skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that trying to do this for wild animals, aside from being highly impractical, can cause unintended side effects. For example, one well known account of the positive effect of carnivores on their environment has been the story of the reintroduction of wolves to the Yellowstone National Park[0]. Aside from unintended side effects, I don't think we'd be able to find an effective way in practice to give all these wild animals fake meat and prevent them from hunting in the wild.

I think domesticated animals and humans are a different story. While I highly doubt that any plant based methods will be able to replace a healthy carnivorous diet for obligate carnivores like cats, I have high hopes for cultured meat options in pet food. I believe there is already research and product development ongoing into this for dogs[1]

[0] https://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wildlife/wolf-r...

[1] https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/ANIC/launch...
Wealth distribution would depend on other factors, not GDP per se.
I think it would be better to say "No, that's illegal."

By volunteering explanations it's as if the onus is on you to convince the manager not to do the illegal thing with doing it being the default.
Yes, a browser decides to echo or not a cookie set by the website.
Wow, it can do human voices!

https://dollchan.net/bytebeat/#v3b64PYnLCsMgEEX/xYWYMDCjY9Ix...
Easily top two worst nightmares is being in the presence of a large cat or bear and the thing is looking at me.

It's horrifying.
And the command line options for netstat, route etc.. But usually I just install net-tools :) I know it's outdated but my main driver is FreeBSD where these tools are still the normal toolchain.
> All of this has to be taken into account if you want to assess the merit and sustainability of our production system and demographic growth.

Sure — so show me the actual account.

You’re just hand-waving about possible costs without showing they’re unsustainable on reasonable timelines OR that fewer people would help the problem at all.

That’s not a rational basis to want fewer humans.

> this is ending. Unfortunately, there's no perpetual growth in a finite world. This is a mathematical truth.

Discussing abstract concepts like limits without showing that we’re near those limits is merely dogmatic belief — it doesn’t justify anything.

That’s nihilistic fantasy.
...This is brilliant, actually.
Probably carbon steel made from thinner sheets, there is a limit to how thin you can practically make a cast iron pan due to the brittle nature of the material and the casting process. The resulting properties with respect to seasoning are basically the same if the surface finish is consistent.
"letting it happen" could be many contexts as well, letting is happen could mean that the managers were soo terrible at their jobs that they allowed issues to fester to the point where the employees were disgruntles enough to vote in a union.

Happy employees do not vote to unionize. The "hot take" here is that Amazon management wanted to the managers to some how play hardball with the union, in my experience with issues like this normally management does the opposite and trys to "kill it with kindness" and attempts to stave off unionization by trying to resolve the complaints of the work force while balancing the needs of the company.

Sometimes the workforce is just too far apart from where management wants to be then I union is likely to form, but my guess is upper management at amazon feels these middle managers did not do enough to address the workforce's concerns.
Hi, sorry to hijack your comment but I saw in your description that you are a researcher in quantum computing. Slightly out of domain but I was wondering what you think about this cannonical quantization of gravity https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=31290590&goto=threads%...
Feel free to ignore
It's all fun and games until you start to be serious about the climate change.

I mean maybe there is a contradiction between being green and the work in 170 countries up to 90 days per year + gather in person every quarter policy.
> Edit: I should mention that h264 does not work on Raspberry Pi yet. It needs hardware specific encoder and decoder.

So Raspberry Pi HW h.264 encode & decode are not usable for this purpose?
Exactly. If you actually want people to reproduce then the economy should be organized to maximize the fulfillment, comfort, and security of individuals. The real issue is they (our leaders and corporations) need an ever-increasing pool of labor to drive the infinite growth economy that they are heavily invested in.
I agree with codazoda, stripe page is borked on safari, but yours works
whenever you want you can always throw the credit card merchant agreement at any of those vendors just because you feel mildly inconvenienced.

it is against the merchant agreement to have any purchase minimum and vendors have absolutely no leverage on this reality (as this is per payment network, this can change per network at any time, but my understanding is that merchants can't have card minimums - this also applies to bars where much higher card purchase minimums are also commonplace)

of course, the sympathetic approach is to realize that its more profitable for the credit card network to have no mininum. but as you don't really experience this concept of card minimums outside of NYC, there's no reason to follow along with those merchant's rationale just because they told you why and you feel sowwy for them.

when I think about every thing that threatens low margin businesses, I just notice that a different one will take their place and a few owners will have to do something else to exchange time for food and shelter just like everyone else, so no need to keep them on life support
> (I would go into more detail, but I'll be flagged to oblivion, as this is also the prevailing opinion on this site too.)

