skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, basically fish, in a thinner medium? There must be perpetually airborne macroscopic lifeforms flying/floating through the upper layers of some gas giant somewhere..
"During our review, we noticed that a handful of consumers (less than 0.1%) who consumed Powder 1.6 over the past several months reported stomach-related symptoms that are consistent with what our Bar customers described."
This is just my experience, but in all of the DIY recipes I made I had a really hard time emulating the texture that the bottled Soylent has. The texture is a big deal for me.

I think I could likely get closer by forgetting local components and using some of the recipes that require bulk-ordering rarer components online, but if I'm ordering online I might as just well order the official stuff since I only eat it rarely.
My point is that for me personally I find it unattractive when my employer wants to get involved in my personal decisions. I understand I'm in the minority there, and I don't think others are "wrong" for thinking differently than me about the employer/employee relationship. I'm just extremely wary about any time an employer wants to influence my personal decisions in some way. I don't like that my employer gets to decide what my retirement plan looks like. I don't like that my employer gets to decide what types of health care I have access to. I don't like that my employer could potentially limit my access to birth control. I don't like it that my employer wants to tell me whether or not I'm allowed to do drugs when I'm off the clock. And I don't like it that my employer wants to incentivize me to have more children. The best thing to hear from my employer about those things is silence. Again, it's not that I think people who want their employer to be involved in the decision of whether or not they have birth control or have kids or use drugs are "wrong." It's just foreign to me to want my employer to influence those things.
That's eerily similar to a scene from Atlas Shrugged.
There is also a different level of expectation: investors expect dividends to continue and to increase year-by-year. Stock buybacks produce much weaker investor expectations.

Oh, and stock-option holders (employees/management) benefit from share buybacks, but not from dividends.
Nhs canada housing
I RECENTLY TOOK INDEFINATE SICK LEAVE FROM THE FEDERAL GOV. HOUSING CORP.
i HAVE WORKED IN MANY AREAS AND KNOW SOME OF EVERYTHING. I WAS A BIG PART OF THE NHS AFTER THE BUDGET WAS ANNOUNCED IN OUR FAVOUR AND THOUGH THE MAIN DIRECTOR IS FANTASTIC AND DESERVES A MEDAL AND TWICE HER CURRENT SALARY, HER COLLEAGUES AND ASSISTANTS ARE MISAPPROPRIATING FUNDS WHEN THEY COULD BE USED TO REALLY CHANGE SOME AUTROCITIES. IM UNABLE TO HAVE A POLITICAL OPINION AND MUST REMAIN NEUTRAL AT WORK, HOWEVER I VERY MUCH APPROVE OF JT AND HE HAS REKINDLED MY HOPE IN MANKIND AND DEMOCRACY. IF HE DOESN;T DO EVEN ONE OF THEMANY THINGS WE ARE ALL HBOPING, AND WERE PROMISED, FOR, THEN MY HOPE WILL BE DEAD AND BURIED, NEVER TO RETURN IN THIS LIFETIME. CHECK IT OUT WWW.LETSTALKHOUSING.CA
They sell a Lightning to USB-C cable in th store. I wonder how long until Apple ships USB-C chargers with iPhone.
"Somone would to that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?"

I grew up with AOL chatrooms. I will believe whatever someone presents about themselves up to the point at which it leave the magic circle of the internet.
>Well that's exactly the problem. We as a society have decided that our brightest minds should be working in finance.

That's not it at all. The best and brightest people have decided what they'd really love to do is take a tenured position at a prestigious university and do research.

Since finance companies that need really smart people can't offer that kind of life they have to compensate with cash.

This says nothing about what "we as a society" have decided. What this tells us is finance is boring.
The blog uses the same "handful of customers" language.
How do graphics intensive apps like sketch or photoshop or premiere work in a vm?
Sure.

One of the hardest things when reducing a sauce is to not stop to soon and to not go too far. If you stop too soon you can use a roux or more crudely use flour or starch to thicken the sauce. If you go to far you end up with a glaze. You could add stock or water to thin, however.

