skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If at some point in the future we discovered a way to identify and measure "suffering" in all creatures, and (given this) further found that the animals we eat do not experience it, then what? What if we managed to measure the opposite of suffering (whatever you want to call that; I'll go with pleasure for now)? What if the animals experience quantifiable higher pleasure when raised as food? What then?

I'm sure you have thought of these scenarios in some way and have a more nuanced judgement, as most people I've talked to have. I'm just curious what are your reasons? Maybe they'll convince me!
>"Now, if crystals can interact not only in space but also in time, we add another dimension of possible applications. The potential for communication, radar or imaging technology is huge."

Could anyone expand on this in an accessible way? What kinds of changes could we see in imaging or communication technology?
we dont actually use emojis - we just use names, eg. "[dust] i dont like how this looks but whatever", "[boulder] this code doesnt run"
Since the article doesn't do a good job of explaining what a time crystal is, here's my attempt at summarizing the Wikipedia article [0].

Normally, a system which is driven by an external frequency oscillates at the same, or a multiple of the driving frequency. This is because the external conditions are symmetric under a time translation (i.e. a delay) by the period duration. This symmetry is normally preserved by the system.

A time crystal, however, will oscillate with a fraction (or rational multiple) of the driving frequency. This breaks the original time translation symmetry.

The analogy with normal 'spatial' crystals is through this symmetry breaking: Empty space is symmetric under all translations, but a crystal spontaneously breaks the symmetry group down to the smaller set of 'translations by a multiple of the lattice constant'.

The continuous symmetry of time translations cannot be spontaneously broken, due to thermodynamic arguments. Instead, we explicitly break down the time translation symmetry to 'delays by a multiple of the period duration'. A time crystal then spontaneously breaks the symmetry down even further, by multiplying the period duration / dividing the frequency.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_crystal
Traders were expecting better news than they got.
That us not the purpose of bitcoin. (There is no “blockchain technology”)

While bitcoin is a record of transactions, and as such a database, it was not created to be a database.

Did you read the OP article?
Indeed, every apartment in Mountain View is rent controlled by municipal ordinance. But it only applies to increases on existing tenancies; when someone moves out, the landlord can charge whatever they want to the new tenants.
I wasn't defending the OP's actions. I had read his defence but none of the accusations against him. I cannot evaluate whether he has been fairly treated. Your justification of his accusers' actions makes some sense to me.

Your first couple of paragraphs were unnecessarily aggressive and inflammatory. You are just flat out wrong to imply that was how I was thinking of you. If it was your intention to demonstrate the OP was treated fairly, these two paragraphs should have the opposite effect. From my point of view, if you could be so wrong about me, perhaps those accusers might have been wrong about him. This is weak reasoning, but you can imagine how I could swing in the counter direction after what you wrote.

For the sake of clearing up a previous misunderstanding, I never thought you incapable of understanding intent. I was pointing out that in that particular sentence that I highlighted, lies the root of a contention. People are using phrases like "magic incantation" because for such people a word taken in isolation can never hold power. Words must always be taken in context to reveal intent. Elsewhere in this thread there are comparisons to the word "Jehova", which seems apt. Mere utterance of this word was, at some point, considered to be invocation of the deity. Many people now consider such a taboo to be based on ignorance. I guess I will find out, since I just wrote it down;)

Yet there is another word on which taboo is still near universal. There is no context in which I feel it may be used safely here. That this is the case is a bad thing. Not because of the absence of one word, which has historically been used in a very mean spirit and would not be missed. Rather because of the category error that brought us to this point. And because of the risks of allowing this type of error.

I invite your reply, but I implore you to try to be charitable. I have not made nor implied any disrespect to you.
The magic is in the combination of types and proper names. What use is a variable that‘s nicely named when you don‘t know what it holds?
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In development: https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/
Nope. And I'm not going to say since this is my top secret anon account.
Huh, looks like you're right about serverUpdateProhibited. TIL! Thanks.
Those sausages are definitely better than the burger patty to me. I just wish Impossible would get more products out since their burger patty is the first uncanny valley leaping veggie meat I've had.
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This is one of the few positives about Bitcoin - if people choose to sink money into it, effectively redistributing weatlh to people that bought these useless hashes when they were sold at $100, real estate, gold and other useful things we want will not appreciate as fast as if it didn't exist :)
I thought the argument was that fire allowed us to process meat and acquire the calories needed to be more productive.

