skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can offer up a stronger one than that (though remember I did decide to stop eating meat).

The strongest argument is that (some) animals don't have a sense of their own self/mortality or make future plans beyond not experiencing suffering or fear.

If you could kill an animal in that set without it suffering that would be okay, particularly if you took good care of it up to that point.

I have two main issues with this in practice.

The first is that I've become a lot less comfortable about which animals 'don't have a sense of their own mortality or make future plans'. Humans have been pretty arrogant about this line and the behavior of lots of animals (birds, dolphins, octopus etc.) suggest some pretty complex behavior and communication.

The second is a logistical issue, I basically don't think it's possible to do it in such a way that doesn't cause suffering or fear (and we certainly don't currently anyway even if it was possible).

This also introduces the issue that human infants aren't really self-aware or making future plans, but it still seems wrong to kill them even if you do it in such a way that they don't suffer. So I think it's at best, still not totally consistent without carving out some exceptions for human babies or 'future potential' which feels like cheating. And it's also not really practical anyway.

To your point, it'd still ultimately be 'because people like eating meat', but at least if the above argument held and meat was produced that way - I wouldn't think of it as necessarily unethical. That said, ultimately I think the argument is wrong even if it is the strongest wrong argument.
The humans weren't allowed to sweep either, so it wasn't curling.
You should read the Bitcoin Standard or Layered Money to get a sense of what money is and how your notions are quite far from the truth, although delivered with feverish confidence.

BTC is infinitely divisible, and so can be used as currency. Can you give an example where its capped supply would cause an issue?

Bitcoin is backed by proof of work. Money backed by entities are liabilities, which is a bug and not a feature of fiat money. I really suggest thinking about this for a lot longer.
Hey @amasad! One of my friends is a high school CS teacher, and I've been helping design some projects for their class using Repl.it. One thing I've been looking for, is there a way to publish packages the students can import in their project? It seems like from most of the examples if we want to provide code to the students the only supported way is just including all the source code in the template. I'd really like a way to publish a Repl.it namespaced package that the students can just import, which I can update at any time.

One example: a project where students can make a bot to play a board game. We want to provide all of the client/connection logic for them so they just write the bot part. We can't easily update the source files if we need to change it after they started the template. Also some kids may edit the files and cause it to not work.
Not unless you’re in BC. Start with your local farmer’s market, a lot of ranchers will sell there and can arrange for larger frozen boxes or cattle shares. Look for grass-fed and grass-finished. The ranch I recently bought from even grew large leaf kale to feed its cattle over the winter. You can literally taste the local grasses and the land.

It’s more expensive, but you treasure every bite. When it’s something you’ve hunted yourself, you couldn’t imagine letting a scrap go to waste.
The typical 5% is split 50/50 between the buyer and seller brokers and paid by the seller. If the agent represents both sides, there's usually a discount, e.g. 4% total. Additional broker incentives, e.g. extra 0.5% to the buyer broker, may increase the commission
Neat app, I could see myself using this. However, one thing that makes me hesitant is bitrates and deeper information on file exports. Does it maintain the same bitrate as the original video? I see you have a lot of information (Cmd + F) on "export" but nothing regarding bitrates. An FAQ page would be useful instead of the long single page. I work in video production so bitrate is an important thing-to-know before purchasing. Anyways, cool app.
Proof of concept: Autonomous robot to save people from drowning
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"JavaScript: The Good Parts"
That says more about you than it does about cars and Bitcoin. I like having code that nobody can take down but don't drive.
You can position your rocks perfectly, yes. But the opponent team can displace them whenever it's their turn. It's a game of strategy. The only thing that counts is the final arrangement. The robot won over humans 3 times out of 4.
> The biggest movies are worth hundreds of millions of dollars and are filmed at locations all over the world. Evidence of illegal activity (ie drug use/possession) could seriously impede a celeb's ability or willingness to travel.

What? Has an anonymously leaked video of drug use ever prevented someone from entering another country? I've traveled a fair amount and gone through immigration in a number of different countries. Not once did any immigration official ever search the internet to see if there were any videos of me doing drugs. That is not a thing that happens.

> And good luck being signed to any such production if you have a past history of drug use.

Again. What? What are you talking about? If celebrities with a history of drug use never worked again, there would be no celebrities. Practically every celebrity has used drugs at one time or another.

The box office cares? Robert Downey Jr. was famous mostly for using drugs when he did Iron Man and went on to become one of the biggest stars in Hollywood after that.
Most of my company's code is open source.
i dont think there is any similarity between trump's approach and biden's.
> The problem is that you either have control over the DOM, or let someone else do it (React, Vue, etc).

