skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who is not a vegan I think this is a very well written, concise summary of the distinction. I appreciated the clarity. Personally I am not swayed by veganism because I think the concept of suffering is oversimplified. In my view, suffering is better described as cognitive awareness of the situation causing pain or distress. Being mauled to death by a leopard is far more likely to cause suffering than a cow being walked into an abattoir—because the cow has no concept of an abattoir.

A cow spends 18 months in a field living a generally quite nice life. In its last moments there is momentary discomfort as it is knocked unconscious by an explosive bolt to the head. Is this moment of discomfort so intolerable, so ruinous of the animal's prior worth, that it's better if it never existed in the first place? In my opinion, this conclusion is absurd to the point of being weird.

I say this as someone who has personally experienced the sensation of been knocked unconscious by a severe blow to the head; in my case caused by an involuntary backwards fall towards the ground. I did not "suffer" at all until after I woke up with a headache. Had this strike to the head proved fatal, I can't imagine how I could have suffered at all.

There are many aspects of the animal food industry which are cruel and should be made illegal. There are many aspects of the animal food industry which have serious externalities that are bad for human civilisation. But this doesn't make absolutism the moral high ground.
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> After the news of gene editing embryos without consent or knowledge in 2019

Can you provide more info on this? I wasn't able to find anything specific.
I don't understand what you want to say. The comparison between BEVs and ICEs running on synfuels starts at the point where you want to turn electricity into motion. BEVs are more efficient by a factor of around 6. The efficiency of the wind turbine doesn't matter. You'll need six times as many of them if you want to burn synfuels instead of driving a BEV.
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Siberia is a good place too - right now apartments and houses are very cheap.
> The commonly held belief that programming is inherently hard lacks sufficient evidence

Is the fact that every software ever made is full of bugs not enough?
It seems this is run by the "Office of the French Ambassador for Digital Affairs": cool initiative, see their readme on GitHub:

https://github.com/ambanum/OpenTermsArchive-versions
I had never heard of blue-ringed octopuses before. Thank you for educating me. From the wikipedia article:

>The blue-ringed octopus, despite its small size, carries enough venom to kill 26 adult humans within minutes. Their bites are tiny and often painless, with many victims not realizing they have been envenomated until respiratory depression and paralysis begins. No blue-ringed octopus antivenom is available.

Australia is a beautiful country and I have relatives there. I'd love to visit them, once the whole pandemic thing is over. I don't think I'm going to go swimming.
yes!

https://tailwindcss.com
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Reminded me of Señor Chang
I am not from the US but I don't think that is correct. There are repercussions for some ethnicities because the civil rights movement is very recent history, but there is not an oppressor anymore.

On the contrary, kids should be taught that there were oppressors, but they are gone now. Then concentrate on the after effects.

As the poster said, you are just playing people against each other and the result is predictable and measurable.
> ... carbon footprint ...

I was referring to renewable fuel, where the tailpipe carbon goes back into nature.

> moving emissions away from the tailpipe has significant advantages for local air quality where most people live.

Yes, but where most people don't live is also where ICEs are advantageous in that an BEV would need Tesla size batteries for range, which are oversized for normal city-ish driving.
I think the concept of mutability conflicts with what was taught in mathematics.

In particular, the equal sign in programming is not the equal sign in math. We used == for that.
What does “autonomous” mean? There are a ton of template engines that don’t depend on a parent framework, there is no reason you can’t implement all features in C.

Something like mustache for example, which has a C implementation that includes support for includes/partials: http://mustache.github.io/mustache.5.html
You might need to clarify a few points:

- Is this the VAT you would charge to your customers?
- Is this VAT that your customers charge to their customers?
- Where are you based?

You would not have to register in all EU countries, but there are some complexities there.
> zum Kampfe gegen die freiheitliche demokratische Grundordnung

That doesn't really fall under "certain kinds of political views", rather under "I'm going to stage a coup and turn Germany into a dictatorship".

"Certain kinds of political views" is typically understood to mean opinions like "we need higher/lower taxes for the rich" or "men and women should/shouldn't have equal rights". That's not forbidden by the Grundgesetz, at least not for individuals.
So your answer to all specific problems I stated is "I reject your world and substitute my own".

Not one reasonable and intellectually honest person expects that the average phone user out there even knows what a browser engine IS, let alone compare two of them, or know where it's used (when it's not even disclosed).

Keep in mind smartphones are even more widely used than "computers" in general. So I guess even 8 year olds now are expected to do a security analysis on the browser engine their game uses before playing.

