skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interesting thing about the alternative meat industry isn't where the meat puck is, but where it's going (if you'll pardon the pun).

Making soybeans taste like a supermarket hamburger almost certainly uses a very similar organizational skillset as making soybeans taste like, say, a Kobe beef burger - or some other meat option that's currently default-expensive. So the thesis is likely that their intellectual capital is now mature enough that they can iterate their way up the price / quality spectrum to win meaningful market segments.

My guess is Impossible's valuation is probably justified, even if the investor story is a disjunction of "scale will eventually bring prices to parity or better with most real meat options" and "R&D will eventually produce flavor / texture profiles that transcend those of most real meat options". People eat a heck of a lot of meat, in a heck of a lot of varieties. And of course, the folks who invested will have gotten a look at the non-public numbers too.
Lately, they've been spending that money on legal fees suing Microsoft over Teams, because they are unable to compete. This was after they took out a huge New York Times ad encouraging the competition.

Before that, they spent a significant amount of time and resources on the new WYSIWYG editor that was extremely unpopular and caused them to do a public 180 after saying they wouldn't go back.

In short, it's being wasted on sour grapes and untested ideas.
In the US, the FCC rules that govern telecommunications treat wired differently than wireless.

Congress doesn’t allow states to regulate wireless services in the manner that other utilities are regulated. Regulatory teeth really only exists at the state level.
Well... why not?

If I'm a terrible player at the moment who can I play against? If I could play against the 14-year-olds I might be able to get a game.

Why not let everyone play according to their ability, not matter what their age or 'gender' or whatever other discriminations we can think of?
Ironic that you state this in the midst of the US Open. If there was no Women's tour, would the world have ever known who Serena Williams is? Or how brilliantly and powerfully she plays? What about Martina, Chrissy, Billie Jean, Steffi, and so many more?
Currently the IFR is estimated between 0.2-0.6%, or roughly about 2-6x deadlier. That’ll looks to keep decreasing in Sweden, and elsewhere. It’s not unreasonable that if it turns out to be only 2-4x deadlier that many would consider it not much worse than a bad flu season. Especially if you give them absolute numbers for scale, including total deaths in their country every year.
Apple's defense is that their walled garden and strict rules are what's stopping their ecosystem from becoming a cesspool of scams or fake or harmful apps. Users (who are not "power users") trust Apple's ecosystem.

The user experience of installing from their app store and using their sign in method is so much better than the experience of installing from the web and signing in via other methods. It frustrates me that the entire industry failed to create a suitable sign-in option and Apple felt they had to step in to create something with good UX while respecting users' privacy.

I'd love for the iOS ecosystem to open up more, but I also know it would be exploited easily and create an industry-wide race-to-the-bottom for UX and privacy.
The unreasonable effectiveness of quasirandom sequences (2018)
A few years back I knew a guy who built a network for a few neighbors South of Ann Arbor. I was on some discussion group and just coincidentally CmdrTaco was complaining about his poor internet access South of Ann Arbor. Chimed in to provide an introduction to my friend and together they expanded the network.

Wish East Lansing had all the independent efforts that Ann Arbor does. Been trying to get fiber here for ten years, none of the local providers will come out to the suburbs ;<(.
Data for people in $country must stay in $country is essentially a border. It’s not about the actual protections but the fact that the EU considers data that would be legal to collect and store in the EU illegal to store in the US.
There is also a more broad article about ad fraud I found interesting https://clearcode.cc/blog/rtb-online-advertising-fraud/

I can imagine that ad fraud prevention must be a hard task, probably requiring AI/ML nowadays.
But I don't like that fact because it will probably force website owners to add more behavior tracking and analytics events on every web page. That will end up with more websockets, more memory and longer loading times and higher UI latencies and further worsenijg thr web browsing experience which is already pretty bad. :(
If you want analytics to view the stats for all your websites in a single place you can check out the tool I'm working on[0], as it's best suited for landing pages and helping with their improvement.

[0]: https://www.usertrack.net/
/me waves to Amazon marketing. Glad you hate it!

Amazon Microphone it is!
Wow, a real life Speaker for the Dead. I wonder if he is familiar with Ender Wiggins?
A Curated List of Podcasts for Software Engineers
I wish people would treat their masks and other PPE the way they treated toilet paper last March.

Everywhere I go there are masks and latex gloves and wipes littered about. It is creating a different hazard that will become equally formidable if people can't conjure up enough civil decency to dispose of their germy waste properly.
I don't see how it would be better for women. If Serena Williams is in a league 3 levels below Roger Federer, playing with no name male players [1], what would that do to her star-power, endorsements, contracts?

