skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In my experience, that particular substitute is not a challenge.

It's not. Some of the TVP products are pretty decent (and surprisingly so). And honestly, it's off-putting enough that it'd be worth using a substitute for. I eat hamburgers only rarely, so most of my ground beef consumption is in other dishes that are heavily seasoned enough that using a substitute is no problem (e.g. taco meat).

Otherwise, my problem is if I'm fixing chicken breasts for something and miss some connective tissue when I'm preparing it. I can guarantee with near certainty that if I do, I will be the one to find it. :)

(Sorry to gross you out if you're vegan.)
Me: Hey Siri, add tomatoes and grapes to the shopping list in Pap-

Siri: I couldn’t find a shopping list, do you want me to create one?

Me: no. Hey Siri, add tomatoes and grap-

Siri: you have to select which app you want to continue <shows 6 apps, including Paprika. I tap Paprika> Sorry, Paprika has not implemented this function yet.

Me: Hey Siri, addtomatoesandgrapestotheshoppinglistinPaprika

Siri: ok, I’ve added “tomatoesandgrapes” to the shopping list in Paprika 3

<phone flies out of the window>
They won't ever admit it. It's like if you were hiring someone: most people won't hire someone who doesn't have a phone number because that would be an inconvenience to them, but they can always make up another excuse for why not to hire the person.
I think its up to 40% as of this year?
The goal shouldn't be to get people to do what you want. It should be to give them sufficient information so they can make an informed decision on their own, even if you might disagree with it.

I'm not suggesting that personal liberty should trump SARS-Cov-2 precautions, but it's not really relevant to a discussion about whether risk should be framed in absolute terms or not. (Edited for clarity.)
Prop 65 is a good example why citizens shouldn’t make laws. Lack of debate or understanding the consequences.
> I think the interesting part is the overlap between observability metrics for operations and expanding in to BI metrics with the same tools.

I built Logflare so you could get your structured logs into BigQuery directly, so now you this :)

Hopefully we'll have a Vector sink soon, but until then I think they support POSTing batches to HTTP endpoints so you can do that and we'll take any JSON and go straight to BQ with it after migrating your schema for you (automatically based on the incoming payload shape).
How to do HA for a personal domain?
Hey,

How do you guys approach high availability for you personal projects?

Is there something wrong with multiple IPs for your DNS entry?
Less vehement, more resigned, I think. It isn't about the platform as an application. It's about the platform as a development platform.

The glyphs, the whimsical naming, Hoon itself. Overall, I tried and I just couldn't do it. If it isn't clear, I'm not disparaging the thing, I'm disparaging the (thing, me) tuple.
If you shuffle a deck of cards, the probability of the cards ending up in the order you got is 1 in 8e67, but there it is.
Hence, if you consider the effect on the entire using population, alcohol has a greater potential for damage considering its greater availability. Heroin is a bomb. Alcohol is fireworks. One is legal, and arguably less dangerous, but there are far more fireworks injuries in the ER than bomb injuries.
So we've had the same deal pushed towards us. It did take some questioning to really lay out the nitty gritty for what happens (as any sales conv shouod go) when but I didn't feel it was misrepresented.

We are currently rolling on pay as you go with them, and have successfully worked out what deals they'll offer when so we can sign if our traffic makes it make sense for that kind of commitment. We keep making our system more efficient and pushing that day away.

There are a few things that have less than impressed me with Snowflake, but having worked a bit with some of their competition I'm not bothered.
Then get your electricity nationaly, or from france, or from germany, or from saudi arabia, or from australia, or from argentina.

The point of a global energy grid would be that there's always sun and wind somewhere on the planet and you would smooth out time-of-day differences in usage. The point is NOT to outsource your country's entire electricity production.
> pills, etc, have approximately zero affect on any metric of interest.

On the contrary. Artificially large doses of antioxidants disrupt signaling systems, preventing exercise recovery and wound healing. They are simply not a good idea.

However, the parent comment is mistaken in thinking that we don't understand nutrition reasonably well, and might 'miss' something in artificially cultured meat.
Canada is the Land of the Tax.
Cancer causes <1% of deaths? Not sure where you got that belief, cancer is #2 in the US and it's more like 25-30% of all deaths. Different in the developing world since many more people die of communicable diseases.
> by installing a rootkit

On what? A phone or laptop? They should provide the device, if so.

As long as they are providing the hardware and I'm not forced to carry it around during personal time, I don't see a problem with it; I just wouldn't log into my personal accounts with it, and maintain separate personal hardware.
I wonder if Google legal department's hires also have that clause in their contract.
Does a deposition care when you say you didn't use your personal phone for work? Why wouldn't they ask for your so-called personal phone?
Faulty analogy because it references a specific set of religions (those with churches) in the context of a workplace. If in some insane reality, Google was trying to prevent their employees from joining religions (as they were, in this case, with unions), than the first half would be fine and fully protected by law.
This is the source they are using: https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...

