skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Friendly tip (in case that wasn't autocorrect in action) - "prey" is someone/something that is hunted, "pray" is what people do to talk to their favorite immortal deity or what-have-you.
> Perhaps the biggest hurdle, however, is the “yuck” factor. For many, the idea of lab-grown flesh remains unenticing, or even blasphemous.

I struggle to imagine a more disgusting way to obtain meat than getting it off a dead animal.
I think of Reddit as a 21st century forum, whereas Facebook is a true 'Social Media' website. Forums have different usage patterns and allegiances compared to social media websites. They can be roughly compared, but it's a poor comparison, like trying to say if Excel (reddit) or Powerpoint (facebook) is better.

Facebook has groups which sort of function as forums, but they're crudely spliced into your news feed, and rarely(!) sorted in chronological order. Forums on the other hand have dedicated threads about specific topics, are easily searchable and a two year old thread can still be relevant.

Social media sites tend to be more immediate, and comments on old posts may only continue for several days on average.

TL;DR Reddit and Facebook are very different products, with different usage patterns, and have different appeals to different segments of society.

It does not surprise me in the least that an internet forum would have a lower daily usage count compared to a social media service.
I switched from Stimulus to Vue and have had a much better experience so far. It is much easier for me to use and I still get the value of "sprinking"
Thanks! I've seen that before, but didn't realize that ToFloat64() was what I was looking for.
That's not a corollary.
Google still hired people like that. They only have themselves to blame at that point. What did they expect?

This is hardly the first time it's happened at Google and won't be the last.
What else would you make it out of? Depending on your locale, stone can be a very dangerous base material.
2015. But rather prophetic.
Books I liked:

- Bargaining For Advantage (https://www.amazon.com/Bargaining-Advantage-Negotiation-Stra...)

- Negotiation Genius (https://www.amazon.com/Negotiation-Genius-Obstacles-Brillian...)

- Getting To Yes (https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Yes-Negotiating-Agreement-Wit...)

- The Coursera course from the University of Michigan (and not the Yale one).

- Getting Past No (https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Past-Negotiating-Difficult-Si...)

- Difficult Conversations/Crucial Conversations/Nonviolent Communications

The last bullet (arguably the last two bullets) are about conversation skills, but that is an essential part of negotiations.

I won't claim to be good at this stuff. It takes a lot of effort and practice to change habits you've formed your whole life. But still, I've improved somewhat. What I do think I've become much better at is identifying why someone's efforts succeeded (or in this case, failed).

I would also recommend Influence by Cialdini. It is not a negotiation book at all, but will make much of the material in those books more meaningful if you've read this book.

Books/courses I discourage:

- Never Split The Difference

- The Lynda course (there may be more than one now, but the one I took years ago was bad).
I disagree with your premise. I abide by Andy Grove's philosophy, which is that the manager's job is to optimize value production by a team. Sometimes the manager's objectives are in conflict with those of the subordinates, and there is no way to avoid the problem.

A leader is not a friend or an ally, they are just a leader; the leader can be friendly and supportive, but they are still just a leader.
SPA abuse is the predictable and highly unimaginative result of framework overuse. Hoping a different framework will somehow be a solution is exceedingly optimistic.
"In mice" isn't the whole story here.

"The authors found that OSK expression enhanced axon regrowth and cell survival in human neurons in vitro."

Granted, that's not actually restoring sight to an in vivo human patient just yet, but neither is it "in mice".
The real risk to Qualcomm is if Samsung uses this in their phones and Chromebooks as well.
House Votes to Decriminalize Marijuana
More absolute garbage from latter-day Paul Graham which further confirms how profoundly out of touch he is with the current political discourse around wealth and inequality. He demonstrates a baffling level of ignorance concerning the actual criticisms at play.

> The ones who become really rich are the ones who keep working. And what makes them keep working is not just money. What keeps them working is the same thing that keeps anyone else working when they could stop if they wanted to: that there's nothing else they'd rather do.

Here he completely misses the point, which is that exploitation has very little to do with an individual's intention and everything to do with systemic dynamics and incentives in the way these companies operate. It was probably not Travis Kalanick's intention to exploit drivers, but Uber's business model incentivizes the company to pay drivers as little as possible, which they do. A similar dynamic plays out with nearly all capitalist enterprise, which makes the intentions of founders mostly irrelevant.

"Their exploitation usually begins with their own cofounders, which is disastrous, since the cofounders' relationship is the foundation of the company. Then it moves on to the user..."

At no point in this entire post does PG address what "exploitation" really means in the Marxist sense — Marxist economics being at the heart of most of discussions about wealth accumulation — which focuses on the exploitation of labor and the ways in which technology can enable or accelerate capital accumulation to the detriment of regular workers.