[1] http://www.tennisnow.com/Blogs/NET-POSTS/November-2017-(1)/T...
The Social Dillema by Center for Humane Technology [video]
Optimizing Gitlab Runners with RAM Disks
Yes, correct. We cleaned up the repo and removed outdated files that are not needed to replicate the figures and tables to avoid confusion. The dataset can also be found here: https://zenodo.org/record/4014076#.X1lgTbexVkw
The definition for saturation isn't "is there are lots of strong competitors and other options?" or even "a given percentage of the market is our customer."

Instead, the rule is more like: is CaC sufficiently lower than Customer Lifetime Value so that each customer is profitable. This ratio tells you if your money-printing machine is working. As the low-hanging leads dry up, CaC gets higher.

Your argument might be rephrased as "their customer lifetime may be shorter than they think." Possible. There's some amount of switching cost (lost history, webhooks and integrations) there, though.
Thank you for summarizing the main benefits of a closed ecosystem. Ive had great relief from setting up my parents with Iphones. Sometimes I feel the FOSS HN crowd is too far removed from what non tech people actually need.
They have done something like that in the past. They invented a "Reader" app concept that benefits Amazon, Netflix etc. If you are big enough to basically get a private audience with Tim Cook, you can have your lawyers and their lawyers sit together and come up with the exact magic incantations that will excuse what you are trying to do.

This is nothing but regulatory capture, just happening at a private level.

Meanwhile something like the Hey app has to hope that their complaint gets viral on social media to maybe get a slightly expedited App Review.
I'd say most of them are running private companies that are both improving human life and generating profit. I think the part I agree with the most from the article is the one that talks about having people in government who have the skill to know what experts to lay off issues to. I think if we had leaders that did we'd be much better off.
You can still follow and appreciate lower tiers in the leagues if you want to.

You could still say 'Serena Williams is killing it this year in Level 14 tennis' if you wanted to.

What is so special about these people that means we should know about them compared to someone of another gender, or no gender, that plays better?
Just for some additional search terms, seitan is a form of prepared Vital Wheat Gluten.
Webgl doesn't have this problem since it runs those functions on a context object. But yeah i wish there was a way to do that with opengl.
Congrats on the launch! Don't have kids (yet!) but am super interested in educational start-ups. Good luck, hope to be a customer in a couple years!
You can try setting up a vpn and no tcp/udp is necessary. Pinhole could be accessed over local network.
That's really cool. If it's good enough to detect geographic features, will it be possible to photograph the same planet from the night side later in its orbit?
Is his works really great works of literature?

My impression is that he is a popular author, but literary-wise, not really up there with the great ones, like Yasunari Kawabata.
Which usually comes with some percentage of devs looking to recoup that cost. I'm hoping this doesn't lead to in-add-on advertising conglomerates being able to dominate these sections.
It won't because WASM applications still use the DOM.

In theory it could push everything through a <canvas>, but that can be done in JS as well and doesn't seem to be that common.
Or, he chose to release the information at a time that maximized damage to Trump (I think that's more likely)
That is an assertion with no evidence.

Either is possible.
> One could argue that we could have made much more ingenious use of, let's say, 1/100 of the memory and CPU we now have.

The counter argument is that this is over-, premature, or unnecessary optimization. If we can put 2GB of memory in a computer for $20, why spend millions on R&D that will be rewritten to make it work on 128 MB?

There is also an environmental argument for your point, but everything will always be a tradeoff to companies trying to build and sell devices quickly.
> Effinger started work on a fourth Audran novel, Word of Night, but died before that work was completed.

I've had enough unfinished sci-fi epics for the year thank you.
I imagine meat alternatives will really take off once they are cheaper than meat. There seems to be a lot of potential for cost savings if you don't need to raise a large animal to create the product. So far I haven't seen much of a cost advantage to meatless products, but perhaps with more funding this would be achievable. While I don't thing Impossible tastes better or even as good as the real thing, it isn't too far off. Having a price advantage would tip the scale for many people, especially in the fast food space.
I think the UI looks really boring and bland, kinda like every other native mac app.
Hah. My kid goes to school with CmdrTacos kid. His old house was not very accessible.

Lightspeed - I forget who bought them maybe MEC.

Try them
Show HN: Create unlimited patterns & landing pages
That seems promising. Couple of odd bits, but to be expected I guess.
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> A significant number of people won't get back to life as usual, because they'll be dead, or have one of the sets of long term symptoms.

People keep parroting this out of fear.

Go ahead and take your best guess about the percentage of people that this will happen to. Are you ok with lockdowns to save .001% of the population from this? I've asked questions like this before but never received a response. Any type of real debate is simple ignored and downvoted. All emotions, never any debate.