Does lazard include subsidies in their numbers or not? I can't figure it out.

I'm having trouble making sense of the lazard report, but to me it seems that it does, and ourworldindata.org is using their numbers while claiming they are without subsidies.
> Starlink has limited bandwidth per satellite footprint.

That's not actually the problem. The satellite footprint is >1000km across, and they can just launch more satellites to serve more customers. They would happily launch enough sats to serve every customer in the world if that was the only problem.

The issue is rather bandwidth density on the ground. Starlink achieves it's high system capacity by SDMA. That is, every antenna, both on the ground and on the satellites, is very highly directional, and they can have a single satellite talking to many customers on the ground at the same time on the same frequency, so long as the angles between each customer are large enough. The ground antennas are, for cost and physical size reasons, less capable of distinguishing between different directions than the satellite antennas, and can only do so if the angle between the transmission origins is ~>10°. This means that any location on the ground (iirc with a spot size of ~10km or so) can only handle a few dozen simultaneous beams, no matter how many satellites you have up there.
In the spirit of "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." I wonder if shipping big piles of fully charged batteries around has any chance of being a practical power distribution method?
I, for the millionth time, tried to go into the documentation to understand how Hoon works.

My TLDR: there’s streaks of absolute brilliance, particularly in the OS level. But it’s all so intentionally obfuscated with a dash of elitism thrown on top.

I think the most frustrating part was reading the Hoon tutorial (Hoon is their high-level programming language) and not understanding a single word. They use completely new terms, strange syntax & then throw in the casual “See? It’s that easy!”. Not even a comparison anywhere to traditional languages for reference (not that it’d help at all anyways)

Never again.
> but that's life with legacy cruft.

So true.

I can't really complain. Well, I can, and that's what I've been doing in much of this thread.

It's mostly just yelling at the sky for no good reason other than to make myself feel better at this point, if I were to be completely honest with you.
People shouldn't be so invested in a politician that a cheeky nickname for that politician actually offends them. This is a case of actively choosing to be offended about something.

Now, as far as HN etiquette goes, factually just referring to politicians by their name would be better. Not because nicknames are oh-so-offensive (which, by the way, implies their supporters cannot handle even nicknames...) but because neutral discussion is just more pleasant in general.
Without commenting on the rights and wrongs, it is interesting to observe that Australia has been very combative.

Perhaps worth noting that Australia is 2.5% the population of China, so this is similar to a country like Switzerland picking a fight with the US. As it happens they usually avoid doing that...
Oh I "understood" it, California is a "Right to Work" state and signing the agreement was clearly a requirement of working and by not signing the unchanged agreement, it was a voluntary action of elimination etc etc. So Google was well within their rights to rescind their job offer as they did.

That said, it was at a time where Google was complaining bitterly about how hard it was to hire engineers, and their much vaunted hiring process would only offer 1 in 10,000 applicants.

That they would have a candidate who had made it through the gauntlet, and some manager was waiting for them to show up, be turned away at the last minute based on an explicit clarification of a clause that Google, through the HR rep at the intake session, had already said was consistent with the intent of the agreement? That surprised me.

If the HR rep was speaking truthfully, then I would have expected to Google legal to just adopt the updated text in this agreement and all future agreements. It literally got tweaked at least once a year so the problem of "multiple agreements" wasn't really a problem.

So my amazement was first the cognitive dissonance between what they said and what they did, then the realization that what was written was what they meant, and thus what HR had said was a misrepresentation of the intent.

I don't know how many people have lawyers review these things, I do, but I may be unusual in that regard. My lawyer said that there were a number of things in the agreement that were unenforceable, and a few that were likely unlawful, but when they came up I would probably already be on my way out so it wasn't particularly harmful to sign. And some advice on how to avoid getting on the wrong side of the agreement and thus giving them a reason to separate me "for cause." (legal or not).

And now we have this story where the NLRB which suggests that Google is not above doing illegal things to protect their interests.
I don't see any indication that pdftotext has been discontinued [1]. It looks like a Mac-specific installer available via Homebrew Cask has been discontinued [2], but pdftotext is still available through the normal poppler formula [3].

1. https://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html

2. https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/pdftotext

3. https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/poppler
I disagree for a simple reason: while liberty is a great goal, if the liberty comes at a cost to the commons, it needs to be restricted. For example, as much as I'd love to let people chose to smoke and die of cancer, smoking affects a lot more than just the smoker. Alcohol DUIs leads to many driving deaths.
"The EPA declined to comment on the monitors’ performance during specific pollution events, including the refinery explosions examined by Reuters, but said the network was generally accurate and reliable."

