skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first point is valid. No one seems interested in releasing such tech publicly.

The second point misunderstands the point being made. It is more like saying you don’t care if your program is running on X86 or ARM because the compiler/interpreter abstracts that detail away from you anyways.
Completely agree. Doing a few of these is fine, but for most people, it'll get pretty boring pretty fast.

Add in the business side - finding clients, chasing bills, and the small 3 page sites won't be making you any money unless you have an army of developers churning them out.

Personally, I see "Web Developer" as a skillset worth knowing, not an industry to be in. Use small gigs to learn HTML, CSS, Wordpress etc - but branch out. Contribute to some FOSS JS/PHP/Ruby/C#/whatever libraries, build some sites without WordPress or similar, and angle yourself towards being a web developer at a company who tag line isn't "Web Development" (or digital marketing!).

All that said, I know there are people who LOVE the 3 page site work. So maybe that is what you want, but it wasn't for me :)
The product isn't for vegetarians.
I believe this is an urban legend? Anyway, most crops don't convert to protein any better than cattle.
I'm not a vegan/vegetarian but I want this product. I'm concerned about the environmental cost of raising beef cattle and I'd like a better option. My family has already cut down our red meat consumption. We use ground turkey and chicken quite a bit. I still want the ability to grill a good steak once a month, but I'd love to use some of this ground meat in pasta sauces, taco's etc.
Why should pharma companies not be allowed to market their products?
Ask HN: Company retreat?
How do people feel about company retreats? Are they valuable? If so, what benefits have you found?

Does anyone work for an organization that provides a retreat space for employees to use? Lodge, cabin, etc
We're so far from that being even close to a problem that I feel it's a bit disingenuous to see it repeated so often when vegetarianism comes up. There's a whole lot of meat we can cut out of our diets without any of that becoming a problem.

(And of course, if the soy that is currently fed to cattle is fed to humans directly, we can feed quite a few more humans from that than that cattle currently can, without needing to use more resources. That's not to say it does not come with its own problems, but they're unlikely to be as severe as the ones we get with meat anytime soon.)
>If voice was actually vastly preferable to the output of a keyboard, it wouldn't be the case that texting is more popular than calls

Texting is preferable to voice only when it's a break from human interaction.

That's why you call your parents but text the girl you met last weekend.

It's not because they're too old to text. If the only way they could communicate with their children was through text, they'd be typing on their phone more than a stereotypical teen. It's because you're comfortable talking to your parents. Even when it's at it's most-uncomfortable, it's still familiar, safe, and never going to be as bad as the painful conversations you've already had with them. You don't need the safety net of putting the phone down, distracting yourself from the conversation by stressing about the conversation, procrastinating, or the flexibility to workshop every response with your friends.

For human interaction, voice is vastly preferable.
Could they not offer "Mars shares" which have no voting rights and up front state the explicit goal is to fund getting to Mars? I would buy this.
Well in this case it allows you to eat a burger if you like burgers. Me personally I eat vegan, vegetarian and non-vegan / non-vegetarian foods so it doesn't bother me as much.
Awesome resource
Fiber Optics: Wool Lovers Battle Animal-Rights Crowd Over Sheep Shearing
You go ahead and spend your money on that stuff. But in a free market, soy-based protein is going to be a hard sell.
I really enjoy this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18853966
Code readability and ease of modification are also part of a programming language's power. LISP scores lower on those than Python and so Python is more preferrable than LISP (assuming all other factors balance each other out - in reality it is the tooling).
Reminds me that I should probably finish my article on how I wrote a BrainF*ck interpreter in sed.
There should be a Mozilla extension if you look for it
Hear hear! These kinds of foods I think are handy for people transitioning to a more vegetarian/vegan diet, when they still crave "traditional" foods like hamburgers and hotdogs. But I think they also goof up public perceptions of what good veg* food is.
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I've recently relocated back to Canada after living in San Francisco. I was using an accountant in the US, but have had to stop using them.

I was wondering if anyone has recommendations on accountants or firms which have experience with ISO option exercise and sales for a US company?
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A product like this is primarily for people who already eat beef, who may be wanting to cut back on their meat consumption. Most vegetarians/vegans I know would never bother trying a product like this.
Plant-based foods are almost always significantly more efficient to produce than meat since you no longer need to grow all of the food to feed an animal for its entire life.

From another article ( https://www.cnet.com/news/impossible-burger-2-0-tastes-like-... ):

> But Impossible Foods can produce a burger using a fourth of the water and less than 4 percent of the land -- and emit one-tenth of the greenhouse gases -- than a conventional burger, Brown said.