A well timed reduction, in my opinion, you end up with a sauce that is "nappe". But the trick is knowing when you're there. An interesting thing about reducing a liquid is that as it reduces further it reduces faster as there is less liquid but the same amount of heat. So there is the critical moment where you go "just far enough" and your sauce is perfect. Too far and you have a glaze or a burned sauce. Not far enough and and the flavors are not blended and concentrated.

I've found in cooking that stopping just before you think something is done is a good heuristic. IT keeps cooking for a bit longer. Timing this can be hard has there is a small window between not reduced enough and too much. It goes fast near the end. A classic "happens slowly, then all at once".
It's 0.1% of customers, not a samsung s7.

If they are willing to pull their product for 0.1% of customers they will probably announce a refund, give it a week .
I really wish they didn't name their company 'Soylent'. Soylent Green was a gross concept for a movie, and, unrelated, I really can't stand the sound of the word.
That sounds more like a blog.
When you get bereavement leave, do you claim that the company is "subsidizing" someone's loss and that you need to get an equal amount of leave to offset that?

What if someone has a rash of deaths in their life? Should the company just fire them for having bad luck because they can't afford to give all other employees and extra X amount of days off so that "everything is equal?"
You should chat to the indiehackers guy, sounds like you could help eachother out!
Not sure what the big deal is here. Political operatives are angling for good coverage? That kind of thing has always gone on. If you think this is bad, you should read about what went on back in the old days.
I believe you are mistaken about the leave being combined.

http://family.findlaw.com/paternity/fathers-rights-and-fmla....

"Both or either covered parent may take 12 weeks for the birth of a newborn or the placement of an adopted or foster child. If both parents work in positions covered by the FMLA, they will both be entitled to leave for an expanding family."

In a family with an expectant mother and father, both are allowed 12 weeks of leave under FMLA.

You are correct, however, that this leave is unpaid, employers can require you to use all accrued vacation/sick leave prior to FMLA, and you aren't guaranteed your same job back, just an equivalent job.
IO domain DNS failure
For 3 or 4 hours, IO domain DNS lookup often fails. Now, only 2 out of 7 IO domain nameservers respond, and other 5 DNS nameservers are dead.
I was really sad to see the new bars get pulled. Hopefully they get the issues sorted out and get those back on the market; I'll happily be the first to renew my subscription plan.
Lenovo t4 line for durability, Asus zenbook for power: price

If you get a lappy with a 1080 screen (no higher), you may be surprised how well osx runs in VMware. Higher dpi than that and the ui is too small, though.

And if you're adventurous, you could always convert a pc into a hackintosh. It's usually just fiddling with some drivers and swapping out a WiFi card.
> I don't judge anyone for making food and drink a footnote in their life.

I believe you that you're trying not to be judgemental, but FWIW, your statement equating eating soylent to making food and drink a footnote in life sounds at least presumptuous if not judgemental. I love cooked meals too, but I can easily see the value in a quick, controlled meal with a proper balance of macros, it's not a stretch to understand at all.

If you can't understand trading any experience for convenience, then do I assume you cook 3 meals a day and never eat fast food? Running a startup, I'm jealous if you have time for that, I simply don't. I cook once in a while, but no way every meal. (And I hope you're not drinking wine with every meal you eat, morning noon and night! ;) )

I can extra understand people controlling for calories by having a soylent or something like it for lunch. Controlling for calories is really hard to do, and products like soylent help with self-control on multiple levels by making it easy to measure macros, as well as having a meal with no peer pressure to overeat or snarf on fries or beer. If you're controlling for calories or for macros, the lack of a butter cream reduction wine dinner texture experience for lunch is a distinct advantage that leaves room in the budget to splurge on a well cooked dinner in the evenings or weekends.
Engines of Evidence – A Conversation with Judea Pearl
> Serious question: why is it so hard for them to find the root cause of these issues?

Biology is hard. Humans are really, really variable. Look through the comments on this page - you'll find people who couldn't keep down one bottle, or who love the bottles but can't stand the powder, or who have had zero issues, or who find the entire idea disgusting.

