skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for these references; it's great to see some logical arguments here rather than knee-jerk responses.

But I do question how much of some the things you reference are actually problems.

We have plenty of fresh water. Distribution is often our problem when it comes to getting that water to humans everywhere, but stopping livestock production will not fix that.

Does it really matter how much of the USA is used for livestock grazing? Are we missing out on using that land for other things that are important to us?

I have no opinion on soybean production, but, again, does it matter that the lion's share of soybean production goes toward feeding livestock? And if soybean cultivation really is that bad for the environment, are there other things we could be feeding livestock that don't have such bad effects?

The carbon emissions suck, but are there ways to reduce these through better process?

I don't think any of these problems are unsolvable, but likely they're expensive, and there's no political will to tax the bad behavior to the point that it becomes financially better to do the right thing. Getting around that is likely easier than getting a significant chunk of the world to go vegan.

And that's the issue I have with most logical arguments around veganism. Meat production and consumption has a lot of problems, certainly, but vegans seem to believe that the only way to fix those problems is to throw the baby out with the bathwater, when there are almost certainly solutions or at least mitigations to those problems. I get that as an individual, you aren't going to fix those problems, so personally going vegan is a way for people to avoid being a part of the problem. That is a satisfying route for some people, but not for everyone.
"Planning a protest route?
Make sure you march on the roads of people who don't agree with you. Annoy as many people as possible."

Annoying people doesn't change many minds. It only pisses them off. Many times you only strengthen your opponent's resolve against you.
This here is by far the best optical illusion I've ever seen. It even works at a distance, or way up close. The top and bottom of the "escalator" look like they grow and shrink and even knowing they don't, it's impossible not to see it that way.

https://mobile.twitter.com/jzamorabonilla/status/13301713828...
Created https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof or "hof gen"

Language and technology agnostic, make your own generators without modifying hof's code.
Ummm... not really. Pelé has some insane stats. Games played, goals scored, trophies won, including 3(!) World Cups.

Almost nobody puts Pelé lower than 3. And Cruyff had a huge influence but he's usually top 10 or so.
I have made the argument, just not in response to you.
> In quite a few times I have seen studies showing that the lowest carbon emission in any food group would be either shellfish, seaweed, or insects… Vegan would exclude two of those…

There's a whole strand of veganism called bivalveganism which supports the usual vegan diet + eating bi-valve creatures like mussles precisely because their cultivation seems to have a lot of positive environmental benefits (or at least, it's one of the least harmful, as you mentioned) and because they seem to rank pretty low in terms of sentience / capacity-to-feel-pain.

> Crop agriculture is however the most common source for water pollution

Again I think the most compelling rebuttal is the fact that dairy/meat is the primary driver of crop agriculture today. We can feed the world on literally a fraction of the crop agriculture that we currently do. The vast majority of that crop agriculture goes towards feeding the animals we use for dairy or meat. So in terms of thinking about the whole picture, as you mention, any problems with crop agriculture are exacerbated by meat/dairy reliance.
> If that's good enough for all the other omnivores and carnivores in the food chain, it's good enough for humans.

If there’s a larger “food chain” on the interstellar scale where some intelligent species mass-consume others, would it be “good enough” for some aliens to farm humans like we do animals?
"hCaptcha has grown into the largest independent cybersecurity service in the world"

I feel like Cloudflare might have something to say about that, given that Cloudflare is an independent cybersecurity service and uses hCaptcha.
many captchas let you fill them in once and then use the resulting cookie to do whatever else you like on the site. Just manually copy the cookie to your bot hosts.
It was a way to run Unix (with a large U) on inexpensive hardware so it could be used for POS terminals and similar applications. This enabled it to capture markets where the workstation and server Unix manufacturers simply were too expensive.
For those who are interested in which sources aren't included:

https://www.nordier.com/v7x86/files/RELNOTES

"The following limitations apply to the distribution:

- The source to the C compiler is not part of the distribution. This is currently built separately as a component of a modified version of the Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK).

