skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know you're trolling, but there once was a time when fast food wasn't objectively terrible. Something happened in the name of cost-cutting. Taco Bell is one of the biggest ones I remember, as they would have an employee prepare the lettuce manually, grate the cheese, etc. Even the olives were sliced by a kitchen tool.

McDonald's is another one, my cousin once earned a "fry guy" pin where he cut and fried the most potatoes in a day. Yes, _cut_. None of that frozen garbage.
There's Cargill and Louis Dreyfus, which control a large amount of the global agriculture trade (and 1/4 of the main cast of Seinfeld ;) - and there's not a whole lot of insight into at least Cargill.
This is too extremely silly for me. I can understand the taste angle (my wife isn't a fan of red meat, she can tolerate it but doesn't enjoy it), I can understand the religious angle (people are silly) and I can understand the ethical angle... Lastly, I have heard of people who have gone full vegan and react poorly to a soup that surprised them by being a beef broth base which causes indigestion.

But!

Using the same knife to cut a meat sandwich and then a vegetarian sandwich, that sounds like some "wifi allergy" level BS to me. If that's actually a thing I'd like to see a well designed double blind study that could back it up - depending on the knife thickness there's a decent chance that the knife has been implicitly wiped down through the action of cutting before it gets anywhere near the vegetarian sandwich - I'd find it more concerning if the same cutting board was reused as that would give a decent chance that some left-over meat is pressed into the bottom of the sandwich, though in that case a quick dry wipe down would suffice.
I can't find the exact quote, but I think it was Aristotle who said (something along the lines of) "we haven't mastered the art of teaching, except to those for whom it is superfluous". This is still true today, and, I think, true of each and every single management fad. Things like deadlines, status reports, daily standups, open offices, tickets, and retrospectives are designed around the assumption of a reluctant workforce who have to be clubbed into line. If you assume that's what you're dealing with, you're going to gravitate toward heavy-handed means of control and conversely, if you gravitate toward brutal overseer managerial tactics, you're sending the signal to the workforce that you expect them to push the envelope and accomplish as little as possible within the narrow parameters of your dictatorial cruelty. If you assume that we're all on the same team, you'll get good results as long as we are. If you assume that we're not, there's no level of threatening or punishment you can dish out that will.
Neither votes nor courts enabled this - governments just did it, and will just do things like this without asking (nor sometimes checking).

The challenge in a way is how can we ever vote for or fight against (in court) things we don't even know exist sometimes?
I do the same. I also usually tell girls I'm fat and generally try and make the conversation bad as well. /s

I'm not sure why you would think a car and place are unreasonable ways to judge how attractive someone is.
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That's not Bernie's website. On Bernie's website, he actually outlines zero issues. You can donate, sign up for emails, or see the store, or see the site in Spanish or the privacy policy, and that's all.

https://berniesanders.com/

If he has a platform, he doesn't have a shred of it on his own site.
- Tell me about your software development methodology.

- How are requirements communicated to developers?

- How is work by developers tracked?

- What VCS do you use?

- What bug tracker, etc?

- Do you practice devops?

- What's your build process look like? Automated? Continuous deployment?

- How big is the team?

- Do you do sprints? how long typically? How do you decide what to work on in a sprint?

- How do you determine when something is "done"? Who decides?

- Describe your infrastructure.

That's usually enough to get started. You can drill down as far as you want on pretty much any of those.
I've worked for the federal government last 10 years as a Systems Engineer on mostly software projects. My first degree is in aerospace and mechanical engineering. I've grown super tired of the slow bureaucracy and the fact that I never get to actually create or design anything beyond requirements.

I'm halfway through the 2 years it will take me to get a bachelors in CS from my original University. Im still working full time and thus I won't have any industry internships when I finish. I'll be 33 then.