It's the opposite, not supporting your claim with evidence when it should be straightforward to do so is what's going to get you flagged into oblivion.
Consider the semantics: niceness (relinquishes resources) as the opposite of meanness (demands resource) in a multi user system

> This is why the nice number is usually called niceness: a job with a high niceness is very kind to the users of your system (i.e., it runs at low priority), while a job with little niceness hogs the CPU. The term "niceness" is awkward, like the priority system itself. Unfortunately, it's the only term that is both accurate (nice numbers are used to compute the priorities but are not the priorities themselves) and avoids horrible circumlocutions ("increasing the priority means lowering the priority...").

Jerry Peek et al. in Unix Power Tools (O'Reilly, 2007, p. 507)

via https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14067128/why-are-nicenes...
What I love about PowerShell is that it allows you to pipe structured data between tools without needing to 'screen scrape' the output like on Linux.

I still don't use it on Linux but I do think it's a big step forward for scripting.
No, this was 20+ years ago, he had links and to canadian military websites. It wasnt the canadians who joined the US military or Red Cross.

If only his page still existed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451
I can see that perspective, but I don't think that will happen. Companies jump at any chance to steal each others customers, so the necessity threshold has to be very high for something like this to be adopted across the board.
> Nobody knew in the beginning that Facebook would become a Frankenstein monster that devoured user data and spat out dirty money.

That's a weird statement to make when talking about a sale that happened 10 years after "the beginning". Facebook didn't change between 2014 and now. To everyone paying attention it was clear that Facebook was making empty promises while providing 20 billion counterarguments.
Color me extremely skeptical. The supporting article published on WSJ is strangely schitzopheric [0] and an advertisement for HalloApp.

> Users who violate the rules must talk to a “conflict coordinator” and read documents about why their behavior was problematic before they can post again. These moves are intended to “lay a foundation for users and set a different expectation” for how users should behave online, Ms. Austin said.

Not sure if I ever want to use this app. I don't mind some moderation (like HN), but this is crossing the dystopian line for me especially when groups are limited to 50 people. That means, misinformation/disinformation/echo-chambers are formed on the most resonant groups of people lead by "chief conflict coordinators". You're naive if you think these conflict coordinators hired from Silicon Valley are unbiased, neutral and honest arbitrators of truth.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/social-media-startups-take-aim-...
I only use bags since strainers leave a bunch of leaves floating in my tea.

Filling a paper tea filter is pretty easy though, just grab one, and shovel in a bit of leaves with a spoon. It's faster to fill a tea bag than it is to boil water for a cup.
Losing and investing money are different things. It's all fine for future to spend money on new warehouses, distribution hubs and better software. But there is expectation that this will at least increase revenue if not the profits. If it does not it is just waste that any company is better off with.
Wikipedia deleted the entry for a company called Rosemont Seneca Partners which was the financial firm of the younger son of Joe Biden, i.e. Hunter Biden.

The stated reasoning behind the deletion was that it is not a notable company.

This company is discussed extensively in the emails recovered from the laptop of Hunter Biden. News of these emails was censored by Twitter and Facebook just before the 2020 election. It is widely believed by millions (including the new owner of Twitter) that this was a partisan move. Jack Dorsey has remarked that this was a mistake that he rectified as soon as he came to learn of it, which was several weeks after the censorship.

At the time of the news story, Facebook announced that they were "reducing the spread" of this story. The move was announced by Andy Stone, who is and was the erstwhile head of communications at Meta, and also by total coincidence, was previously a staff member for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, and "House Majority PAC", a political action group whose stated mission is to ensure the majority of the Democratic Party in the US House of Representatives.

One of the people in the emails was Tony Bobulinski - a former US Navy Seal Lieutenant. He clarified the context in one of the emails which referenced a "10%" cut for the "big guy". This was a reference to current President Joe Biden, per Bobulinski.

Over a year after the election, the Washington Post confirmed the authenticity of the emails from the laptop. Facebook's aforementioned Andy Stone announced at the time that stories about the contents of the email were "eligible for checking by third party fact-checkers" and that the spread of the story would be reduced until they returned a verdict. Stone has announced no verdict thus far.

Many are quick to point to the Streisand effect when discussing this topic, which while relevant, does not address the apparent coordinated nature of the censorship behind this story, wherein the same incorrect conclusion was drawn by multiple parties on the basis of no evidence.

This is the type of thing we see happening in third world countries quite often, where the government and the ruling party have an iron grip over the media. Just this week we have seen governments cut off internet access entirely as an effort to curb the spread of disinformation. To see first world countries engaging in similar behavior leaves one with little hope for the future of democratic rule.
no thanks, my nonexistent phone can't replace my existent passwords
I agree. However, phones are also uniquely addictive, which IMO is a strong case for dropping them if they interfere with your life. We should at least make sure it is possible to drop them.