Delusional.
IMO there should be 3 voting options

I agree,
I disagree,
Noise/bullshit

The problem to me is I want to read things I don't agree with but I don't want to read bullshit.

I would especially love to read ideas with an even amount of agree / disagree but a low bullshit amount. Not just sum all this to zero and hide it. That is terrible.
> Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents. [1]

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. [1]

What would it take for people to be able to engage on topics like this civilly? Every single time something from the so-called culture war comes up, it immediately devolves into shit.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah, this is probably true for many people. Still, I always offered people that click around in Excel all day a session with me to see what aspects we could automate. There is always a lot, but it never really sticks. Indeed, it is that dealing with edge case stuff.

I admit I did a lot of data.to_excel() -> fix some stuff and then -> pd.read_excel() again back in the day...
From that same reddit:

> Really Rick Astley: "I'm rereading the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy AS WE SPEAK." ...

Ok, from now on I won't complain anymore if someone rickrolls me.
> Stating this belief can send influential messages that can have serious unintended consequences including inequitable practices

A self-admitted fallacy of adverse consequences in the very second sentence? That's not a good start.
> But is everyone that easily manipulated?

Yes

> More importantly, does everyone actually believe that they can be easily manipulated,

No

> or do they just think that everyone else is so easily manipulated, but somehow they're above the fray?

Yes
There's definitely "good enough" in commercial run of the mill programming. You can always improve a feature, make your tests more robust, automate something more, improve the UI etc. At some point, you absolutely do need to ask yourself "Is this good enough to be acceptable to the customer?" If you don't do that you will be working on the project forever. Also I think you are being dismissive of the professionalism of artists, writers and musicians when implying that they stop working when they think it's good enough. I play guitar and I can't help but compare music with programming. Both are very deep and complex skills. In fact I find music much harder than programming (but that could be because I have done programming lot longer than music.)
At some point, the answer is probably “find an employer who has chosen to return to a ‘normal’ office”.
So which parties are "losing money" here?
I am a person living in a house, and honestly could get water somewhere if I needed it. And if someone knocked on my door and said they needed a glass of water, I'd give it to them. I'll add that not all homeless folks look like your stereotypical homeless person that people think of, and I've seen folks get off work and be dirty and stinky... and they are allowed in all sorts of places (and do, indeed, come in, especially on lunch breaks)

I've given folks water when I worked in places that had such things, and most food places I've worked at - including McDonalds - gave folks water if they asked for it.

They aren't the only ones paying taxes, by the way.
Not everyone who needs water are homeless, and a good deal of homeless folks
My parents also got me that book as a teenager. I learned C from that book: I knew Pascal which we were taught at school and once I realised that you just substituted BEGIN and END with { and } it was easy to learn the other aspect.

I really regret that I don't have it any more for the sentimental value it held.

I see archive.org has it in their library [0], though it is is marked as "not for borrow"

[0] https://archive.org/details/teachyourselfgam00lamo

EDIT: Doh, I recogonised the author's name, but I'm thinking of a different book: "Teach yourself game-programming in 21 days"
>The problem with your position is a total lack of perspective of what's harmful to the planet and what can realistically be done about it.

The heaviest polluters and carbon emitters on earth could very easily reduce their pollution and emissions by at least 50% say, if not way more by changing the way we consume, travel, what we eat and so on. We are talking low hanging fruits here.

Do you now how many battery stations we need to plaster on earth, how many not yet invented technologies we need to get to significant renewable use which we could get for free if we could turn half of our coal plants off?

Just for 'perspective', over the last 30 years we have gone from, 93-95% carbon based fuel sources to... 88% today. People want to go to Mars in 10 years but it's 'unrealistic' to advocate that people replace beef with chicken and air travel with a train? This is the actual most bizarre thing about this argument, the complete inversion of who has lost perspective and realism.
I'd say programming isn't easy (as opposed to being hard).

What is hard is "the context". Bad documentation, cryptic error messages, not quite ready for primetime tools, persistent bugs, untangling some former employees' bad code, project managers with no backbone, management / leadership with bizarre expectations, clients unwilling to focus, unnecessary interruptions, etc.
It is very close to that of Denmark. We had 3 times that yesterday. Not a problem if you have vacines.
Unaddressed pain point.

Having been thru this myself and am about to go thru it again as Head of Finance, digital docs should really be stored separately in a file server.
So is the UK
It’s inflation in part but low interest rates drive it more.
So articles with click bait titles that pop up on some keywords define a group of people?

