images taken from different angles and observed how objects' positions differ between the image—the larger the shift, the closer an object is.

The shift or disparity between sensors doesn't really matter. We've known that wider convergence angles begets better object point estimation since the 70s. Yet, even the KITTI dataset doesn't attempt to take advantage of this, and uses two rather average cameras with a (relatively) short baseline of 0.06m (see: http://www.cvlibs.net/datasets/kitti/setup.php). That's 6cm!!! You have the entire width of the car to separate these cameras by.

> This technique only works if the software correctly matches a pixel in one image with the corresponding pixel in the other image. If the software gets this wrong, then distance estimates can be wildly off.

Again, yeah. But the problem is twofold: you need to detect / match similar points between two images, but the fundamental setup of your system can limit your precision and accuracy. Use a wider-angle lens with better convergent geometry. Every publication based on the KITTI dataset doesn't even address some of the most basic criticisms from photogrammetry.

Which leads to probably why LiDAR gives such a distinct advantage in most of these data sets. You solve two problems:

1) You solve the correspondence problem trivially because LiDAR doesn't need to match points between cameras, and there's no baseline / convergence criteria that the final point precision depends on.

2) Robust geometric data is well-modelled, well understood, and provides an easier criteria for machine learning systems (particularly ones running over KITTI, as in the article) to converge on than just using stereo-imagery with a baseline of 6cm. You get the scale of the system for free and your calibration troubles are whisked away as LiDAR systems tend to be better-calibrated and more stable than most lens systems or configurations you'll find in the cheap off-the-shelf cameras that many autonomous driving startups are using.

I guess I come off a little negative by looking at this, but my first reaction to Musk saying that nobody should or will want to ever use LiDAR for this is that he doesn't know a damn thing about what he's talking about.
this seems like the idea that Americans eat cows and pigs, but not horses and dogs... not necessarily an ethical issue, but more a social norms issue.
If you want to offer this as an alternative to more than 0.004% of the population of New York City, yes.

Either larger groups or more of them, or both.
Agreed. Apple's pre-OSX metadata system was two pieces: "What am I" and "Who created me." This was an amazingly flexible system that just worked and was the best of both worlds.
So is shark fin soup, but that doesn’t excuse it.
This article is partially about the impact on marine ecosystems, so don't avoid reading it if you think it is all about ethics, which is what the majority of the comments here mention.
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>Ethics is not something dictated by a number of ppl sharing a belief.

Unless you believe ethics is given from some sort of higher authority, ethics is dictated by the number of people sharing a belief.
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What are you talking about? Oil makes the environment cleaner not dirtier. Do you know how many wells are naturally polluted by nature? How uninhabitable large parts of the world would be if it wasn't for the use of fossil fuels? You rather live like we used to? Like animals? What are you willing to give up?
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It has nothing to do with end-to-end encryption: they’re abusing the VoIP feature to stay running in the background, which is trading battery life for better surveillance of your activities. Apple is doing it to _protect_ privacy by closing one of the ways unscrupulous app developers keep trackers running.
Makes you wonder... should we?
Do not condemn those people as liars or frauds. They did what any sensible person would have done, avoided death by conscription during the Great War by assuming the identities of their older cousins, brothers, uncles and fathers.
It's not the case that they would need to give up encrypted notifications. Developers can support end-to-end encrypted notifications by creating a UNNotificationServiceExtension[1]. This is an extension which receives and can mutate the notification before it's shown to the user.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...

Straight from Apple's documentation:

> For example, you could use the extension to decrypt an encrypted data block or to download images associated with the notification.
Blogspam, original is https://issues.org/the-case-against-octopus-farming/
I don't think this is actually true in the vast majority of day-to-day ethical decisions, although there are cases where it's certainly true.

I'm fairly confident that many more unethical actions, even subjectively defined (i.e. from each individual observer's pov), are the result of ignorance and apathy than actual differences of opinion regarding ethics.
> no bars held

Off topic, but it's "no holds barred". From wrestling: no holds (moves) barred (banned), i.e. anything goes.
Yeah, you have a good point. My opinions are pretty recently formed on this area so I'm probably off-base, and it was interesting hearing your perspective. Fortunately I'm not a judge! :-)
> I know they are very smart, but this fact doesn’t makes them less delicious to me.

There are lots of experiences that feel "delicious," but that doesn't make it moral to rip that experience for yourself out of the flesh of a sentient being. Maybe you consider cephalopods potentially sentient or maybe you don't, but the argument is "It's immoral to eat them because they can have thoughts and an internal experience, just like us," and "But they taste good" is not a counterargument.

> and millions of other people

That is also not any kind of an ethical defense of one's behavior.