So yeah, we might still destroy forests to make veggie burgers, but it'll be 1/25th of the forest destruction (if you believe the numbers).
Ask HN: Tips on getting internship as a mature student?
Hey folks,

I returned to university to study physics & biology, after dropping out of my last year of computer engineering a couple of decades ago. I'm interested in getting an internship at SpaceX, Google, Amazon, Apple, Oculus, or other top-tier companies.

Does anyone have similar experiences or tips?

Looking at the SpaceX intern site, e.g. one can list clubs (Robotics, Rocketry etc.) that one is a member of. I have knowledge in these areas, but am not currently in the relevant clubs. I'm thinking of how to get past the first filter to really present my case convincingly.

P.S. I'm a dual Canadian-German citizen.

Thanks!
Yves is really popular here in Canada. You can get it in just about every grocery store and some corner stores: http://yvesveggie.com/en/

That said, it's more traditional "fake meat", and probably not a close synthesis.

I'm actually more curious about the lab grown meat as an alternative. It almost seems like that could catch up by the time anyone gets a veggie burger actually tasting like meat.
I'm part of a company that went from a boring VCS strategy to jumping on the monorepo bandwagon against my advice to keep our git usage simple. It's been fairly terrible - merge conflicts, code going to the wrong environment, nobody can actually do a hot patch, and even long running feature branches which should be stupidly simple run into immense problem.

It also caused issues with our npm repo solution, and has created the worst case of dependency lock we've ever had.

Do yourself a favor and say no to monorepos. It is massive complexity for no benefit.
That depends on the person, but most of the vegans/vegetarians I know are not vegan/vegetarian because they are disgusted by the product, but because they have ethical concerns about the process that created it. If they can get the same taste experience without the ethical concerns, that's a net win.
I'm happy to see continued growth in this area, but I'm disappointed to see them shifting more toward soy. I'll be sticking with the Beyond Burger for now.
I've been under the impression that plant-based proteins take up less land than does animal-derived protein[0][1][2]. I could go on with the citations. So yes, replacing everything with plant-based protein would be vastly better.

Edit: Vastly better than Beef*

[0]https://www.wri.org/resources/charts-graphs/animal-based-foo...

[1]https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you...

[2]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5899434/
I want to get familiar with robotics
There's nothing to "disprove". The project has a different goal than you have. That apparently makes you angry. That's fine; snipe at it all you want, and pick a different messenger.

What you cannot get away with doing is making the argument that your disagreement with them is an indicator that they're compromised by the US Government. That's comically false. Snipe at them for things you can make actual arguments about (there are lots of those).
Six hour test on top of whatever time you spend interviewing. Because you know companies will still have you interview.
Crops are also not perfectly efficient, but it's simply replacing two chained instances of inefficiencies with one.

Instead of

Crops -> Animal feed -> Cattle -> Meat -> Eat

you have

Crops -> some processing -> Eat
Hey! NLP book is under communication – it's a great communication advice. Maybe other books are pseudoscience, I don't know.

You can contribute missing book here: https://github.com/sizovs/mustread-data
> If iOS had required Lisp instead of Objective-C, then Lisp would have been popular right now.

It could have dragged iOS popularity with it.

Pushing, promoting or forcing something is not enough for it to become popular and widely used.
They would have to, since this is a general-knowledge programming test.
Hey, I wanted to express the same enthusiasm as sytse. Thank you very much, your words are amazing and we are really happy to read this great feedback.
Shared it with others so they can enjoy as well :-)

Also wanted to share this feature we are currently working on, it allows you to remove unused tags from Container Registry, and we hope it will land with release 11.7 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/55978
I say whatever sells more non-meat burgers is good. Telling a die-hard meat eater to just eat a mushroom or some eggplant is not going to be effective.
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What kind of vegan food are you thinking of? I mean, things like nuts, beans, etc. already exist. What requirements should "new" food fulfil? Providing the right nutrients?
I think I'm either misreading your comment, or there's a misunderstanding here.

When RSUs are issued, they typically appreciate in value due to either an increase in share price or a discount or both.

When the RSUs vest, one of 2 things happens: either the number of shares is reduced by a sum equivalent to pay income taxes, or (more rarely) income taxes are paid by the recipient later at tax time. In either case, the shares didn't exist in the recipient's account before that vesting date.

If the shares are sold, those funds can be used to buy other shares if desired. If they are held, they are just normal shares in that company. In either case, they appreciate as capital gains instead of income, starting with the point in time when they were either purchased or vested whichever the case may be.
As a non vegetarian (yet?), I must a agree.
Absolutely. Most monorepos are git.

The entire commit history of Linux kernel development exists as a single git repository which you can check out here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux

(Indeed, git was developed for this very purpose.)

