skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, humans and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals.

— The Vegan Society, Definition of veganism

Emphasis mine.
> Anything else just ends up being a lottery that helps no-one.

I've seen several occasions when corporate bureaucracy has prevented or delayed raises and promotions because of policy or budget wrangling, but not bonuses or stock grants. Bonuses are a tool for managers to reward and retain their high performers when those other options are not available during that fiscal year.
I think stories that have that kind of staying power must say something about the time they originated, in order to stay relevant centuries after. It need not to be so explicit as describe the contemporary society, but some kind of link I think need to be there.
Perhaps the Tolkien books have that, but I can't put my finger on it.
Humans are social animals, we work together to survive and prosper. In order to work together we establish agreed upon rules which are "law". In order for the rules to be enforced some form of coercion is used otherwise how would they be enforced?

Throughout history some form of government exists with humans back to villages with chiefs or elders or council to arbitrate disputes and enforce law, violence is the basis for all human power structure, either you follow the law or you will cast out by force to then create your own power structure somewhere else or made to comply by force if you stay.

Money allows people to freely trade, but in must be recognized by the state or theft of it will not be enforced and it becomes meaningless.

It would be nice to think humans could just work together and agree on some basic economic rules and "let the market decide" but who would enforce the rules? That would just degrade into some aggressive monopolistic organization of people becoming the state again, power vacuums don't last and never have.
Sad to hear of this. MonetDB really is/was pioneering and interesting work. I hope development on it continues to progress. There's some quality practical research and engineering in there.
Given that you have seen the movies, you may wish to contemplate the prophecy about the death of the Witch-king of Angmar and it's relation to the Barrow Downs.

A "chance" meeting of the Wight and a rescue by Bombadil where they (not of the race of men) happen to get magic knives woven with the exact ancient spells capable of undoing the Witch-king.

The fate of Gondor relied on this piece of the books that is missing in the movies. Without it, the Witch-king isn't killed and they fall to Sauron's minions.
Tangentially related:

In the past month or so, my "people you may know" has gone from people who have a few contacts with me (I do know of some of these people) to always leading with multiple scantily-clad women in my area with no social graph relation to me.

I used to Remove them from the list. But now Facebook redesigned their mobile webapp, and that button is gone.

I'm sure some PM's metrics were boosted by this change, but it's pretty pathetic.
this is what happens to companies who don't expand the scope of what they're trying to do. they just keep adding more useless features to their platforms and yet facebook is still just facebook: a successful cashcow that's aleady so enormous it doesn't have much hopes of growing any larger.

If they want to grow they need to get out of doing the same thing over and over. As a consumer, VR is the last thing I want to see. They need to grow into other markets, like Tesla does. Tesla didn't just build a car, they're going after the whole energy market too.

And, if FB doesn't want to grow, then they need cut all the useless expenses and just keep milking their cashcow in a slow decline.
The absolute destitute sticks buildings stay up out of some perverse mixture of house-as-investment (instead of land-as-investment), American house building culture, the state of construction in this country, and a really misplaced desire for “historical” preservation of “neighborhood character”.

The Victorian houses are nice but they all need to go.
We had a movie (In and Out) filmed in the town I lived in, at the time.

It was a North Shore Long Island town, but the movie was supposed to take place in Indiana (I think). When I watched the movie (somewhat forgettable, IMO), I kept looking for seagulls.

They actually made a façade on most of the buildings downtown. Lotta work.
GDScript 2.0 has had some major performance improvements. While C# will still be faster, I find GDScript in Godot 4 to be viable now for things it wasn't in Godot 3.

I still rely on GDNative for really performance critical systems though.
No organisms have virtually 0 sequence identity. That's nonsense. Can you give an example? n Even some random million-year-isolated archae shares the majority of its genes with common bacteria.
How cruel is it to post a summary like this without mentioning the name of the book???
And then after it was implemented we'd get political reasons why it still isn't implemented. No thanks. I also don't want people legally spamming me for a penny.
It's not about the film crew being overworked robots who can't talk, it's about accidentally ruining their work without even realizing it by walking into the middle of filming. This dude got lucky that he didn't ruin anything. The next 1000 dudes who will try based on his blogpost won't be so lucky - and I bet the film crews won't be as happy talking to them.
They like it, but are they willing to pay for it?

The vendor needs to factor in the costs induced by Stripe. That's 3% fee plus the danger of your account being frozen. How much is that? Maybe another 1%?

So if the "price" to use Stripe is 4%, the vendor could offer their customers the same products for 2% less if they pay via lightning - and share the savings with their customers.

Sounds like a good deal. I have bought something with my CC hundreds of times and never ever did a chargeback.

