skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so personal it's beyond reproach, for decency’s sake. On the other hand, it could be overwrought romanticism that speaks to nothing but existential crisis.

Who doesn’t want to be a farmer, rising at 3am to be alone with your thoughts and hot coffee, tending the fields that feed a nation, while the sun rises, signalling: this is creation; I’m driving the world! The answer is probably: farmers, who would happily say “fuck right off” to 3am starts day after day sucking dust and hoping you can keep your margins, the equipment doesn’t break, and the weather holds.

I think the angst of the writing wants to push through to something more than analyzing the pedestrian, but have the ultimate enlightenment being cool with coming back to embrace the pedestrian. Ish.

I’m reminded of a couple story closings:

[1] Siddhartha listened. He was now nothing but a listener, completely concentrated on listening, completely empty, he felt, that he had now finished learning to listen. Often before, he had heard all this, these many voices in the river, today it sounded new. Already, he could no longer tell the many voices apart, not the happy ones from the weeping ones, not the ones of children from those of men, they all belonged together, the lamentation of yearning and the laughter of the knowledgeable one, the scream of rage and the moaning of the dying ones, everything was one, everything was intertwined and connected, entangled a thousand times. And everything together, all voices, all goals, all yearning, all suffering, all pleasure, all that was good and evil, all of this together was the world. All of it together was the flow of events, was the music of life. And when Siddhartha was listening attentively to this river, this song of a thousand voices, when he neither listened to the suffering nor the laughter, when he did not tie his soul to any particular voice and submerged his self into it, but when he heard them all, perceived the whole, the oneness, then the great song of the thousand voices consisted of a single word, which was Om: the perfection.

[2] https://youtu.be/OsDnrFBpsBk

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[1] Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse

[2] A River Runs Through It. Robert Redford/Norman Maclean
Use the link in the submission

On another note the reader view on iOS (safari on iPadOS 13 public beta) show only first paragraph
I watched the whole presentation. I was expecting Beck would go into the specifics about the problems and how they specifically are planning to solve them, kind of like Musk does. I’m sure we’ll get more details. I was just curious.
If you're interested in schools of thought that argue on the side of "better off not having been born at all", take a look at negative utilitarianism.
Oh, I wasn't arguing against either Nokia or Ericsson. I just think buying from Huawei/China is a terrible idea if you care about your sovereignty.
Babies are also super delicious, especially when chargrilled.
The article talks about that:

>Nor were all these mathematicians Arabs, but for convenience we will call our topic "Arab mathematics".

>The regions from which the "Arab mathematicians" came was centred on Iran/Iraq but varied with military conquest during the period. At its greatest extent it stretched to the west through Turkey and North Africa to include most of Spain, and to the east as far as the borders of China.
Microsoft will charge new fees to customers using AWS and other clouds
Do you seriously think that "deliciousness" has any bearing on whether or not it is right to do something?
Sure, but then you have random people doing illegal things on your network and it gets linked back to you. Also, most of the major ISPs are implementing data caps, so I wouldn't want to get overage charges because someone used all my data.
That linked article is from 2012, still relevant? In other words, has some of the things mentioned changed?
Hams can run high power and high gain antennae with regular wifi gear, they call it HSMM. It doesn't sound like the mesh folks are doing that either, and even if they were, might it fall under part 15.23?
This is the beginning of the end of Netflix.
I think the amount of people damaged by hacks exceeds the numbers saved in your scenario by several orders of magnitude. In fact your post is one of the first I’ve ever read that sees software and hardware vulnerabilities as a good thing.
In your case I have a different explanation. Displaying a notification and then having nothing to show for it weakens Facebook. People start thinking the notification is probably bogus and don't even click it. Maybe a short term boost, but very harmful in the long run.

So then, why do they do it? I think it's because Facebook is made up of many separate teams that are trying to get ahead of each other. Some team did this and had really positive short term numbers and that got them all promoted, and then they hope nobody is able to attribute the long term loss to their team. This is Facebook creating fake engagement to scam itself.
The use of voip mode is well established technique for building encrypted messaging apps on iOS, and its unsurprising that whatsapp is built around it, especially when you consider that whatsapp is a voip app. No conspiracy theories are necessary.
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Could you please be a bit more specific about what you are trying to say?
You'd lose bandwidth and gain liability. Not a winning proposition.
Don't rule out the possibility of group think. Some voices get silenced because they don't have an agenda. While others find truth to their opinions in thousands of research.
Planting pioneer species, building berms (to slow runoff), and fencing out grazers is the basic formula for rehabilitating dead land.
Did you intentionally remove the first part of the paragraph ? They are talking about the environmental impact of octopus farming which creates artificial strain on the environment.

