skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a question: Is it immoral for lions to eat zebras?

Here's another question: Imagine the entire Earth is actually a factory farm for aliens. Every time someone dies, their body is actually secretly used for alien food. Would you want Earth to cease to exist?

Or perhaps a closer analogy, imagine super-powerful aliens take over Earth and terraform Mars and Venus, which they use as human farms. Maybe 30 billion humans live on Earth, Mars, and Venus, leading full lives with everything provided to them that a human wants, but killed at 18 years of age.

Alien human-rights activists wish to stop the humans from breeding, and let the population fall to several thousand. They will devote the planets to instead growing Alien Corn.

Do you want this to happen?
ICBMs were definitely intended to be used more than in theory in the 1950s; they likely will be if we aren't careful. Modern drones make them obsolete, of course, but some combatants are likely to have only ICBMs.

Loitering missiles date back to the 1980s, 30 or 40 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loitering_munition
> if you’re having kids and grandkids, you’ve already done uncorrectable damage

Evolutionarily speaking, not having kids just leaves the planet to those who does.
Not sure why you're fighting so hard on this w/ other replies.

How is the title misleading? The attack vehicle falls within the definition of a drone and the article is reporting on its hypersonic ability.

Sure you could claim an ICBM is a drone (I don't agree, but that doesn't seem to matter), but why try exclude this from that label?

Weird hill to die on just to include your grandfather's story.
I worry it's a shitty slogan that will undercut real change.

Many will think it's no police, hence no police brutality, only to learn it's really just a re-organization of the police. Potentially a minor one, as many (most?) haven't shared details.

Cynically, it seems an effort to take away attention from real reform, such as eliminating qualified immunity or banning police unions.
Yeah, why not, post away.
gopls has gotten a lot better in the past few months. I use the vim “version” of VSCode extensions (coc) and all the LSP stuff has gotten faster and more accurate
It seems to me if everybody uses very poor tests and they're all the same, then it's very harmful to society. But if everybody uses different, uncorrelated, very poor tests, then people who have talent generally end up somewhere and there may not be a lot of benefit to improving the tests. In fact, improving the tests could lead to more correlation and excluding/wasting more talent.
The despair and anger is palpable.

But, hating your neighbor as a far-right bigot because they want to protect their farm or factory (which feeds and clothes you, by the way) may be ... shortsighted.

While we depend on these oligarchs’ financial system, we can rail all we want — impotently. If you want to crush the oligarchs, crush their false and unconstitutional money.

However, many may be disappointed to discover that producing the food, clothing and products needed for survival requires, you know, learning, effort and generations of focus! A group that plans to loot their way to success may be disappointed...
When you say struggle: is this a struggle finding alternatives in your local food markets or struggle committing to making the dietary changes?
agreed. We have enough nihilistic, "all or nothing" thinking. There are almost ALWAYS ways to improve incrementally and the magnification of those improvements by many people cannot be ignored.
There is a new Cold War and there has to be a victor.

I think the next Ford carrier should have an armored bow.
To be completely honest with you, I didn't even realize I could scroll. That full-page landing page did have what I wanted, a single-sentence summary and a "get started" button to take me to the documentation, which loaded impressively quickly. I just found out that it was because it was on the same page.
I'm not being pedantic. You're talking nonsense.
Shrug. Are ethics decided by popular opinion? Many folks regard vegetarianism as an issue of morality. The omnivore who looks deeply at our methods of meat production may well gain much to think on.
Find the Third Way
so you would treat a dog in the same way you would a blade of grass?
You're kind of mixing different things here. Endpoints (like Netflix or your NAS and build server) have completely different characteristics than switches/routers. Likewise, interrupt-based kernel-based networking is very different and ~10x slower than polling-based kernel-bypass. Doing 10G routing per core using polling was demonstrated years ago so 100G really isn't an extraordinary performance claim.
About the MacOs thing I couldn't disagree more, I'm forced to work with a Macbook at my current job and it's the dread of my existence, I even wrote an article about such pain points: https://ivanca.tumblr.com/post/615979862803562496/15-flaws-o...
I like to call it writing clean. You write just the subject, the verb, and the object. "Press the button. Find the file on your desktop. Delete the pointer." Do this until you feel more comfortable writing with style. Also, don't be precious about your writing. Today's writing is tomorrow's fish wrapper. Fire and forget.
I wrote this, too:
https://hackernoon.com/how-to-write-a-book-2065b6e807d3
GNU software names tend to have the letter G somewhere. It also shows up in GNU libraries such as GTK and glibc. They export namespaced symbols such as g_printf.