What's so startling about PG's posts on these subjects is how unseriously he takes the opposing view. He clearly hasn't done any work to understand people's concerns about income and wealth inequality (which is not just coming from "politicians" as he characterizes it). There are probably better arguments in favor of billionaires, but Graham doesn't know enough about the ideas he's arguing against to imagine them.

If this is the level of intellectual rigor governing Silicon Valley today, it's no wonder we keep seeing boondoggles like WeWork and Theranos propped up by silly investments. Disgraceful.
Slaughterhouse workers are among the most exploited in any country, usually recruited from the lowest paid immigrants, and while some do it for 40 years without issues - or might already arrive with their own baggage -, many end up with PTSD or other psychological issues.

See e.g. this review:

https://yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2016/01/25/a-call-to-acti...
If it's any consolation, this also deeply confuses me. The entire handling of the squashing doesn't really make sense given the context I have.
I just don’t think commenting with “in mice” on every biology papers adds to and informs the discussion. Maybe headline wars could be on a separate thread for each article?
She definitely could, and she could present herself as the hero of the story who resigned in protest, but she has chosen a different narrative.
> Could not figure out how to trigger a malloc failure inside of a imported library

Glibc has (or at least has had) special (unsupported) instrumentation that lets you substitute out the libc malloc at runtime with another function.

You can use this to shim in a version that fails after a specific number of executions in order to inject malloc faults.

E.g. https://github.com/xiph/opus/blob/master/tests/test_opus_api...
Door dash didn't steal tips, they supplemented tips until they were pressured to stop.
Fluorescent white is for accountants and managers.
Theres not that many billionaires, so I'm not sure how relevant percentages of billionaires is
To be fair, its stupidly hard to work out what is to blame for issues with complex devices. I regularly have issues with things and I have no idea if I'm seeing problems with the hardware, drivers, os, or some specific plugin/software that is installed. All I see is the end result is broken.
> I don't see a feedback loop that makes it hard to escape poverty

Really?

You’re 16 years old, you’ve a high IQ and a passion for programming.

Your parents are alcoholics. You don’t have nice clothes. You don’t have perfect manners because it’s just not the world you live in.

How do you get to the university admissions interview in the next town? How will you compete against the mannerly, well turned out student with no record of truancy. All you have is a high IQ and a passion. Will that cut it?

> incentives

Actors are sometimes irrational, you can’t rely on incentives.
I just can’t but feel that they entirely miss the point. Nobody is outraged that Google rejected a paper because it needed some adjustments.

What we want to know is if that is actually the case.
This does not surprise me in the slightest.

Facebook is at least as bad as Microsoft was under Ballmer.
> Accept a buyout offer to exit from the brand or spend roughly $200,000 on dealership upgrades

> The buyout offers ranged from around $300,000 to more than $1 million

Seems like slow-moving Cadillac dealerships held out and got a good opportunity to leave.

Possibly Cadillac won too by forcing down a lower buyout price on members that they didn’t want to keep either?
I think that ultimately this limits how cheap gravity batteries can get, there’s just too much material and those materials are already well-understood components with little chance for falling costs. We would likely need entirely new and innovative materials or designs A gravity battery that used completely new materials or design to come up with something cheap.

Where as lithium ion batteries generally get cheaper the more energy dense we make them (in the same chemistries, at least) because fewer resources go into making that same kWh of storage.
I think part of it is being indoors more. My mood has been more stable since I upgraded my workspace with 22,000 lumens of 5000K LED lights.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XCYJNN6 - Feit Electric 55W PAR38 5000 lumen 5000K LED bulb, install it pointed at the ceiling in a cheap IKEA lamp

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Y2QM5RGk - Feit Electric 25W A21 3050 lumen 5000K LED bulb, useful for existing ceiling light fixtures
You sort of lose your taste for it after a while. Been a vegetarian for five years, have occasionally tried a bite of someone else's meat dish. The blood taste is really strong when you haven't grown used to it. The texture is also kinda gross.
No, they're selling their roof real estate to improve the capacity for the whole grid. That's why they're receiving money, although you choose to think of as a subsidy. The great expense was the acquisition of said real estate.

This money spend does benefit everyone (even me, on the other side of the planet), because it improves the climate change situation, and locals in particular, because it doesn't require using lots of land to do it. That land can be used for something else useful to you.
What do you mean by better?
The ultimatum was what was sent to management, not the list.
Hmm.

So what I'm doing is that I have a wrapper object with a private member variable that's the client from the service's API library (for this example, it's DialogueFlow). My wrapper then has a function for each basic thing that my code actually wants to do with the library, translating from the plain data objects (or straight arguments) that're in use in the rest of my codebase into the nested object mess that DF talks in (and back again, when there's return values).

Then in tests, I just monkeypatch the private `client` method/variable to return/be the mock. The mock then replicates only the functionality that I actually use from the service's library, which is easy to do since there's only one file to look at for all usage.