> The amount of feed needed to sustain and grow an octpus is three times the weight of the animal itself and, 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.

The calories spent on raising and consuming animals higher in the food chain is exponentially more than consuming those lower in the food chain. This is the point they are trying to make. It wasnt about the ethics of eating Octopus itself, but the means in which they are being raised / procured.
The non-ethical issues raised seem no different from eating any animal.
I remember one of my far relatives tried to drag document from one computer to another, by drag and keep pressing the mouse, in the meantime, he disconnected the mouse to one computer and then connected to another. It really confused him why this move didn't work at all.
‘Death Camps for Trump Supporters’ Fliers Posted in New York
I'm with you, but it seems that the article & many in the comments are more concerned with the ethical implications of killing a thinking creature for sustenance than they are the environmental impacts of farming a carnivore.
The exact same thing happens to me. Hate their messenger app too. The bad UI makes it so easy to send a message to the wrong person, and the app feels so slow and sluggish overall.
> "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.

There is an implied "We are on top of the food chain" along with "they taste good".

There is some legitimacy to the idea that we should eat whatever we please because we are the apex predator. Ultimately market forces should align the price to equal the cost of framing / hunting. Additionally we have huge ethical problems in how humans treat each other we should work on before even worrying about an invertebrate's problems.

I don't actually hold those worldviews, but they are implied with the sentence "but they taste good"
We dont farm and eat as many carnivores. Octopus and some fish are the only exceptions. The non ethical issues raised do not generalize easily.
Ignoring stupid arguments is a far better strategy. I'm replying because I don't think you're stupid, so I hope you see the wisdom of ignoring over engaging.

Or, to steal a quote (paraphrase really): never get in an argument with an idiot, he will drag you down to his level and then beat you by virtue of experience.
It's a commercial subscription. The fact is, any residential ISP is selling the same connection to the internet to 20-100 subscribers. This is known as the oversale ratio. Since nobody is using the whole connection continuously, people experience the advertised speeds most of the time.

The backhaul connections that ISPs resell (and that are sold into Althea networks) are usually around 10x the price of a residential connection with the same advertised speed.

It's the difference between "it is technically possible for this connection to attain this bandwidth" and "you are guaranteed this bandwidth at all times"
While some fish are vegetarians, are most fish pescatarians or omnivorous?
The "something else" is a protection racket. "Nice restaurant you got here. Be a shame if something happened to your high ratings."

Yelp should be prosecuted under RICO.
Hypothetically, it could get to the point where it is more ethical to eat meat than not to, ESPECIALLY if they are sentient in the way activists say they are.

Lets say aliens came and offered you a deal. You can either not exist or live a life of luxury with all delicious food and mates you want, then after 1000 years or so you'd peacefully pass away just like a natural death and you are informed that they'd eat your body. I'm pretty sure quite a few people would be open to this.The choice is even simpler with animals since from all evidence they lack the capacity for existential dread.

Now tell, me what would be the most moral choice assuming chickens are sentient? To indulge them to a pampered existence several times their natural lifespan...and yes, at the end disposing of their bodies in the most practical and beneficial way, its not like a chicken cares what happens to its mortal shell in whatever poultry afterlife may exist. Or leave chicken minds to the terror of being torn up by a fox in the wilderness or to never know the joys of existence in the paradise future ethical meat farms may offer?
It makes both arguments, I am simply referring to the section you quoted.
I've only watched the animation, not the whole video, but it seems like this is missing a crucial step. It seems to show the first stage magically start moving backwards, rather than continue to move forwards (coasting) and use thrusters to turn around for re-entry down-range. I'm sure the actual rocket experts will have it right, but is it me or the animator that's misinterpreted things?
Like the old somewhat-tongue-in-cheek "Linksys Community Network Project".

The idea was roughly this:

Such a large portion of wifi equipment sold at the time had the SSID "Linksys" and no password. So everyone's devices had a saved setting to connect to that, even if we later configured our networks differently.

Therefore it's super convenient if you just call your guest network that. When you actually have guests over, chances are good that their devices will automatically use your wifi with zero hassles whatsoever.

(Also implied but unspoken: The existence of this craptastic webpage explaining the Linksys Community Network Project is plausible deniability if you get caught using someone else's open wifi that they shared out of ignorance rather than because they read this page and agreed with it.)

Ah! Of course! https://web.archive.org/web/20030402170927/http://www.linksy...
We needed recently translate our chrome extension (languagelearningwithnetflix.com) into 18 languages. We are poor and had less than $1000 for the job.

Here's our approach.

1. Move all strings into a Google doc. Takes about 8 hours.

2. Organise strings into groups with screenshots, think carefully, split strings, look for reused strings, reword things to make them simpler and easier to translate, add notes to some strings to make the meaning more explicit. Very tedious part of job, 2-3 days work.