It's just like POSIX's _t suffix. It's "reserved" but in practice nobody cares.
I don’t think lions eating zebras is a good comparison.

We have evolved and flourished with agriculture and so we don’t have to consume meat unless the agricultural produce has gone way down.

I also think the general argument is how animals are treated with so many horrific videos out there which are just torture in my opinion and not a clean kill.

If someone is doing a clean kill without the animal suffering and making sure it’s living in good conditions, that’s a right step in many ways.
I like “ethical consumption” for the reasons given, had not yet been exposed to this particular framing. Thank you.
It's not the worst filter. The worst filter is the one that's highly correlated with other popular bad filters. Because that way you miss out on the people that are generally discriminated against, whereas a random filter is more likely to pick them up by chance. Optimization can be counterproductive, and it's related to what other people are optimizing.
We can use the title from https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/missile-defense-weapo..., which is the article this one is lifting from. I'd change the URL also, but it seems to be hard paywalled.
If you’re alive today and care about doing something significant for the environment, don’t have a kid. That’s all there is to it.

There’s absolutely no shortage of people who a) will think this is bad advice that doesn’t apply to them because they are very smart, b) just don’t care, c) don’t have access to birth control, d) just really want a kid, etc.
> I've got Plasma setup to take advantage of a decade of Mac muscle memory

Care to elaborate or share? I’ve recently moved from macOS to Linux.
the ford class would have to be functional first : )
I've re-howed it.
sysdig is useless without installing nontrivial performance-impacting instrumentation, cannot handle non-IP networking, does not fully report all syscalls, has a license with patent crap in it, has gated features behind a paywall, and cannot inject syscall faults. It's not even in the same class of tool as strace at this point.
Correct. Do something nice for them.
Missiles like Brahmos or P800 Oniks (on which the former is based) have 1-1.5 meter CEP accuracy. They can also hit a moving target using mid course navigation. They are accurate alright, though a bit overkill for scenarios where drone attacks could be used. Agreed with rest of the points.
This can only be useful if the famed 'Northern Passage' becomes viable with Global warming. There is already Canada's woeful maintenance of it's icebreakers and hopes that a 'stern look' will keep Russia at bay. Alaska sits at a key location and it suits the American interests to be present in this area. I do however think the region might get a little crowded.

TFA mentions China as being a party with a vested interest, but aren't they a little too far away to be significant?
NZ has a variety of different sized software companies, most of whom were hiring at the start of the year so will resume hiring if Covid doesn't kill their customers. Look at: xero.com, vendhq.com, asktimely.com, soulmachines.com for a start.

NZ has a number of agtech businesses (Halter, for example) doing techy things in the agriculture/horticulture space. Attend Fieldays to see what's going on there: https://www.fieldaysonline.co.nz/

And there's a mixture of other high-tech (e.g., RocketLab) with a solid backbone of niche weird engineering businesses that seem to do well here.

For a "full" (or, at least, substantial) list of NZ startups, visit: https://new-zealand.globalfinder.org/

Auckland and Wellington are the big dogs. RocketLab is off the Mahia peninsula on the east coast. Halter and AgTech tend to be Hamilton or Palmerston North. Dunedin has some software businesses, Christchurch has some engineering ones.

