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This is how leadership works when you're not a dictator. It's essentially a never-ending negotiation with a faceless and mercurial second party. Someone in his position cannot issue mandates backed by force, and so persuasion and influence are the primary tools -- and setting goals people see as unachievable is not productive. As the prevailing opinion changes, a leader needs to account for that. He's trying to achieve a specific result -- maximum acceptance of the tools we hav to fight the disease -- and the idea that a scientist can just stand in front of a camera and make a statement one time and then expect three hundred million people to accept that information and act with maximum rationality is basically absurd.

It's up to you to decide whether that makes him an asshole or not, but I think the fact that he's discussing it with reporters says a lot about his transparency and honesty all by itself.
If the big lie no longer works then explain QAnon going from a 4chan meme to a cult and political force strong enough to win seats in government and fuel an insurrection, and why half of the United States still believes Donald Trump really won a second term.

It seems to me like it works better than it ever has.
Second this. One thing I find useful in quarantine is to extract a cook recipe from video transcripts. What I do now is opening the youtube transcripts (sometimes unavailable), pasting it into Notion and then hand-typing the sections.
This engineer inventor changed my great uncle’s life. My great uncle got scarlet fever at age 8 in the 1930s and had a fever of 108 F and nearly died. Because of nerve damage to his ear from the fever, he became completely Deaf at age 11. He learned how to lip read on his own and graduated high school when usually people like him would typically be excluded. Nothing stopped him. He even fished the fertile Pacific Ocean waters for Alaskan Salmon for a living, which was obviously extremely dangerous for anyone.

Some of my best memories of my grandmother and her brother (my great uncle) as a kid were at my grandmother’s house, whenever she had a phone call from her brother. Her talking to her brother via a physical TTY terminal with the phone handset in the terminal receiver was just so fascinating, captivating and interesting to see in the 90s as a kid.
Haha, no I think shipping container from Asia.
It makes sense to invest into more thorough multi page doc, and have people/process in place to maintain it. rustc guide would be a good example: https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/about-this-guide.html
You don't think they have the right to have an opinion? How tolerant.

Everyone doesn't have to "live under" it, you don't have to get married.

I suspect having Mummy and Daddy being together "until further notice" would have disastrous impacts on children's sense of permanence and development.
> Or an electoral district asking you to merge three emergency response systems into one. Or Nokia asking you to tariff calls going through a switch in real time.

I’m well aware of what it is. I’ve been on real time telecom stuff (your last example) and know for a fact that engineers nope the fuck out of these huge ass architecture documents that include stakeholders, change control, etc.

Inevitably there is some kind of outage or botched upgrade with lots of finger pointing and then the vendor covers their ass by referencing “page 248 under heading ‘assumptions about bisectional bandwidth’” or some bullshit right before the section on ‘renegotiating requirements during a government declared emergency’.

There needs to be a better way because I assure you, the people using your system are (on average) barely going to skim your document.

Being a “very serious” industry does not change this. Look at the disaster that was Healthcare.gov. That had mountains of documents like you describe they overlooked the simple requirement of scaling identity lookups.
There is no way or permission on (standard) Android to grant a trusted app access to your location, without granting it to Google first.
Of course people should pay the true cost of what they buy or use. I can’t see how anyone could argue against that on moral grounds. You might disagree for financial reasons, but hardly out of principle.
Government encouraging overproduction of food makes absolute sense. It's this or to store backup because to run food production at an efficient "only as much as I needed" models a disaster waiting to happen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines
I haven’t used RSS in a long long while but one problem I had with it was filtering. This was especially true where a site had frequent updates, say a news site, but there was no way to filter on the feed by topic unless the site provided custom feeds for each topic/category/tag. Has this gotten better?

From skimming around it looks like this still might be a limitation.
Literally the entire reason these products exist is to be a replacement for meat. A replacement should be as good as the thing it is replacing.
This is already glass so I would want to prepare representative samples of pure material for direct exchange between laboratories without anyone having to use KBr pellets as spectroscopic windows.
I remember trying a Beyond Burger for the first time.