I know we have other issues, but do we have a way to hold the government agencies accountable?
Yeah, it's not a question of what is P(X=5,6,7,8,9), it's P(Someone is cheating | X = 5,6,7,8,9).

In any case, there's probably a few people out there who picked "1 2 3 4 5" that are kicking themselves extra hard.
What can machine learning do? Work force implications (2017) [pdf]
People eat smoked foods all the time.
Since there are 50 balls and 20 powerballs, its roughly 1 in 20 million. So, do the draw 20 million times to get a particular sequence.
no such thing as secure software. thats why paper ballots are so important.
This really kicks the llamas ass. Thanks.
True, but the things that would most matter to that person were still out of their control.

Those things change from place to place, but lets put them in Jamaica, for instance. They have no knowledge of the hurricane coming in a month, or the yellow fever next door, or the goings with tax laws back in the metropole, etc. The grand effects of nature and other people outside of your little plantation were totally unknown to our Jamaican.

This has been true for eons, and I'd say it's mostly still true today.

But, strangely, it is a bit less true today. We do have pretty good hurricane predictions now, and pretty good practicing epidemiologists (though with covid it's debatable), and pretty good information on the goings on in the capitol, etc.

I feel that the complexity of the world is finally being laid a bit more bare, whereas it was more covered before.
California is rich enough to afford incompetent governance :)
What model is that? I can only find Kogan Android TVs.
We should really give death row inmates the option to be in scientific trials that are dangerous. I guess this could be misused if judges funnel people into the system explicitly to be used in these trials but I think it would be worth it if we could somehow prevent the above scenario from happening?
Oh hi there AvE.
You'd think they'd offer the guy a job still, but without the contract changes, instead of immediately pulling out. It sounds like he was firm, but given a chance to take the job without said changes, he may still have accepted. Geez.

It is unreasonable and in bad faith to completely like a candidate and then reject them for merely asking for a contract change.
I'm confused. What are you are asking for them to do?

You pre-paid for $10k of usage, with an agreement to roll-over unused credits into next year's contract. The plain definition of roll-over includes the fact that you'd have an active future account. Otherwise, they'd just say "prepay credits never expire". Imagine trying to use roll-over minutes on a phone plan where you cancelled the phone.

$1k/yr seems like a very low minimum which will serve as basis to roll your $9k of existing credits into.

Sounds to me like you just didn't think about or budget for this. Doesn't sound like any misrepresentation to me.
>> Only tangentially related, but: has anyone found a drug/supplement/etc which aids them in memory retention, cognition, alertness etc?

For me it's a good night's sleep. I need 8 to 10 hours for best effects. Complemented by a 20-30 min. siesta after lunch, when possible, particularly in the summer. The feeling of being fresh and sharp in the morning is almost physical.
I don't think any tech companies will ever survive that long.
Isn’t that cheating if the mice have to be engineered to display the experimental result? Like duh of course it’s going to work. News headline: engineered mouses exhibits characteristics it was engineered to exhibit also water is wet.
Slack is the most unproductive application I think I've used.
> The US could even force both ASML and TSMC to not sell products to Huawei even though Huawei was paying a lot of money.

I believe that TSMC have already received a ban on selling to Huawei -- https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-10-16/tsmc-wont-sell-chips...
Does this mean you are required to have an Android phone? What if you have an iPhone? Rootkit required there, too?
Hay Fever, Sugar Intake and My Personal Frustration with Modern Medicine (2015)
111,111 MTr/mm2 >> 170 MTr/mm2
I think Terry's outbursts are of a very different character in light of his general condition. Yarvin appears genuinely, intellectually committed to being a bigot.
I'm very curious if the work profiles are as containerized as they are advertised as.
Considering Amazon uses "Alexa" and Apple uses "Siri" and Microsoft uses "Cortana", it is strange that Google opted not to pick an alternative name
How is it false equivalence? What metrics show that you spent your life not insulting people and that another person did, and how do people know that? Care to quantify it? Where's the line? Maybe to me the line is a single insult. I mean, given the sample size of my interaction with you, maybe that single insult would meet the threshold of insults/compliments when compared to the insults/ compliments of another person over 4 years, even if there are more examples of insults due to sample size.
I’m obsessed with the Ford Mustang Mach-E physical touchscreen volume knob
And Google Search.
A similar controversy exists in the Arab world about what to call the Persian Gulf, where the names "Arabian Gulf" or simply "The Gulf" are preferred. [1]

Amusingly (but perhaps not surprisingly), British imperialism briefly waded into this dispute as well:

> Following British attempts to control the seaway in the late 1830s, the Times Journal, published in London in 1840, referred to the Persian Gulf as the "Britain Sea", but this name was never used in any other context.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf_naming_dispute
> found not cancerous in the vast majority of studies

I just spent 30 minutes googling and found the opposite, with CDC, WHO, EPA and EU all in disagreement with one another! Forbes, NYT, and several other sites indicate increases in leukemia, other new evidence, and even a $10B settlement by Bayer (Monsanto's owner) that will keep evidence sealed.