Fear brings more upvotes than facts. A scary story will get 100+ upvotes but this story only got 7:

Lungs damaged by coronavirus can repair themselves in three months (telegraph.co.uk)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/06/lungs-damaged-co...

The online fear factory is similar to the old school media fear factor but the online one is self perpetuating.
>So you see no problem in a “black box” deciding whether you could go free or not after you commit a crime?

This is a straw man.

Nonetheless, even if it was 100% transparent, FOSS, etc. people would still be screaming "RACIST!"

>Why not just throw out the whole justice system then and make rulings be done by a computer?

Non sequitur.
It's already a well known novel[1]. You will have copyright issues.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_for_the_Dead
Ask HN: Why don't we try to boost the immune system?
The world is rushing the develop a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, spending billions of dollars in the process. This is for a virus that is dangerous or deadly to some people, mostly older but also younger. Many people's immune system (IS) is able to beat down the virus so effectively they are asymptomatic - the don't even know they have the disease.

Does anyone else find it strange that there is virtually no discussion or promotion by the health authorities (that I've heard) to boost the immune system. At the end of the day, it's the body's immune system that will fight the virus and the vaccines are just try to teach it how to fight it (ala the Matrix - "Whoa - I know Kung Fu")

Vitamins A, B, C, and D, in addition to some micronutrients like Selenium and Zinc, are all known to boost immune function (for medical references just google "Vitamin {X} immune system" - there are plenty).

Wouldn't it make sense to recommend to people to supplement with safe dosages and, if possible, get blood work to see if there is a more serious deficiency which would call for higher doses?

Am I missing something?
Yes!. absolutely. I am planning to work with my son along with my wife to comeup with an experiment, record it and post it. Also, hes in 7th grade so its perfect that he makes the age cut.
They don't have something they call "lockdown" but they imposed many, many restrictions, and even more than that were self-imposed by Swedes. Their economy contracted almost as much as forced-lockdown countries, so it seems like almost no different at all.
WireGuard is growing in popularity but I’m not aware of any router firmwares which have a WireGuard client built-in (maybe the popular open source firmwares). Many routers have OpenVPN clients built in.
Something broke here, at least on Fedora 32. Activation and deactivation doesn't happen consistently, as if it has lost track of the time of day. I usually have to move the temperature slider back and forth to get it to kick in.
> but nonetheless you're ingress rules in your cloud provider will not allow anything but that's single port...

That's all that's required for a DNS amplification attack. :)
How to Fight the Deadly Dengue Virus? Make Your Own Mosquitoes
https://archive.vn/KRFMz
How do you get around the inverse power law? Is the beamforming that perfect?
Implement a messaging system where people in two countries communicate but each person’s data must remain in their own country.

Now search for users in your “add friend” dialog. Are you now querying a database per country?
Impossible should lobby for a carbon tax, which would skyrocket the price of meat, making their option more affordable.
> It's already a well known novel[1]. You will have copyright issues.

> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_for_the_Dead

I thought book titles are not subject to copyright?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.writersdigest.com/.amp/copy...
Not true, a simple Google search reveals [1 in 4 US adults have a smart speaker](https://marketingland.com/roughly-1-in-4-u-s-adults-now-owns...). It _is_ a choice people make, and most don't care about privacy.

Not that it matters though - phones are [already a vector](https://www.wired.com/2014/06/nsa-bug-iphone/) for the government to listen to you. I'm not sure this news really changes anything - the government already works with large US companies to spy on people, and then makes sure they're not allowed to disclose it to the public.

Also, I think Kindle is a great product, and wouldn't consider it a useless spying device. Each to their own though.
I'm surprised their valuation didn't go up very much. $3.61B -> $4.03B.
> as long as all the differences are well documented

Yeah, I’m gonna stop you right there. I have serious doubts a company that sees no problem with making a quick Home Depot run for some faux wood trim in order to get a car out the door is meticulously documenting all their little hacks.
Yes, Elvish's $nil maps to JSON's null.
For corporate software maintenance as mandatory, making it little different from subscriptions.
Lungs damaged by Coronavirus can repair themselves in three months
I 7my wife and I have talked about this. I think we are going to fill a CD binder with our favorite albums and DVDs (all burned, but still) for our kids to "discover".

I can't imagine how my tastes would be different if I hadn't had access to my parents records.
Yeah, if he can I would use that over "Coffin Confessor". There is a clear difference in what he is doing verse in the books.

