skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I feel like you are underestimating the amount of mistreatment animals in factory farming go through.

Baseless projection.

> I think it’s cognitive dissonance to pretend factory farming does less harm. Even if per animal it doesn’t get as bad, the scale is incomparable.

This would be more persuasive with reliable numbers qua comparable harm rather than conjecture. What constitutes inhumane treatment is also at a much different threshold for activists than it is the average person (e.g. captivity).

Case in point: the number of sharks maimed and killed every year for their fins "range from 10 million a year (United Nations) to more than 100 million (various sources)" - https://saveourseas.com/how-many-sharks-are-caught-each-year.... In commercial agriculture, are there enough farmers going out of their way to cause harm in excess of what is done to those sharks to at least 10 million chickens per year, out of the billions? The only way this is possibly true is if you construe the entire commercial agriculture system as equally harmful. Chicken slaughter is pretty fast.

If your argument instead is that any percentage of possible abuse invalidates farming, that's your call.
> Just a thought, but have you considered legal action?

> Note that I did not say legal action -- I said a letter

Meta has a large legal department full of lawyers who are paid a lot more than whoever you can afford. They are used to dealing with threats and actual lawsuits every day from people, companies and governments all over the world. Your random letter isn't going to scare them into submission. You will simply get back a templatized response along the likes of "We reserve the right to ban anyone from our services. Here is a link to our ToS."
A lot of people are concerned about factory farming too. And let's be real here, most of the time is significantly better than none of the time. People care more about sharks for a multitude of reasons ranging from the fact that they are endangered/threatened (where chickens aren't) to shark not being a common source of protein for the vast majority of the world (whereas chicken is, so it is a lot easier to turn a blind eye despite caring). These problems are rather complex and making them black and white helps no one.

Just remember, we can talk about one thing without bring up other things. Multiple things can be bad while some are more bad than others, despite all being bad. If you actually care about these chickens as you are so saying, then your goal should be to convince people to help you change the industry, not shame them. Shaming is just picking a fight and going to make people ignore you instead of listening. Even though it feels good, this is a terrible strategy for pursing your goals.
Is AI really grifting? It's not like mom and pop can sink their savings into AI tech and lose it all to scams, etc. like they can with crypto. At worst some big investors sink a big seed round in and never get it back from a 'grifting' AI company--IMHO no real harm done, if you're an angel investor you're mature enough to deal with getting burned it's just part of the risk (and no one is going to cry for someone rich enough to gamble millions and lose it all).

I suspect his AI company will be like his previous rocket company, Armadillo Aerospace, that tried to go after the x prize for space. A purely passion project that bootstraps itself from the start and either sinks or swims. I can't see Carmack 'grifting' by courting huge seed rounds from tons of investors, expanding quickly into an enormous company to steamroll into series rounds with no solid business plan, etc.
Dozens of potential mechanisms described, with none uniquely convincing IMHO. One interesting suggestion is the group splitting hypothesis:

> The group-splitting hypothesis of schizophrenia (Stevens and Price, 2000) posits that proliferating tribal communities must eventually split to maintain optimum numbers. According to this hypothesis, schizotypal traits in certain prominent individuals may be advantageous to ensure survival of the offshoot group. These prominent individuals could use paranoia, delusions, religious themes, and neologisms to fraction disaffected groups and to seed new cultures.
It doesn't even currently use real parameterized queries...it has a method that sounds like they are real, but they aren't...just a really hairy bunch of string escaping. They really need to re-write the database layer from scratch.

Behold: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includ...
> You have no fundamental right to track Elon Musk, just like I would have no fundamental right to track the whereabouts of you and your family. Disagree? When do you let us attach a tracking device to your conveyance?

Nobody's tracking Musk, they're tracking his plane. Further, "they" aren't tracking it, the gov is, and publishing it, as public information.

Everyone lets the same tracker be attached to their conveyance ... WHEN THEY OWN A JET.
Not gonna lie, I am usually anti-war, but if Kissinger is against it, let’s go ahead and line up the nukes!
I suspect if enough people started doing that Musk would just ban it.
Signcryption looks very interesting, indeed. I haven't taken a look at the space for a couple years but this renewed my interest.

I'll write you an email, for sure. Cheers!
I've also gotten it to make very obvious logical errors. It reasons by chance. Better than a dice roll but there is no internal knowledge graph.
I don't find this inspirational compared to another comment "it's better to know about that stuff and how to deal with it than to create a temporary secure enclave at home where it doesn't exist." since the temporary enclave won't be effective

but I am curious if there is inspiration on how you keep your kids entertained at restaurants. So many parents just find an ipad to be a sedative that its basically a baby sitter, they know its bad but are still in need of a quick solution and then 3 years go by before revisiting it and they don't need it any more.