I now have my own DSL for interacting with the service, and I understand the service well enough to fake it, which has been super helpful. So far I'm loving it, and it doesn't feel at all like the "where's the !#$%! bean" hell of Spring.
A head of state can win twice. They can play more than that, as Grover Cleveland showed and Donald Trump might.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25270184
For sure this should be considered a feature not a bug.
In COD4, some servers ran tools which would autobalance the teams. So if you had a group of 3-5 which played together and the rest were randoms, the the other team could end up with a lot more players to compensate.

Was generally quite nice, except when you really wanted to play with your mate and the tool kept swapping you over because it didn't find any other way to balance the teams.
You're assuming that. Apple may position it as a feature but I've never heard one person say they want that. You're making a big jump simply because they buy the phone. Look you could make it so most software goes through the store but no one wants their own program to need to get approved to go on their own device. Clearly.
Doesn't seem particularly weird to me, I've seen more than that myself for an issue.
I don't know about World of Warships but in Warthunder you can get a lot of kills without meaningfully contributing to your team. Kills are very enjoyable though.
The Bell paradox tells us that quantum mechanics is incompatible with local realism. Local referring to the idea that nothing is faster than light, and realism referring to the idea of there being a single objective world. You only have to sacrifice either locality or realism to make sense of the Bell paradox. The Many-Worlds Interpretation sacrifices realism but not locality. Faster-than-light communication isn't necessary for MWI to work.
e.g. the whole "Paul Graham" thing. Wonderful guy, but I've inadvertently stumbled onto what appeared to be the HN equivalent of dog-whistling when it comes to him and Lisp. It was unexpected at first.
> So why every reading guide I've read talks about how to spend even more time on each book increasing investment, instead of how to read from book just the most valuable key points in no time?

The classic "How to Read a Book" kind of recommends this. They recommend skimming the book really quickly (e.g. one or two days) to get an idea of what it's about and the big picture - skipping anything you don't understand. And only then should you ponder whether it's worth a proper detailed read. They imply that most books will not be.
> but not filthy rich

What is your definition of filthy rich?
> I'm honestly not even sure what the difference would be between this and a 100% soy protein version, in terms of taste and texture?

In Germany Burger King sells plant based nuggets. Barely a difference, we recently ordered both Chicken and Plant based nuggets, maybe the chicken one still had a bit more structure. But to be honest, one drowns them in sauce anyway. Probably will go for plant based ones in the future.
Someone else would have taken his place? You mean another billionaire? But the thought experiment is there would be no billionaires.
He only saw the last doctor.
Ah good, I'm not the only one who sees "Follow the science!" And "listen to the science!" as fallacious appeals to authority. "Science" isn't a unified body, it's a scattered, diverse hydra with many conflicting theories. Anything less is dogma. Trying to appeal to "the science" in fact requires you to choose someone to interpret the science and pick and choose what theories are valid. Usually the media does this when they write clickbait articles, taking science out of context, or taking the most extreme interpretation as reality.
I've bought tons of iPhones. You can imply that I want a walled garden. But I don't and I've never met anyone who claimed they did.

Its an Apple marketing point. Its not why people buy iPhones.
My principle point is to show that labour theory of value is not inherently or originally Marxist as is often presumed or implied.

My own view is that the entire value discussion is tremendously muddled, confuses multiple issues, and is used to justify or support any number of spurious or specious arguments, generaally over policy.

The marginalists mistake price for value. Most orthodox economics does likewise.
Great points, I was just being koi.
Rip separation of technologies (not concerns) and welcome to composable and soon dynamically run federated UI modules.
It's an improbable scenario for most developers in the world but it's normal day to day work for quite a few developers working at large companies.

There's no surprise that people are screening for the roles they are trying to fill.
Respectfully, we don't have enough information to judge whether she was net-positive to the team who was acting reasonably. That's a complex calculation, and I don't know whether management triumphed or failed.

It does seem like she judged the situation incorrectly, as she is now complaining, not gloating.
> not all participants in this conversation are on the same page about it.

I don't see anything contradicting, but merely failing to add the "regardless" footer. Admittedly, sometimes I read too quickly.
This letter reads like Exxon-Mobil chastising their climatologist for not taking into account their latest research on fuel efficiency, or Philip Morris laying into their house doctor for discounting the psychological benefits of rich, mellow flavor.
I can imagine a scenario where a politician who wants to pick a fight with Google uses some of the unflattering findings in the published work as supporting material for why Google needs to be regulated/fined/etc: "Google does {bad thing}. Look at this research report from Google researchers! They admit to doing {bad thing}!"
What made you consider those drugs for your eyesight?
How to tactfully negotiate your salary
Ask HN: Investing in Renewable Energy?
If I wanted to invest some money in renewable energy, what is a good way to go about it?

