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I was in Canada recently and tried one of the Tim Hortons "beyond sausage" sausage, egg, and cheese sandwiches. From the "beyond meat" people.

Had I not known what I was eating, I wouldn't have known it was plant-based at all. The taste and texture was, at least in fast food terms, just a really good sausage.

I haven't been able to try the beyond burger Burger King is selling, but if it's on par with the beyond sausage, I can't see why I'd ever eat a meat-based fast food burger again. It was really that good, and an easy decision to make given the meat industry's impact on the environment.

People who diss those meat substitutes out of hand should try them with an open mind (i.e. not from a place of "you can't control me" or "I'll never stop eating meat".)
I figured as much, and these are not slightly shambolic. (I can not say for Johnson, don't know enough about him.)
At least that's better than drinking buttermilk and a cheese sandwich :)
But most people don't see a general ethical issue with eating meat. We are omnivores after all. Hell, our hunter gatherer ancestors ate more meat than we do. Though, higher quality. It's the same with seeing a wolf eat a deer. Think they care? Same with a chimp finally catching a monkey and eating it (now those are horrifying videos to see, especially since chimps love eating monkeys). Snake to a mouse. Fox to a hare. Cat to a bird. Shark to a seal. Cheetah to a gazelle. Osprey to a fish. At that, a lot of herbivores also kill and eat other animals (ground nesting birds being the popular victim). Mostly for the calcium in their bones. But still.

But if broccoli could scream would you stop eating it? Circle of life. Just the way it is.

However I do agree, there are a lot of commercial farming practices that need to be ended. Even if it means higher prices.
There was a huge discussion about this a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20369960

You can't comment there any more, so new comments can go here, but it's potentially useful to read the previous discussion.

There are a few extra comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20641380
What you mean by "vital action"? Sounds authoritarian. Shouldn't people vote on these sorts of things, with democracy and all?
I switched to Hugo from WordPress. Best decision I made this year so far. :-D But I still need to look into theme development.
Legally ads have to be marked as such, so it will definitely be possible somehow. Additionally, 'good enough' is acceptable, it might be a constant fight but one side has less stamina than the other by virtue of the fact that they're limited by market logic.
If you could rename one monument, which would it be and why?
beyond meat doesn't seem to be doing anything interesting aside from having a slightly better burger recipe than the last guy.

As far as I can tell they've cashed in on the buzz generated by impossible foods, who genetically engineered yeast to produce a plant heme so their meatless meat products taste and cook more like meat.

Beyond Meat just appears to have come to market first, and such gotten more attention. I've tried it a couple times, it was just ok, and not much better than most other decent veggie burger patties. Not groundbreaking and not worth more money than any others.

I haven't tried impossible foods yet. Looking for them.
Unsure what this is contributing to the conversation.

It’s similar to a bunch of naive HN commenters trivializing work our peers do by suggesting they can build out every startup in a weekend.

The creators of the product have responded in a couple of places about what separates this from a skin, and honestly I think it’s great software design where the complexity is abstracted away from the end user.
Really if Ebola is to be more deadly in absolute terms it ironically should be far less lethal and disturbing in symptoms. If it was weakened to be say about as bad as the flu in terms of lethality its kill count would be way higher.

Ebola is so lethal it would practically have to cause the deceased to autocremate and destroy the remains to be any worse at spreading.

Killing your host quickly is a bad for a parasite - parasiteoids are the closest to being viable in that model where their purpose is "use the host to have your offspring instead of yourself".
There are closed-cabin tuk-tuk style designs too that would provide weather shelter.
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If people valued the existing sites enough to pay for them they'd already be doing that, it would simply be a more reliable stream of income.
Reminds me of a similar submission a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18029078 Shame that they transmit sensitive information like that in a URL param in a plaintext.
In my case, I never seriously thought about several hot button social issues that were ethically troubled until I took a course on ethics. They simply didn't intersect with my life, nor did I expect them to. Only once I was in the class did I stop and think about costs incurred by choices and policies and their outcomes, much less how I might simply ask "What choice is more just (or less unjust)?"

College is about not only learning deliberately but allowing serendipity to open your mind to the unexpected. In my experience, budding engineers are among the last of us to become aware of social costs vs benefits and alternative perspectives. Without a required course to open their eyes, it's likely that many young techies will leap into life's choices before they look.

