skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always have a bottle of soylent in my backpack for emergencies, or if I'm in SF for half a day and don't want to waste $10 on a sandwich I can finish in 3 bites.

That said, I'm not a big fan of its macros. I don't really care about following food pyramid guidelines and would prefer something with less sugar, fewer starches, and a different oil blend. I make "life-changing bread" [0] on occasion, and its basically my all-natural soylent alternative (I substitute out most of the oats for more seeds + bran and add protein powder). It doesn't taste great, but that's not the point here.

Was looking into getting the powder when my current batch of drinks finish, but I suppose I'll revisit this decision after soylent addresses these issues.

Still not sure if soylent actually replaces meals -- I end up chugging a bottle and then buying food most of the time. 400kcals makes for a nice snack, but simply isn't enough food to replace a meal.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=lifechanging+bread&oq=lifech...
I suggest you read In Defense of Food. Long story short there are thousands of complex molecules in whole foods, along with fiber, that are removed when processing occurs.
Processed food is always a bad idea.

It's simple, really: The closer your are to nature, the better you feel (because the healthier you are). Our body is happier when we spend our time in nature instead of artificial environment (there are studies on that subject) and we are less cancerous when we eat natural food (as opposed to processed food).

Every time we step away from our nature, we sabotage ourselves.
Good article. I've also found that the lens of cyberpunk is a useful perspective to view many of the themes in modern day society. Increasingly the social implications are out weighing the questions of technological feasibility!

I think it would be interesting if the author (who is quite good) would go past a reflective approach and look more into the (near)future: I think some of these themes are only going to become more pressing. AI, autonomous (killer) drones, plutocracy , VR, megacorps, etc. When does the lens of cyberpunk become mirrorshades?
Windows linux subsystem, it's legit. I tried it yesterday, it is no joke. It is full on bash in windows, running on Linux. Not in a VM.

Look into it, Microsoft released it earlier this year specifically for unix developers.
Is it easier to get into than Europa Universalis IV?

In EUiV I have started the tutorial several times, and everytime I get stuck moving some armies or so, because it oesn't seem to work the way the tutorial showed just seconds before.
If you grind beans and rice into a powder, with other stuff, and cook them, do you think that that's the same as cooking whole beans and whole rice with the other stuff?

The answer is no. It's not just about molecules.
> - Conditional breakpoints!

Awesome!

> - Ctrl+p for fuzzy finding loaded resources.

This too
If it takes you less than a minute to floss you're probably doing it wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PreNWWOYfI#t=32s
Traditional social eating is deeply embedded into the culture I was brought up in. However, that doesn't stop me from experimenting with food that requires no preparation, no ordering, no waiting when I am in a hurry to accomplish a life goal.

That said, of course I would never support "soylent" anything if it is making people energy/immune system/vitamin deficient no matter how many classic dystopian novels it names its food after.
There is also the question of bioavailability, which applies to drug as well as vitamin intake.

Just because Soylent claims to give you all of these vitamins at once, that does not mean your body is actually adsorbing them all at once. You need a varied diet. You can't just eat one thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioavailability#Factors_influe...
I think the answer is mostly that Soylent is new and associated with the startup world.

- initially announced on a blog in 2013

- crowdfunded on Tilt, raising over $3M

- got funding from a16z

Due to that it's got a lot of cachet. Also, the idea of a meal replacement is more in line with life/body hacking.

Slimfast goes back to 1987 and is marketed as a diet and weight loss product. One could consider it more "old tech".

This is just my very fallible perception, and I don't intend any judgement on either.
I love Soylent 2.0 I have it for breakfast everyday for a last 4 months. Haven't had a single issue.
Deeper meaning is inferred by the viewer/listener every bit as much as it is implied by the creator. I think the future is in empowering artists with better computational tools to iterate, create, and explore.

That said, I think saying never is a bit strong. People like an amazing variety of things, and given enough design, statistical modeling, luck, and randomness something interesting enough for a listener to infer meaning can pop out. You should check out this article about David Cope's work [0] and thoughts on creativity.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jul/11/david-cop...
The day we get a believable competitor the Apple iPhone the MacBook will be dead. Zero innovation coming from Apple right now, just amazing!

I love Apple products but I had to buy a Surface Book due to the lack of updated hardware... guess what: it's a pretty decent laptop and the touch screen + pen is great.

I expected a little more from Apple. Sorry the lcd Fn keys just don't cut it for me I hope I'll be proven wrong but right now I think it's quite a poor gimmick.
Maybe checkout http://diy.soylent.com, some guy made a webapp for you to come up with custom soylent recipes. I made a variant based on Keto chow and it's pretty good.
The body of research on nutrition suggests that a diet high in whole plant foods is optimal for human health. If you think some San Francisco entrepreneurs know something that medical science does not, well more power to you.
Uh, you realize that nutrient absorption means that you can't just eat the molecules that you need and stay healthy? That's why products in the same space as Soylent, like Ensure, have a lot of research involved.
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The book is 6 years old, what's the spoiler limit?