How do you handle that? Bored kid at a restaurant, possibly misbehaving.
His note to Meta: https://archive.vn/t6zQp
I've been wishing that for the last 15 years.
You know there is all kinds of talk about civil war over politics like guns, or abortion, etc.

The one thing that will cause a civil war is if you take away American's access to beef. Good luck trying to do that
Road bike tires go up to 150 or so... but that doesn't really matter, what matters is that the surface here is massive and you need to withstand all of the force evenly or it will go. Even one crack would do it, it's not going to just seep out water but explode along the fracture, much like a popped balloon isn't going to gracefully deflate.
I've also never seen anyone address the high chance that post UBI the #1 issue for every politician will become "I will raise the UBI" and if they don't their opposition will. How will we deal with an ever increasing UBI and where will that every increasing source of money come from?
Side note: tractor tire inner tubes make great trampolines. My aunt and uncle run a small farm (one farm over from the farmhouse where my mom was born) and gave us a tractor tire inner tube when I was young, and we jumped on it enough to require several patches throughout the years.
This needs to be law for what you paid for. Even the homeless setting up camp cannot have their proper removed from public places without lots of red tape.
Man that's such a common story in big organizations. I wonder if there's any way of creating a culture that fights against this.
> self-promotion, office politics, and collecting wins for themselves

A pal who was a manager at a FAANG said, "If you give people one game to play, they're going to play it very energetically." He was speaking of the promotion game, of course.
Suppose a small farmer went to Safeway and said, "Hey, I have 100 pounds of carrots every couple months. I want your cashiers to buy them from me at the retail price!"

First, Safeway buys in very large lots from certified suppliers, who can commit to (almost) always having carrots.

Second, those suppliers have to deliver at a loading dock, and maybe at a central location, too.

Third, Safeway pays them wholesale prices, not retail.

All of those analogies apply to selling power back to PG&E at retail prices. It's in small lots; it's undependable; it comes from many sources, not just a few; and it's priced wrongly.

Yes, PG&E can be read as Pricks Grabbing Everything, but they're what we've got.
The problem isn’t you it’s them.

we dont use slack. just github, twitter, and rarely email. pd.pub. #buildInPublic #buildPublicDomain
I suggest you not look into what happens to the male sex of chicks in factories.
'Jewish' Problems (2011)
What's your definition of legal action? I generally understand it to mean a filing, legal proceeeding, etc.

A simple letter does not, in my mind, constitute legal action.

A letter could threaten legal action, but that's explicitly not what I'm suggesting should be done here -- you don't want to attack FB lawyers, you just want a side-channel to a reasonable set of people who are interested in avoiding litigation/bad press, and powerful enough to do something about your problem.

[EDIT] - responding to your edit.

> Meta has a large legal department full of lawyers who are paid a lot more than whoever you can afford. They are used to dealing with threats and actual lawsuits every day from people, companies and governments all over the world. Your random letter isn't going to scare them into submission. You will simply get back a templatized response along the likes of "We reserve the right to ban anyone from our services. Here is a link to our ToS."

They're already getting nowhere with dealing with the current level of automated response/remediation. I have explicitly noted that the point is not to scare the lawyers (everyone seems to be projecting this into my suggestion), but to possibly get the ear of reasonable people with power.

Regardless of what you think will happen, it is an avenue to try, that evidently the OP didn't think of yet.

[EDIT2] - I see now that I wrote "legal action" and it's been interpreted as such. What I meant was to "send a letter" that may be received by someone reasonable with power to fix what is likely a simple moderation mistake. I am not advocating trying to take Meta to court.
For what it's worth this also happens at smaller tech companies where the product is highly profitable and every department is siloed.
I have no idea what you are trying to convey here. One on one with a shark, the shark probably just swims away. Humans are not the prey of sharks and sharks generally just avoid people in the water.
So? All units of a given quantity differ by just a constant factor [ignoring the affine units °C and °F]. But mixing mph and fps is just as disingenuous as, say, mixing mph and km/h. Nobody on Earth outside the US has any idea or intuition what the conversion factor between mph and fps is.
Austin was the first municipality (I think) to use a "value of solar" rate, and as much as I'd like to use net metering from a home owner perspective, it's much fairer. It basically just pays homeowners a wholesale rate for their excess power. It's currently 9.7 cents per kWh, not much different that this proposed rate in CA.
For the past decade or two, the Health Service Executive in Ireland have been trying to convince the citizenry that having “centres of excellence” in large (for Ireland) cities is worth the closing down of regional hospitals and other medical services in towns throughout Ireland.
Does cat ownership cause toxoplasmosis, or does toxoplasmosis make you want to be around cats?
Yes of course and Euclid's parallel postulate is a matter of fact in your opinion too?