The only "vegan propaganda" I recall is displaying slaughter houses and intensive animal farming, which is disgusting and probably will be looked down with shame and disgust later by future generations. "We did that to animals?" will probably be popping in children minds, that are yet to be born.

History will tell.

I for once believe that in places where you buy meat there shouldn't be images of animals grazing in green fields, but actual footage and images of them being fed and slaughtered - at least people will see the real cost of eating so much meat. Maybe people would avoid those places more, and would have more consideration for every time they buy a piece of meat. It worked with tobacco, when images of the damages of smoking were introduced on packs in some countries.

I saw pigs and cows being killed as a kid, it's not fun or entertaining. A pig screeching it's a sound that gets engraved in your mind.

PS: I'm not vegan, but I'm increasingly dropping the amount of meat I eat for the past 5 years.
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Although not happening for me
I'm smart enough to know that homeless people aren't bad folks, and that homelessness doesn't mean scaring customers away or even mean uncleanliness. Landscapers and other folks that get stinky, dirty, and sweaty are welcomed in.

And I've "let" homeless folks into places I work before and given folks water. The McDonalds I've worked at did not charge for water. I'll also mention that water fountains aren't all that useful during winter.
Vegetarian here and can only agree. I love the flavor of meat and would eat it but in my view the meat industry is a dystopian nightmare that I'm sure our decendents will look upon with the same horror as we have when we look at our ancestors' acceptance of slavery and serfdom. I believe anyone who eats meat chooses to close their eyes to this suffering for a minor gain in pleasure - I can't make this choice for myself but I have to accept that others do so.

But to argue that fig wasps or bees are being exploited is free of reason. You can't till the fields without killing worms, you can't harvest grain without death of rabbits or mice living between the plants (but you CAN reduce pesticides and do less harm to insect life and the environment). You can't even make apple juice without an occasional worm in there. You also can't live in a modern city without exterminators killing mice, rats, pigeons, ducks, cockroaches, etc. You can't maintain a healthy forest without either wolf or man killing some of the deer.

The radials that can't see nuance or reality are not helping anyone.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I can't add much to that, unfortunately due to lack of knowledge. Too bad it is not easy to get high fidelity data on these market processes.

> Still, these figures are quite crazy.

Sounds to me like there is something we do not see.
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Some species of figs consumed by humans require caprification (either only for the Fall figs ­— San Pedro group —, or for both the Fall and breba crop — Smyrna group) which involves getting male figs from specific varities (caprifigs) on the trees you want to pollinate. These figs are where the wasps lay their eggs, but they're not really edible.

Now, when the wasps emerge from the caprifigs with pollen, they go into the the edible figs and pollinate them, but they cannot lay eggs there due to their morphology. AFAIK they die inside.

That said, most varities, at least here in Portugal, don't require caprification. This list of varieties from Algarve shows few requiring caprification: https://www.drapalgarve.gov.pt/images/destaques/Livro_WEB_Fi...
The EU Commission and several other competition bodies are currently studying Apple's anticompetitive practices. The reason it has avoided their action until now is probably due to the technicality of the issue and its deep ramifications. Hopefully the numerous recent articles about the matter will help the regulators understand it and act on it.
Maybe this is an unpopular opinion but "hard" is very defeatist. As yoda once said "there is no try, only do".

Hard is a relative concept - watch a one year old try to walk or a two year old try to climb over obstacles. Yet we take these tasks for granted.

Mandarin is "hard" I'm assured by many people I meet who try to learn it as a second language, and yet almost 2 billion people can speak it...

Take any <skill> that you have zero background experience in and it will feel hard. If don't have the prerequisite coordination, something like belly dancing will completely melt your brain just the same way programming will.

I happened to find programming relatively straightforward (compared to other people) but I spent a lifetime in front of computers and videogames and then studied hard STEM at college.

Just in the same way a gymnast would find snowboarding much easier than your average joe.

Personal development is an individual journey, measure your progress against yourself and approach things without ego and your progress will be so much faster.
We switched from a hash to bcrypt five+ years ago on a rolling migration. Just a month ago I received final go ahead to clear out legacy passwords and require a password reset if someone does try to get in. My point is that there are office politics at work here even.
I don't know about other western countries but in the UK, homeowners are the election-winning group, and are considered a moderating force - being both workers and investors.