IMO, college is exactly the right time for all students to confront the cost of living an unexamined life.
Sure! Corn is in everything! There's an obesity epidemic. Diabetes is effecting everyone's life. etc.
95% of scientists who use statistics are not statisticians, plus or minus 5%, 19 times out of 20.
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>I would further argue that tech jobs in Hamilton/Mississauga (or other satellite/burbs) don't compete with Toronto-proper in terms of compensation.

I have to disagree with you here. The highest paid senior developer job I was offered in downtown Toronto was about $155K (after benefits etc.) meanwhile I'm working a contract job in Mississauga that pays significantly more than that ($70-80 per hour per client, 40 hours+ per week). Its a personal anecdote sure but my experience over the last ~6 or 7 years of working in the GTA has lead me to that conclusion.
In Javascript you just need to wrap in `new RegExp(r1 + r2 + r3)`.
That's cultural and not intrinsic. There are places with "what rules" car driving culture too.
It’s more complicated than that: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2861987/
Why is Guantanamo camp still open?

Can Snowden speak openly about NSA hacking?

In China there are some checks and balances, but they are just ineffective and often ignored too. In the USA there are stronger due processes, but there are also more subtle ways to abuse them.

There is a difference, but it’s not really as material as it sounds.
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Amazon Aurora magic is in storage is the case at large extent because RDS was done on the EBS storage which is super inefficient for database workloads. If you use NVMe storage you often get much better performance... and when you can use Database Level replication for high availability https://www.percona.com/blog/2017/11/28/best-practices-perco... But even if you use EBS the Magic of RocksDB/MyRocks may be better than magic of optimized storage as this blog post shows https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/07/17/assessing-mysql-perf...
Thank you. I agree with that vision.

Please note that you might have misunderstood the article though. Specifically you seem to have missed these two passages:

> Modern Intel and AMD processors unfortunately still require some closed-source (and encrypted!) firmware in order to boot. This insanity is unfortunately very much a part of the technological foundations on which we rely daily.

> Today marks the day when (mostly) open-source firmware for off-the-shelf modern servers becomes an option.
We had issues with Monzo on 29th July
Does anyone else get scared that too much breadth will stifle them? CS is a massive field these days and you could easily sink all your time into a small area without fully mastering it. I have had coworkers before and who could speak at length about different Linux distros, networking, web dev, dbs etc. but then were not great at the meat and potatos of the job.
I don't find it aggressive. It's honest, without any digressions or trying to be more than a list of mistakes and bad decisions that were made.
I'm seeing a lot of rhetoric and no substance. Yawn.
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Seems like a bold move to me regardless if the engineers are 20 or 50 or 90.
Regulation the usage of private websites and something as specific as infinite scroll on an app is ridiculous. I understand we regulate things like cigarettes and alcohol, but I absolutely hate the idea of government getting involved in regulations of software and the internet. I just don't personally think that if I'm going through multiple private businesses (phone manufacturer, ISP, social network) that I should be restricted by government regulation on something as mundane as spending too much time on Reddit.

That being said, that's my personal opinion.
redesign cities to include more and better public transport

Concrete is a massive source of CO2 emissions. Rebuilding cities is really, really not going to help.
>Not sure what it is about politics and/or power that somehow makes it so difficult to keep it in your pants.

Sexual aggression has been a virtue signal of male power and status since the days when kings compared the size of their slave harems. Modern men have been taught through all forms of commercial media that their value as people is directly proportional to the amount of casual sex they have. Culturally, power and sex have always been linked.

When Trump said he could just grab women by the pussy and get away with it, of course, he was right. At that level of privilege one often doesn't need to keep it in their pants. Propriety and chastity are for lesser men to whom legal and social consequences can be applied.
And are now intimidated to hide from every authority.
Yeah, what is not clear is if they would catch and fire developer/team who introduced $1M bug.
It’s just really not hard to claim to be more secure than Android. Sure iOS is an issue, but I don’t think anyone would believe Android is more secure than Windows Phone.
Why is the tourism economy more important than the livestock economy?
I thought (ironically) that Ebola would evolve into a less deadly virus, because that would improve its contagion rates. It doesn't care if it kills us (in fact it'd probably rather not). For a virus, the perfect balance is making is making us as sick as possible (ie. using as much of our resources as possible) without actually staying home from work.
From an evolutionary perspective, we have evolved: we use tools and process nearly anything we eat anyway. Plants are the only thing we eat with minimal preparation, and only some of those.