Is this going to severely limit my opportunties for a first development job? Should I play down my previous experience to reduce the middle aged junior problem? Any advice will be appreciated.
Time waste alert! You don't actually bother to respond to candidates.
Torturing people
Many of us work in a suburban office park with ZERO places to live in walking distance, and no bus service. Even if you count bike distance, the office park really needs more workers than zoning codes all to live in a comfortable distance (don't forget the getting over/around hiways often adds significant distance to a commute)
Interesting. But why can't I filter by city? I'd like to see the percentile plot but restricted to New York. I imagine that the shape and peak of that plot would be different for each city.
Ironically, that's also the most dreaded phrase an employee can utter to an employer.
But it wasn't going to be taken out of the hands of the rich to pay for this. It was going to come from a VAT, and from existing welfare. But existing welfare is taking it from the poor, and the VAT is taking it from businesses and people who buy stuff. It's largely not coming from the rich. So even by your second paragraph, it's unclear that this is going to cause actual growth.
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In addition to the three reasons from the article, there’s also the case of a level playing field. If Facebook were to impose its own limits that other companies are not bound by, they would be tying one hand behind their back while other companies would not have the same limitations. They would be voluntarily helping their competitors. Regulation would help to keep everyone on a level field.
What form of achievement are we talking about? I’m seeing schools were anything less than all A’s is a failure. Are we dropping because kids are getting C’S?
The parent's confusion stems from the fact that the OP is a nearly-40-year-old man who did programming earlier in his life, quit for 16 years, and is now trying to get back into it. "Do an internship during college" isn't really actionable advice for this guy.
I'm shocked that the salaries are so similar between Seattle and SF. Does this ring true for y'all?
Because I mostly eat vegetarian and Impossible Burger is served at only ~7 places close to me (in the VA-DC-MD metro area). With Burger King, i'd get access almost anywhere. That is awesome.
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That very clearly has both cameras and microphones.

It claims the data is local to each node, but you've only got their word about what firmware is running on each node.
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Weird, I tried it and wanted to like it simply because it was higher in fat and lower carb than your traditional veggie burger - but it was very obvious I was eating fake meat. It was ok, I'd eat it again. But I would not replace real beef with it any time soon.

But I am keto. So I am not eating it with a bun and tons of sugary sauces to cover up the meat flavor. You can really tell the quality of a burger (meat or not) when you eat it wrapped in lettuce.
no, software is not eating the world
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

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I've had a lot of veggie burgers, my main problem with them is the lack of structure. If they're more than like 1/4" thick you try to take a bite and the whole thing squishes out the sides of the bun.

Personal favorite veggie-protein-patty is morningstar's "buffalo chik," which aren't really that chicken-like but taste good and have enough structure to stay together while you eat them.
I made the same switch, and I have been a hiring manager in both places. They are definitely lower on average.
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I think the closest analogue you can find is peanut allergies, but (as far as I've ever seen) no body has that sort of anaphylaxis reaction to meat or the taste of it.

Cooking the burger in beef/pork fat would likely be noticeable, but that is pretty trivial to avoid and _usually_ grills are crudely scraped down between different grillings, that will remove everything but trace amounts.
This is the first full scientific paper on Tanis, an unprecedented site which preserves hundreds of fish corpses in exceptional condition along with extremely strong indicators that they were killed on the day of the Chixculub impact (most obviously, tektites or glass beads associated with the impact found in their gills). Co-authors include Walter Alvarez and Jan Smit, likely the two leading experts on the K-T event.

The paper and supplement are extremely narrow and are intended to show only that the site was created in a seiche triggered by seismic activity from the impact, and that the preserved animals there died in the event. It leaves very little reason to doubt this conclusion. However the site contains many specimens not included in the paper: previous conference abstracts indicate dinosaur tracks (https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016AM/webprogram/Paper284267.htm...) and the burrow of a mammal which was made after the event but filled before the prevalent pollen had a chance to settle (https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2017AM/webprogram/Paper305627.htm...).

Even the topics discussed in the paper are truly remarkable and there are many firsts such as impact structures formed by tektites raining from the sky. A New Yorker article published on Friday (in apparent violation of the PNAS embargo, although it's not clear to me whether they were subject to it) tosses out mind-blowing details rapid-fire for pages on end. Press articles:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-di...

https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/03/29/66-million-year-old-dea...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/03/fossils-f...

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/astonishment-skeptic...
Ask HN: I have info and loads of manuals in Emacs, how do I use them?
Emacs famously has so many features and most mature packages you find have decent documentation, yet whenever I need to look for a new package or information on say org-mode, I find myself just googling it because C-h a (which I default go to) doesn't whittle things fast enough.

How can I use emacs info and friends more effectively? Specifically in looking up docs on already installed packages? Asking here because this might end up being useful to others.
> Access to the video is very limited and subject to strict protocols for use in investigations. And the audio recording capacity isn’t live because the City has no use for it.

