skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right?

While they don't begin to approximate beef, I've tried these two recipies and like them

https://www.forksoverknives.com/recipes/five-ingredient-vegg...

https://www.forksoverknives.com/recipes/basic-veggie-burger-...

For health reasons I've spent the past year trying to give up meat and other animal products, to eat whole food plant based, and I've found every approximation of meat to just be blah and have just given up trying to recreate meat and instead have just found other things to make, but you can make a pretty good sandwich out of a bean-based pattie.

These franken-creations like the impossible buger just seem like a bad idea. They use a lot of extracts/refined stuff, which means you've got some amount of waste, and all the added cost of refining the ingredients and processing the patties and you still don't come close to re-creating a good seasoned beef patty.

A lot of people simply want to switch due to the environmental impact but take the first four impossible burger ingredients list :

- Water

- Textured Wheat Protein -

- Coconut Oil

- Potato Protein

3 of the 4 ingredients require a lot of processing, two of those are made from crops that are able to be farmed in a fairly sustainable fashion. The coconut oil however, at a scale required to replace beef, would likely quickly become unsustainable like palm oil is.

A single coconut only provides about 2 ounces of oil... it might be better than raising cattle but just eating beans, or whole wheat, would probably be orders of magnitude better.
Cracked screen is a serious price reducer in the second hand market. Great opportunity to get better specs if you want a purely functional device.

Unless you're after fashion accessories. Cracked screens are no go for fashion accessories. Can't let other people think you're too poor to buy an un-cracked phone.
From my POV its fair for the support services to cost a lot. The theatre or the nurses or the equipment or really anything we can account to facilities or administration might cost a lot and thats generally kind of ok.

A junior programmer costs $250/hr from booz allen or whatever and I think a lot of people here understand why that is. They might not be able to fizz buzz so well but we expect the system to fizz and buzz eventually and expensively.

You can't add up what a plumber spends on beer or pays an apprentice and try to say what he should charge for his business.

What sucks is that despite the rhetoric theres actually no market. Want a market? Let people actually choose and make costs transparent.
"try to avoid senseless loss of life over trivial things"

I do, thanks. I just think it's distasteful, dare I say boorish, to call other people's sacrifice "trivial" when it probably benefits me, even if slightly.

I don't think we live in a world where armed robbers are categorized as gum-stealers and child-shooters and never the twain shall meet. Some people are suspicious of even non-criminals having or using guns, believe it or not.

I'm not saying worship every vigilante as a hero, just accept that disproportionate reactions to antisocial behavior are never going to go away, are a fundamental part of human behavior, and can be stupid from an "economically rational person" perspective and beneficial to society, including you and me, some of the time.

If you call something another person is willing to risk their life for "trivial", you really don't care about their life. It's transparently an insincere reaction to feeling badly about being passive.
Shkreli also was not an outlier, the mention of his actions are not inaccurate

The only thing happening here is that 2 people per decade actually talk about what they’re doing and receive flak for that when it is clear it is the only practice in this market. If the reaction reflects how people feel then disincentivize companies limited by shares from being a part of these transactions
They know their target audience
> Desktops still on x64.

Perhaps in the same way that the Apple II is still on the 6502
You can write the text in anything really, but Microsoft Word won out in books and legal work because it has group editing capabilities (comments, track changes, reverse or accept changes etc). Google Docs seems like it might be a contender.

That description of the editing process sort of convinced me not to try emacs for this.

I like org mode too, but giving up the editing for org mode doesn't seem like a fair bargain.

edit: I know this author doesn't use org-mode. I was just pointing out my favorite feature of emacs.
Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Reddit#Full_timeli..., the site launched in 2005, and from pretty early on there were a handful of centrally-managed ones like science, programming, etc, with the option to create arbitrary ones coming in 2008.

So technically "years", but those were the very early days.
Maybe the progression is actually bash -> awk -> perl -> python -> raku ? One can wish :-)
yes, very wrong conclusion. the author blames cheap domains and easy to get https. You could as well blame cheap computers, cheap internet access, cheap electricity.

Since that looked like an SMS, I would report it to your mobile provider, let them track who sent the message.
CS50 should really stick with C and go as deep as possible. But it's good to learn multiple languages in the same course -- even then I prefer they put a functional language like Scala instead of Python. I mean once you know C it's really easy to pick up Python by yourself.

I'd say 50% C and 50% Functional, and remove the web part, really superficial and boring. And then go as deep as possible. Can even intertwine the C/Functional part, e.g. write an interpreter for a subset of the functional language in C as the last large project.
> Displaced people, [...] will be a major problem and we will be judged by future generations on our response.