On top of it, as a customer, I find credit cards annoying and scary. To get one, I have to get it physically delivered to my snail mail box. And everytime I pull that thing out, someone could photograph or memorize the numbers on it and cause me trouble.
So they saved the fines, and the need to pay for hotels.
as well as killing the indigenous communities, the caretakers of the environment for thousands of years

Can we please stop dehumanizing indigenous peoples by pretending they have a mystical bond to the environment? Western culture is not a prerequisite for anthropological environmental devastation. Indigenous North Americans wiped out native woolly mammoths, horses, cave bears, lions, and cheetahs. Easter Islanders chopped down almost every single tree on the island, driving every native tree species extinct along with the animals who depended on them, ruining the soil quality, and devastating the ecosystem. The Mayans wiped themselves out by using slash and burn farming to bloat their population, which led to a huge drought that killed a huge fraction of biological diversity in the region. The Nazca systematically deforested large pieces of Peru and collapsed when those trees no longer held back the desert. Their land is still incredibly arid a thousand years later.

Aboriginal Australians, the Anasazi, countless other indigenous peoples have utterly devastated their environment. It is humans who are dangerous. We have to learn to be better than anyone who came before.
The government can stimulate employment by pumping money into its favored causes. So what you end up with is plenty of people employed but not producing things that people actually want. Unfortunately, we can't even imagine the wonders that people might have produced if their resources were instead allocated towards satisfying consumers.
You're the one who needlessly and wrongly conflated not falsifying data with being completely above board and trustworthy. I've been trying to get through to you this whole thread that the two are not equivalent.
Seconded -- we're using the cloud version and I absolutely wish I could version control changes.
Regardless of his view of the ideal form of government (Strauss, among others, has a much different interpretation) his criticisms of democracy and other types of regime hold up and were taken seriously by the men who set up America's original government (which of course looks nothing like the modern one... for reasons good and bad).
Florida schools to let veterans teach without degrees
With JS disabled, I get a "Sorry, Element requires JavaScript to be enabled."
I don’t know why this hasn’t been proposed sooner? Or was there any attempt before this?
Thanks. Do you setup an artificial tree during testing? If so, how?
folding@home doesn't predict structures, it simulates protein folding. Different area with some overlap.
Are you trying to say building more solar is a bad idea, and building more of something else would be better? What would that be, specifically?

Texas needs a bunch of solar, a bit of battery, that would cover peaks due to air conditioning. More insulation specified in residential building codes wouldn't hurt.

Once most Texans have EVs that charge with solar, and plug in at night and feed to the grid, the solution is even more obvious.
For one shoot in Boston, the crew said "mayonnaise commercial".

I don't approve of dishonesty, but I thought that was clever.
Would you feel more comfortable if you had an in cluster agent that dial into a Google Managed API and receives command from it ? This way your control plane can be private and you don't have to handle Managed Authorize Networks.
This especially true since this is a FOSS tool so there's no need to ship product bumps to sell units or anything like that. They can just release stuff when its ready.
>My recommendation? Reduce expenses. And think about investing in ways to reduce those expenses

That's funny, I would recommend the exact opposite given the inflationary situation.

I would accelerate buying durable objects that you would like to have eventually, instead of waiting.

Saving money beyond a safety buffer is a bad idea when cash is losing 10% of its value per year and stocks are going down.
Your Own Engineering Workstation, with Mame
Next thing they’ll go for the statistics bureau itself in order to massage the numbers closer to the source as possible, no need anymore of this Orwellian double-talk. At least that’s what they were doing in the ‘80s in the Eastern-European country while I was a kid, officially we had record maize and wheat production, in practice bread and cooking oil were rationed.
good riddance. trash absolute dogshiet of a company
I was expecting this article to cover how in political debate the argument is sometimes framed in terms of Harry Potter characters.
I support @nest always with implicit &, so

@nest .child {}

equals

@nest & .child {}
And is about as faulty. The Witch-king would definitely have been affected after putting on the ring of power (and would have immediately killed them before returning it to Sauron). It is also worth noting that Frodo didn't have his normal nervousness about handing the ring to Bombadil.
Thanks for the feedback.

On the unlinked cases - if you read my medium post, it explains that even the cases with no connections to the market had been identified with ascertainment bias. Local investigators had searched hospitals and the neighborhood near the market for cases even if they had no link to the market.

On your 2nd point, I've clarified that it was not a rewording but a removal of both claims of dispositive and incontrovertible evidence from the preprint. This means that peer review flagged both of these strong assertions in the manuscript and the authors had to remove both of them.
That is one the top 10 complaints about the movies "No Tom Bombadil?!!". So yeah, entirely wrong.
Animals aren't people, but people are animals. Animals aren't cows, or crabs. Some animals are cows; some other animals are people.
Not all political activism is democratic. For example, just a bit ago some very politically active people decided to violently attack the US Capitol in an attempt to obstruct the culmination of the democratic process. That's not an expression of democratic values.
IMO: Obsidian does a good job in making me reflect and review notes, but not enough to prompt me to write more of them. Logseq does the exact opposite.