3. Put the doc, editable with link, onto upwork with a fixed payment, somewhat generous for translation wordcount. Check translator is a native in the target language, had some good feedback and ideally some IT/programming experience. Order translations for the languages we can check ourselves (5-6 languages).

4. Check the translations received for issues. Translators typically misinterpret the same things, as the source was not clear enough. Fix these issues. Maybe 4 hours work.

5. Now send to 10+ other translators for the languages we don't understand. Cross fingers that these will be ok.

6. Check translations of labels for homogenous usage of semicolons, capitals, fullstops etc. Struggle with zh/ja/ko.

7. Use a small JS script to transform CSV output from sheets to JSON for chrome.i18n.

8. Cycle through all locales and for overflowing text or other issues.

9. For any extra strings that we might need later, can try Microsoft UI translations database, or else, Google translate (which is mostly ok, can check the reverse translation).

Honestly this all was quite a lot of boring work, but we probably ended up with reasonable translations at a good price, and managed to pay translators reasonable money.
"Slippery slope arguments are a falacy" is, as an argument, a fallacy.
How many of those kernel bugs translate to meaningful RCE's in generally available stable software? Maybe I'm out of the loop, but as that presentation says nowadays a big 0day will have a logo and national headlines, that also underlines how rare they are.

To me the history of Pwn2Own exactly shows the trend I'm talking about. Going from very successful editions to increasingly less successful editions as the years go by to the point where the competition barely even exists anymore.

And then that baseband firmware exploit, that's the dream. You could hack any device with that almost regardless of what software runs on top. I put that in the same class as the Intel chip vulnerabilities.
Alleged breach of a private contract is not "illegal."

Please know what you're talking about before providing legal advice.
Are Signal and other messaging apps relying on this feature and do they offer VoIP functionality?
If you watch a modern rocket launch (the vast majority of which are livestreamed and uploaded to youtube) you hear the same.
There have been a few. Urbanspoon, AroundMe etc. But none got the traction Yelp did.
Hotels are consistent. The most amazing Airbnb would beat a hotel room, sure, but even a well reviewed Airbnb can be terrible if something breaks, goes wrong, etc. Very few Airbnb owners have a spare property next door to move you to if things go wrong.
This is awesome. Azure is far superior to AWS. More money into MSFT is better for everyone.
NFS+wireguard

It just fucking works. Took a few minutes to set up and it's been working great. Several TB of storage for the price of hardware I already had lying around doing nothing.
The key difference is velocity. Exos/Armadillo have never launched an orbital class vehicle, which comes down a lot faster and hotter.

I love Carmack and rooted for Armadillo. But ballutes are 50 year old tech (Gemini’s escape system had them.) Armadillo’s real innovations were in other areas and doing things faster and cheaper. Carmack would have been an interesting fit at SpaceX if he hadn’t gone to Oculus.
The helicopter in the animation looks like a EC225 or AS332 "Super Puma"
I'm not quite sure which of the two you're suggesting we do now. They neither live in luxury nor their lifespan. Instead, they're basically tortured all their short life before we kill them.
There are no facts if everyone is interested in their own thoughts.

The individual still has control of himself. It's the more organized movements like policy creation and corporate activities that are outside the individual's control that indirectly affect him. Isn't that how we are trying to get the right to adopt green tech?

When a person sets up a niche shop, he has an incentive in getting people to adopt the niche as mainstream. Like vegetable made meat products.
In addition to that all sorts of vendors run their code on our systems to provide us with their features. And then there's the idea that some of these bugs have been demonstrated to be exploitable from within a JavaScript VM!
Yeah, we already live in n-space. 3D is a convenient fiction that models reality in very specific instances.
Mathematica is not open, but the engine is free(as in beer) now
> Did you intentionally remove the first part of the paragraph?

Yes, it seemed a little superfluous given the last third of the paragraph makes the point that farming them is putting undue stress (in comparison to alternative food sources) on the environment.

> They are talking about the environmental impact of octopus

They're talking about both the environmental impact and the ethics of carnivores.

> Farming octopuses is not only unethical but deeply damaging to the environment, scientists say.