Did you know Darth Vader was Luke Skywalkers father?
It's not that people are too stupid to understand, they just did a really bad job telling us, but it kind of was their PR strategy. Look how many articles there are "I ate Soylent only for X days".

Let's see how long it takes them to lose that image of a complete food replacement.
Related, Lucene (and thus Elasticsearch) moved to BM25, which can be understood relative to the traditional TF*IDF here: http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2015/10/16/bm25-the-ne...
A lot of larger companies have responses just like this. I was in a meeting yesterday where we talked about a progress bar for 30 minutes.

Years ago I decided to demo everything in HTML/CSS. I find that I can write web code faster than I can whip something up in a prototyping tool. The demo can also be viewed in a browser. It's not 1:1, but it gives me a lot more control to make things bluer.
Hard to take an argument that includes the phrase "you're just stupid" seriously.
[ I'm not the parent poster ]

> * your statement equating eating soylent to making food and drink a footnote in life sounds at least presumptuous if not judgemental.*

But that was a core part Rob Rhinehart's original proposition.

I totally get that it's not why or how everyone consumes Soylent, but these were the words used to introduce it to the world:

In my own life I resented the time, money, and effort the purchase, preparation, consumption, and clean-up of food was consuming

I used to spend about 2 hours per day on food. ... Now I spend about 5 minutes in the evening preparing for the next day, and every meal takes a few seconds.

Food can be art, comfort, science, celebration, romance, or a reason to meet with friends. Most of the time it’s just a hassle, though.

The food is eating us. I don’t know how to change peoples’ behavior, but now that I’ve discovered Soylent, I’m healthier than I’ve ever been, have more freedom with my time and money, and never have to worry about the stuff.

http://robrhinehart.com/?p=298

I don't see how equating statements like "I resented the time", "it's just a hassle" and "never have to worry about the stuff" with "a footnote in life" can be called presumptuous.
Good thing about Amazon is that they consider even interviewees as customers.. and customer obsession is their way to go!
Just another $25 accessory that is still inferior to the previous solution. Just like the USB-A ports.
Taxes are included in the GDP income method, which is why taxing even air (even if free) would increase GDP.
The OECD defines GDP as "an aggregate measure of production equal to the sum of the gross values added of all resident and institutional units engaged in production (plus any taxes, and minus any subsidies, on products not included in the value of their outputs).”
I did not know that! I didn't think MS would ever win my business back, but I guess anything is possible.
Extrapolation in text space is not the same as more abstract movement - even simple things like word2vec can capture a lot of meaning through context. Probably not enough to construct wordplay like this yet, but it is not outside the realm of possibility. At least a few journalists were fooled by a walk through latent space in a more complex model here.

[0] https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/04/21/the-amazing-power-of-wor...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/17/googles-a...
What can I do with the bar that I can't do with keyboard commands and my multi-touch touchpad? Vim seems especially rough, with no physical escape key. Guess I'll map that to caps lock?
I will speculate that eating liquid food for a prolonged amount of time doesn't do your teeth and gums any favors.

Whether Soylent qualifies as "unnatural" depends on whether its ingredients, and the amounts of them, are nutritious and not poisonous. Humanity hasn't yet reached a point where we have definite answers to questions like that.
The OECD defines GDP income method as "an aggregate measure of production equal to the sum of the gross values added of all resident and institutional units engaged in production (plus any taxes, and minus any subsidies, on products not included in the value of their outputs).”
Not all of us are embracing firearms; that's a particularly US-centered trait. Curiously, the other nations that are really gung-ho about civilians carrying firearms tend to be the ones that the US looks down on as being backwards and uncivilised.
That's also how keyboard remapping apps (like Karabiner) work, so it seems plausible here at least.
This attitude is exactly bothered me about the CEO of Soylent when he was first doing PR about the product years ago. It's not a question of being "natural" per se, it's the question of trace elements and how our body metabolizes food. Food is not just a pile of molecules, it's a particular organization of molecules. How your body digests it matters. A bunch of milled and refined powders of macronutrients is simply not the same as anything we've evolved to eat over the last X million years. How different is it? That's hard to say, but when the CEO is so dismissive of the fact that there are real subtleties here and nutrition science still has a long way to go, it's not confidence inspiring.