And it's very doubtful you're going to become larger than Linux. If your company becomes so large that git can't handle all of your code then quite frankly you've exceeded beyond your wildest dreams. Worrying about Google scale for your code repo when you're a startup is the ultimate counting chickens before they hatch.
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> I wish there were more vegan food that didn't try to replicate non-vegan textures and flavors.

Isn't that most vegan food already? I.e. vegetables
Arch package is configured with ICU support, but I think you need to use ICU collations explicitly: https://postgresql.verite.pro/blog/2018/07/25/icu-extension....

SELECT * FROM pg_catalog.pg_collation;

As usual with collations, you must be careful and know what you are doing (old collations are also still available, for backwards compatibility)
This is amazing.

Make sure to view it on a sufficiently wide browser to see the ASCII art of a torn piece of punched paper tape.
Where did you find your coach?
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I read that often but I don't understand how it can be true. Bash (and I suppose zsh's) tab-completion is programmable so you can make it do whatever you want to.
Types are documentation, very useful in large dynamically- typed code bases.
I've been following data Artisans for a while and love their tech! It seemed that being not from silicon valley made it more difficult for them to gain traction.

One part of the acquisition is the integration of Alibaba's in-house modifications called Blink. It will be interesting to see what is behind that. To me it looks like this could be a very health collaboration.
To pay or not pay dividends is economically a net neutral exercise. This is a matter of investor relations, and an issue mostly for the CFO of the company and has little material relationship to the nature of the company.

It's not really a fundamental issue of control, it's just one of the many issues that pops up in the day to day of organizations that are cash flush relative to their income.
Find a cofounder.

I shelved ideas until I had a cofounder.

I shelved other ideas until I had a cofounder and capital.

Other ideas I built myself.

I’ve met like minded people that also had the right risk profile typically at mixers and tech meetups on topics that I liked. Never for the explicit purpose of meeting a cofounder. Just people that happened to be in the same fireside chat as me that contributed good conversation. Its all luck but you can improve the odds.
I'm working to solve the same issue with our CI/CD pipeline.

Have you tried checking for version differences between your existing images and the services in your monorepo as an indicator of which services to rebuild(instead of using a git-difference)?
I've been vegan for 8+ years and am a fan of the Impossible Burger. I'm vegan for ethical reasons but certainly remember how good burgers/cheese/etc. tasted, so the closer vegan alternatives can get, the better!
I think part of this is just highlighting the differences between our language center and the analytic part of our brains. And I also think this differs greatly between individuals (a huge reason why our family home-schools).

For instance, I have never had trouble with things like English grammar and spelling. For grammar, the rules have just always made sense, and, for spelling, usually just seeing the word written down a time or two is enough to remember how to spell it. On the other hand, my 9 year old, who is an even more avid reader than I was at that age, cannot form a grammatically correct sentence or spell even slightly less-than-simple words without referring to a list of rules that she has memorized about how these things are supposed to be done. She's the same in math. She knows she needs to borrow/carry but she hasn't made the leap to understand why (and given her personality, she may never be interested, which is a tough thing to swallow as parents who values learning as much as we do). So the advice in this article would be totally useless to her. Then again, she's a better artist already than I'll ever be.

In the end, I tend to think of this all as healthy. We don't need a thousand thumbs in our body, and we don't need everyone to be interested in understanding lots of things. We need artists, public servants and mothers. We need teachers and garbage truck drivers and child advocates.
Right now yes, in the near future, probably not. As automation and better services come out, website development will be one of the first jobs to be replaced by this. Although services like Wordpress, Wix, have their problems, they get better and better every day. In the future, no one will be coding websites/not a viable career option (people may just code on the side website for really niche things)

It is a great launchpad to do other programming besides web dev. Go into web dev, because there is a lot of cool tech in it and lessons. But learn other technologies as well that will not be replaced by automation.
Great work! It is very interesting to see the different algorithms you've used and the changes you were forced to make due to legal trouble.
Unless the Impossible Burger is exceptionally inefficient to produce, that's still a huge win. An acre of land can produce about twenty times as much edible protein from soy as from beef.
6 months will teach you how to copy/paste code from StackOverflow and update the code for latest $JS_FRAMEWORK. You'll get by with "just enough" knowledge for a career in web dev.

Invest your time - over a period of YEARS - into studying computer science, where coding is only a small part of the course.

Then you'll be able to expand your career far beyond just Node web dev.
It makes perfect sense. It's the same reason I always suggest to someone who's struggling with weight to get a fitness coach; not necessarily for the advice but just so they've got someone to stay accountable to, at least until they build up good habits on their own.
It's easy to win the argument that plant-based foods are more efficient to mass-produce than CAFO meat, but you might need to be careful generalizing; pigs and chickens fed forage and scrap are supposedly pretty efficient as well.