(I don't love using the word "addictive" here because phones are not chemically addictive, but any other term makes the point less clear.)
When I left Amazon (as an SWE), with about 11mo of tenure, I was apparently at about median longevity. Yes, some of it is their growth, but a significant reason is also that they churn through people unnecessary. It's ridiculous to me that a big tech company treats people so terribly and continues to get away with it.
Well, it is kind of stupid that they don't immediately check the thumb print for the SIM card with the print associated with the National ID card.

I don't see a security risk with the Telco sending NIC-number+thumbprint combo and receiving a Yes/No if they match or not.
We really thought Facebook was just our pal and wanted to help us out. We never thought the 22 billion dollars they handed us was because they wanted to profit off of it.

What a brave guy for speaking out from the super yacht on the private lake of his super mansion estate that Facebook bought him.

I'm not against rich people or even selling out. This guy is full of shit though
> There is broad disagreement on how close we are to it, or whether or not the current track that ML research is on is sufficient to get us there.

So we don't know, it just sounds plausible.
It seems it’s just put in place so employers can prevent you from working for a competitor who might be able to utilize such “innovations”. Even if you didn’t sign a non-compete.
Oh this is great, I remember z for gzip but always have to look up J vs j for bzip2/xz
Like if trust wasn't an issue.
I think you are conflating two different ideas. The first being that automation destroys jobs, that has been disproven. But automation does increase productivity to the point of one person being able to do the work of ten or a hundred. Meaning that we don't have scarcity the same way we used to. Logically this increase in productivity would lead to a decrease in working hours-- but as the comment you are replying to says, our economy is a pyramid scheme. We aren't able to fully benefit from the increase in productivity because of the pursuit of infinite growth.
I counter-maintain that to force such an in-depth article down into one key point means pretending it doesn't make another handful of key points.

maybe imagine this article is not one long twitter thread, but at least 8 or 9 topically related long twitter threads.
Yup, 0xtown pulled it out of his phat ass
Likewise I doubt it.

I had a friend who was doing tree planting during the summers back in the college days. They were planting tree saplings, and even then many did not survive. It’s a numbers game. However, this is a difficult and expensive solution.

If they can spread lots of seeds on the cheap and get results then more power to them!
We’re at the point in the cycle where dollars donated to Psymposia will get better ROI than dollars to MAPS. Psychedelics aren’t going away at this point. Powerful tools must be handled with care, lest they cause more harm than good.

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I wouldn't call Apple products that, but I agree their design is overhyped.
Well…why can’t we? What is the mechanism driving this?

It seems to me that social media, increased ease of communication, etc, should enable spontaneity, because now you can at least confirm that someone is home as you drive over.

I think two things contribute to this situation:

1) Social media enables us to not lose track of people from past lives or who live far away. Before social media, you had to make friends IRL or you didn’t make friends. Now, most of my friends don’t even live in my city or even time zone.

2) We all work more. Everyone does. I don’t have any data to back that up, but my best estimation is that, while literal working hours have stayed roughly the same in light of increased productivity, we’re all so available all the time that we are kind of always working.

I’ve attempted to remedy both lately, and it’s tough. I’ve had to establish extremely firm (and I think totally sensible) boundaries with work and yet I constantly feel like I’m just barely reinforcing them. It’s mostly worked, though, and I’m not sure what to do with the extra time, seeing as everyone else I know is in the same “always working” mode.
If you really care about your time and have a lot of money, get an induction cooktop. It will heat your cast iron super quickly.
> Spreading seeds from the air you're basically spreading bird food.

Aerial seeding is an established practice with quite a history:

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

https://www.deseret.com/2000/10/28/19536330/forest-service-i...

To quote: "Using a helicopter to broadcast native plant seeds, conservation officials of Wasatch-Cache National Forest have begun to rehabilitate parts of the Stansbury Mountains burned in last summer's wildfires."

This is an article from 2000.

It is very widely used to re-seed remote locations which would be hard or hazardous to approach on foot.
>FIDO weakens security by limiting authentication to just something you have (a device/USB token) and something you are (biometrics) while throwing out the requirement for something you know (a password).

Not necessarily. The specific implementation being talked about in the article is to use your phone as your FIDO device, and your phone has to be unlocked. So the "something you have" is your phone, and to unlock it, you can either use "something you are" (biometrics via face ID or fingerprint), or you can have a PIN/password on your phone to make it "something you know".

I wouldn't be surprised (and I would hope) that the FIDO app or feature on phones would also come with the ability to restrict it via PIN/password even if your phone unlocks via biometric.
Recent and related:

Eve Online x Microsoft Excel announced - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31284972 - May 2022 (4 comments)
I don't find that a strained narrative at all.

