skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> starting to think of meat as a luxury

I remember growing up drinking soda with every meal because the common perception was that you ordered water at a restaurant only if that was all you could afford. Trying to make meat a luxury is the best way to ensure long term increasing demand.
Vaccine efficacy, statistical power, and mental models
> Trump thinks he’s a Republican.

Trump thinks its useful to be seen as a Republican, just as he formerly saw it advantageous to be seen as a Democrat and for a brief time (his first Presidential campaign, coincidentally also the first where the Reform Party nomination would have let him funnel federal matching funds as well as donor funds into his own businesses) as part of the Reform Party.
Just because something is evolved behavior doesn't make it moral: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QsMJQSFj7WfoTMNgW/the-traged...

Natural selection doesn't have morality as a goal, only passing on genetic material.

> "The suffering of an animal is not the suffering of a human; and if suffering is our primary concern, there's plenty of human suffering that still needs dealt with before we worry about animals."

I think it's possible to care about both and not eating meat is a relatively easy way to reduce one.

> "They're simply _not human_ and so as someone who doesn't anthropomorphize them it's easy to simply not care whatsoever about their emotional state."

This just puts humans in a special reference class by themselves. It makes it easy then, but I just don't find this that compelling.

> "I think there are a lot of oversocialized people who watched too many anthropomorphic movies and cartoons as kids."

If you have spent any time with animals you learn more about them, fear, suffering, varied emotional states are not uniquely human.
I had thought MIT press journals were open for a long time, yes? This seems quite notable though: https://mitpress.mit.edu/blog/mit-press-launches-direct-open
When grass naturally, does it produce methane?

EDIT: it must be part of cow digestion. I just remember that cow burbs are bigger methane problems, but cow farts are fine. Still not sure about methane from grass dying normally, and maybe there’s lots extra grass being grown for cows that wouldn’t grow normally?
I meant those!
Great, let's just let current trends continue for a few decades and we can live in a world where the most powerful military belongs to China. I'm sure we'll be much safer then.
Oh, and I suppose Pitchomat 5000 was just a modified howitzer?
Demystifying Event Engagement
> Not something that sane people should want

Thats uncharitable, and in my opinion ignorant. Inflation distorts the signals people use to make investments, leading to misallocation of assets.
Lessons from CoinDesk’s One-Day YouTube Shutdown
What you are looking at is like buying an iPhone and wanting to block Apple. You won't be able to from the phone itself (unless you flash another ROM but then you'd be better off buying something like a pine phone).

If you are really serious and you won't flash a new ROM then you will need to filter the traffic after it leaves the phone as you cannot trust the phone or its apps. IMO the only way to do this is to use a VPN to connect to a device that runs a proper firewall. It could either be a Raspberry Pi you carry around (bit too geeky for me) or a server somewhere you trust. I connect to a pfsense machine at home via VPN and filter traffic with pfblockerng. You can block on geography if you want.

My girlfriend's iPhone is just as bad as my OnePlus..
So what? If you happen to see an obnoxious Nazi posting, simply mute them and move on with your life.

Personally, I usually don't even do that, because it's useful to occasionally comment on their posts (which are a tiny, tiny fraction of Gab's content) to point out to them that Nazi totalitarian tyranny is in no way preferable to socialist/Communist totalitarian tyranny.
Its got utility to the people who use it, which is what matters.
We should call this Aaron Swartz day
Building a Custom Rotary Encoder with the AS5048
I think this will be on a lot of people’s minds. Is there any official connection? The link just takes me to the library.
Me too. Thank you Aaron.
That’s a great HN title right there.
I can't speak for React, but I found adding VueJS was perfect for adding JS functionality incrementally to a section of a site. See my other comment on this thread on using it to create a dynamic contact form to an otherwise static site.
The pulse ox is pretty cool to have around given that lots of people develop asymptomatic covid and are hospitalized much later with very low o2 sat.
Yes. It even said so in the letter you get when the price was lowered. My rent was fairly 'overpriced' for the area so if it gets overturned I'll owe around 500e per month for every month that the law was in effect. Needless to say, most who lost their jobs and even many who didn't won't have the 5k or whatever it is in their case to give up suddenly.

I guess if many of us find ourselves in debt here and can't rent because the debt means we cant ever pass the Schufa which every place checks then possibly that'll ironically help solve the housing crisis..
Nice work, I love WireGuard, what it needs is more recognition and definitely more integrations like this.
It's really hard to get the same perceived color out of a screen (which shines combinations of R, G, and B at your eyes) versus a physical thing (which reflects a subset of the sun's radiation into your eyes).