- The source for boot (the second stage bootstrap) is not part of the distribution. This is currently built separately using a 16-bit version of pcc."

The compilers mentioned:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_C_Compiler
We don't disable the service if a protected site goes over their limit.

Right now we manually look at the limits and are reasonable with overages - also we can see how many captchas were unsolved.
Anecdotal of course, but my code is no longer there. My profile still exists because I want to open issues with the tools I'm using and what not. And every once in a while, I stumble upon a project with a big disclaimer that the main repo is now on GitLab.
Maybe if Java left the Stone Age and fixed the need to escape regex metacharacters this wouldn't be necessary.
Work anecdote: Before I discovered “openssl speed”, I used JIRA to find race bugs in JS tests - loading up a JIRA ticket while running the test in a loop would spike the CPU for long enough to trigger the race. :)

Man, that UI is such a slow resource-hog of a bloat-ball.
> But I also recognize that a lot of people just don't have any kind of emotional response to this sort of thing, and that's ok too

I will guarantee that a massive percentage of people do in fact have a very strong emotional response to this kind of thing, but it's all just "out of sight, out of mind".

If you make people be involved in the killing of millions of baby chicks, they'll suddenly care very, very much.

Our modern world is doing thousands of thousands of utterly horrible things each and every day, we just don't get to see it or be involved, and we're way too busy making our next mortgage payment and getting the kids to school on time to notice.
> And really, the article also mentions Apple used to do this with a local cache but stopped doing this in Catalina

This exactly. Local cache works fine, certificate revocation is rare, and a marginal to nonexistent improvement in security is not worth the slowdown, denial of service, and privacy invasion.

Chrome uses a certificate revocation list for basically the entire internet; certainly macOS can (and indeed should) go back to using such a list for developer certificates, as they did in Mojave.
You are describing simple differences in human beings as problems to be solved. This is an extremely dangerous position to take. Who is to say people in the city are not the ones that need to be "healed".

You're also assuming that cities are a universal solution. What if living in a more decentralized way is actually better for the environment?
A lot? It's not that big a secret, if the question ever occurs to you. I've known for a while and haven't even read the book.
macOS grep is from FreeBSD, at least as of macOS Mojave (10.14). (Source code for 10.14 might be at https://opensource.apple.com/source/text_cmds/text_cmds-99/g....) Not sure if it was ever GNU grep. Maybe before the big purge in 2011?

IME, most of the basic shell commands are either directly from FreeBSD or a project in the BSD universe. For example tar is from libarchive, a distinct project (see https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive) that DragonflyBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and macOS import and track. (But oddly not OpenBSD, which has evolved the 4.4BSD-Lite implementation.)

According to a 2012 accounting at http://meta.ath0.com/2012/02/05/apples-great-gpl-purge/ (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3559990), macOS was down to 16 GPL packages in macOS 10.12 from 47 in macOS 10.5.
It's precedent at a federal level (which would apply here), but that doesn't mean people like it.
See [Art.] 12-a. [Power to Take Property Limited.] in https://www.nh.gov/glance/bill-of-rights.htm
Part of the point the author makes is that the tech sector--as a cluster of monopolies with disproportionate socioeconomic power--is part of the economic problem.

Like it or not, the tech sector does not operate in a vacuum. What the tech sector enables, and how it concentrates wealth, has consequences for all of society. Anyone who is connected to the tech industry, as an investor or employee, has a social obligation to be aware of the externalities created by this industry.