Everyone speaking English is deceptive! I moved back after 10 years away and it was a bit of a culture shock after America: Kiwis are British and tend to avoid conflict until they explode, and don't like to say "no" to your face (though it's not as strong as in some Asian cultures), so come across as passive-aggressive to Americans. Vice-versa, Americans can come across as loud and aggressive because they dive straight to the point. Read https://ask.metafilter.com/55153/Whats-the-middle-ground-bet... and you'll get be able to adapt. Allow a year of bumpiness before you start to figure things out.

Salaries in software let you live well, and you could save. You could earn NZD100k+ and spend NZD60k living comfortably but not in luxury or travelling internationally. Salaries in some other forms of tech (bio) are more meh (NZD60k+). See seek.co.nz (jobs site) and the jobs section of trademe.co.nz to see what's available.
wow I used to use O&O Defrag when I had hdds I'd trust them again
* Arch Linux / Manjaro. AUR is a great resource for the latest packages

* i3 / sway. I've built a number of custom patches on top of it.

* Windows Aero Snap - a close second

* MacOs - Yabai + skhd a very distant third. Mac doesn't just play as well with tiling.

* LibVirt / Virt Manager / CockPit / VFIO. I have a number of VMs emulating mac, windows, and linux. My workstation is all three in one. I also have a local kube cluster spun up via the libvirt api.

* JetBrains - Tool Suite They're tooling is phenomenal

* vim / nvim - My secondary editor for quick changes.

* Visual Studio Code - Primarily for remote sharing work spaces.

* Git - I keep almost everything in a git store of some sort.

* zsh and oh my zsh, great plugins.

* Kitty - terminal with the kittens plugins is great

* Direnv + EnvFile, dynamic loading of container env vars on entering a directory

* GitLab - Despite it's warts the best dev ops cloud agnostic platform I've used.

* Kotlin - I'm able to do pretty much everything in this. From vim over ssh or jetbrains. I use it for infrastructure, k8, mobile, web, and back end.

* Gradle - I curse at it a lot, but less than other build systems. I have templates that allow me to quick start any of the above templates.

* Remote Desktop - I keep a cheap dedicated server I RDP for heavy work loads while away from my workstation

* Reg Ex Pal - to validate reg ex

* Functional Programming

* Markdown / Restructured text - Great way to write docs and draft architectural plans

* MermaidJS, Lucid Chart - Easily embedded in markdown to provide graphs of architectural patterns.

* OpenAPI/AsyncAPI/GraphQL - Schema driven design let's me write the schema first, then generate type safe routes for the server, and clients for the consumers (web/mobile)

* Avro, Protobuf, Json Schema - For defining messages going across the wire.

* Containers - I started with solaris zones and it has been vital to my workflow.

* Docker Compose - This is the lowest barrier to providing a container stack for local dev. Next would be KIND.

* Docsify, Sphinx / etc. Easy way to add architectural docs next to the api docs as part of git pages.

That being said, I generally am unable to use a majority of these in my day job. So I'm operating much slower than I'm capable of.
Star Wars used painstakingly crafted models and photography effects to produce the film. Now, people using modern tools can do much more, with considerably less work. The 'jobs' analysis wouldn't necessarily reveal that.

Taking inventory in a retail store used to be a paper and pencil mass bureaucracy - it's now streamlined.

We don't stand at the line anymore to withdraw or deposit money.

Secretaries don't type memos.

Many newspapers are dropping photographers in lieu of training journalists on how to use their iPhones.

We don't manage a lot of paper records anymore.

So a lot of things have accelerated, it might not show up in the job market, it may not even show up in the GDP if consumers are in fact getting all the surplus. Life can get a lot better in many ways without a hint of GDP growth. GDP growth usually only happens (all things being equal) if there is either more cost (edit: 'maybe' bad for consumers but not necessarily), more profit taking (also bad for consumers), or more government spending (neutral
for the citizenry - depends on the efficiency of spending).
Have you seen how an industrial farm looks from the inside? I'm a meat eater and I love the taste and stuff, but you need to admit that many animals didn't have a great life at all. So beyond meat solves a real problem. Some folks want all meat production to be banned, I disagree. There are forms of farming which are better for animals, make their lives worth living. They are just more expensive regarding resources as well as money, so can't scale as well as industrial meat production. In the ideal world we've done away with industrial meat production but still keep a limited number of animals for meat production, real meat still being available but most people don't buy it for everyday consumption because it's expensive.
Is there a picture anywhere of the chick embryos with the dinosaur like face they mention?
Cool. Can you share a link?