The way we do this only works for humans, incidentally. Most of the time, different things only appear to have the same color because they happen to map to the same "point" in color perception space, not because they actually produce the same light distribution.
Just to be clear, you are claiming that doing the wrong thing because someone else is also doing a wrong thing is going to make things better because "they deserve it".

Sounds like a vicious circle to me. Who is going to think that YOU "deserve it"?

Also, by choosing to work for a bad actor, you would be enabling them, purely out of a selfish motive.

People making ethical choices is one of the (many) things that make the world a better place.
Rent control, minimum wage, compulsory employee classification, "free" healthcare, "free" education. All sounding good on paper, but every time the unforeseen side effects rear their ugly heads.

Every time we try to "improve" on the market "failures", we screw up. Because there is an universal law it seems: you f.ck with the free market, the free market f.cks with you.
If true... Hot damn!

There's NP-Hard problems that if we had polynomial time solutions for we could vastly improve the quality of life on earth.
You have a very good point!

I has also been shown that under the right conditions grazing lands can actually sequester carbon [1].

So there is no a priori argument against meat from the point of view of climate effects, though there are obviously better and worse practices.

[1] http://www.fao.org/3/i1880e/i1880e00.htm
The fact that it's getting worse says to me that we're just returning to the human mean. For decades programming was seen as the purview of nerds and geeks so the only people who turned to it tended to genuinely like it and master their craft as much as exploit it. Now everyone and their grandma use software so programming has become one of those semi-prestigious professional career paths but without the crazy expensive barrier to entry or restrictions in supply that doctors, lawyers, etc have. Even though programming is largely problem solving and "intellectual" rather than menial physical labor, the field has become so accessible with the internet that the distribution of engineering ability is starting to look a lot more like the usual bell curve centered on "just average".

It was great while it lasted.
Implement the userspace wireguard client and TCP stack as a ProxyCommand, make something useful for the general case of SSH'ing over wireguard.
Land Value Tax. That's the whole comment.
> The paper has the same title as a 2017 draft paper

Not quite the same title. He has papers with similar titles since at least 2010.

I wanted to say thanks - this document linked to on his wikipedia page was unexpectedly fascinating! NSA, patents, conspiracies..

https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=95280154624588&w=2
Bitcoin was being distributed for a decade, nano was “distributed” in a matter of months and there is no way to tell what is the real distribution, for all its worth a single entity could be in control of 95% of it.
This increases code complexity. Also, for many applications, we prefer to have a max field for dynamic strings. Each type of string representation has its own pros and cons. This comes back to my original comment: there is not a universally better solution.
Man, what a damning article. This could be really tough for Amazon.

> During the 2017-2019 time frame, no Black employees were hired at or promoted to the director level ("L8") within Amazon's public policy division, the suit alleges. Neither were any Black employees hired at the next level down, L7, until December 2018.

That's pretty specific. I wonder how big the public policy division is? If I look at amazon.jobs there are like 8 pages of open recs in public policy...so it's a pretty huge organization. And global, too.

> she did the work of an L7 job for several years before receiving a promotion to that level in fall 2019.

This one is a little tougher for me. It's pretty common to "do the work" of the next level for a promotion. In isolation, this doesn't seem so bad. But if she was deleveled before even taking the role that's...not a good look.
> cars improve the quality of my life (i like to drive)

And if cars were primarily used as an enthusiast pursuit (like horses in the modern world, actually), this argument would make sense. But cars are not primarily an enthusiast pursuit, instead they are something that we've structured our entire way of life around, and made enormous sacrifices for. Many people need a car whether they want one or not, and we all pay the consequences for it.
Also see Livewire. I'm personally not a fan, but it's a interesting direction and definitely has its advantages. It's also unfortunately rather horrible on slow connections (imagine waiting 500ms for your fancy dropdown to open).

I think the end result will be a mix of javascript for localised interactivity and html over the wire for server side stuff (ex. datatables).

https://laravel-livewire.com/
HA even LOWELL is called out in that... they are a douchey fucking company to begin with.

but yeah, it wasnt 64MM in the end it was 118MM

Ill get more info
> Congress has passed laws protecting the speech of the individual within certain types of service providers, i.e. telecom/ISP/website publishers.

Telecoms, yes, ISPs and Websites, no. FCC adopted regulations under statutory authority it saw as allowing, but not requiring, thatnfor ISPs, but later retracted them. Websites have liability protection for hosts for user content specifically to encourage host moderation of user content, rather than creating an entitlement against such moderation.
It looks like someone read the paper and came to the conclusion that this shortens the expected lifespan of RSA and submitted the paper to IACR. I doubt it was Schnorr himself who decided to make the sensationalist claim.