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I once wrote a status report where I reported that I thought something would be a problem blocking my progress if it weren't resolved.

My manager's status report said that there might be a issue.

His managers report said everything was on track.
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If you don't think that the upper management got into hot water and then started paying a lot more attention to their on-site managers after the Union vote, you and I live in different worlds.
What about all the science on obesity related deaths?

https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/6-fac...

This hasn't been a secret for a long time. Yet when anyone says someone needs to put the fork down and go for a walk because they're fat... granted general diet changes need to dramatically change due to modern "foods".

I say this again like in another post, generally the same people who scream the political rhetoric of day 1 covid prevention are the same ones who think anything less than fat acceptance is fascism even though their same source also says obesity is just about as deadly.

It truly is hard to care now when people dish out "scientific illiteracy" like they're arms dealers dishing out guns during a war.

Way too much of covid rhetoric is rooted in vote swaying, on all sides. The "correct" tie colors are in charge and nothing really changed.

Plus, let's please stop and remember why any pharmaceutical takes time to become widespread... wait, sorry, pharmaceutical companies have a perfect track record of business practices. Sorry, my bad. No one claiming to have a cure for anything has ever done so out of malevolent greed.
No, I'm pretty sure this is cast iron:

"The raw material in Ultra Light Original is exactly the same as for our traditional cast iron. The difference is that with the new technique, the pans are less porous. This explains why the pans responds much quicker to changes in the stove’s power effect, and why they heat up and cool down faster than traditional cast iron cookware."

https://ronnebybruk.us/blogs/cookware/ultralight-original

It isn't near-feather-light like some pans I've picked up in the store for sure. It's just light enough to be a noticeable difference from other cast iron pans I've tried, like being much more comfortable to hold one-handed.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31288566.
I would much rather someone attempt to steal my phone irl, as opposed to someone on the other side of the globe cloning my method of accessing my accounts without me even being aware until it's too late.

To clarify, this wasn't meant as an attempt at a "tough guy" acting. If someone tries to coerce my phone out of me irl by threats of violence, they will get the phone. But this being done irl at least has much easier path to being able to trace the criminal, actually prosecute them, and to minimize the damage to my accounts.

Not even mentioning that it is much more risky for them to attempt, given it would have to be done somewhere around a public place with other people and law enforcement around. Meanwhile, some guy from an eastern european country cloning my access credentials to compromise my accounts will almost certainly never be traced, and 100% won't get prosecuted (and that's on top of me not being able to be aware of that happening until after the fact).
no, fuck this and fuck you
Part of middle-management with very little power outside following corporate policies. Might be able to do something not outright sanctioned, but the position really isn't much different from the workers in grand scheme of things.
I might not be the target audience because I don’t know under what circumstances one would search for a food truck rather than food in general. If I want, say, a burrito, I don’t care if it comes from a truck or a takeout window or traditional restaurant, etc. I just want a good burrito! I’m curious - do food trucks have (real or perceived) association with quality or speed or cost or something else that makes people think “I’m not sure what I want to eat, let me see what food trucks are nearby”?
My understanding is that the name dd was essentially a joke. A DD statement in JCL defined a logical name (seen by the program) to refer to a file (`dataset'). It had many strange operands, and often its behavior was completely unintuitive. For example, here is a job that deletes the file MYFILE.

//MYJOB JOB
//FOOBAR DD DSNAME=MYFILE,DISP=(,DELETE)
//STEP1 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14

IEFBR14 is a program that does nothing at all!

Although the Unix dd command wasn't patterned on the JCL command, I suspect that the multiplicity of possible options led its designers to choose the key=value option syntax that looked vaguely OS/360ish.

By the way, the - flag for options first appeared in MIT's CTSS, which was the direct ancestor (at least at the user level) of Multics.
As noted in the article, it's a tough problem. The easier you make account recovery the easier you make attacking those recovery methods.
It uses couch db with it’s conflict resolution system. I think you can even bring your own couch db instance
Life is worse without disposable products. In some cases, the disposable products are cheaper. In other cases, they are more convenient. In most cases, you can't buy products without a ton of disposable plastic, foam, and cardboard packaging. It's hard/extremely expensive to not buy a detached single family home in the US. Public transportation in America sucks and you can't get anywhere without a car.

I want to live a world with as close to zero carbon footprint as possible, however, short of sacrificing all my possessions and living like a hermit, I can't do that without collective change. I've taken many steps to minimize it but it feels like the next step I take will have almost no impact while also making the quality of my life significantly worse.
Well then you've never seen poor people uninstalling apps from their cheap smartphones because they need to install and use a different one ;-) that you don't see it doesn't mean it's not there