Regardless, your argument seems to be that eating meat is better than starving. That isn’t an argument for eating meat. It’s an argument for food security. Guess what food security depends on. Reduced emissions.
It will also fail if there is a stdout, but echo cannot write to it, for instance because you are redirecting to a file and have run out of disk space.
>> This is the best news I've heard all week.

Not meaning to snark, but I don't see the good news. A manufacturer of mass-produced, low-quality, highly procesed food has struck a deal with large companies that specialise in selling exactly that kind of food. That the food in question is plant-based makes no difference at all. Companies like McDonalds, KFC and PizzaHut are responsible for the normalisation of industrial food production that is causing widespread environmental destruction and they have no incentive to solve the problems it creates. Switching to plant-based alternatives will simply change where the damage is done. This is just typical greenwash.

As a for instance of how companies like McDonalds encourage industrial farming and agriculuture tactics that are detrimental to the environment:

A Mongabay investigation, prompted by a report done earlier this year by the NGO Mighty Earth, suggests that customers buying chicken from some of Britain’s largest supermarkets and fast food chains may unwittingly be fuelling rampant deforestation in the Bolivian Amazon and Brazilian savanna.

Tesco, Morrisons and McDonald’s buy their chicken from Cargill, the biggest private company in the world, which feeds its poultry with imported soy. The U.S. food distributor purchases its soy from large-scale agribusiness operations that often burn and clear large swathes of native forest to make way for their plantations.

https://www.mightyearth.org/ukmeatinvestigation/
You're predicting >12% yearly inflation? That seems like a pretty bold prediction. I'm curious if you have any sources that would back your prediction.
I like RISC-V but I don't see it taking on mobile (ARM) or desktop (x86, ARM) anytime soon.

I think RISC-V has potential for servers if it can match the performance of x86 and power of ARM. Perhaps we'll see some trickle-down from HPC.

For custom SoCs, RISC-V seems like it might be more appealing than paying for an ARM IP core.

For researchers, students, and hobbyists, RISC-V is great, because it's free and open source and can run on an FPGA.
I'm no biologist, but even assuming all of that blog post's sources are reliable - it is still cherry-picking findings:

* Not counting livestock contribution to GHG, but rather an estimate of how much removing it would reduce GHG (which is room for a lot of speculation that is very hard to support).

* Preferring a figure taken from a single paper by two individual researchers over the United Nations' official FAO statistic, which is 14.5% of emissions due to livestock lifecycle.

* Focusing on how forestation is challenging, while the source acknowledge that the de-forestation is very damaging.

* Ignoring the huge amounts of land necessary for growing livestock (Example: ~55 times the area for peas for same amount of protein [1])

* Ignoring the question of the distribution of meat consumption among people in the world today, and the feasibility of a meat-rich diet for everyone.

I'm sure there's more, but this is enough not to be very receptive to the claim of misguidedness.

PS - Due disclosure: I eat poultry and occasionally other meat. But I am still worried about the environmental impact of its production, with the foremost aspect being de-forestation.

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=15588468
> maybe they just didn't build a strong enough engineering team and quickly ran into the limits of their experience and skills levels.

"Free Speech platform Gab has announced Fosco Marotto as the company’s new Chief Technical Officer (CTO). According to a blog post from the company, Marotto was formerly a software engineer, production engineer, and developer advocate during a seven-year career at Facebook.

Marotto reportedly brings 23 years of industry experience to the platform along with extensive knowledge in backend infrastructure and insight that will help Gab scale as it becomes increasingly popular."

CTO: https://github.com/gfosco

Parse Server: https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server

Parse Server API doc snippet:

"If your app is compromised, it’s not only you as the developer who suffers, but potentially the users of your app as well. Continue reading for our suggestions for sensible defaults and precautions to take before releasing your app into the wild."

https://docs.parseplatform.org/rest/guide/#security

Per Ars, he removed security code.
> I use PL/SQL a fair bit, which was inspired by Ada.
I have a bit of a project-idea here: PL/SQL+Ada+VHDL all together in an IDE.

> Unfortunately, the designers did not bring over
> ShortName is New ReallyLongAndAwkardName;
Do you mean renames?
Package Text renames Ada.Strings.Fixed;

IIRC, RENAME is in the keywords list for PL/SQL.
For another hackable smartwatch, see the PineTime.

https://pine64.com/product/pinetime-dev-kit
~600K USD per block is not “small” :). Mining power is directly correlated to cost of electricity. Most mining is located in electricity-rich districts for good reason. It’s the only cost-effective way to sustain the network. Those regions are scarce across the globe, ergo in high demand.
Costco has an advantage over everyone else -- they already know who you are before your purchase is complete. By scanning your membership card, they already have your average purchase profile.