IMO, this is clearly not settled.

So I choose to make a rational decision to NOT to spray RoundUp on my lawn, and to try, to the best of my ability, to avoid purchasing products exposed to it. Hence, I would like a warning label. But if cannot avoid it due to opaque laws, then bummer.
Yea I'm not totally concerned about catching it but if I do, I increase my likelihood of hurting others. That's been the logic of most of my peers (early 30s, late twenties).

However, through my partner I am friends with many classical singers. They are absolutely worried about damaging their instrument.
Cheers to you and sp332 below, it's appreciated. There's a certain irony in me chuckling over the incorrect code in the track title and then being unable to format my own text minutes later, haha.
One important thing to note is that QBE emits text-based assembly and relies on a system-installed assembler. Meanwhile LLVM produces object files.
Entryism in the Urbit community is tremendously easy; all you have to do is whine about entryism and maybe throw up a Quilette link if anyone doubts you.
I was un are of this system until I hired in the US. It blows my mind.

Here (Germany) offer letters are used to outline the general terms of an offer however the next step will then be that you’re sent a contract (some of mine have been > 10 pages) outlining a lot of relevant things such:
- role (ideally even with a job description but that is rare)
- place of employment (city/country)
- IP assignment
- length of probation
- length of notice period for both sides
- expectation of work travel
- vacation
- compensation

And a bunch of other things that I’m forgetting.

Similar to the above story, there’s always some resistance from employers to customize terms. It’s operationally much simpler for a company to have unified terms. However at every company I’ve been at I’ve been able to secure changes to the IP assignment clauses.

Of course all of this only works because these contracts are enforceable. There’s no such thing as at will employment here.
Still not good models for human diseases. From the article you linked

“ Regarding experiments on mice, some researchers have complained that "years and billions of dollars have been wasted following false leads" as a result of a preoccupation with the use of these animals in studies”
Private spies infiltrated Amazon strike taking photos of workers and journalists
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The ink on the label might cause cancer. Shouldn't the cancer label have a label on it?

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Google probably has their corporate app for iOS too.

Just have a phone with an obscure OS and escape all compatibility with their corporate crap. They should provide you with a phone if they want you to install their corporate app.
> Still in js "0.2" == "0.20" would always be false. My instinct would be that comparing two different strings would be false in php too.

Nope.

I wish I were kidding. This is where PHP diverges from JS in a way that really will surprise people coming from JS (PHP7.something):

php > var_dump("0.2" == "0.20");
bool(true)

> I'd rather have php break backwards compatibility and change === to ==.

I have mixed feelings on this.

On the one hand, I desperately want to agree with you, and probably for all the same reasons. On the other hand, languages like PHP with their dynamic typing system make implicit conversion almost a necessity to retain the identity operator (===) because they strive not to break "too much" (for some value of "too much").

Although, I'd imagine your argument is akin to "well, just cast it to what you expect" (e.g. `(int)$_GET['value']`), and you're right. That's how it should be done, of course.

But, as you mentioned about legacy code bases... sometimes it's not that easy.
Probability tricks us. I'm not an expert but this is what I think.

Follow one lottery, and then watch it this weekend. If the same numbers come up this weekend as last - it is probably fixed.

Now follow every lottery, and watch them all over a few years. If the same numbers come up one week as last, it could be fix (maybe higher probability than normal) but it's most likely a fluke.
I live in Finland next to a hydroelectric dam. Electricity is, at worst, like 200 bucks a month. More than half the cost is transport. The dam is less than 15km out. What a ripoff.

Privatizing the electric grid would make electricity cheaper, they said.
> California deregulated electricity

"Deregulated" is something of a misnomer here. They removed restrictions on prices and collusion, but did not remove the state-enforced monopolies that different electric providers have in different areas of the state. So they combined the worst aspects of deregulation with the worst aspects of regulation.
> Siri is constantly having problems knowing if I’m talking to my watch or my iPhone...

Funnily enough, this is one issue I don’t have: between my phone, watch and iPad I’m consistently impressed at how well it manages to choose the best one - does anyone know if Apple devices actively co-ordinate which one responds to Siri commands?