The reason that oft-derided-as-woo-woo granola crowd is actually making the logicallly sound choice here is because given the lack of conclusive science, the default assumption should be that a diet closer to what our ancestors ate is a safer bet than a brand new diet that we fabricate based on incomplete and presumptive knowledge.
You can argue slavery is going on the whole time in civilization. It's not like your workers or armies can decide to stop working for you on their own.
No matter what anyone says, it's prudent to assume that everything is logged.
geez lol. Sounds like someone got seriously burnt by live video to think that.
MMM, delicious natural snake venom.
> I do suspect that they don't highlight the subject because players might find it unpleasant.

Which is hilarious thing to worry about in a game where you can nuke a whole city no problem.

Cultural tabu is a funny thing.
Advertising in my experience as an end user has been very ineffective.

The ads that I see on Facebook are very obviously based on my browsing history/cookies - I look at a mechanical keyboard on Lazada and decide to not buy it. Next I go to Facebook and get ads about a keyboard on Lazada - no discounts, exact same model. It could've shown me similar keyboards, gave me a lower price, or anything that adds value than just showing me the exact same thing I just decided not to buy.

Advertising for the sake of letting people know something exists is not particularly valuable to the end user, and most of the time they are not even able to predict correctly what people are interested in.

Has anyone actually bought something because of an advertisement?
I certainly think that it's a marketing thing; while gender identity I'm sure plays a role as it does in most marketing, it's not the whole story. There are already meal replacement drinks targeted at manly men; muscle milk is one of the more well known brands.

I think that the difference is that this stuff was uniquely (and probably irresponsibly[1]) marketed towards nerds. - It's not advertised, as the shakes I mention before this, to make you bigger or smaller; it's advertised to save you effort on eating; I think that is the primary difference.

[1]My impression is that they have implied that soylent can completely replace normal food for long periods of time, and I personally think that is dangerous, just because of how much we don't know about micros and about the GI tract in general. I'm sure it's fine if you do the slim-fast thing and have 'a delicious shake for breakfast, another for lunch, then a sensible dinner' - but that's not how soylint seems to be advertised.
It's been what felt like forever since the last Mac update, aside from the new Macbook. Which is only a little more appealing to most people than the first-gen Air.

I, personally, have been feeling like it's upgrade time for my 2013 Air for a year or two, but there hasn't been anything beyond tiny little CPU bumps that they didn't bother making any noise about. This was going to be NEW! MACBOOK! PROS! for the first time in ages.

Yeah, it was pretty disappointing. Especially when Microsoft sat down in front of every digital artist on the planet yesterday and looked them straight in the eyes with an expression Mac users haven't seen since like 1994 or something.
Branding? I think it's basically an Ensure for geeks. "Soylent Green" is from an old science fiction. I seem to recall Soylent being started on Reddit years ago. They call a recipe "open source", and it grew inside a group of internet culture.

It's like how "Gatorade" was neon colored and marketed for athletes, when the same kind of formula was also used for less glamorous rehydration.

Instead of being packaged like Slimfast is, where it becomes part of weight loss culture, Soylent is targeted at hacker types. It fits. They're supposed to always be working and have no time for cooking, and it has a futuristic image, so they integrate with it.

When really, you're right, it's basically the same thing as Slimfast.

http://observer.com/2013/10/how-is-soylent-not-just-slim-fas...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/01/food-tech...

I didn't read those, but I think there's a slight difference between Soylent and other meal replacement drinks, mainly in the purpose. Slimfast is for people who only use them to lose weight. Ensure is for people who only use them because of illness. Soylent is for people who want to transcend humanity to sustain life without the hassle of ingestion.

I get it. I'd love to bypass eating. But I think it's naive. When I saw the people getting excited over it on Reddit many years ago, I rolled my eyes. Nutrition is not so simple and understood where you can mix some ingredients in batch, then drink your meals quickly without thought. You can get away with it for a while, especially if you're young. But it's really a science fiction fantasy, and I thought the people buying into it were naive at best, and being scammed at worst.

Just like I think believing you need Slimfast to lose weight, or that it's a smart approach is equally naive. People want simple programs to follow though, and it's opportunity for businessmen to capitalize on the desire.
I had the privilege of visiting the Church of the Holy Sepulchre after attending an astronomy conference in Israel a year ago. My wife and I got there for a mass just a little before 6am so it wasn't very crowded. It was really an extraordinary experience. The Edicule had something of a steampunk feel to it, which I was not expecting. As the article mentions, it was built in the 1800s, but due to the Status Quo agreement, it has not been maintained at all and it looked like it could collapse at any moment.

The whole mass felt very surreal. As it was being celebrated there was simultaneously an Armenian liturgy and Greek Orthodox liturgy being celebrated on other sides of the Edicule. If you've ever been to one of those liturgies, you know that there's an almost constant drone of chant throughout. At times it was hard to hear the priest in front of us! I'm still not sure whether to interpret the experience as being a wonderful illustration of the unity or the disunity of the Christian Church.
True that, it helped them get the funding and the interest so it was a great marketing strategy. But now that people understand the theory (ie you can supply someone with all the nutrition they need from the one product) they are going a bit more on a sane sort of image.