Same could be said of the 10s.
Those are both typically faster than Ruby, tho. Ruby (especially pre-1.9) probably does represent the mainstream peak for tolerance of slowness.
>> including a significant chunk of CRUD software work.

Can you please expand on how that will look like ?
If you're stood up on a crowded train, with your phone screen cracked, would you notice that a . is where a / should be?

If you do your payments in a crowded train while standing and using an outdated, broken Android phone, you're a dumbass who deserves to get ripped off.
They would be more intuitive if they were actually demos, not animations that don't actually do any requests.
Innovations like that need 15-20 years from a working prototype to mass adoption, so I agree with the prediction that we won't see it in the 20's yet.
I also remember 'mars.com', that I guess I found on some bbs, which was basically just the terrain renderer you could roam about in a very basic heightmap that was coloured to resemble mars. I think I saw that before comanche, and it was fast on fairly mediocre pc back then.

I don't know if it is just me and the appeal to the stuff I grew up with, but I find the style of the visual artefacts a lot more appealing than in many more modern rendering techniques. Perhaps it is just the simplicity of it.
I think any piece of code falls on a spectrum, somewhere between "software engineering" (efficient, well documented, etc) and "art" (interesting to look at in some way, someone had fun making it, etc).

The two ends of the spectrum serve completely different purposes but I think both deserve to be appreciated! Just for different reasons. This post (IMO) veers pretty close to the "art" side of the spectrum, so it doesn't make much sense to talk about its efficiency.
There are plenty of regulated free markets. Examples would be everything which uses mains power, phone lines or radiates rf.

Or stuff you eat or medicine. Or occupational products. Or... actually I think more things are regulated than aren't.

I guess my point is that when regulations apply to everything around us, is that really the sticking point or is it the potential for regulatory capture and limited user choice?
I think the China eugenics prediction is possible. If one major country does it others will follow, and of course the rich will want this to no matter where they are.
Yes, indeed, that's the problem. People buy a $1000 iphone without actually being able to afford it, pay monthly instalments for 5 years and then they drop the phone and can't afford to repair it.
Meh. Nah.

Chromebook growth has been phenomenal, full stop. There is still plenty of headroom, because the price point continues to beat phones and laptop competitors. Note also the growing success of premium Chromebooks. Classic bottom-up innovation/disruption story.

In terms of making use of the hardware, Android is a necessary stopgap strategy, but webassembly is coming to bring native app performance and security to the web platform.

That's not to say Google is marching from strength to strength. Their product management discipline is poor to non-existent, and from the outside there seems to be a fundamental monetization tension between ads and subscriptions, when the same human flips between being product and/or customer, particularly for the kid/ed sector.
I use "Ian's knot" to tie my shoes [0]. I was so excited when I first learnt this, it is very quick to do and I like that the two loops of the tied shoelace sit flat and straight on the show. Works great for short laces, and never had a problem coming undone.

[0] https://youtu.be/_O-xaJrao1w
It does seem to me too.
NYC Parking Meters Not Programmed to Work in 2020
The same thing happens for everything. If it hasn't happened in America, Americans argue as if it is a theoretical idea that has never before been tried on Earth.
https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.html?p210=1...

Even if you shut down all coal/oil/gas/biofuel powerplants by the end of the decade, add in a 3rd "new technology" (e.g. fusion) ready in 1 year, find and deploy perfectly efficient battery technologies for rewables, decrease the cost of renewables by 50%, electrify cars and buildings (i.e. move off gas) at the maximum rate while finding huge increases in their efficiences as well all while taxing carbon emissions like crazy...

Global warming still ends up being a problem and the temperature continues to rise. Please don't think "we just need to wait for <x> to be solved in the next 10 years and the problem will go away!", we need <a> through <z> to happen not have enormous climate change impact by 2100.
> Sapra et al. developed an integrated particle accelerator using photonic inverse design methods to optimize the interaction between the light and the electrons. They show that an additional kick of around 0.9 kilo–electron volts (keV) can be given to a bunch of 80-keV electrons along just 30 micrometers of a specially designed channel.

A lot less exiting than techcrunch says, but I wouldn't know why I expected better.
Nothing. Smartphones are still very fragile. Eventually, pretty much everyone will crack their screen. Because usually the phone is perfectly usable with cracked glass, and because most smartphone designs are user-hostile, repairing the damage ranges from not economical to not possible in practice - so you see a lot of regular people walking around with cracked phones.
"Derp learning" :-)
The Netherlands has private healthcare and private insurance companies and has the second best healthcare system in Europe. The price per capita is on Northern/Western European average at 5300 USD per person. World-wide we are the 8th most expensive country per capita which seems fair given our high wages.