Someone needs to implement a (higher or lower) level of DOM access than what's offered by the current API -- something that would allow React's virtual DOM to be the actual DOM, whether that means allowing direct API access to the underlying tree data structure, or simply implementing the internal React VDOM API on top of the current DOM API.
Depends on the crop. I know a lot of lettuce is grown Hydroponically. (but its basicly cellulose and water to begin with).
Yeah I'm with you - its like saying we built a machine that can go faster than usain bolt... a car...
Globally it has a variety of often charming interpretations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign#Names_in_other_languag...
Sanitize, normalize, and distrust. All three cover different use cases.
Please no. Trying to validate your input for any format that currently exists or may exist in the future is really wrong. You need to handle this at the edges - for SQL this is using prepared statements, for XSS its about using a framework that makes the correct choice (default escape HTML entities).

Anything else is madness. Of course, if you're dealing with legacy systems you might have to do something tragic like not allow people to put quotes in passwords.
For what it's worth, banana peels were a serious matter too

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/can-you-slip-banana-pe...
New paper idea - deep reinforcement learning for constant speed cruise control. Because AI gets you grants.
My kids _love_ Beyond Beef; to the point that they ask for "the real beef" when I cook "beef" items, like burgers and meatballs, with literal real beef.

I've tried the other fake meats on them; like Lightlife and St. Ives. They won't touch it, and I find cooking with the other fake meats is just ... nowhere near as good.

Beyond beef is awesome. I wish it were cheaper.
Well, I was referring specifically to the massive roadways between buildings devoid of value - in that American cities were designed around cars whereas European cities tended to be designed around walkers and horses. Public transit is also substantially better on the whole, and so is walkability and bikeability. I'm confident it's not perfect but I was trying to focus on concrete things.
The date of the provenance of the coin would be possible to note on the ledger, and cross-reference with the hashrate at the time to determine how much capital would be needed to mine the coin. Which in turn poses the question of where that capital came from.
So there are a couple of things here:

*A strong engineering team should've had vulnerability scans at some point in their build process. That SQL injection vulnerability would've been easy to spot

*That SQL injection probably should've been picked up in a code review

*They should have been using parameterized queries in the first place. The fact he removed input sanitization methods is besides the point, that they shouldn't have been relying on those in the first place.

*A senior engineer or CTO should've known better. But I've seen very senior people make bad mistakes before. These mistakes are much more likely with immature processes and safeguards.

*Sometimes someone can get to a 'senior' level without necessarily knowing how to do some aspects of software engineering well.

A strong engineering team is about the performance and practices of the whole group. You can have individuals who are experienced at particular skills but have big gaps in the skills and experience needed to build a strong team.
New builds are outside the scope of rent control, so I'm not sure it's a relevant factor in Berlin.

I think a lot of this discussion may be around gentrification as much as anything.

Some nice neighbourhoods in Berlin were on the E. Side and they were kind of run down, but over the last couple of decades the hipsters moved in, now the professionals.
Probably; I vaguely remember them being discussed at my very first programming job around mid 2000's, which was writing Perl
Destroys the RSA Cryptosystem
Me too, the first thing flashed in my head.
This is devoid of content and the paper it references is already on the front page with significantly more votes and comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26321962
So what reparations are they making to Aaron if their story is true (which it is not) The people in charge of this 'Trove' should be drawn and quartered.

We know the truth about you minsky dershowitz pedos.
You're conflating rent control (which impacts long-term tenant-landlord relations - which are largely a zero-sum game that does not create any new housing units on the market) with zoning and building and lending regulation, and tax rates, and returns on investments in real estate and stock markets and debt (which impacts construction of new housing.)

The entire purpose of this subthread is to tease the two apart. Rent control is a solution for the here and now. Building new housing stock is a solution for the future.

The two are largely orthogonal, and the causal relationship between rent control and construction of new housing stock is incredibly weak. There are a million factors that have a far bigger influence on the latter, compared to rent control. If you want to encourage development, relax zoning, cut the red tape for construction, stop letting NIMBY groups veto projects, raise property taxes, and actually start non-rent controlled property at market values.

If rent control were eliminated tomorrow in San Francisco, it would continue to have a crippling housing shortage, because of those million factors.

You have a wrong impression of who most local governments focus on. They don't focus on the needs of the tenants - they focus on the needs of landlords (mostly concerned with keeping rents high by preventing any new construction) and property developers (mostly concerned with getting concessions and hand-outs from their municipalities.) Most city councils are squarely in the pocketbook of the latter. Both of those groups have a lot more money to spend on influencing campaigns and elections, compared to unorganized groups of tenants.
> I can guarantee there’s a sql injection issue somewhere.