When was the last time you had raw beef? for me, it was beef tartare a few years ago...

Raw grain? Nope, that's all processed, either by boiling, or grinding and turning into something else.
Sure, but this thread is about being judged by the thing that basically links to your portfolio (Github) or contains your demonstration of knowledge (like blog posts) instead of judging those those things directly. The OP dismisses the latter in favor of the former, and that's what I meant was a waste of time.

That you should build something if you don't have anything to show off at all is a completely different point -- and that doesn't seem to be your point when I reread your previous comment? At which point, I'd recommend building something more interesting than a blog unless you're a beginner, and I'd avoid mixing your writing with your attempt to build your first demo project. But this thread isn't about beginner advice.
It's not that "government makes better decisions than individuals" it's that unorganized individuals do not have the power to change the behavior of large organizations that are out to manipulate the public. Corporations manipulate individuals and entire populations by only providing the means for certain actions to be taken, by using propaganda, and in the case of UI, preying on the impulses of individuals.

By contrast, state power in this instance is exercised after deliberate thought, and in theory, in the interest of the people. This isn't the thoughtful and well informed decisions of individuals vs that of the state. It is that of our weakest, most impulsive moments vs making an informed decision before allowing products to be sold or made available.
It's truly amazing how bloated and slow most of Google's products have become, you can tell that they have hired literally zero people who came from poor places with slow internet.

I think they just get too caught up in their tooling and silly over-engineering and never actually think about the end product.
We had free vaccination of children at school, and opting out wasn’t common behavior. Also, the population was smaller and healthcare significantly cheaper.
I know this saying. It also includes fat: butter for sweet and lard for savory.
Please seek help right away if you're thinking of killing yourself. Go see a professional.
Downvotes are probably stemming from general hatred of cryptocurrencies. After all they “stole” the word crypto in mainstream media, just like criminals “stole” the word hacker long time ago.
The atmosphere cares even less about per capita than per country. It doesn't care about whether we "do our share" either.
>...while not ignoring the problems

I find this the crux of the issue at large, there is no such thing as "no problems".

Therefore, what was the point of this criticism in the first place? (in the article, not your comment)

It seems to me, the author didn't like that HN actually allows open discussion and respectful (mostly) sharing of opposing views.
Prosthetics for sharks. It's a growing industry.
Actually I'm thinking of the industrial approach to generating carbon credit offsets, then selling those on the market to polluting industries.

Regarding air travel specifically, it's less (and decreasing) in terms of pollution relative to other forms of transportation. One of the sources: https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/policy_guidance/env...

Cars in sum produce more pollution than planes (at least in the US), and recent estimates say that the 15 largest ocean freighters produce as much pollution as all cars globally for a year.

So my feeling is that reducing global shipping - eliminating consumption of junk - and reorganizing cities to enable more walking/biking, would have a far greater benefit than focusing on air travel.
Unflavored pea protein is pretty bad, but there are a ton of delicious vegan protein powder options out there.
In many homes the TV is on by default as background noise but people aren't really watching, or at least not giving it full attention.
What I think? I don't know, a lot of things goes against your intuition. I would think the combination of the two does a lot either way.
The problem with this recommendation is the complete obliviousness Alan has to the difference between the context HE brought when reading these texts to the context NEW developers bring. NEW developers (e.g. learned how to program after ~2005) will find very little to take away from such papers sadly.
I think you have it backwards. The more accurate statement is that farms are everywhere, including near airports and big roads. It's not like farms cluster around major highways or airports. I would even go as far to say that your average farm plant sees less road pollution than a similar plant in a suburban environment.
Probably not on Alan Kay's list, but Leo Brodie's Thinking Forth was mind blowing and game changing!

http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/
Was expecting them to actually be writing a web browser engine though with the current web standards you would need huge team of seasoned devs a several years if not decades of work to do this, missleading title. Basically they are wrapping webkit in a new UI. Boring...
Ah, I misunderstood the title. To me Web 3.0 means semantic web and linked data. This is a course on dapp blockchain applications.
I think most people who are concerned are bothered by the non-consensual activity. The people most likely to make public complaints about marital infidelity only do so for their political opponents and and voted for him by something like 90%.
Concrete is big but much less in total than car emissions. However, I'm not advocating building new things; I'm suggesting changing the use of existing things: more public transport options, more park and ride locations, more city bike stands, etc.
you can run k8s on a single machine.
there is even an easy way to do so k3s: https://k3s.io/
His longer reading list: http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp
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Hasn't NSA already got that title?
> Examples: Clojure, Common Lisp, HTML, Make