And these reactions may also change over time. Medical science can only really draw firm results from large-scale tests involving highly-controlled groups - and even if Soylent were able to run those kinds of tests and optimized for the most universal solution, the end result would probably still disagree with someone.
A Windows pc for a Mac price? What's not to like.
> I honestly don't care about anything ...

So you're an ignorant boor who can't read a graph. Hint: graph #2 is very informative.
It's not clear why they're getting sick or what percentage of people are getting sick. It's good they're taking it seriously and being cautious.

"Our tests all came back negative for food pathogens, toxins or outside contamination,” so it's possible that it affects just a few people but they're still be being careful.

And frankly in this case refunds are implied, I would imagine that they would be sued into oblivion otherwise.

I just think it's good to see a company take things seriously and act rather than engage in PR. E.g. Theranos, Samsung etc.
I highly doubt you can make these generalized assumptions from the sale of a single house.
He asserted this from the start???

Here's the Tilt crowdfunding page:
https://wayback.archive.org/web/20141012152640/https://crowd...

Note, it's titled "Soylent Free Your Body". Here are some phrases in the short post:

"What if you never had to worry about food again?"
"Soylent frees you from the time and money spent
shopping, cooking and cleaning, puts you in excellent
health, and vastly reduces your environmental impact by
eliminating much of the waste and harm coming from
agriculture, livestock, and food-related trash."

Packages available:

$255 One month supply of Soylent
We'll ship enough soylent to fully replace one month's worth of meals

This is after he went on a 30 day experiment titled "How I Stopped Eating Food" http://robrhinehart.com/?p=298
What about the distractions in peripheral vision? It is easier to suppress sound than moving people and hailing or “shaking” wooden floor.
My problem is, I need Unix in order to get shit done. I need Emacs and I need a package manager that can install the missing parts of Unix I now rely on, like pv and entr. I just don't think I can live without that stuff and I'm terrified of trying to make Windows work for me. I know Microsoft announced their "Linux" support or Ubuntu for Windows or whatever—how does it compare to macOS and Linux?

At the same time, I fear how finicky Linux is on modern laptops. I especially hate touchpad-related sensitivity issues. I tried running Linux on my MBP and wasted days trying to get the touchpad sensitivity settings to something remotely close to the MBP and couldn't figure it out. I imagine the situation is probably worse on platforms like the Surface because I expect Linux driver authors are doing more work on inexpensive commodity laptops. Is that true or do you think Surface Book will have decent Linux support?

I don't like feeling like a prisoner of a platform that's drifting into stupidity. If I had a lot of spare income I could splurge on a couple of possibilities and see what works but I just don't have that much spare capital.
How was graphics performance?
> It is worth stressing that we are dealing here not with individual sadistic psycho-pathology, but with a deep cultural difference. Roman commitment to cruelty presents us with a cultural gap which it is difficult to cross.

I'm not sure that's true. Remember that Germany and Austria were centers of Western civilization, culture, arts and learning before WWII, yet look at the bloodthirsty practices they embraced. Other European countries did similar things in their overseas colonies.

We are not immune; human nature hasn't changed. We are made of the same stuff as Romans, Nazis, ISIL members, Serb ultranationalists and Rwandan Hutu nationalists. Currently it seems there's a public movement to embrace hatred as a norm, and violence, including war internationally and firearms domestically, as an acceptable solution to problems. If those become norms I worry about the next steps.
Two people in my family also experienced it, but I think it's likely related to your particular gastrointestinal system genetics, really. Doesn't happen to everyone, but those it does happen to it's pretty horrific; that said, my family has a huge history of Crohn's, et al. so there's probably a bit of cross-pollination between the two, so to speak.
> During our review, we noticed that a handful of consumers (less than 0.1%) who consumed Powder 1.6...

Very much acknowledge the blog uses the same 'handful' terminology but they also put a % to it. As much as I hate to think about it, I feel 'handful' sounds like more out of context and a news article would be less dramatic if they reported 0.1% of people were affected.
[Kickstarter] Twisted Kicks: Bringing Back a Classic to Game Night
Twisted Kicks is a fast-paced word guessing party game that draws its content from pop culture. A good starting point to understand the game is 'Taboo meets Charades' with tasteful colorful humor and language used by people of our generation.