There's nothing wrong with Obsidian per se, but that's probably the crux of my issue with it. I'm not very naturally inclined to taking notes in the first place, and Obsidian just hasn't made me take that many more notes than I used to.

Logseq on the other hand has an editor that makes it hard for you to even write longer / multi-line blocks. In some ways, I suspect that writing in bullet points or smaller blocks encourages shorter but more frequent note writing, and my brain seems to respond well to that. Obsidian can technically do that to some degree, but the editor doesn't do enough to make me write shorter and more atomic notes, even with the Outliner[0] plugin installed.

[0]: https://github.com/vslinko/obsidian-outliner
That's quite an interesting bias and probably accurate, but one issue you run into here is that wages now are lower than even Q3 2019 which is well before any of this kicked off. And the current trajectory is downward.

So it seems safe to say that real earnings are indeed decreasing, rather than regressing to some past mean.
Maybe it's 1331 games? (1.3 * 1024).
I don't remember the book ever mentioning architecture, a form of history itself.
Matthias is arguing the metaphor. Which is a little fair in this case because the metaphor is the meat of the thing, but still, his response is basically "Ok, but imagine a completely different scenario. Isn't it different now?"

Not to mention he has a very, very low opinion of animals. Animals do engage in creativity and play. That we've been able to observe. We honestly don't know if they engage in philosophizing or other sorts of abstract thoughts because we don't speak dolphin. Matthias is basically basing his rebuttal on animals not being sentient. Or at the very least, minimally sentient.

So cows can't tell us if they'd rather go extinct or continue as they are. And I'd imagine that whatever way you formulate the thought, you'd find people who would prefer one or the other. If the people were only as aware as cows; if the people were as aware as normal but treated as cows; a third scenario I haven't thought of.

And there's the question of whether or not we have an obligation on how to treat them. If someone disagrees with that obligation, you have to get over that hump first. Kind of on their terms. Because if they believe we don't have an obligation because cows have hooves, you're not going to convince him that cows don't have hooves. You have to find out why hooves matter to him then find an argument along those lines. Arguing from the sentience of a cow isn't going to cut it. Arguing we have a moral imperative as the most abstract thinkers isn't going to cut it. You have got to argue hooves.

And if you can't do that because his position is so nonsensical there's no way to rationally argue against it, you have to accept he's just not going to understand.
The entire pieces is extremely embarrassing. It frames itself as ridiculous and then goes on to take itself entirely seriously. The author clearly thinks it is quite clever. I won't give it a pass.

The "one bad day" movement in the meat industry is a rounding error overall production It isn't that funny when 1) wild caught seafood is crushing wild populations of fish, cephalopods, and shellfish 2) nearly all meat is raised industrially and the livestock live in inhumane conditions 3) most animals are processed well before their first years.

The essay isn't provocative and cute, it is logically flawed and glaringly incomplete, which is the embarrassing part. The closest thing to a kernel of truth is at the end, when he talks about "one bad day" philosophy and he ruins that part by talking about eating only old animals, too (ignorance of what that means for farming ROI and also the impact of the taste/texture of the product).

This essay is a steaming pile from someone that is - based on their other accomplishments - clearly smart and capable of much better, and that pisses me off.
Maybe he’s a dreamer?
I'm not sure a complete ban is necessasry, but their investments should be moved to a blind trust while they are in office, and perhaps for some time afterwards.
> If you were an alien politician concerned about the ethical mistreatment of humans, would you advocate for (a) the continuation of the system but with better treatment for humans (quicker death, better living conditions, longer life), or (b) to stop the system entirely, although this would mean that humans would soon die out in one generation as they’d be unable to survive on the alien planet. Quick, which would you advocate: (a) or (b)?

Am I missing something or is the obvious quick answer to this, the opposite of what he expects?

And that's even giving the benefit of the doubt to the setup, like, how can you be raised 'free range' on a planet that you'll instanttly die on if people stop eating you?
We're mandating use of Google Chrome across the org and use the Chrome Enterprise features to force installing (ad blocker, 1Password) and block (Grammarly amongst others) extensions: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/9296680?hl=en

I'm not entirely sure if it's a feature that only comes with Google Workplace, but as part of the Workplace admin interface we get a nice UI for managing all of this.
His participation on Java is not to his credit.
Hear, hear. This is probably the best take.
I can't wait for MS Word VR/AR plugin.
In fairness, the "free from government" party has direct ties to foreign powers that are openly trying to drive us to a civil war.