>There is already a wealth of research that suggests octopuses are one of the most complex and intelligent animals in the ocean. They can recognise individual human faces, solve problems (and remember the answers for months) and there is some evidence they experience pain and suffering. 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.
Lack of contraceptive use does certainly have a delayed and inconsistent effect, but when the effect does happen it does so in a way that is far more visible and traceable than any disease caused by dirty hands.
I'm kindda surprised internet affordability is even a blip on the radar in NY compared to housing affordability. Though I'm 100% supportive of the philosophical basis on creating the network.
I like this. It reminds me of an idea I had about making an ultra-hd projector by running consumer projectors in a grid with careful alignment and cooling. Your idea is similar, but over time instead of space. Both are just dimensions so I don't see why it couldn't work, so long as you had the timing circuit.
Tesla research partner unveils path to Li-ion cells that could beat solid-state
In the glorious future when we can synthesize all the delicious cruelty-free artificial meat we desire, should we nevertheless, on ethical grounds, farm chickens so that we can strap them into VR sims of a life of chicken-luxury?
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This was true... until recently when Luminar announced a fairly affordable (for an automobile BOM) ~$1k version to be available this year.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/12/luminar-affordable-lidar...
Using QEMU Without Pulling Your Hair Out
IPCC was a scientific organization. But the more it develops a position of influence, the more corrupt it tends to become. That's just law of politics.
The problem here is the misleading implication that there is a singular set of correct ethics, hidden behind a false appeal to scientific authority.
> There is some legitimacy to the idea that we should eat whatever we please because we are the apex predator.

It's more like it's definitional of an apex predator that it eats what it pleases. It isn't a question of legitimacy.
> The indictment doesn’t get into how Fahd was caught. He was arrested in Hong Kong in February 2018 at the request of U.S. authorities. Fahd was extradited from Hong Kong to the U.S. last week to face 14 different charges in federal court in Seattle, including wire fraud, violating the Travel Act and intentional damage to a protected computer.

How was Edward Snowden allowed to chill in Hong Kong? Was it because the indictment/extradition request was political and they don't honor those on our behalf? I thought HK just ignored US arrest warrants.
1. Windows Hello

Isn't this just launched, with the feature set nowhere near the idea of securing payments?

2. Steam

AppStore has far more features and way more full featured. From Apps, Games, subscription models, app quality reviews. Also works on mobile.

3. Really..? How is Safari more innovative than Tor Browser? You can't argue that Safari was more privacy-respecting than Mozilla pre-Tor.

The right defaults. It takes a lot of innovation to come up with the set of defaults that are actually secure and protect you. If one thinks they're secure using the Tor browser, they have another thing coming.

4. Windows Phones (I had one, it was more capable and powerful in any way compared to the first iPhone)

Haha! Ubuntu is better Desktop OS than Mac and Windows.

5. Windows tablets

You're kidding right?

6. There were tons of MP3/media players of different varieties before the iPod - what makes it so innovative.

Look at my other reply.
Order through the restaurant's own website/app if they have one.
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It has everything to do with end-to-end encryption. Prior to iOS 10, the only way to display notifications for end-to-end encrypted chat without giving Apple a plaintext copy of everything in the notification was to abuse the VoIP feature. More specifically, the "PushKit VoIP API" Facebook's spokesperson mentioned allowed services to push down an opaque blob of data and have their apps immediately wake up in the background, do some processing (such as decryption), maybe get more data from the network, and create a notification. This was intended to support incoming voice calls but worked great for end-to-end encrypted text chat. Now Apple are cracking down on the use of that VoIP background functionality for anything but voice calls.

It might be possible for companies like Facebook to rewrite their code to use an iOS 10+ Notification Service app extension to decrypt the notifications instead, but that requires major code changes and has additional limitations.

Also, from what I can tell Facebook Messenger etc haven't had access to the old APIs which just let VoIP apps run in the background all the time since about 2016. That's not available for apps linked to the iOS 10 API and they've been using the iOS-10-only CallKit since about that time.
To say ethics are arbitrary is to say that there is no reasoning behind them, which is basically the opposite of what ethics truly are.

Ethics are commonly a "system of moral principles", said system and principles being the reasoning behind ethics.

I'm assuming what you are trying to say is that "ethics are not absolute", which has strong arguments; however, I think the critique of the use of "unethical" is partially in agreement with my assumption of your first point ("ethics are not absolute").
Assuming ethics are not absolute, then labeling something as unethical in a blanket statement would not always hold true.

I would suggest simply prefacing the statement with "I/many believe" would sit more comfortably.
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The opposite can happen too — nurse practitioner immediately demanding unnecessary biopsy or other tests because they cannot confidently rule something out. This happened to me recently when I went to a np for a known problem I have had for years that was already diagnosed by multiple doctors. I also find np is much more likely to prescribe antibiotics. Of course this is all anecdotal. I used to be very much in favor of expanding the scope of what nurses can do but now I feel like that may do more harm than good.
Sounds considerably more reliable since it's not coming from a single state actor
I'm curious how you are handling ambiguity in the original design. Does the algorithm create multiple variants when something could be interpreted in multiple ways, and then the manual validation part of the process involves picking from among the different variants that the algorithm created?
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