They actually ask the credit card processor to approve you for $avg + X%, so as long as your purchase comes in lower than that, you've already been approved. If you make a really big purchase it will take a little longer, because they go back for a second auth for the bigger amount.

It's also why you'll see some people making $700+ purchases without having to sign anything -- because Costco already knows they do that every week and pay the bill on time so they assume part of the risk.
Questions Software Engineers should ask when joining a new startup
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I don't think being a health food is Beyond Meat's (or Impossible's) goal and it really shouldn't be.

I think they're trying to get the experience of eating meat right, they don't care (much) about the health profile. I think that's the right approach for them.

Some others are trying to grow actual meat (Memphis Meats), in that case you'd get the same nutritional profile without the suffering if they can pull it off.
I honestly thought I was the only one, how cool is that? I too find `test` preferable over `[` since it leaves no doubt we're calling a command just like any other and the same assumptions still apply. I also avoid `[[` since it isn't posix and won't work in simpler shells.
"Machines better at exerting precise force on an object than humans using only their bodies"
I've never seen plant based meat labelled in a way that could trick a reasonable person into thinking it was animal meat.

I don't see what you'd gain from not allowing the word "meat" to be used - it's very clearly a product that's trying to imitate various kinds of animal meat, and I want that communicated to me efficiently.
Those entities can abuse your trust if they decide to censor or cancel the transaction for some arbitrary reasons. Same can apply in the context of money, rules of said money can change, a person won't be necessarily always ok with that (we're talking about your own currency/savings), you don't have much control and much choice.

As a developer I appreciate the ability to skip the use of a third party, I just wish there were more users in this network, but the network grows.

And this is not about the united states in particular. I'm not from the US, I'm glad if you didn't had any problems with your monetary system and banks, and I hope it continues for the good of everyone.
> When you see the entire stock market move because the Fed chairperson makes an offhand comment about when they'll start or stop doing xyz policy, you realize having such a highly centralized system is dangerous.

Then you see that Bitcoin moves more when Elon tweets...
Agreed. This type of process feels obvious to those who implement it, but becomes a burden that everyone else has to bear forever.

As this type of process accumulates, it becomes more and more painful for newcomers trying to join the team without breaking the rules. Obviously one requirement about prefixing code review comments isn't much, but in my experience it usually doesn't stop here. People who like creating process and rules tend to want to create a lot of process and rules for everyone else to follow.
The iPhone's release was the first concrete time I instantly noticed that tech enthusiasts are shit about understanding tech products. Every normal person described it in glowing terms but /r/technology, Slashdot, and every damned tech enthusiast community spent most of the time talking about Reality Distortion Fields and how Nokia had this or that feature and the iPhone couldn't copy-paste.

Stopped listening to these people for product expertise. Even took a chance on Facebook at $19 when HN was gleefully expounding on how this was obvious and the company was doomed. Glad I did that.

Did it again when everyone on HN was convinced SMCI was spying for China. Worked out again.

I'm going to call it "Tech Enthusiast Inverse Sentiment Index" TEISI. List it on the NYSE and people can make big money doing the opposite of people here. Maybe you get a couple of losses like WeWork and whatever but overall, I think you win.
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What I desperately would like to understand is that why are there so many attacks on bitcoin based on flimsy opinions and incorrect information?
This idea is a big one behind the development of modern crypto currencies. Ideas like "Layer 2", "Zero Knowledge Rollups", and "Parachains" are all built on the idea that not everything that happens needs to be on the main blockchain.

Personally I suspect that eventually a more modern blockchain will become the base level of record, or more likely that we may never settle on a single one, but indeed with proper layering it could all be BTC in the end.
Who knows, deep learning AI has progressed to be just about smart enough to make autonomous poop-picking-up robots feasible—maybe it’s a sign
The housing market in California is direct proof of the success of China's capital controls. Capital outflow from China to the West Coast dropped over 90% after Xi introduced capital controls.

When I was still in consulting, I had dozens of clients whose projects were killed when their Chinese investors could no longer get their money out of China to invest. A billion building sits unfinished across the street from Staples Center in LA (and has, for 3 years) because the developer can't get its money out of China to finish the building.