So even though we have the second best healthcare system and pay an average price for it, people still want to nationalise our system and revert the privatisation. Because "privatisation bad". It truly baffles me that people think it will be for the best. Perhaps the price will go down to the 4100 USD per capita that the nationalised UK system has has but I'm sure our quality would also drop to UK levels (16th place in Euro Health Consumer Index).
Are these really negative sounding? Or is it just me?

Is it the retrograde politics that has infected our entrepreneurial optimism? Too much hype not enough delivery? Too much interwebs and not enough real human time? Ten years back, it seemed like I regularly interacted with folks that seemed to believe that, armed with an nvidia chip and some models and the ability to sling some js, they could be the next Zuckerberg like billionaire. The bulk of these predictions feel negative, like the party is over.

* Crispr or derivatives will be used to create cancer therapy for the masses. It will be in mass clinical trial by 2030.

* there will be three new bigger than unicorn companies. They will have combine tech with non-tech (like amazon) and 2 will be based out of the Midwest, maybe Detroit or Chicago.

* long haul trucking will be automated to the point that drivers start doing part time work via mobile connection. Trucking companies will try to capitalize on this

* there will be a common wearable that does a weekly blood test

* some major US corporations will institute mandatory gym/excercise time for workers.

* climate change denial will pivot into spinning it as a positive by citing a agricultural use of a previously unarable region. No major industrial country will suffer land loss due to it

* millennials will embrace suburban life and there will be a series of new banking products to facilitate later home ownership. They won’t use the old tricks but will generalize bundling and have one monthly bill for mortgage, car and some services. Think some sort of automated HELOC type package. Top 15% will own homes in less than 15 years which will be lauded for these programs.

* to go with the above, spending monitoring apps will become more normalized and more proactive. Actively discouraging users from buying when they are in certain physical locations. This will open a new business model.

* co-ops will increase in popularity, particularly for child care
Ask HN: Fulbright
What do you guys think about Fulbright scholarships? (as an undergraduate)
From Ruby to Golang Book (2019)
Ideal Age to Start a Business. Thoughts?
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Yep, TaskTiger also uses Lua quite extensively ([0]) to ensure atomicity when moving tasks between various stages of processing (queued, active, scheduled, errored).

[0] https://github.com/closeio/tasktiger/blob/master/tasktiger/r...
I see you're formerly from FB.

It's not up to us to reverse engineer a binary every update to guess if it's secure...

It's up to Facebook, which has time and again proven that it is absolutely not trustworthy, to open its code and make builds auditable, inspectable, and reproducible.

This is what ANY secure software does. That's the cost of entry. Imagine if OpenSSH were closed and its devs issued the same response you just did. "Just reverse engineer the binary and prove that it's not secure!"

Rediculous.
An entomologist rates emoji ants
Absolutly! First world problems are really important.
I'm the author. I'm not blaming cheap domains. I'm saying that spam like this is a consequence of cheap domains.

The blame lies at the feet of the spammers.

And, I've worked for a couple of mobile providers. This spam was likely sent from a disposable pre-paid SIM. There's no realistic way to check who sent it.
The Acer C720 used a 3.8 Linux kernel, as documented at [1]. Updating to a new kernel would have required a full QA of the hardware to make sure that the device drivers in a newer kernel still worked correctly with that hardware.

[1] https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-f...

Support costs aren't too bad so long as you don't have to update the kernel and requal everything. But newer userspace starts to use kernel features to provide better functionality and better security (consider the massive vulnerabilities associated with Spectre and Meltdown, and obviously none of the remediations would have been in the 3.8 kernels). So you have to consider the costs of doing a requal of all of the hardware platforms using a 3.8 kernel to something newer, versus the costs of continuing to backport security fixes to older kernels, and the costs of testing the userspace components against older kernel, and providing workarounds for the lack of features in newer kernels.

A six year support lifetime is a long time; and Windows 10 has also stopped supporting older laptops on newer releases, so you will also see Microsoft not providing updates to older hardware[2][3].

[2] https://helpcenter.steinberg.de/hc/en-us/articles/3600086427...

[3] https://www.cio.com/article/2972791/why-you-should-be-very-w...
New Digg is a resurrection of old Digg by a completely different company. [1]

The Digg v4 thing was a very big deal back when it happened. In a matter of a month or two, Digg lost the majority of its traffic to Reddit. I personally remember switching pretty much overnight after v4 when beforehand I always thought Reddit was inferior to Digg.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg#Sale_and_relaunch

Edit:

Found an old graph of the traffic dropoff when v4 launched [2]

[2] http://i.imgur.com/FuqV9.png
When, specifically, is the best time for morning exercises?
This checklist is, to my eyes, making fun of people who make fun of languages.
I see you like to go big or go home on at least some of your predictions
Has anyone here had experience with this type of "decision automation" platform? Bryter looks very well put together, I haven't worked anywhere that was using software like this before.
You don't need a monopoly. But if the government/quasi-government entity is effectively letter delivery of last resort while private companies pick off the more lucrative routes, they're going to either need subsidies or price delivery at a level that it may be untenable.