I just bought some shares in the iShares Global Clean Energy Exchange traded fund. This ETF covers some of Plug Power, Meridian Energy, Emphase Energy, and other companies that produce energy from renewable sources.

One thing I like about it is that it is a basket of products - 100 shares of ICLN is spread across the industry. 100 shares of Tesla stock would cost about $60,000 and all be in one company.

I am not looking for fantastic returns, I just have money sitting in the bank and figure I could have it sitting in stocks, bonds or whatnot from companies connected with renewable energy. If I keep up with inflation I will be happy, if I make more than that, it is gravy (I just bought ICLN - it went up 98% in the past six months, but if it keeps pace with inflation over the next few years that is fine by me).
Here's hoping we can switch to webassembly before JS turns 30! We just need DOM manipulation. Come on Mozilla, I believe in you.
Mostly because my house was built in the 20th century.

Also, at least in my area high quality cement was not available locally until the late 1930s. You can really see a difference in the quality of cement in the basement of houses built before vs after. Of course, wood is abundant as well.
Yes - this! Perhaps it should be "Ok yay you won, now did you win in cheat mode (by exploiting people and reasources) or real mode!"

Since Forbes is the default scoreboard perhaps when it makes its Billionaires List, instead of a basic sort ranked by on net worth, Forbes should incorporate Environmental, Social and Governance like factors similar to those starting to be used for Equity investing [1] and do a final ranking based on ESG*net worth.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_bottom_line
Does the employee still get that money if the company goes under? People getting pink slips says that they're taking on just as much risk as the founder. Signing that contract does not guarantee the 100k/year
No, they didn’t give her an ultimatum.
I'm not sure this holds up to scrutiny. My limited understanding of epigenetics means that social factors and genetic factors are not so easily separated, we'd need significantly more generations of data to show that.
A: Its a great material for building a house with, in most any century.
Whatever helps you sleep at night, I guess.
I think "this" in this context refers to profiting off externalities.
> I’d offer that you would find that most vegetarians and virtually all vegans would not eat lab-grown meat.

Ehh, I'm not so sure after having worked at a highly acclaimed Vegetarian/Vegan restaurant; they are both so calorie and fat deficient that they devour anything highly processed with as much saturated fats.

Which when solely looking at this from a chef's lens, and not the absurd typical Silicon Valley froth money-grab that lab grown meat is, it really projects itself out as a bad solution to a problem no one really expects to solve with their product. It diverts a lot of money into certain startups and makes for good Marketing and PR, but I've had impossible burgers and never really wanted to try it again as its something that never stood out as a better product. Burgers are such low hanging fruit, too; try making a stroganoff from tempe or seitan, its horrible if you've ever had the real thing.

I can tell you you right now that Livestock Ag has a critical role that cannot be displaced when done correctly, ironically to be able to maintain soil viability in fields where heavy feeding crops like tomatoes, or brassicas have to be rotated with to maintain viable yields for organic and biodynammic farms. Something these vegans and vegetarians are entirely oblivious about since most have never worked a day on a farm in their life, yet think they're 'part of the solution.'

Lab grown meat is just another one of those panacea sounding things you'd expect would be the norm in the 21st century, like a flying car, but are entirely impractical and only used to divert resources from more impactful things, like Farmer Education outreach that tells them about the monetary gains to be had from growing sustainably/organically and using seaweed in their feed to offset CH4 emission, and how to build sheds/barns to use that for syngas production and compost.

Eat Just has raised $220 million since its inception [0], just think about the amount of progress towards those ends we could have made with just the funds that one startup has raised.

0: https://agfundernews.com/singapore-grants-eat-just-worlds-fi...
Show HN: Diversity Decoded – Refactor your tech team for diversity
Why 400
I think is globally harder to balance SBMM for games that involve teamwork because bad partners can make you loose even when opposing team is adequately balanced.

With Dota2 (a while ago might have been fixed) my complain was more than SBMM wasn't tight enough and unfortunately due to game dynamics a single sub-par player in the team could give a big advantage to the adversaries (and I totally found myself in this quite unpleasant role).

So maybe i'd say elo hell exist in some way as when the matchmaking algorithm doesn't have enough data to match you adequately it must train itself by matching you using a pretty loose standard deviation. I guess the success of "good matchmaking" actually depend on how this training sequence is more or less gracefully handled from the player perspective.
Back in the Intel days? You mean one month ago? lol
I have noticed the same with Overwatch ever since they implemented the new match making system.

Myself, somewhat a player who plays for fun and is okay ranked player will be put in a team with low experienced players paired against a team with three or four-extremely ranked high ranked players with one player low ranked. This ends up in a slaughter and it's not that my team sucks, it's just we are overthrown by experience.

This turns the game in to toxicity when the other team players then start bragging "ez" and such.