Lacking that group is going to have some interesting political consequences.
Great! Over the past 6 months or so I've noticed a trend which I like: people are less obsessed with all the modern react-angular-vue-js-everything-html-css-bad notion and a lot of people are starting to admit that this whole sack of gibberish is unmanagable and unmaintainable(the web got it's own version of segfaults where something crashes and no one has even the slightest idea why) and we are coming full circle back to the late 2000's internet. Which to my mind was the golden age of the internet: you could slap a vga cable onto a potato and it had the computational power to display any page, whereas in recent years a single page eating up 200+ mb of your memory and increasing the cpu usage by 15-20% was a completely normal phenomenon. Oh and let's not forget "ew jquery, that's 200kb, that's horrible" all while bundle.min.js is a 15mb freak. Good job, personally I had completely lost hope, now I am starting to have some.
I have thought there was a short story to be written (or maybe it already has been!) about aliens who come to earth and start eating humans. When the humans complain, the aliens say, "why do you complain? you eat other animals, we eat you -- no big deal!"
Am I the only one having a hard time understanding what he's saying? Somehow it just feels like a hodgepodge of words.
Reminds me of a gps tracker placed on birds that got found in a 3rd world country and the SIM card was used to take up 1000s of dollars worth of calls on the scientists bill.
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Granted the internal policy might be more detailed but I've read https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/

It talks about not allowing "hedging Google stock".

To me it means "you can't short Google stock", which is reasonable. It would be really fishy for an employee to bet on failure of the company he works for.

It doesn't mean "you can't buy call options on Google stock", which would be unreasonable.
A lot of people do say that but I frankly don’t believe them when they say it. It’s well known inside and outside of technology that customer descriptions of their own behavior are often far out of step with reality and I think people would find Facebook less engaging and fun to use if it didn’t tune what it showed them based on their perceived interests and their activity. I would guess most people are friends with people they know but don’t actually want to hear from all that much, and it wouldn’t be ideal to be put in a position to have to remove family members because their posts are boring.
Let's not give people arguments for being more like Stephen Wolfram here...
> it locks out people w/o access to credit to take part in the market

I think it’s been 40+ years since everyday people without any access to credit had broad practical access to buy housing. (This kind of makes sense. You’re buying something with 50+ years of future utility and probably haven’t saved 25+ years of housing costs to put down in cash.)
Photography could use a well described lossless compressed format that can handle various forms of sensor data.

I suppose extensions of TIFF would work pretty well for the purpose, the tags describing say sensor layout and even maybe spectral sensitivities.

Heck, Kodak and Nikon also put their proprietary compression schemes in it. Maybe something new and open would work.
You can get them in the Github repo. Here's Facebook's privacy policy: https://github.com/ambanum/OpenTermsArchive-versions/commits...
> From my experience, in good teams people understand when it's time leave each other alone. I hate the word "sprint" which comes from the much hated "agile" culture, but it's what it is: there are these small sprints when everyone signals DND by taking on their headphones. Which also means only disturb me if it's very, very important or urgent.

When I was working in a startup, we did a "hybrid wfh" thing: we knew when we were about to have something requiring our full attention and would work one (or multiple) days from home. We had Google chat (or whatever it was called at the time) for anything that could handle a delay in response and the phone for anything that needed a chat right away.

At the time, the office was in a kind of co-working space, so it was a particularly hellish combination of open-space and multiple companies, complete with people unaware of their phones' silent mode. The upside was that even for regular work, productivity skyrocketed when we were home, so the founder, who initially was against this, started warming up to the arrangement.

More broadly, I think that different jobs have different requirements. I hate it when people talk around me and find it harder to focus. I never got used to this even after multiple years. And while I love listening to music, even while working, I don't enjoy wearing headphones all day long. I'm wearing glasses, so bigger headphones start to hurt after a while and in-ears are pain to put back in after every interruption.

Also, headphones cut you off from the surrounding discussion (that's the point, right?) so the whole "you can overhear the spontaneous decisions during the day" kinda falls flat, doesn't it?
Except you usually know how much it is going to take to tailor a shirt, a pair of trousers, a jacket, so on. It is vary rare that it suddenly blows up on you and takes way more time than it should.

And then the clients aren't usually changing half of the project as you go.

Or ask you to start "tailoring" before they know whether they want a leather bomber jacket or historical ball dress.
The evidence was already there: 1000x + more viral load compared to last year's version, and sky high transmission rates R0 ~7 compared to ~1-2 from last year. It's like the nuclear version of the virus has taken over. How much can it adapt further. Also does 1000x higher viral load also mean 1000x higher mutation rate ?
C is hard to optimise. Graydon Hoare gave a nice introductory compilers talk that went into some of the reasons why

http://venge.net/graydon/talks/CompilerTalk-2019.pdf
Not to nitpick, but the quote is "do or do not, there is no try"
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