The final theorem in the paper is where the polynomial time claim is states. Can't quote it here because it would make no sense in isolation, but the math is readable and the claims should be independently verifiable.
In the US at least, there is a welfare system in place that you cannot be "canceled" from if you have the need.

I'd be surprised to learn there are instances of people being canceled and starving to death.

As for going broke... The US system has never and continues to not guarantee people employment. Guaranteed employment is a property of another socioeconomic system that starts with a 'c', but it's not capitalism.
Yes, that goes without saying; yet let it be said: we should take the utmost care to cause the least suffering possible to the animals we keep for food.

One reason why industrial farming must be abolished, because it is exactly the kind of thing that encourages cruel and inhuman treatment of animals. Incidentally abolishing industrial farming would also help with environmental targets etc.
> I suspect git would make a fine back end for a more polished product for scientists.

Agreed! That could be a winning idea.
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Bitcoin transactions are super fast compared to modern banks.
It's worth noting that numbers of this size are already being factored with existing techniques. RSA-250, a 250 digit (829 binary digit) product of two primes was factored pretty recently: https://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/cado-nfs-discuss/202...

Moreover, a 768 bit product was factored over 11 years ago, though it took two years to compute! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge
US Air Force Will Reverse Engineer Some of Its B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber
I love the core idea too. Also static hosting keeps getting cheaper, free-tier can take you pretty far, and self-hosting keeps getting easier.
Is it me, or it is just irresponsible to push this through before it gets legally cleared. You basically endangered the finances of most renters in the city.
The One-Sided War of Ideas with China
Hacking stuff together using a userspace networking stack is an incredibly fun side project and significantly easier with the gVisor networking libraries written in Go.

Last year I implemented TCP/IP over AWS Cloudwatch. Tons of "can you believe that actually works?" stuff possible with it:

https://medium.com/clog/tcp-ip-over-amazon-cloudwatch-logs-c...
Integer factorizatiom not proved to be NP-complete. It's been guessed to be "hard" for a while.
Is it just me or is that really hard to read?
Procore S-1 IPO
Readermode gets around the paywall.
I hear this kind of reasoning often, but I don't believe anyone is willing to apply it outside of food.

Yes, many non-human animals would eat you if given the opportunity. Some species of large cats might also kill you for amusement. Does that fact justify you doing the same? Many animals might try to copulate with you. Does that justify bestiality?

And if you're comfortable with moral arguments based on reciprocity, where does that leave humans such as babies? They certainly cannot extend any moral consideration to you, but I assume you're willing to overlook that?
Mechanical watches need to be serviced every few years, though.
> It's difficult to make an argument that it's a more virtuous way to select winners

That's because it's a strawman that you've constructed. Real debates involve consideration of the needs of people who can't find housing in heavily-regulated areas. Existing tenants aren't the only people worth considering. They just happen to be the people with the votes and the political power, so it's no surprise that local government focuses on their needs at the expense of everyone else.
with Reddit tho you can look through a users post history to see how likely they are a bot.

I'm not saying its perfect by any stretch.
Somebody has been watching a lot of television.
At a glance my first though was "there's probably SQLi here", but it's not obvious to me that attacker controlled parameters could actually be used to exploit this. The ID and pagination parameters all seem to be ints, and it's not obvious to me that an attacker could turn them into arbitrary strings. Is custom_filters.phrase the attacker controlled string?
Where is Silicon Valley now? (On Clubhouse)
I hear Gab's probably going to be hiring soon.

But really, if they get fired from one job because of their awful opinions, they can try to find an employer who shares them. I guarantee there's someone out there who will hire people who believe the kinds of things I mentioned above. Maybe their new job will be worse, or have lower pay or benefits, but that's the consequence of sharing those opinions in public.

And let me be very explicit: I can happily work with people of all sorts of political persuasions. I couldn't care less if someone's a Republican, Democrat, or neither. If they're a decent person who treats the people around them with respect, then welcome aboard! Again, I've never heard of anyone losing their job just because they thought William F. Buckley had some interesting ideas.
“ The U.S government is calling upon its industry leaders to reverse engineer parts of its Air Force's B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. Details of the call to action were shared on the government's contracting website, beta.SAM.gov.

The notice was first caught and shared on Twitter by Mark Thompson, a national security analyst, who pointed out how ironic it is that the U.S. now has to reverse engineer its own parts — something he states the Chinese did when adopting U.S. technology. ”

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/MarkThompson_DC/status/1366408888...
You want guarantees in software resources? Have you heard about the famous interview torture for jobs?

Your OP wanted to paint a picture of inexperienced development team. Both items in my post show that both the team (who initially had it right) and the CTO (who inexplicably removed the two lines) are definitely experienced.