> don’t feel any affection towards these cephalopods makes the argument of “farming octopuses is unethical […]” less agreeable.

One thing about logical reasoning - it doesn't really matter how "agreeable" its conclusion feels.
I will attest that shark fin soup is not delicious. Nor does it taste like much of anything.
I’m more worried about the genocide of species via chemical and plastic contamination. There are apparently rivers so flooded with estrogenics that fish can’t reproduce at a replacement rate, and need to be re-stocked by fish farms. This is not sustainable.
Which is not true as renewables need backup energy which isnt calculated in. Investments into renewables is falling and stagnating not increasing.
Nope, that's a false dichotomy. The ethical system you're proposing signs off on cannibalism of 49% of people as long as 51% of people click their heels together and really wish that cannibalism were ethical...
You mean crypto coins support terrorism? True that.
Nearly all of the great "arabic" scholars were not arabic at all, they simply wrote in the arabic language. Most of then were Tajik or Uzbek ethnicity.
I've often wondered what having one of these on a laptop, tracking space above the keyboard / in front of the screen, would be like: https://www.leapmotion.com/

Gestural stuff is nice when it's transparent and guess-able. Sadly not often the case, but when it is it's pretty magical.
Not even close to be useful alternatives.
Unboxing the Raspberry Pi 4
systemd lets you configure soft and hard limits on a per-service level, almost identically to launchd. See MemoryHigh= and MemoryMax= [1].

This does depend on cgroupsv2, but it works on most modern distros.

[1]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.res...
For context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqJXu4K1igg
Here is a question I found myself asking:

Is it better for an animal to be farmed and eaten, or to have never been born at all?

(Assuming we can farm them safely / humanely, even though the article suggests we cannot do so yet)
I hope I don't sound like a retard asking this: where does one read more about detailed [hardware] image processing?
> given that octopuses are carnivorous and live on fish oils and protein, rearing them risks putting further pressure on an already over-exploited marine ecoystem.

Inherently it’s no less ethical for us to eat them than it is for them to eat fish. The conditions we keep them in and the impact on the wider environment is seperate
How lucky then that we all live in the cloud now and running code on other people's computers is the only place anybody runs code anymore.
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Google hates delivery. Just look at how they treat their pregnant employees.
What’s the power needs of an SSD vs an SD card?
I think we agree farming on land is far better than hunting and gathering. (Minus hunting and gathering pests)

If 7 billion people hunted and gathered, it'd be the end of the ecosystem.

Yet somehow this is not the case in the oceans? Or it's a religious meme that won't die?

I go with two. Gathering in the oceans is cleaning them out. We need to farm. Just because you can see the damage on coastal farms doesn't make it worse.
My argument is that a higher number of believers doesn’t make something more ethically correct.

My personal belief is that we have a responsibility for all species on our planet (as the most intelligent, evolved, smart, etc of them). Even if everyone believes except 1 person that does not make their argument less or our argument more valid. Purely from an ethical perspective.
We should move towards killing less animal, not more. Meat is necessary but killing highly intelligent animals is not. If anything we should find a way to create animals with no conscience/intelligence. A slightly sci-fi scenario for now, but better than eating creatures that are as smart as octopuses.
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What earthly purpose would that serve? They're scientists; they subscribe to a moral system. Subscribing to an ethical system involves arguing it through rhetoric and reasoning. Scientists are only expected to be politically neutral; they're not Uatu the Watcher.
That's funny cause I've hidden Chrome from my computer
I don't think the agile manifesto got it wrong. It doesn't implore us to avoid writing documentation. It's not even an excuse to forego it. It's simply a value statement: we prefer working software to extensive documentation.

That means you should still write documentation.

And it also means that you shouldn't stall your project, delay work, or otherwise blocking developers from shipping working software because the documentation isn't 100%.
I think people tend either see the world primarily through existence or experience.

For those who see the world through the experience frame, they will be more worried about the negative impacts toward an individual octopus, seeing it as an intelligent creature that shouldn’t need to endure our fishing practices.

For those that see the world through the existence frame, the potential genocidal and even eco-system crashing impact of overfishing or various fishing practices is more vital than what happens to any individual creature.

Maybe this would be better as two articles, one that appeals to each type.
The problem is that low quality is most commonly due to the delivery process, and Grubhub is thoroughly dishonest about this. I stopped using them after they twice lied and tried to blame the restaurant for cold food, not knowing that I had called and verified that the food had been ready and waiting for the driver an hour earlier.
The title is misleading here. The article linked to (and the paper it references) is talking about farming octopus specifically, not eating it in general. In fact, the paper specifically states, "Given their exceptional abilities, one might ask whether humans should be eating octopus at all, but here we want to raise a different ethical question."
it is still pay-walled for me.
Yes, sorry, that’s what I meant.
A little confused on what they mean by PCM-DVD encoder. Wasn't ffmpeg always able to do this?
Our biggest test network is only ~50ish nodes. Simulations show we won't have issues until several thousand.