> Examples: UNIX, LISP, The Web, Emacs, TeX

1. Or just computer science.

2. Churn is not a problem. If you keep accepting the churn, you will learn them faster and faster, until you scan the doc and know most of the things, if it is churn. If it is not, it's something new (eg: Coq), then you have the ability to identify 'new but not churn', instead of just learning 'old and not churn' from a half-century ago (eg: Lisp).

3. Among the churns, there would be 'meta churn' like Haskell, Lisp, Erlang, and Rust. There are countless languages stealing Monad from Haskell, and Kubernetes patterns are very similar to Erlang OTP patterns.

4. Editors and IDEs are really irrelevant, I used Emacs a lot, I'm very fluent with Vi, but for some languages, I prefer Intellij and VSCode. Just use tools you feel productive.
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The biasing isn't just non-techs. I've hand built every PC I've ever owned for over 20 years now, in addition to building many for family and friends, and I still have to do a bit of mental gymnastics to get over my biases for certain manufacturers. When someone like Intel has consistently delivered better performing parts for as long as they have, when AMD throws up a better part it almost feels like its a trick. Hell even now on the consumer desktop parts it looks like Intel is still edging out the newest AMD offerings on single-threaded performance. Just not at a good price. People, even smart informed people, still try to avoid decisions when it seems easy to do so. Reaching for an Intel processor has meant getting the faster part for so long that its muscle memory for people. That's going to take a while to undo.
> Things like Let’s Encrypt

Any CA will do that. Paying a hundred bucks for a certificate will has never stopped a malicious actor, therefore Let's Encrypt does not introduce any new concern.

> Cert pinning sort of protects against this

DANE was designed for this. Since DNS is always a SPOF on the web, registering TLS public keys in DNS reduces the attack surface (instead of introducing a new channel for transport security).

> The certificate transparency efforts also sort of protect against this

That's bullshit. Nothing prevents a CA to emit certificates without declaring them. We should not rely on those big corporations for our security: our interests are FAR from aligned.
If a site is serving ads from their own domain, that's OK. As a pi-hole user I'm trying to block automated ad networks as those are the worst culprits when it comes to tracking and serving malware.

I visit some sites that sell their ad spaces directly to advertisers and create and host all creative themselves. I have no issue with those ads.
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Umm that is exactly what happens with colonization - the colony grows big enough to be self-sufficient and starts getting its potential squandered by the home country's top down governce seeing them as a resource reserve instead of another part of their country.

Either things are reorganized such that they gain more local autonomy granted effectively losing the top down control or they break off. In either case they typically do better because of it. Even with problems in the aftermath they typically rise further - India for instance.
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There is an interesting film coming soon on meat consumption: The Game Changers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSpglxHTJVM

Produced by James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jackie Chan it follows several top level athletes and investigate the myth about the need for animal proteins
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Good point, thanks. The 60% number cited above does seem oddly specific, like it would come from a concrete source. Though as others in this thread have pointed out, methane seems to be less of an issue than it's sometimes made out to be.
that happens sometimes, but I don't think it's true for most generics, historically.
I usually install Linux, and then disable all of the privacy violating stuff that I can in Windows, like Cortana and Telemetry, and uninstall as much bloat as I can. I then install Firefox, Tor browser, and WSL.

Once that's done, I can move on to whatever I need for regular usage of the machine, like Git, compilers, Steam, etc.
It's a legitimate concern. I spent 4 months of evenings and weekends(could have been one or two to be honest) to prep for the Google Cloud Architect exam. I have used NONE of this knowledge (past what I already knew - load balancing and spinning up VMs/containers...I think I used Dataprep instead of a Excel once too for shits and giggles).

I am looking to spend another 4 months learning ML, which I likely won't apply in any way.

That's a year down the drain with ONE cloud provider and ONE way of doing ML. It's easy to completely waste your life like this WITHOUT getting better at your job.

Carry-over is far more limited than people make it out to be, unless you REALLY know a lot, but those people are rare.
Define the meat and potatoes of their job.

They could just be branching into /r/iamverysmart territory and just parroting omgubuntu.