This class of sql injection issues can be eliminated by simply enforcing that all queries are string literals.
This is really the crux I find in these situations.

A pure statistic doesn't tell the whole story. But for pointing it out you usually get labelled a racist.

If there are less people of color applying or objectively eligible for a job the statistics will "paint a damning picture". But maybe the picture isn't damning at all and if the same people had been white they also wouldn't have been chosen. The smaller the numbers involved the less we can just assume that because of the sample size something like this has 'worked itself out'. It's like looking at my coding statistics for the last week. That says nothing as there's so much variability week to week depending on circumstances. But looking at a full year any outliers should have been reduced enough to be able to make decisions based on the numbers.

That said looking at the sibling post as well, there seem to be quite a few positions open in that department. So now one could probably start deducing.

EDIT: and there comes the down voting for 'being a racist' for pointing out that statistics are statistics and that it looks like statistics might actual favor the article protagonists odds. Awesome!
How do you say "/e/ OS"? I know this is always asked but I still don't know because I've seen conflicting answers. Is it just e OS? Why complicate your brand by throwing in "/"s?
Sadly, Impossible is basically unavailable where I live; but Beyond is.
One thing I've always wondered is why we as a society even let real estate be a thing that people can buy a lot of. Why does an individual get to buy, say, 10 buildings and rent them? The title "land lord" even seems like a holdover from some feudal time.

Not that I think you completely outlaw the practice, but why not start taxing after, I don't know, you own 20 units or something. Just figure out some sort of scheme that disincentivizes people from hoarding a resource required for life. I'd much rather rent from someone that lived in the building and actually cared for the place than some random LLC in Florida I mail checks to that can't be bothered with anything.
I really don't know jack about this stuff, but I will be blown away if your market predictions turns out to be true.
You can’t blame Bitcoin for starting the fire, people have been speculating on financial assets as long as they’ve existed. And not just the huddled masses; smart people like Isaac Newton have been burned by bubbles.
Why would someone backdoor their own key when they could instead just mirror the data or something?

Yes, the person you are encrypting something towards is responsible for ensuring that encryption is secure. No matter how secure you make the cryptography, the other party could still just leak the key...
"Senior AWS Manager" should be the title not "AWS Director". This feels like someone running the whole AWS is suing Amazon.
I'd like to add an upside which is:

Totally great and simple on a single node.

I looked at a bunch of analytical databases and had a lot that started with "so here's a basic 10 node cluster". Clickhouse installed and worked instantly with decent but not "big" data with no hassle. A hundred million rows with lots of heavy text blobs and a lot of columns, that kind of thing. Happily dealt with triple nested joins over that, and with billions of entries in arrays on those columns didn't bat an eye.

I'm sure I could do some great magic in postgres but naive work didn't give anywhere near the same results as clickhouse (obvious caveat for my workload).

Pretty good with JSON data, my only issue there at the time (may have improved) was you had to format the JSON quite strictly.
I feel that Python will be known in the future as the language that caused a generation to have a crippled sense of reasoning about how to design computer programs.

It's lack of a normal, standard scoping model alone teaches a very flawed reasoning about computer programs.
Newsflash, it never stopped. In WI, many places here are just completely ignoring this ever happened. A lot of businesses openly challenge the law and i think like over half the sheriff's here signed a petition saying they wouldn't enforce the governor's mask mandate.
Wow, this article doesn't do it justice.

Watchy is an open source hardware device that uses an e-ink display and has an ESP32 module builtin [0].

SQFMI, the creator of watchy, has a twitter account [1] which has some very nice screenshots [2] [3]. Even the CrowdSupply website has better pics of the device [4].

This is one of the few watches I've been sorely tempted to buy.

[0] https://github.com/sqfmi/Watchy

[1] https://twitter.com/sqfmi

[2] https://twitter.com/sqfmi/status/1351647180382228488

[3] https://twitter.com/sqfmi/status/1357177624523661315

[4] https://www.crowdsupply.com/sqfmi/watchy
I didn't mean to get caught up on the specifics of electric cars vs. other technological innovations. I clarified a little more over here[1].

As for the decentralization aspect: I think a lot of people in countries outside of the US would disagree with you that trust is not a problem with the banking system. Not everyone out there can just get a credit card with 2% cashback that's backed by the rule of law I enjoy in the US.

I think you've also sidestepped the issue of inflation. Just because the American public hasn't yet learned that their money's value is being printed away doesn't mean that they're not going to be the ones feeling the hurt in 5-20 years, particularly if UBI et al don't keep pace with their decrease in purchasing power.