That Parse Server looks like a substantial piece of code and there is a community around it, so let's be fair and grant the CTO a measure of competence, shall we?
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Possibly the biggest issue is ethics. Speaking as a physicist, we can perform experiments on atoms, that would hopefully be unthinkable on humans. Even psychology gets more results if ethics are overlooked, e.g., in areas such as advertising and interrogation.
We have a mini pig that lives with us. I think the parent's comment is vastly underestimating pigs. They're very sweet, empathetic animals.
Do you need SPA for everything there? Because if server side rendering/logic is “allowed” with only a few interactive bits here and there written in jquery, than it can be absolutely done as that was/is the case a “few” years back.
That last one is really the kicker here. It's hard to interpret this any other way outside of the current tech boom than "We're failing, have been for years, and are looking for a lifeline here to float us a little further down the river."

I sometimes can't tell if this is just the bright spot right before total collapse, or if we've just entered a completely new business paradigm.
It is strange, perhaps a pdf reader exploit?
The majority of the worlds meat is raised in areas where forests do not naturally develop.

If all natural meat consumption stopped tomorrow, Brazilians would cut down forests to grow whatever is needed for fake meat. The problem is land is one of the few economically exploitable natural resources the country has to sustain itself.
If we all lived your semi-charmed life our carbon footprint would have killed the planet already, see: my updated comment
> We ignored the need to regulate ... and allowed walled gardens of unprecedented size to be imposed

I suspect this was done intentionally and systematically, as a kind of "shadow policy". It's resulting in massive concentration of wealth and control, which, from certain sociopathic/political perspectives, could be argued to benefit the country in terms of global economy and national security.
I think you would agree that a GAN, or any generative model can only generate something in the same domain as what it was trained on. If you trained on mostly on human faces with a little bit of rabbits, it's not going to generate rabbits well. If you trained it on mostly on English text and a little bit on Mandarin, it's not going to generate good text in Mandarin. Same with sounds. Different languages use different sounds.

If they use any generative model in their codec, they had to train it first, offline, on some dataset. They can't possibly train it equally well on all languages, so we should be able to tell the difference in quality when comparing English to more exotic languages.
This is one of my favorite problems :) It's so easy to state to people and surprisingly wasn't solved in the 2 dimensional case until 1992!

I also like how unrealistic the "drumheads" proposed in the proof were: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_the_shape_of_a_drum
> as someone who doesn't anthropomorphize them it's easy to simply not care whatsoever about their emotional state. It doesn't noticeably impact the quality of the meat

You haven’t kill much, didn’t you? Otherwise you will know that stress and the way you kill the creature change it’s taste. Depending on what you are killing, it can be a dramatic change.
I agree, at this point I'm way out of my depth so I'm waiting for folks who know cryptography inside and out to give their comment
It's a historical artifact of Typescript's development. The `unknown` type wasn't introduced until Typescript 3.0 and since `JSON.parse` is part of the Javascript "standard library," changing it now would be a brutal breaking change across almost the entire ecosystem.
I was trying to make sense of that title. Reading “Diet-er” because I didn’t know who “Dieter” used up more brain cycles than I care to admit. I must be afraid to click on potential clickbait.
There were limits like this already in place in Germany. Rent could only be increased every 12 months, and for Berlin, I believe, no more than 15% total in 3 years.

It didn’t help much. Landlords could circumvent it in many ways: by offering contracts to new renters that automatically increase each year, which then isn’t bound to the limits. For existing tenants they could do bullshit renovations that trigger a modernization clause, also killing the limit. Or put an Ikea couch in the apartment, then renting it as furnished, again circumventing some of the rent limits. Sure you could sue, but in many cases people were just happy to finally find something and ate up the higher prices.

Although I’m positively affected by the latest rent control laws in Berlin, I’m also not totally sure what to make of it. But I wanted to let you know that this is by far not the first law that was passed to try to curb price increase.
It's for various reasons, but one of them is that, from an attacker perspective, you don't have to strictly solve the factorization problem. You just need to be able to crack a tiny fraction of the keys in a reasonable amount of time in order for RSA at that key length to be considered unsafe to use. In that sense the attacker gets the benefit of best-case complexity.
I don't remember signing up for it. Not out of the question that someone in my family did with my devices. There needs to be an option "5. Some crappy dark pattern subscription that I don't want". It would be very easy to build some type of subscription service that autopauses if you don't use it for a month(s). I did not log in to WaPo and so shouldn't have been getting charged. Let's keep the pressure on the businesses to discourage dark patterns and not nitpick on the consumer because I didn't adequately respond to a set of options that left out a critical and common category of disputes.