Taking away bodily autonomy is just a minor skirmish; and the means justify the ends, after all.

Wait till next year when the sodomy and birth control laws start to pass, along with the plans to erect border checkpoints within the US to prevent people from entering and leaving certain states.

Those are enabled by existing supreme court rulings. They've already taken up a case for next year that will allow state legislatures (that are already controlled via gerrymandering, and often elected by a minority) to just ignore vote tallies and appoint whoever they want.

I'm curious to see who the military sides with during the inevitable 2024 coup. Last time, they made it clear they would remove Trump by force if needed. Presumably they're not becoming more loyal to him, given that he's out of office, but it will be dicey when they have to choose between ending democracy in the US or overriding the supreme court and also the house or senate.
https://imgur.com/a/yW4IXum

I took a screenshot as I had a hunch it would be changed once enough people saw it.

Edit: shows up without the “White” also for me now:

https://imgur.com/a/84X6RKj
I distrust the study itself, but I have zero misgivings in the results. We bought a house a couple years ago. I personally looked through several thousand listings over the course of a few months (across the country). The standard house is painted tones of "realtor gray" with equivalent (Scandinavian modern) furniture that is dutifully de-saturated of all color more challenging than industrial pine.
Interesting. In NYC they invariably post the name of the show on the parking permits they have to publicly post to shut down streets (which I'm guessing 100% of shoot need to do out here).

Crowds generally just don't form in NYC though. We see shoots all the time.

Coolest one was for The Knick, a turn-of-the-century period piece about a storied hospital, which was filmed on my block the year I moved to NYC (early 2013). There's a beautiful building on the block, the Boys High School in Brooklyn [0], which was used for the hospital exteriors. The Knick is a turn-of-the-century period setting; they covered the entire street in gravel (for weeks), erected gas lamps, etc.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys_High_School_(Brooklyn)
A fun way I've been thinking about all this is what nanotech/nanobots are actually going to look like. Tiny little protein machines doing what they've been doing since the dawn of life. We now have a library of components, and as we start figuring out what they can do, and how to stack them, we can start building truly complex machinery for whatever crazy tasks we can imagine. The impact goes so far beyond drugs and treatments.
The idea that everyone has a voice is false on social media. The people whose posts tend to trend in culture are often not random people but established players offering an already entrenched perspective.

I would have agreed with your view 25 years ago, when everyone was making blogs instead of instagram profiles. But today what you assume is organic discussion on social media is entirely artificial, designed to limit the shades of acceptable opinion amongst the public in a manner not much different than old media has done (deferring to authority, pundits, established known variables).
Except that we have releases of Adobe and Unity and things multiple times a year. Creatives value consistency but they also value ease of use. Improvements to UX and workflow should be allowed to break the mold of "don't touch it if it works". What they don't do is dictate the release cycle. Many patches end up in committee to be pooled together (or paywalled) into a vX.N.0 patch released when the business decides to.
Yup. It’s great, but there are still many aspects to unpack and work on. Hence why Rosetta is a thing.
So, the previous point still stands. These algorithms purposefully amplify content that increases engagement, which often happens to be toxic. Ergo, these algorithms often purposefully amplify toxic content.
if it was going to, it would have already. its ok, excellent tech doesnt always have to take the world by storm.
If you used a RAD tool in the 1990s you know what a rich and underserved market that continues to be.

SMB need little more than this. They could run for decades.
The comment I am replying to is pretty clearly arguing that not calling the current situation a recession is due to the current administration not wanting to call it that:

> Now suddenly it's questionable, because the current administration would like to shrug away its failures, and too many in the media are helping them do it.

Whether or not I agree with the assessment of the current administration wanting to "shrug away its failures" has nothing to do with it. The parent comment was clearly arguing the theory, which is total bullshit on its face, that the reason it hasn't been officially designated a recession is because the administration doesn't want it to. The reason this theory is total bullshit is because it's pretty obvious the administration has no control over how the NBER marks recessions.

I think it's fair to designate theories which are total bullshit on their faces as "conspiracy theories".
The atomics themselves sure, but I guess often they'll be used as a barrier to protect an UnsafeCell or something, like in the implementation of Lazy<T>: https://docs.rs/lazy-init/0.5.0/src/lazy_init/lib.rs.html#85
Generating a custom PDF is just such a pain. You don't know it before you tried to do it.

I've seen Anvil (a YC co) is building a product dedicated to this challenge, check it out!
" Democracy has never been in better health - more citizens are politically activated than ever before."

Yea, I guess you could call experiencing a violent coup attempt "activated". If the majority of social media engagement is people believing dubious stories and memes by hating the other side, then the engagement is worthless.