No one gets to mix paint thinner into the office coffee and then cry 'stop playing office politics' when they get called on it.
wtf, you're comparing the work of someone who's a bit overexcited about redesigning the web, to DRM

do you even have an argument here?
It's all good and well to argue about it while we're at the top of the food chain. No guarantee that'll always be the case, though.
Elegant regexes are almost unheard of in real world no matter if it's e-mail or anything else.
Ask HN: What's a Product Mngmnt certification/course well accepted in tech?
I know there are many, but it seems none of them are well known and I'd rather spend several thousands on a course/cert universally recognized...any pointers?
Rich gets richer. They need more money to do things they love. Elon for SpaceX. Jeff for Blue Origin. Don't they care poor people? I think they do. They just care more about their passion.
> the inane choice to use RxJS despite literally no valid use cases

We did the same at one company I worked for. It was a terrible decision.

RxJS is one of those things that is fun to play with until you look down and it's cutting off your legs before you even felt it. Instead of simple AJAX calls when needed in places that are logical, your app turns into this hydra of events flowing everywhere and never knowing why anything is happening or where it's happening. RxJS is what happens when a Jenga tower makes love with a Rube Goldberg machine.

And don't get me started on those damn marbles. We're writing goddamn CRUD webapps!!! We don't need marble diagrams for this. It's like that Mitch Hedberg joke about donut receipts. We don't need to introduce complexity into our simple life.
You're right that there is an electricity cost to solving this type of captcha - the same as there is an electricity cost to loading 2MB of JS+images and clicking the pictures with the fire hydrants (and the infrastructure behind that). It's hard to estimate how they compare (and what value you assign to the human labor performed and privacy loss).

20 seconds would be a fairly high difficulty. It's up to the site owner to decide what makes sense for them.

If anybody comes up with a useful computational task with a small bundle size that can be verified cheaply that would be the holy grail - until then the computation is only there as a form of hashcash.
This is why the browser isn't the best place for things like this. A Fat client is better. I still don't understand the push for webapps, when we have all this hp, storage is cheap, and we have modern installers that don't splat everywhere.
I've been following crypto since 2012 (I work in the industry on an alternative cryptocurrency). I completely agree that this is the primary issue that Bitcoin and Ethereum have. Lightning and other second layer scaling solutions show promise but just haven't matured at the rate that I was hoping. Most applications just aren't feasible with such high transaction costs. I have a strong feeling that when second-layer solutions finally mature, the conversation will completely change.
im surprised companies still want to build their own identity system or pay companies (ping, auth0) to host it for them

ory looks like a really good project
You downvoted me, why don’t you try for yourself? Keep them covered for a minute so you’re sure that your brain isn’t messing with you, then look again and you’ll see it.
Nice, can't wait for the armada of "Slack consultants."
Learn how the Internet works from a cable signals to TCP
Yeah, the Salesforce execs look out over that Slack sign all day.

Advertising does work!
I think the biggest cost isn't termination itself, but rather the paperwork/overhead involving with a new full-time employee combined with the risk of wrongful termination lawsuits. Even if such a lawsuit is entirely baseless, it takes time and money to deal with.

It's the reason so many companies prefer contractors to short-term full-time employees. You avoid all the new-hire overhead, and you can always renew someone's contract for another six months, but if/when you want to let them go you just let the contract end and that's it.
Wonder how difficult it would be to integrate this directly into a tool like TeXmacs which could use something like this?
The only reason not to ask is if you don't want to be disappointed by what you are told.

If you have any concerns about a charity and they can't tell you what percentage of your contribution will go to their stated cause or can't tell you what percentage of donations go to marketing, fundraising, and salaries then you should not give.

For example if you don't ask or they will not tell you, how would you know that only 4% of every dollar given to "Kids Wish Network" finds it way to helping kids.

https://www.cnn.com/2013/06/13/us/worst-charities/index.html
> I value ethics and empathy deeply but, I don't understand vegans and vegetarians.

That’s a ironic contradiction. If you witness the conditions in which animals are born, raised, harvested and culled by the millions, and still be okay with it, you really don’t have a claim to empathy.

[I enjoy meat]
Thank you. That's not a small sum, though they probably have some internal tiers per number of requests so for lower traffic scenarios the monthly price might be more affordable.
I haven't heard of this, but things move fast in the Kubernetes world. Trying to find a link to the KEP now.