I saw another one of your comments allude to the idea that democracy is a solution to this, but I don't ascribe to the idea that we should shirk technology solutions because political ones might exist. In many cases, technological innovation drives demand for political action. I don't want to debate the merits of Uber as a company, but I think it's hard to ignore the idea that the introduction of car-hailing apps created demand for governments to completely rethink taxi monopolies.

Ultimately, I'm not trying to make a case for Bitcoin. I'm trying to make a case for the idea that the adoption of and furor around Bitcoin is going to significantly influence the vNext of our banking system, even if that just means e.g. that the near-instant clearing of large Bitcoin transactions is showing folks that ACH is garbage, or that T+1 stock settlement is achievable.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26322823
What rule in particular?
I would think a Ruby code fuzzer would have caught something like that... if they have used one.
The anecdotal information I heard was that in general there were less people adjusting to later coursework successfully, in absolute numbers.

From a pedagogical standpoint, if the point of an undergrad education was to produce people with well-rounded abilities in their field, I don't know that switching introductory courses to Python was the best move.

Personally, I'm thankful that the first program I was enrolled in allowed me to "fail" fast, so that I quickly figured out that I shouldn't really waste more time and energy into the program and switched into CS. It's a lot easier to pivot as a freshman in your second semester than as a junior finishing the academic year. (And I knew people who took that long to switch majors, who either spent way more time and money or dropped out.)
I think you're right, and I would go further and say that it becomes even more complicated because the higher order fields are often as old or older than the foundational ones.

We created frameworks for understanding political science and the humanities, still relevant today, millenia before any real neuroscience occurred.
Shutting down the economy won't make your belief any more right though either.
This was also discussed by Don Lancaster.

So for a good trivia question: who invented the concept of Basic Blocks?
One can generally look at the stated values of the people advocating for a policy, and then run objective studies on whether that policy produces outcomes in line with those stated values. A lot of people, confronted with proof that their favorite policy does not do what they want, will simply deny the science and continue to believe that this policy is concordant with their values.

Some policies are also bad enough that one can safely say that no reasonable mainstream set of values could endorse it without denying the actual facts of the matter - for instance, re-introducing lead and asbestos is just plain Not A Good Idea for any set of values worth discussing, despite the fact that there are most assuredly a few sociopaths out there who'd be happy to make a buck gutting those regulations.

I've no personal experience with "rent control" but I get the impression that the people saying it's a bad idea genuinely mean one of these two cases, not simply a difference of values. Whether the science actually agrees with them, however, is quite beyond my expertise :)
A speculative store of value that everyone has coordinated upon is utility, and this has little to do with the quality of the underlying technology. The fact remains that I can pay merchants of varying degreees of shadiness in BTC much easier than I can send them a wire transfer. Now, you might not think this is good for the world, but it certainly is utility.
Cutting off internet is virtually the first thing an authoritarian government does at the sign of unrest. I want to say there's been something like a dozen in the last decade. If you include incomplete internet shutdowns, that list would probably grow well over 100. Hell, it's not just limited to authoritarian governments: the UK requires ISPs to filter certain sites.

I would not bet that the government is incapable of cutting off access to bitcoin.
I said it was a matter of degree. The point I was making is that it is universally true that people don't like to hear people from groups who they feel oppress them use those words that symbolize this oppression but they don't mind as much (though they still do mind) hearing these words used by people in their own group. The n-word is an example of this. Is this pattern more pronounced with the n-word? Sure, but the degree and length of the oppression experienced by black people at the hands of white people in the US is quite different from that experienced by hillbillies. And my point in choosing the term "cracker" was just to pick an example from the other side of the skin tone divide in the US, because the people complaining about how unfair it is that some people can say the n-word and they can't are typically from this demographic. I figure this example might hit close enough to home that they'd see my point.
If you want to reduce animal suffering, there's a pretty good argument that cows are the last animals/animal products you should stop eating.

You should definitely stop eating eggs, as egg-laying chickens live short, miserable lives where their bodies are destroyed rapidly. Chickens, fish and other small animals in captivity live short, miserable lives, and one family can eat a whole chicken in a day -- thats alot of chicken deaths to eat chicken regularly.

Cows by comparison generally live pretty good lives, better than any wild cattle. They can roam and eat well and socialize, and slaughter is pretty humane compared to being hunted down by predators or dying slowly of an infection, broken leg or other natural cause. And one cow death can feed an entire family for a very long time.
Man, some people are just next level productive:
"How hard could it be to put together a tiny user-mode TCP, just for the purposes of doing pure-userland WireGuard networking, so people could SSH into instances on Fly without installing WireGuard? I made the mistake of musing about this on a Slack channel I share with Jason Donenfeld. I mused about it just before I went to bed. I woke up. Jason had implemented it, using gVisor, and made it part of the WireGuard library."