A unique gameplay element in Twisted Kicks are Twisted Rules.

Twisted Rules add special hilarious and challenging twists that are only in effect during your turn.
Before you start the timer for your turn, draw a Twisted Rule and read it aloud. These cards may ask you to high-five another player when your team scores, talk in a foreign accent, or a variety of other funny and/or difficult tasks that may help or hurt your team’s ability to score.

You'll have a good time laughing at your friends perform crazy shenanigans while you're trying to beat them. If you want to check out some of the Twisted Cards and Twisted Rules included in Twisted Kicks, we have a free mini print-and-play version of Twisted Kicks available on our website.

We’re sure you’ll love the game like so many other Twisted Kicks fans!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/twistedkicks/twisted-kicks
From the documentation:

> Because the Touch Bar is designed to work with AppKit, it is fully accessible.

> Be sure to use the customizationLabel property on every NSTouchBarItem instance that you designate as customizable (as described in NSTouchBar Customization). The accessibility system in macOS makes use of these labels.

So, yes.
Yes, this is the case in most of all VFX and animation studios. Pretty much everything is done on Linux, usually CentOS. That being said 8GB is a joke. 32GB is minimum and 64GB is what new machines would be ordered with for almost all artist workstations.

Source: I was a system engineer for VFX and animation for a number of years.
All of the meaning and wisdom derived from their lives was because they were alive. Now they aren't, and we don't get any more of their particular genius, and that is a damned shame.

It's also a damned shame that my grandfather, who is precisely nobody on the world stage, but still somebody, and currently in the hospital and I might get a text any minute saying he's dead, is on the brink of exiting the world, joining the hundred billion or so other humans who've ceased to exist for no good reason other than that the blind god Nature doesn't care about anything we care about. What Nature has ordained, she has ordained without reference to meaning or wisdom or the interests of those who live and die within her system, and we will be doing right when we remake her.
This is what Joyent, aka TextDrive did to us back in 2004 when they founded the company. Granted it was only $400, but it was for lifetime hosting. For the first few years it was garbage quality, then once they started doing a better job with their VPS/container style hosting they dropped us even though we were the foundation of the company—they literally wouldn't have gotten off the ground without us. To this day, I still consider Jason Hoffman a schmuck, and Joyent to be a disreputable company. Undoubtedly they are much more professional and grown-up now, but then again so am I, and I carry a lot more purchasing power in the companies I represent these days, and I would never choose Joyent as a vendor on any project. Reputation is everything.
That definition breaks down big time though depending on the nature of the business.

I know one of my senior engineers could get more but I know he'd 1) work more hours, 2) have less freedom, 3) have less flexibility.

I can't pay him what others would pay because it's a consulting business and it's getting harder and harder to get the high rates for the work we usually close.

I'm not screwing him. I make it up in other areas which is why he's still with me.

But he's suggested his market rate is like 30% more when I know the hours he'd have to put in for that are at least 30% more.

So other companies would gladly poach him but it's not apples to apples, and I'm not going to play the game of "high salary" and then squeeze my people to make it make sense.
Yglesias is brown?
> Advertising is never going away

See fowlerpower's originally top ranked comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12805998) and then see my reply to it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12806687).

And no, my second post is not advertising by any reasonable definition, and certainly not the meaning of "ad" in "ad blocker". By defining "advertising" so broadly that in includes all announcements and solicitations, such that even a love letter is considered advertising, you have "won" the argument by rendering the term meaningless. I believe there is a technical term for such specious reasoning, such as there is for "straw man" arguments, but I can't remember it.