In the meantime, Linkerd has you covered if you want to use Service Topologies in Kubernetes. Oh, and you can get mTLS and metrics at the same time. Cool.
Privacy preferences seem to be borked
You are completely glossing over the fact that animals need to be fed.

Sustainable grazing (most grazing isn't) is a perfectly good use of marginal land, but that cannot produce anywhere near the meat we consume. Most animal production requires producing feed from other agricultural products. It is inherently less efficient to do this. Chicken is more efficient than beef, but still much worse than just eating plants directly.
CAPTCHA does not scale. CAPTCHA spams real people with requests and wastes my VALUABLE time, and still labels disabled people as subhuman. It's offensive. It's ineffective. It's outdated.

It's reaching a point where encapsulating a VPN with anti-captcha is something I'd pay for.
It's good to see all the FUD about Blender slowly disappearing, it wasn't that long ago when half the comments on anything about Blender were something along the lines of "you get what you pay for".
People aren't stupid, they know the shops exist and the risk associated with third party repair. It's not first party manufacturers or government's job to mitigate that risk or convince people its acceptable for the price - that's the job of the repair shop.
Niobium: The mighty element you’ve never heard of
Perl and Ruby don't need to escape regex metacharacters so why do Python and Java? It's just archaic.
There are 3rd party products who convert WA data from iOS to Android and vice versa (and also, you might be able to get your data using a new android device or even android installed in a VM).

The main problem here is that like everything FB related, you are the product, not the customer At least, I haven't found any reasonable explanation about why Google and Apple get an unencrypted copy of your chat history but you can't. (And not for lack of trying - there are always ridiculous answers on Reddit and HN about "but if you could read your messages, so can the bad guys")
Block propagation time is only a part of the problem and it doesn't make sense to consider it separately from other parameters. By the way, why do you think block times in PoS have a normal distribution?
Incorrect. Out of the three Sierra hosted at LLNL that have the "4 GPUs per node" you're talking about, two of them are in fact accessible from the public Internet. One is in Collaboration Zone CZ (Sierra/lassen), another is in Restricted Zone RZ (Sierra/rzansel). Only one of the three is classified (Sierra/shark), and even then it's still sshable when one's logged into SecureNet.
Self-evident that the market can't provide enough jobs for everyone?

The labor market in nearly every country -- certainly every wealthy one -- is highly regulated, so it's hard to know how one could even have experience with this, let alone claim it to be self-evident.

Unless your claim is (unlike the parent poster, perhaps) that the US's highly-regulated labor market doesn't provide enough jobs...which I would agree with...but we'd probably disagree on the cause!
Somehow, after all the rewatches over the last 20 years, that show still has the ability to give me goosebumps during scenes like that.

Masterful is the only word I can think to describe The West Wing. Masterful writing, acting, directing, etc...

It also happens to be one of the funniest shows. "WOOT CANAW!" "They won't let me smoke inside but you can pee in Leo's closet."
?? How does a tool "die" out of curiosity? And how would you even compare docker compose and k8s?
There's a lot of mechanisms that can be defeated through collusion of the participants. The trick is to think like a cunning participant and sniff out every way to make money out of the system.

I recall the story of some similar spectrum auction (was it in Freakonomics?) where the participants were allowed to bid arbitrary $ amounts, and turned out they were encoding the geographic areas they wanted to buy in the last digits of their $ bids, and thus signaling to competitors to not compete and artificially hold down the price in those areas.
To me, JeremyBanks' second sentence clearly implied that users don;'t trust progress bars anymore, and your comment was unnecessary. He is also certainly implying that lying is not OK. Interpreting them otherwise seems like a strange kind of contortion to me.
The most important thing to remember when selling anything, is to understand whether or not the person you’re facing wants to buy it.
The word sales people use is “qualification”.