How did placing this kind of trust in our government work when we last tried it (patriot act & fisa)?
Well, you're both saying the same thing. Adhering theists are mentally and emotionally stunted.
They will always find what to arrest you for if you threaten their power.
Plus "workflow" -- humans doing certain things in certain orders, entering them in a computer in a process which has components that also involve interacting with other software, non-software organizational systems, humans, and offline tasks -- is one of the hardest things to automate.

Because different people in different contexts will have different needs. Not just predilections. And not just because different individuals have idiosyncracies. But because they are inevitably doing _different kinds of work_ in _different organizational systems that are set up differently_, and you're trying to sell the same software to all of them, because it would not be cost effective to give each organization bespoke software. (And as we know, "customization" offers only limited escapes).

Not all "enterprise" software might be workflow-centered. But "ERP" systems like SAP are, and so are Electronic Health Records. In spades.
I'll echo the sentiment. The local Safeway sells Impossible Bratwursts.

They are honestly delicious. We grilled them on a fry-pan. The flavor and texture are almost perfectly there. It's just a bit spongy, and the depth of the umami/savory flavor isn't quite as deep. But if I hadn't known they weren't meat, I'd have been fooled. Throw a few of them on a grill or beer-boil them, put some mustard down over top, little kraut, I'd never know they weren't meat.

If the burger patties are anywhere near as good as the brats, then I think they'll sell a billion of them. For hearth-health and calorie density alone, I'd order them nearly every time.

Living in the future has a few perks!
We're not, so don't even think about asking.
There's two javascripts: one that really works in browsers, and it's still ES5. And other javascript, that works on abstract virtual machine implemented inside Babel. And only the first one is "real" javascript.
> "Not every office looks, well, like an office."

Great! Good point. There is a real need for tools that work for distributed global teams.

So how does Happy Tools help solve this?

...

I read the site, watched the video, read the press coverage, and I see absolutely nothing new here. I like Automattic a lot, so I want to believe they just need to improve their site content to better show off what the app can do.
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Given the runtime environment and limitations, I SERIOUSLY doubt WebAsm will be LESS secure than JavaScript's runtime in browsers itself.
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Deep learning has found two exoplanets that human astronomers missed
Holy crap you were living in constant darkness. Of course you had sleep issues. Did you ever try light exposure?
Just get a headlamp that can be angled down.
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Another aspect of this is that processed foods require less calories for your body to metabolize, since they are already partly broken down. While that doesn't specifically increase the rate of exposure to pathogens/toxicity, it does increase the net calories consumed in an already high-calorie category, and contributes to obesity.
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It's just a matter of time until we have country-wide full surveillance. It will be the perfect tool for anyone who wants to create a dictatorship. The thought police and the telescreens in 1984 will look primitive and weak in comparison. I think there is no way around it.

Add to that drones to keep the population under control and there is huge danger we'll have a pretty bleak future.
> strict protocols

Much like discussions about corporate policies, I find it helps to ask what happens when the handbook isn't followed...

How many years in prison does someone get for unauthorized access or (if an authorized user) abusing their access for improper use?
Effective arithmetic algorithms are included in Common Core [1].

[1] http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/NBT/
Interesting. I really like the Beyond Burger (and their sausage) but the one time I had the Impossible Burger, it tasted like a pretty generic veggie burger. Maybe the restaurant ran out and substituted.
> The only way this may change is if we change how we pay for our care.

Agree 100% on this. The incentives in a fee-for-service world are just so badly misaligned with the goals of functional healthcare system.

> Even the value based programs that CMS has implemented are really fee for service with a look back and adjustments to payments made based on savings that were encountered.

So CMS is acutely aware that merit-based adjustments on top of a fee-for-service model is an incremental improvement (and a very modest increment at that). So within the Medicare's Quality Payments Program, there is MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System) which is exactly what you describe and where most providers default to right now. But there are also several APMs (Alternative Payment Models) that providers can elect to participate in, some of which have full or partially-capitated payment mechanisms where there is a fixed fee per beneficiary, rather than the fee-for-service model. Everything I've heard from CMS suggests that APMs are the future and fee-for-service needs to go away. That's not going to happen over night but MIPS is the narrow end of the wedge to get us there.