ADDED: IOW, you could have an external taxpayer-supported "rural mail delivery" department that has a charter to deliver a letter for a quarter anywhere in the country rather than providing a subsidy within the system.

It's mostly academic at this point. (And the reality is most private package delivery is fairly universal because there are business advantages to having a fairly complete delivery network even if it's not necessarily the most efficient decision at the micro level.)
I think he meant that it was a replacement for windows/mac but only in enterprise settings with very limited requirements.

To be honest, I’ve never seen “dogfooding” used in such negative terms, but this seems the most likely explanation.
Step 1: Watch Alan Kay's talks at Stanford: How to Invent the Future I - CS183F (2 parts, 2 hours)

Step 2: Realize that in the last 40-50 years there hasn't been many huge revolutionary inventions/ideas like those in computing. Sure we have made things smaller and faster computationally but those are just iterations on a foundational thing that already existed.

Step 3: Try to create something like PARC: gather a lot of bright minds together from different fields in a research setting. Fully fund them for 5 years (maybe this is step 2a - get $50-100 million together).
GirlsDoPorn: Young women win legal battle over video con
This is super amusing but also isn’t this like “which emoji faces have an anatomically correct bone structure?” Or “which floppy icons could be actual floppies?”
Seems like the author doesn't really know the meaning of that term (or well, is using that term not in the way you and I understand it). That word is even linked to the Wikipedia page, but it says:

> This can be a way for an organization to test its products in real-world usage. Hence dogfooding can act as quality control,

It smells like the author wanted to use a fancier term for "beta-testing".
Technically Chrome OS has some interesting bits, like its use of virtualization, containers, based on Rust and Go.

As general purpose OS, I never got the point of it.

Any OS other OS is able to offer browser juggling support alongside the benefits of having a proper OS, better hardware that a Web browser is capable of (does not matter how good is the GPU, Web GL 2.0 can only do so much).

And the security story is kind of meaningless when everything that matters is stored in someone else's computer, with the traffic going through Google's servers.
Have you ever remembered something that you left in a home directory on someone else's server but only after you no longer had access to it? It wasn't sensitive but then, it wasn't something you'd leave in a public place like foo.com/~name, either. You can't convince yourself they had the inclination to just delete all your trash. You know of at least one person who might have gained access (you don't know whether) and he probably would have engaged in some voyeurism. Everyone who knew him after you were gone knew that he was an asshole, and your one brief interaction with this person indicates that's an understatement.

Did that feel good? Well, it was preventable. That's a kind of thing that a reasonably interesting person might want to prevent.

Anyway, this happened. Not that I'm, like, supposed to be reasonably interesting or anything. ;)
Doesn’t really qualify as unknown and unpredictable. We’re in about the third AI bubble right now, and I doubt it’ll be the last.
No, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dogfood#Verb
> Luckily, she's not with EE - because it's a pretty convincing text.

Not it’s not. billing-jan-2020.info looks suspicious as hell. Recognizing domain names from url is very 101 Internet security.
I think you can see a bit of the same thing with ID cards and unique identifiers. Most European countries have a state-issued ID card and an unique identifier for every citizen. The US has a million IDs from different institutions, states, corporations and they keep causing messes, still, having 1 ID card and a unique identifier is seen as bad for reasons that baffle me.
Consumer-Driven Contract – from Introduction to Automation
Last articles from a series, about building consumer CI/CD pipelines with GitLab and Pactflow:

https://solidstudio.io/blog/consumer-driven-contract-ci-cd.html

Two previous ones in comments.
The Asus laptop I got in 2009 with Windows 7, has gone through all Windows updates, is now using the very latest Windows 10 version.
https://solidstudio.io/blog/consumer-driven-contract-introdu...
> every imperative OOP language is multi paradigm

I am not sure how you can count imperative and OOP as two paradigms. OOP is an extension of imperative paradigm. I would like to see what language you consider to be OOP but not imperative and not functional.
The overwhelming majority of hospitals in the US are nonprofits.
https://solidstudio.io/blog/consumer-driven-contract-pact-ba...
The brilliantly optimistic thing about an exponentially growing, resource-unconstrained interstellar civilization (which we will hopefully survive to become) is that as long as the ability and desire to consume media grows proportionally to the ability and desire to create media... the amount of media from the past will be less than newly created material at any given time (∫e^t = O(e^t)), and thus media from 2019 should be as accessible in 3019 as media from 1920 is, if not more so. We are creating an infinite legacy, and that's really really cool.