We use abstractions friend, some are useful often and others are not often used.
Exactly. I shield my anatomy when inflating my tires.
The Blomkamp stuff seemed pretty terrible to me. Love, Death & Robots was hit and miss, with the misses being more regular, but the hits like Zima Blue being transcendent.
F# is .NET, so you can have pretty fine grained control over memory layout, right? Spans, packed structs, 8/16/32/64 bit signed/unsigned ints, etc.

That stuff all gets a bit screwy in Ocaml, an int has 31 bits of information but is 32 bits in size, a record with two int 64s ends up being twice you expect, etc.
Where do we get this 'mind' from? Ensoulment?
One on one a shark will not kill you. It possesses the capability but it is verifiably false that sharks are constantly aggressive, killing humans any chance they get.
Have a listen to some interviews. Doing it out of love for the problem more so than anything else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4
> Consciousness is a physical property of matter, as any other.

Phrased as a fact, but citation needed.

> neither can it think.

Again, phrased as a fact, as if this can be proven.

> I don't know from where this new computational mysticism has come

For me, a lot more mysticism is required to hold the belief that our brain is anything else than a computational platform. I don't think there's anything mystic about it. I wouldn't be surprised at all if it turns out that consciousness arises as emergent property from any sufficiently complex loop.
The state of Maryland was famously going to seize the Baltimore Colts. The owner got wind of it, packed the franchise's files into a semitrailer and was across the state line before morning. Sorry, Maryland, it's an Indianapolis team now.
That all depends on whether the underlying surface is still perfectly flat around the perimeter. If it is not then you get local stress variations that can lead to catastrophic failure.

The seams between the panels are likely also not designed to be loaded that way.

Just the asymmetrical load on the structure could do the trick at a relatively small angle because it might cause the structure to get compressed against something bordering it. This is not a trivial engineering project.
It sounds Slack is being used wrong. You should not be in that many channels.

If there are tickets assigned to you and those tickets have Slack channels, you should be in those channels. You shouldn't be in other ticket channels.

Your entire team shouldn't be pulled into large numbers of channels.

Feel free to ignore channel messages for anything that isn't your area or assigned task, unless someone mentions you with @ directly. Respond only to DMs, and messages related to tasks you are working on. Don't even look at anything else unless you have spare cycles, other than maybe some general channel that is for your team only.
This is so exciting.

I've got an old netbook and decided to put back on the OS it originally came with, Windows 7 Starter. I was so surprised when I couldn't run updates; I finally attributed it to having old security certificates, but couldn't figure out how to update them, and some important updates that I installed on other computers (a number of HTTPS sites are impossible to see without the right certs) and copied over would not install. Such a pain.

And here, just like that, Windows 7 SP1 is installing.

To those who made this: Thank you so much!
I read his book Mason & Dixon and knew just enough of the history to recognize that there were tons of references going over my head. Maybe the smartest person I know loves his books and gets a lot more out of them then I do. Pynchon has got a remarkable mind.
Is there any industry in California? Some office buildings? Maybe some datacenters?

I suspect that a power company could concentrate on them and still turn a profit, if 90% of detached houses stop buying electricity from it and disconnect. (But the latter requires a lot of batteries installed.)
a human used the tool
Yeah this is quite concerning. I hear that younger people these days bully each other less, but I wonder if the bullying is just less visible.

Humans certainly don't change as fast as technology, so it makes sense but still incredibly sad to hear what you and your family are going through. And on top of all that Meta intentionally/unintentionally making it worse.
Lol after decades of programming, there actually WAS a need in THIS project to 'abstract/subclass' the db.code. You know in case we want to switch dbs in the future.:)
The Inflation Reduction Act provides a 30% tax credit for clean energy upgrades, including batteries IIRC.
If you solve AGI, all business is your plan.
It's a pretty weak analysis and they don't source that claim or qualify it.

By revenue, there are several big AAA titles with proprietary tech, and a handful of top mobile titles as well. I'm guessing that's the analysis they used.

Only the very largest companies can justify their own engine these days - Activision, EA, Ubisoft, Riot etc. And most of those engines date back decades. You'd be hard pressed to justify building your own engine tech starting today. An analysis by revenue isn't really very meaningful today because of the historical head start those companies. Their ongoing franchise revenue distorts the analysis.
just so you know, he likely uses research assistants as many authors do. some elements will be from other individuals contributing them to him to use.
The animal might not care but we should. There's a sustainability factor that should be included in decision making around harvesting product in general. Marijuana is a decent example. Once turned to flower, the whole pant gets killed for harvesting. The product (flower) is worth a lot more than the remaining plant.