I haven't launched my app anywhere yet. I struggled with devops tooling, started to get burned out, and now lockdown.
Politics is not about competence but defense of group interests.

I'm never going to vote for someone competent (or smart) who goes against my interests. In fact, that would make things even worse for me the smarter they are.

I think many people, particularly on the left I would say, forget this point. Which is why they can't explain Trump, Farage, Abbott, etc.

We're not voting for the Nobel prize; we're voting for the people who define policy and set our tax levels.
I believe this is what you are looking for:

> Food Production to Supply Ratio is calculated as the farm-gate value of raw food production (including for export) divided by the value of raw food for human consumption. It provides a broad indicator of the ability of UK agriculture to meet consumer demand.

> A high production to supply ratio fails to insulate a country against many possible disruptions to its supply chain. The ratio in 2018 was 61% for all food and 75% for indigenous type food.[1]

My broad understanding is that showing an indigenous type deficit means that it is not _just_ a choice to not do so in exchange for foreign delicacies, as they could be grown in this country but aren't, particularly as "[i]n 2018 the value of imports was greater than the value of exports in each of the broad categories of food, feed and drink except 'Beverages'". It is worth noting that the article states "[s]ourcing food from a diverse range of stable regions, in addition to domestically, enhances food security", so some net negative may not be a bad thing, as it insulates us to some degree from issues that would decrease local production.

Furthermore:

> Domestic production of fresh fruit as a percentage of total new supply for use in the UK was little changed at 17% [...and] for all fresh vegetables was 52%[2]

Even if we were able to produce enough food, in broad terms, to feed ourselves, it may not be able to support a particularly healthy diet, making the imports more of a necessarily than delicacies.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/food-statistics-p...

[2] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
economy of scale is starting to kick in and the initial cost of R&D is being recouped. I agree it is expensive, but just like solar, it will only get cheaper the more we support it.
Very probably. We don't normally see it because English-Language websites will consciously downvote to oblivion anything that isn't in English.

Turn on "showdead" in your HN profile, and you'll generally see at least one foreign-language article every day in the hidden [dead] posts that's been bundled out of sight.
The translator picked up on two idioms of C++ and translated them to more concise forms in Python.

It also either knew about the machine integer representation, or else made a combination of two mistakes that turned out to cancel each other out.

This

int allocation[n];
memset(allocation, 42, sizeof(allocation));
for(int i = 0; i < n; i ++)

would NOT be equivalent to this:

allocation = [42] * n
for i in range(n):
Actually the premise of this post is about writing a proposal to farm 100 acres of urban land. Automation could help in that endeavor and was listed as one of the aspects that could be explored. Often the best solution is the simplest. Pick-your-own is a common model used by small farms to reduce labor requirements for some types of produce such as apples, strawberries, etc. This approach would also require less capital investment than specialized automated machines.

There's nothing wrong with googling aspects of your job - how else will you discover new things if you don't seek them out. In fact, most software devs research job related information via Google searches all the time.
Don't worry about it. Not a problem at all. Happy to interact with people on the other side of the tickets ;)
The same president who thinks the Ford Class should drop EMALS and convert back to a steam catapult wants us to build a very complicated icebreaker? Is there an urgent need to double the capability of our icebreaking fleet for indefinite range?
… which is kind of his point, yeah?
I never understood why bipedal locomotion would evolve in dinosaurs. Especially since the article says it happened well before any kind of flight or even gliding.
The point is to keep cost down while a project is in development, then scale depending on needs without having to worry about container distribution and resource utilization.