If a person is qualified to purchase, selling them your product is a no brainer.
When you qualify a person wrongly, you’re going to regret it. Waste of time (yours and theirs) and money (mostly yours).
Imagine you have a shared office DNS resolver (which is pretty common). That resolver would aggregate all of the requests into one shared, cached stream. Then the question becomes "hey Apple, one person of how ever many thousand are behind me would like to know if Adobe's certificate is still valid". That's reasonably anonymized, I think.
They'll put up with more than they need to in order to run whatever plops out of Apple.

Go ahead and try getting your friends to use a pinephone where both of these "repairs" are trivialy doable by the end user.

People will take out loans just to run snapchat and iMessage.
I usually just bounce when I see a captcha (if I get one, I usually get a string of them, so I don’t bother).

However, I checked secondary markets where you can pay a human to solve a captcha.

It takes a professional captcha solver 70 seconds to solve an hCaptcha but only 15-20 seconds to solve a reCaptcha. Is that typical? That seems horrible.

The market rate for a captcha solution is 1-3 cents, which is clearly worth it, until you think of the ethics of paying someone slave wages so you can browse the internet slowly, but at least without breaking concentration.

Have you considered a more ethical approach, like micropayments that go to charity or something?
any links or other info about that?

sounds realy cool
I might be very wrong but I recall a required dependency of jitsi meet not being open source. This was maybe 3 years ago
Agreed. Jira makes it easy to add a new field, plugin, or workflow step for a particular use case, but it is much more difficult to determine if an existing field/plugin/workflow step can be safely removed. As a result, everyone is afraid to touch it, projects accumulate cruft over the years, and it degrades the entire workflow. The problem is especially bad if there is shared ownership of JIRA, and therefore everyone feels empowered to add, but nobody feels responsible for the dirty work to clean up the mess from time to time.

My company had resisted the urge to bolt on additions more than most. We recently migrated from Cloud to on-prem Server as a result of being acquired, and it is amazing how much zippier our project is compared to some of the peer projects that have accumulated cruft.
https://themarkup.org/blacklight
I think that's more a reflection of increased confidence in Tesla's viability/survivability. As well as a lack of other exciting, inspiring, industry defining companies to invest in.
Not even Perón or Carlos Gardel?

Wow.
Maybe I’m a cynic, but I take as a given that the incredibly wealthy will always (in aggregate) wield their power in a way which has little regard for society as a whole. I’m open to suggestions about what can be done to improve things. Maybe focusing on your points about how perverted capitalism has become, is more fruitful.
https://work.chron.com/army-required-knowledge-e2-e3-promoti...

Various benchmarks: time-in-grade (ex: 6-months as an E1 makes you eligible for a promotion to E2). For E4, there are two paths: Corporal (Non-commissioned officer, a leadership role) or Specialist (non-leadership, but a more specialized set of skills).

More importantly: these promotion requirements are well regulated, checked-and-double-checked for consistency. Everyone in the ranks knows what to expect. Leadership knows when to promote. A sense of fairness exists, etc. etc.
I find it amusing how much attention the world is giving to deforesting in Brazil instead of addressing the billions of tons of CO2 that the US, EU and China keep pumping to the atmosphere year after year. It feels like Brazil was chosen as scapegoat to shift eyes from the fact that nothing is being done by some of the major culprits of global warming.
I'm still in disbelief that I could only find a single news outlet that fact-checked Biden's claims about how much carbon the rainforest absorbs (https://www.clickondetroit.com/features/2020/09/30/fact-chec...).
Of course that Bolsonaro doesn't help, but the amount of double standards force me to agree with his defensive stance.
That's an awesome idea. Looks like the videos they post online of the bridge area great way to get people excited about it as well.
Slack already had a "good exit". They are a public $20 billion company. If anything getting acquired is a step back for them.
At what ratio of energy out/energy in are they supposed to achieve that?
The author seems to have used the auth from the official client for some application. Discord indiscriminately bans due to API abuse.