With shark finning, the product (fin) is worth less than the shark even by the most conservative estimate.
Well we have to learn not to lie to ourselves, one way or another.
> A centralized organization like EA, you mean?

Not like EA because that wouldn't be a separate organization / 3rd party.

The only interesting thing OP is asking for is someone other than the game company to maintain digital title tracking. That is a reasonable request. The same way your city might have a database of who owns title's for our house. A centralized database owned by a 3rd party.

But none of that has anything to do with a blockchain or being distributed. Continuously people keep mixing up having 3rd party ownership (which sometimes does help solve problems) with a blockchain (which 99 time out of 100 adds tons of complexity and usually zero or negative value). That's the key distinction being made here.
The "rapidly absorbed" qualifier is an allusion to this. Fiber has several benefits, one being blunting the spike in blood sugar by slowing absorption.

Some foods are healthiest when unprocessed (other than the minimal processing involved in harvesting and shipping), but bioavailability of nutrients in others is greatly improved by cooking and/or other processing.

Certainly, the safety of most meats is greatly improved by cooking.
Sorry I was not specific. I was referring to "Sisters with transistors"
The only human who will pay attention will be some random Facebook paralegal, who will promptly reply with some templatized "we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone".
If the only solid reason for people to work for a company is money, that restricts the available talent pool to a specific subset of people. And those people are wanting to maximize their pay, not the quality of their work.
What a pity, it looks amazing.
One of the first things I did was always revert to the Windows Classic theme, because it was very easy to do so. There were also plenty of other custom themes should you want something different.

Starting with Windows 8, they removed that option completely.
Many queries are slower than few yes, but doesn't mean it'slow

I think the sqLite website does like 200 queries per page view
I think they might be right in the long run but that they are pushing it too hard when it’s not ready yet.

People probably do want to collaborate in virtual rooms at work, but only when it’s better than video calls. Which it currently isn’t. And they don’t want to do it in a world controlled by zucc
I think it’s the problem of being a relatively more pointless waste of life. Eating a whole animal at least provides substantial nutrition. Also the fact the animal is left to suffer for hours or even days, motionless and alone at the bottom of the sea. There’s something excessively inhuman about simply abandoning life like that.

We can also recognize that prisons today are tortuous and should be improved (much like the farming/slaughter industry), and the death penalty is hard for many to justify as well, but paralyzing a human and throwing them in a hole to rot while still alive—even if they were a major criminal—would probably outrage nearly everyone.
Yes, let's vaporize nuclear fuel. What could possibly go wrong with this stunning large brain engineering. It is surely no more burdensome on materials than solid fuel sealed away in metal tubes. /s
How does HN think about Pynchon as an anarchist author / as anarchist literature?
Okay, I uncharacteristically have to respond to my own post, because I happened to reread it in the "threads" tab and it jumped out to myself just how wrong it sounds, even though it was upvoted. I had edited it before hitting send, and apparently did not notice that I kind of damaged the meaning.

So to be clear, what I meant to say was that for a small hobby I dived relatively deeply into it (i.e. I see others messing with it for fun not caring that much about e.g. JCL), and that I wet my feet enough that if I put the serious work in, I could see myself eventually becoming productive in the COBOL and mainframe world.

Just because rereading it, it sounded like I said I became mainframe proficient to a commercial level by playing around with a many decades old MVS version on Hercules, which is hilarious.
Peter Norvig Advent of Code 2022
I am not sure. But humans can often explain the thought-process that led them to a certain decision. I think that counts as evidence of consciousness., in humans.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34022484
The last time I got an MRI, the control room had one of those iconic purple SGI O2 workstations on the desk. I guess they were pretty popular with medical imaging products.
What is so frustrating is that the schools have pushed this on us. We were mostly screen-free in our house, until our oldest started middle school. Now she has homework she has to do on her Chromebook every night. Only of course she pulls it out and is playing games every time she has a chance. I can't take it away because she has to get her homework done, but I can't control what she accesses either and it is destroying her interest in anything else.
Just here to echo a similar experience

- FAANG competitor that is (thankfully) left out of the acronym
Whom do credit-card-rewards programs really reward?
There are, quite literally, different rules around public figures than private figures.

Elon made himself a public figure long ago.
Given the fact that the metaverse is widely mocked for looking like a Wii game, they probably do need to spend more time on graphics.
Well the tree was there a few centuries before the line was. And like I said, it's impractical to fall them.