Babel has been very reliable and we haven't really made any changes beyond our extensions. The price extension probably isn't appropriate to upstream. I'll admit I've been remiss up-streaming the full path latency extension.
That is an interesting question - and I think the answer is "it depends very much on how you farm them," which is why I prefer to eat free-range chicken over factory farmed, and don't eat sentient animals / red meat at all - but thanks for your parenthetical, because yeah, we cannot do so yet with octopi.
From the article:

Take JoEllen Wynne. When she lived in Oregon, she had her own practice. As a nurse practitioner, she could draw blood, prescribe medication (including narcotics) and even admit patients to the hospital. She operated like a primary care physician and without any supervision from a doctor. But, JoEllen moved to Texas to be closer to family in 2006. She says, “I would have loved to open a practice here, but due to the restrictions, it is difficult to even volunteer.” She now works as an advocate at the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

From Wikipedia:

In the U.S., because the profession is state-regulated, the scope of practice varies by state. Some states allow NPs to have full practice authority. However, in other states, a written collaborative or supervisory agreement with a physician is legally required for practice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_practitioner

I have no idea how you would look this up, but when I worked in insurance, this fact had substantial impact on claims payments. For some states, we had to check that the nurse practitioner was supervised by a physician in order to pay the claim. For other states, we didn't.

I've known some nurses. One nurse who was married to a soldier told me it allowed her to have a real career as a military wife because she could get a well-paid job anywhere, nursing was always in demand and many places have chronic shortages. Military spouses typically suffer high unemployment rates and have trouble getting a job at all. There are very few jobs that allow you to have a real career in your own right as a military spouse.
We eat cows not wolves in large part because carnivores require vastly more land for the same protean. This argument is about efficiency, though we also eat carnivorous fish.

To simplify The amount of feed needed to sustain and grow an octpus is three times the weight of the animal itself where feed is delicious protein.
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It's not possible for you to eat them without farming them, as a member of society in its current instantiation, so the title holds.
I don't eat octopi, squid, nautili or cuttlefish because I don't want to be on His bad side when Cthulhu returns. All Hail Cthulhu...
If you were the animal in question, what would you think? I'd choose the latter, but your answer may differ. The answer may be different for animals that can conceive of the question than for those who can't, and that's probably a less decidable point.
Funneling things through the app is just unhelpful on many levels.

The interface when clicking on a web page from Yelp is worse than using the browser directly; therefore, instead of tapping, I read the web address and just go type it out.

And don’t even get me started on E-mail/communication with businesses. Recently I tried contacting a contractor, and happened to start the request from a form in the Yelp app. Since the very first thing on the form was asking for my E-mail address, I logically assumed that I would receive an E-mail reply. Instead, nothing; after awhile, I assumed just needed to find somebody else. Then, days later (or whenever I wandered into the Yelp app again), and only after I just happened to tap on some stupid icon in the corner, I finally see a reply: in the app. That is utterly useless! In fact, all of these “E-mail look-alike” interfaces are useless: I don’t need your company to completely recreate your own in-box interface that will surely suck in some way, when you could have just allowed E-mail to be used. Heaven forbid I dare to communicate with someone without your knowledge. So, yet again, like with URLs, now I just dig up the web site manually, dig up a real E-mail address or phone number manually, and contact them manually.
No it's just borderline unusable on anything other than a desktop and full of scams.
Hey another counterpoint, Nazi Germany thought that they need to purify the gene pool. They would have totally made it a tradition if they won...

Sorry but stupid arguments deserve a stupid response.
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I dont care who or what is dictating them, as long as they are consistent. If someone is making the claim that it is OK to eat anything as long as they are delicious, I want to know what their stand on cannibalism is.
I look forward to the video of Peter Beck eating his hat.
The truth value of a given logical proposition is independent of how many people believe either way about it.

You're mistaking ethics as a branch of philosophy for norms dictated by society.
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What if every household enabled an open "guest" SSID on their Wifi router? Wouldn't it have a huge positive impact of giving access to people who can't afford mobile data or home internet?
Use the Google Assistant app for iOS if you need a voice assistant. No hands-free usage (unless you set up a cumbersome Siri shortcut), but it is light-years beyond Siri for practical purposes.
Huh? Almost no octopus is currently farmed. The vast majority of it is wild caught.