Soylent makes perfect sense in the context of a meal replacer for busy or lazy people. But even the original creator stopped eating it at all times because he missed the "social aspect of eating".
Gotcha. I misunderstood. Thanks for clarifying.
Slaves rebeled too from time to time.
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Both games are made by the same company and have a similar feel. EUIV has a high learning curve but is very fun once you get a hang of it. There are play-throughs you can watch on YouTube or Twitch, which I'd argue are more informative than the tutorial.
If you stopped solely based on taste you should just try a couple similar products, eg. ambronite might fit the bill pretty spot on.
....you realise people are living longer than they ever have before, even though we all live in bigass cities - the literal antithesis of nature.
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Your reply to his comment is pointless. You're equating advertising to slavery? Going after the shock factor to make your point. Sounds a bit like the click bait you rally against.

It is advertising you are telling people about a service you are working on and soliciting participation. That's not using a broad definition of advertising by any means.

Advertising will always exist because there will always people people who want to tell others about their products and services and there will always be people who want to find out about new products and services. How do you propose people find new products and services in your imagined future without advertising?
A great place to do this is at your local maker/hackerspace! Since we started ours (sparkcc.org) I'm constantly amazed at the amount everyone learns from one another.

And as you say, that one night a week at the makerspace meetup could just as easily be spent in front of the TV.
Don't birds need to preen their feathers periodically? That seems like a tricky maneuver while flying.

Reading the supplementary data [0], some of their results rely on sampling for 1 second every 5 minutes. So a bird could make occasional short landings for a quick preen & stretch without it necessarily being detected.

[0] http://www.cell.com/cms/attachment/2069927387/2067831537/mmc...
Well yeah, you don't eat one meal your whole life. You have multiple meals in a day.

But regardless, they went for that angle in the early days because it got them the advertising and funding. It got the attention, it's good marketing.

Nowadays they bill it as a meal replacer, in the respect of you CAN replace whatever meal you want with it without having to worry about the effort or time it takes to prepare/research a good balanced meal.

All that said, I don't personally use the stuff but would like to try it out.
Let me propose theory as to why women are treated differently on HN, specifically why prominent women have less Karma.

What you are observing is that in many communities, women are not accorded the same celebrity status than men do.

Specific to the US: society tends to idolize men for their work, more so in science and technology, but also in film, music, and television. Women are worshiped for their beauty.

Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Jack Welsh are pioneers of industry, but women, don't have the same status ascribed to them.

Women pioneers in their field have to be propped up to be used as inspirational role models for girls. Men are naturally propped up by the media.

In communities, Micro celebrities are created. Outside of communities for "traditional" women roles (cooking, being a mom, nutrition), very few, if any, are women.

Ellen Pao, Marisa Mayer, and Elizabeth Holmes have been skewered (for better or worse). In fairness,

In their own communities, and related communities, micro-celebrities gain a natural boost to (karma,reputation,skillpts).

HN, a tech community, tends to idolize pioneers of tech and creators of successful startups.

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WRT that throwaway account:

That comment was from 6 years ago. A lot has changed since then.

The owner of that account admitted that she could not attend YC because she does not have impulse control and would cheat on her husband during those 3 months. It's hard for me not to view her perspective through a certain lens--my armchair psyche degree indicates there are issues from her past that cause her to want to sleep with other men the moment her husband is not around. She has found a maladaptive coping mechanism, which is masking the symptom, but not addressing the underlying issues. Similar to how someone with anger issues represses their anger, instead of releasing it (constructively)

Seemingly proving her (and your point) in that same thread, she said being around geeky guys would be like an ethopian being by a buffet. No way that comment would acceptable today.
They would get raises in an old way, from CEO. We are based in Poland, and as far as I know there is nothing illigal about it. Someone mentioned shoulder surfing - I believe people who would not join, would be decent enough to play by the rules and not do this.
That's a good point.

I guess I'll say I only know the google model of things, where pretty much 99.9% of the codebase is open to FTEs. It would be very very difficult to slip anything into the code there without someone catching on and causing a shitstorm.
Origami looks interesting but, I just deleted my Facebook account. I got into a tat with some Facebook Product Designers in a FB Design Group, went to bed, woke up, and discovered I was kicked from the group (couldn't even see the page any longer). I would rather not associate myself with products where the attitude is: Listen to what we say - otherwise, we will drag your name through the coals and ban you.
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"There are already meal replacement drinks targeted at manly men; muscle milk is one of the more well known brands."

Huh. I've always gotten the impression that Muscle Milk is a protein supplement (though it's got carbs, too), not really a (full nutritional) meal replacement.