On dev I don't need a 10 node cluster if I had 10 containers running. One $10 vm is fine.

On prod I can start with a 3-node cluster for these 10 containers, then scale it up depending on traffic and needs while controlling my spending.

Not everyone has thousands of dollars of VC money to throw at hosting
"as a reducetarian"

I applaud you for taking the slow, steady and sustainable route. More people need to realize it's not "all or nothing"
I've always seen Fuchsia as the backup plan if Google loses the Oracle-Android lawsuit.
> Which edited drafts should I choose as my final version

Honestly the way out is to just publish stuff and get feedback. You'll see there's not an army of jerks waiting to tear you apart and instead that most people are supportive. If there are an 'army of jerks' its only because you've gotten sufficiently popular ;)

Also, dirty little secret. We all edit after the 'final version' too. Even a printed book there are editions. Heck I wrote a book 4 years ago, and looking back I know more now. I tell people "that was a signpost of my knowledge 4 years ago"
Ah, this makes sense. I have noticed that Zoom never quite gives up for participants on slow / bursty networks. When something becomes that bad I expect it to be headed towards failure, but Zoom is happy to just sit there at 0.5fps.
Ask HN: How to best mentor a new grad?
I have a few years of experience out of grad school and really enjoy teaching and learning. We recently hired a junior engineer fresh out of his master's and he's really new to software development in industry. He's been on the team for a week and I've taken the time to teach him some stuff and gave him some good overviews. We left off with me recommending he read the codebase for a few days to ask questions and understand the flow. My question is, is there a better way to get him up to speed? We use a huge technology stack and he's unfamiliar with all of it, so trying to figure out how to help him out the best way.
> Most don't agree with because for many it's part of their identity, it's what they grew up eating every day with their parents. To find their way of life being classified as unethical is jarring to say the least, so they put up a barrier to doing so.

When you make up a reason for someone to believe something, sure it's easy to argue against it. Many people balk at finding eating meat unethical because it simply isn't. There is no consistent system of ethics that finds it unethical.

Deciding that some forms of life are "conscious" and should be protected and other forms of life are not is completely arbitrary. Living things consume other living things to survive. Surviving is not unethical, or if it is your system of ethics is self-defeating and will lead to your own extinction, which makes it useless.
Frisian is, last I checked. Some.migjt argue it is a Dutch dialect, I guess

From German to Dutch to Frisian to Scots to English is a great way to train your ear and language sense.

The great golden era blog 'Making Light' would post old English of various ages.

https://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008591.html
Cows are more like me. A flowers are less like me. So I'm biased against flowers because they are less like me. But I don't know if it's more ethical to act based on my bias.
The horrors of the automation revolution have been on our collective mind for a long time. In the '70s this was one of my dad's favorite jokes:

"It's terrible, my father lost the job he had for decades. He was replaced by a clever mechanical gizmo just six inches long. And then my mom got one."

It plays on the fear of being emasculated by technology. Maybe that leads us to exaggerate the threat.
You have a point, but he wasn’t completely wrong. Though it contains the assumption your advantage is indefinite. In reality the foe catches up.

So he was right but it only holds true while you maintain the advantage.
The difference is that ballistic missiles go up and then come down on their target. The "loitering munitions" basically get delivered by a cruise missile and the fly around until triggered, at which point they basically turn from drone mode back into missiles.

So it's a one time use drone with a high speed delivery system.
Yes, I do think there is an issue with how it's being represented. That's why I said it was understandable that GP was confused.
Even people not working on TEEs are aware that SGX is broken. Actually, you don't even have to even know what SGX is to bring up the concern that their entire scheme relies on SGX working correctly.
"Doesn't sound like their value proposition is really built around vegetrains/vegans at all"

you are right - it's not. They care about convincing people to eat less meat because that's where the greatest impact is. Veg's already don't eat meat - this is just a beneficial option that they can choose.