(I have no idea if there's an efficient way to scale beef).
What have you been doing for the past 20 years? That's going to be highly relevant in an interview. Can anything that you've been doing be applied in any way to the positions they're looking to fill?

Why did you drop out of school the last time around? Frankly if I were the hiring manager I'd be concerned about your commitment to your endeavor in physics. Hopefully you have a really good story for how what you're going through now is different from then. This is another case where what you've been doing for the past 20 years can really help.

Good luck!
Two points:

1) Jeff Bezos' quote on the fridge is the maximum of lame. This is the guy that treats his employees really well and cares about them more than about his personal wealth, right?

2) Avoid boring people. Why? Some people are just boring through no fault of their own. A series of misfortunes brought them into that stage. There are stuff to learn from boring people to and they deserve attention and love like any other.
Insurance company’s problem.

But not mine as the passive article reader.
Yeah, there is this weird idea on HN that any language can become popular if some big ecosystem adopts it before it becomes big. The reality is more complicated of course. Familiarity, simplicity, learning curve all matter much more, than people want to believe.
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Being a founder means solving all these problems everyday as a background task (usually by hiring a lawyer, payroll firm, accountant, etc). A mentor can help you with the basics and the timing for hiring professionals.
"To survive a Northern winter, bees change the composition of the swarm by shrinking the overall population, caulking the hive, getting rid of the deadweight males (i.e., ALL of the males), and laying just enough eggs to preserve a minimal survivable population through the winter and into spring.

They cluster together in the center of the hive, keeping the queen in the center, shivering their wings to create kinetic energy, occasionally sending out suicide squads to retrieve honey stores from the outer combs. They lower their metabolism by creating a cloud of carbon dioxide in the hive."

Thanos would approve of bees' survival strategies.

Jokes aside, what I always found really impressive is how bees deal with hornets, which are way bigger and their natural predators:

https://www.livescience.com/19078-bee-ball-cooks-enemies.htm...
But lots of people got nowhere from doing the WRONG thing. Focusing on finding a cofounder instead of on furthering the product could definitely be one of those mistakes.
Because it isn't just for vegan/vegetarians. I love meat, but as I have become more aware of the implications of a meat based diet, its hard for me to justify my food choices. I would love a plant based product that tastes like meat without the health, environmental, and ethical problems associated with the real thing.
What a fantastic description or Morrissey. He's exactly a "master troll". His social "role" is like the chorus from Greek tragedies.

I don't often listen to his music anymore. But, when the mood hits, nothing else satisfies.
When you think about it the best way for immigrants to improve their own countries is to move to the US or any other right country, earn a lot of USD/etc there and then move back to their home country. Every dollar they earn and spend in their homecountry will eventually return to the US because they can't do anything with dollars in the homecountry except exchange it with someone who will buy american products.
We have a few available in the US, my favorite is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorn#Production which is not vegan as it contains some amount of egg. But the majority of the product is made from soil mold protein, which is what makes it unique among the options I have available.
Then you will just create a new market, not directly replace an existing market.

The creater of the Impossible Burger said he could create new types of meat. I think of it as meat of animals that have never evolved. However that's not their focus.
The AI faces... wow.
As a vegetarian that is a fairly picky eater, and (a decade ago) a big meat eater, I have a different perspective. When you don't enjoy, say, bell peppers, it is really nice to have some meat-like textures and tastes. As we get closer to having textures that do more than taste/feel like highly processed meat, it gets better.

Which doesnt contradict your point that veg/vegan options have taste and experiences that are worthwhile in their own right, but I shall forever be glad of the time I had pakora thatd recaptured the taste of KFC, as well as other chewy options to round out the relatively small set of options my tastebuds find palatable.

I certainly wish it was different, but from my perspective veggies are out there for anyone to find. Meat tastes/textures are not out there for the vegs/vegans yet.

Plus, the easiest way to reduce meat consumption is to provide drop-in replacements for those that are seeking that taste/texture in ways that done make them regret the choice.
Being born in India, I've had the privilege to eat vegetarian meals that can rival even the best meat based meal.

While I welcome 'impossible' meat replacements, it is funny that the meat reduction movement is looking at such impractical and immature products instead of simpler solutions such as bringing veg friendly cuisines to the fore.

I am opposed to advocating for cold-turkey veganism though. Milk products and eggs are great meat substitutes, and the lack of both makes entire cuisines inaccessible.
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yes.

Computing disciplines aren't easy, so you're best off following your interests as you get started (self directed or otherwise); with the goal of sufficient skills in completion of a product. Move laterally, instead of deep prior to your first job, or until you have a more diverse understanding of the technology space. That'll paint your first job; there you'll do what you're payed for, and that can totally reshape you. This repeats forever.
Then there's the 92% of grazing land that doesn't grow crops. That's a clear win for cattle.