To anyone that doesn't get the reference, the book "Speaker for the Dead" is the next book after Ender's Game and in my opinion is the best book in the series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game_(novel_series)
That is because the surveillance bureaus form part of the government. We have a microkernel government.
I didn't cherry pick portugal. I used it as it is my country and I have the most data about it. I also used it because we were called 'the miracle' from media from Eastern Europe to even US media, and I didn't want to say anything about other countries that I could back up with evidence.

Today we had 680+ cases. Our ICU patients are increasing, but for 3+ months I heard how we were doing so much better than Sweden, how they were idiots, etc. But Since the beginning we had researches from the UK, our medical professionals, saying that we had too much excess deaths not being counted as COVID (statistically very improbably increase not being related) and we still kept acting like Swedish were idiots.

Now they have like 100 cases per day or so, with a test rate almost double that we have, when we are on average on 400, and climbing every week (was 200 daily average, then 250, 300 and now we are around 400).

They also has a 8% GDP drop vs 16% for PT, and we got into much more debt than they did to 'pay' for all the stopped economy, which they didn't (as much)
I recently wrote a tiny game[1] and rendering with WebGPU was reasonably easy as it was mostly clear why/where things were going wrong and there was little state to manage, while WebGL was enough of a hassle that I didn't even manage to get instancing working.

[1]https://specificprotagonist.itch.io/cary
So another Stadia?
Is the a term for the 4-dimensional coordinate of the 'inflationary center', like there a 3d coordinate for the center of the balloon (inaccessible from the flat universe on its surface)?
My first response to this headline is "Just call it web extension starter kit, stop enabling the monoculture".

But then I remembered how the last time I went to build an internal web extension I couldn't even deploy to Firefox without uploading that internal extension to Mozilla. Left a really bad taste in my mouth.

Meanwhile deploying an internal web extension to Chrome was pretty straightforward, signing the extension was just another step in the CI process.
Maybe. And even if he doesn't have the dirt on various people with power, including a bit lower down the food-chain. The idea that he might gives him an edge in those steak dinners.

It stinks no matter how you look at it. Actual criminal getting rich post crimes while Snowden who let us all know what a crook he is, is stuck in exile.

The rule of law and equality before it needs to be established.

"Bezos Taps Criminal To Strengthen Bid For Government Work"

Is about the kindest possible spin you can put on a headline for this story, right?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24295501
I specify in the note where I want the donation to go to when I send a donation (e.g. "for Thunderbird"); I have received notes back from the Thunderbird team referencing the donation, which satisfies the question in mind as to whether my donation preference was respected.
Agreed. I’ve switched to eating mostly vegan because most meat I used to eat was sort of just filler. If I go out somewhere and they specialize in something meat related and I know it’s going to be amazing, then I’ll get it.

Eating lots of heavily processed chicken, cow and pigs just isn’t worth the many costs to environment, animal wellbeing, and potentially personal nutrition.

I recommend everyone to consciously lower their meat intake. It doesn’t need to be forever or for every meal.
Something like `glBindState()` would encapsulate the global state, but it wouldn't eliminate it. A better approach would be to pass in the state to the draw command like WebGPU/Metal/Vulkan do, which would also allow the driver to amortize the cost of state validation.
The term literally came from picking cherries.

Observing where an item lies in a ranked list is no more or less biased than picking a median.
I run a service that lets you hand out burner addresses that you can make up on the fly.

It does raise an eyebrow or two when I tell someone my email is theirname@myname.domain
This is Apple's strongest argument, particularly from a "consumer welfare" standpoint.
iOS devs make 50% more than Android devs, and the average iOS user spends about 10x more than the average Android user does on Apps.
The "The Computer Language Benchmarks Game", if I remember it right, did not start with that title, and the very authors have progressively made more and more emphasis in the fact that the programs are "toy benchmarks" and not useful to compare which language is "fastest".

TechEmpower benchmarks, on the other hand, wants to "provide representative performance measures across a wide field of web application frameworks" (and proglang is a prominent part of the framework) so it seems away from the CLBG stance.
For those who didn't see it they discovered something similar in 40 year smokers.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51279355

> In people who quit, up to 40% of their cells looked just like those from people who had never smoked.
Wow. All I can think is WELL DONE Jared!

I can't imagine taking all of that on if someone else was paying for it, let alone financing so much of it yourself -- not to mention all the sweat equity you obviously put into it.

So many people in the States have little to no choices on ISPs. Your story is very inspring and encouraging.

I hope you continue to reap the rewards of your hard work for many years to come.
Markdown support has been a major theme from the feedback I've gotten today by email and here. In addition, I find myself personally wanting it all the time, at least so I can insert code blocks. I definitely plan to add this in the not-too-distant future!
It's related to this post so the people reading it may find it interesting so why not?
Thank you! See you in a few years ;)