Sure, advertising will always exist, but it can be made mostly if not entirely irrelevant. Just as littering will always exist, but is now pretty minimal because anti-littering is now deeply ingrained in our culture. That's what cultural evolution is all about: overcoming our base natures.
I think that it was providing shortcuts for interacting with an alert already displayed on the main screen. Apple's worry, I'm assuming, is that alerts will be displayed only on the bar and people without the new Pro will not notice them.
Your bowels are muscle. Like any muscle, if it doesn't get used much, it wastes. Just because you're passing some stool, doesn't mean you're in good digestive shape, no more than an irregular heartbeat is healthy "because at least the heart is beating"
I'd love to live longer if I could stay young throughout. Death is not a pain point for me, but old age is. After watching my grandparents slowly lose control over their bodies, I don't wish to go through that same phase.
They feel clunky
Has anyone tried this GNU/Linux notebook alternative: https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-15?
I had hemorrhoids that would flair up from soy/almond milk or large quantities of corn chips. However, I never had blood loss and it was mostly gone by the time I tried Soylent.

After having one drink made with powder version 1.2 or 1.3, I lost about a liter of blood and couldn't move or work on anything that week. Had to switch to yogurt for a month to eat normally again. I think it has to do with jagged precipitates that remain after going through the large intestine.

I love the idea of the product, but unnatural food like this has potential to cause unforeseen side effects.
I bought a box of Soylent bars to use as occasional between-meal backups, since I sometimes miss a meal while traveling or because I forget to eat lunch.

Over the course of a few weeks I ate two or three bars and was fine. Then one day I missed lunch, ate a bar, and about four hours later started feeling nauseous and experienced the worst diarrhea of my life.

Let's just say I'm glad it hit me when I was at home, within tightly clenched shuffling distance of a good sturdy toilet.

By the next morning I felt fine.

I have no known food allergies or sensitivities. On no occasion did I eat more than one bar in a single day, and I don't think I ever even ate bars on two consecutive days.

I do remember thinking, while eating that last bar, that it didn't taste quite as good as I remembered the other bars tasting. It seems possible that the bars contained inconsistent amounts of an ingredient and the last one just happened to have a larger amount of whatever did me in.

I sure would like to know what it was so I can avoid it in the future.
Thanks for expanding.

I wonder what kind of sauce you're thinking of when you write all of this... some sort of alfredo sauce for pasta? And Indian curry kind of sauce? Some gravy-like sauce you put on your turkey or chicken?

Could you maybe link to a youtube recipe tutorial of some sort which you feel demonstrates this "reduction" to your approval?
"Soylent: Only the finest, bulk-rate Chinese "proteins and lipids" VC money can buy!"
Indie isn't really a genre. It's a classification of small players in all genres. There's only so many AAA titles in each genre coming out from established groups. I can easily track them plus people probably know people playing them. The indie and non-indie but budget games are much higher in number. Harder to track them.
Not all people taste food the same way. Some people don't have a strong sense of taste, so eating Soylent all/some of the time is just not a big deal to them. Just the same as how some people are tone deaf, so music is not important to them. Or colorblind people can't tell the difference between red and green, so stoplights aren't a big deal to them. Wait a minute...

But really I think a lot of the Soylent hate comes from the fact that people assume their own senses are the best judge, when really we only have a sample size of one. It doesn't even have to be a lack of sense acuity as I said above, but just personal taste. People come in all different types, and that's cool.
Anecdata... strawman... no citations of your own despite requirements for same... somethingsomething 'unscientific'?
They are under phenomenal pressure. Everything is more competitive, and they are under a barrage of ratings and selection processes.

Endless standardized tests. There was one standardized test when I was a kid -- an intelligence test -- and my parents never showed me the results. I took the ACT and SAT, but they seemed much less critical to getting into a decent college.

Grades seem much more critical today, due to competition for slots and scholarships in the more prestigious colleges.

Ranking systems, such as who gets to skip a grade in what subject.

Competitive selection processes, such as who gets into the youth orchestra, and which level of the youth orchestra.

Increased pressure to attend college, and to major in a short list of subjects that are associated with lucrative jobs.

Mountains of homework, yet we're also told that kids should learn how to "code" and to build up their "resume" for college admissions, oh and maybe also start a business. I learned to code in the ample spare time that I had because I had relatively little homework.

I would not survive being a kid today.