Thousands of local buyers are able to buy houses and condos in LA these past 3 years because they don't have to compete with all-cash foreign buyers any longer.
Between this issue, the general untrustworthiness of the reviews, and the fact that I can quite often find a better deal on masking tape, undershirts, or whatever else at my local brick-and-mortar store or a more specialized big-box retailer’s website, I actually rarely shop at Amazon anymore. I do still buy there—especially for certain categories, such as streaming videos—but I used to do SO much of my shopping at Amazon. All in all, Amazon just doesn’t feel to me like the outstanding store, the “shiny object” that I once thought of it as—it feels much more like a typical “rent-seeking” operation. But clearly they aren’t suffering for it—so they must be doing something right. *shrug*
Indeed, and this "back to the TUI" I advocate isn't restricted to developer tools. I actually think of such replacement with end users in mind.

Maybe not necessarily something as radical as terminals, but anything providing the same programming ergonomics (in order to be easy to build and maintain) and constrained by the same restrictions (so that functional requirements get tamed).

At first, it would definitely sound as an involution, but I feel somehow confident that the market in general will accept such constraints as soon as the results become evident.
they wrote, on the internet using a computer in a discussion about cryptocurrency.
Why did you hate react? It‘s really one of the less complicated frameworks out there.
In a word: drivers.

Sailfish has a runtime for Android apps, but under the hood it's closer to other mobile Linux projects, and to that end the hardware compatibility is less like Lineage or /e/ and more like UBPorts.

Android's handling of the Linux kernel, until this current version cycle, has involved several forks per device -- patches from Google (the Android Common Kernel), then patches from chipset vendors, then patches from device vendors -- with closed binary drivers inserted at various points in this process. [0] Treble has been exposing generic hardware interfaces to system images since version 8, but the drivers themselves haven't had that kind of uniformity re: how they interface with the kernel itself.

There are projects that will adapt them to run GNU-based systems -- to use UBPorts as an example again, it actually does exist as a GSI -- but since the modifications needed to get them to run depend on a custom kernel, they're still device-specific.

Meanwhile, Android devices are required to run Google's entire test suite using a generic build of AOSP, so while GSI compatibility isn't perfect, the minimum baseline is effectively just the ability to unlock your bootloader.

[0] Generally. In some cases -- most Huawei devices, non-US Samsung models -- the device vendor is the chipset vendor. But that doesn't mean their chipset IP is any more open than, say, Qualcomm's, nor does necessarily alter that of other components like camera sensors.
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Ah,I misunderstood your point because I read another reply.

You make an excellent point!
It only takes a little bit of bromoform to poison methanogenesis in rumen. It would actually improve feed conversion as well.
what prevented you from getting it before? this seems like it was the explicit goal of the meat substitute companies for forever
The agricultural revolution - settling, understanding the seasons, plant selection and breeding - are much more important factors to where humans are today and the rise of civilisation and modern population scales than animal husbandry. That was part of the story but I've not seen any researcher arguing that domestication of the cow was more important than grains.

But anyway there is no doubt animal meat is nutritious. The question is not xis it nutritious" or "was it important for humanity in the past," the question is where we go from here. Even if you can make a cogent argument that it was essential to humanity's rise that doesn't provide an argument (or vegans might say a justification) that we still need animal meat in 2050. Arguably constant warfare and burning coal was what drove technological prowess in Europe to bring us a long way to today's world, but would you argue we still need those? Slavery was essential to the rise of America, does that make it right to continue? Colonialism made Britain rich and rose many Brits out of poverty, does that mean Britain should continue exploiting India? Domestic violence and marriage of underage girls was a common and essential feature of human societies every where, does that justify continuing them these today?

Arguments based on past practice hold no moral or scientific sway over our future.
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Just because meat helped develop humnans to have large brain growth does not mean it is the best thing for humans. Evolution prioritized different things. Living longer and healthier past the age of 30 are not things that would have been affected.

You're going to believe what you want, but the meat/dairy industry are truly diabolical in what they produce and how they do it. From the conditions of animals, to how they treat them, to even how they treat their human workers are just bad up and down.

How many people grow and raise their own food? We need comparisons that work on a global scale. I believe some amount of high quality meat and dairy can be good for you, but we as a species consume way to much and it's just been going. Our fish intake is absolutely devastating for our oceans. The amount of cows, chickens and pigs we slaughter is also extremely detrimental.

These plant based burgers are a start. Beyond claims no GMOs where as Impossible openly embraces gmos. Nutrition science is difficult, but hopefully we're progressing, and I think reducing meat consumption will improve peoples diet on average.
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street.
That is why someone created https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoTechnology/
You misunderstand me. I'm curious about the price, but not willing to spend time or commit to silence to discover what it is.
lol the author must live under a rock because i know people, individuals, who have retired thanks to crypto. not to mention funds like pantera capital who's IRR multiples are in the thousands