Overall impression was that had some fastfood chains replaced their patties with this, not only nobody would notice that what they're eating isn't actually meat, but also they would be happy with how the quality improved.

There's of course the question of price, but I'm sure with adequate scale it can be brought down.
Which is a minuscule fraction of what they make from ads on the web.
I usually reach for a friend, or someone I've met before, since using the first version of a doc is asking a lot! (And they're often part of the target audience).
Ultimately these plant-based alternatives will be enhanced or replaced with insects, once people have been largely weaned off of meat. Most people won't notice or care. We aren't squeamish about blue food dye after all, we're just used to it.
A quantum signal processor of course!

It is however 5-10 years away.
Nice, it's working on mobile Android. The transcript letters could be a bit smaller and the side margins also. An option to keep the video as sticky while scrolling the transcript could also be useful.
Yup, I made sure my change would make clang agree with GCC as far as this particular extension is concerned, so it was fully enabled in -std=gnu++11 mode and only enabled where it didn't conflict with standard C++ in -std=c++11 mode. I felt the same way that Chromium should just use the same flags for clang as for GCC if they want to keep using this extension, but they don't.
This is something I'm trying to get into the habit of doing, but with little success, how do you deal with the fact that writing a decent blog post takes a fair bit of time?
I want ePub to FB2. Because FB2 books are rendered with better readable fonts on my PockerBook reader.

I have no problems using Calibre or PanDoc for this task though. Obviously the problem emerges when you want to do the job without installing anything.
Tapenade is just a traditional recipe from south-east of France, where the research team developing Tapenane is based (they are at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis).
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Yeah the game has changed. Burned some money on LinkedIn ads last year. It was more of an exercise in learning how to create campaigns and place creative.

In the end all you need is one post to go viral (or hit the front page of HN) and it is off to the races for a while.

I've decided to put that money into my content.

Geek out a bit on camera and audio equipment.

Hire a part-time editor for videos and podcast.

Buy some e-books off gumroad.

I think I'm happier for it.
> Are we going to have people paying for the "externalities" of all the products they consume?

Well, yes, we should. Considering that notion is baked into every part of the economic models we're using to determine how we're structuring the rest of the economy, absolutely, the bare minimum we could do is make people actually pay for the damage they're causing. I'd go so far as to say a substantial part of the reason we seem unable to reasonably address things like pollution, climate change, and biodiversity is because people aren't paying the full cost of their actions.
Clicking on one of Pro functions displays classic alert() dialog and loads "Upgrade" page, losing the loaded video and transcript. You might want to use a custom modal with link to "Upgrade" page which switches only if user clicks on it, and maybe even opens in new tab/page, to keep state.
Science goes through a process of peer review where they engage in a methodical process to make sure the evidence they are working with is reliable. Science is falsifiable: Any scientific theory can be contradicted by certain evidence appearing to contradict the theory.

It’s not perfect, but it’s a lot better than making stuff up and posting it on the Internet without any evidence to back up the claims (which is what conspiracy theories do).
So, to recap, feeding plant crops to animals is the current best way to produce plant based meat. Seems like the best way to feed our crops is also with animal products. I don’t really understand why we want to work so hard to drive a technological wedge into this process. Is it to get rid of other animals on the planet?
It is amazing to me that people can consider entering into a lifelong contract with a partner and not have discussed 5, 10, 20 year goals. Seems like a common sense due diligence thing to do.
> they could appoint a tyrant during wartime to make quick decisions before returning power to the senate.

That's the entire point - the fact that many contemporary liberal societies can no longer use such tools is worth introspection. Many countries had quarantine act or equivalent emergency power structure designed for pandemics, but what good are they if current political climate make them infeasible. This overlooks the fact that harsh authoritarian responses have been in line with epidemic response playbooks drafted by the CDC. It was what was expected.

The myopia is thinking this is a choice between authoritarianism and liberalism, but between society where you can rely on leadership to do difficult things for the greater good versus one that cannot.
I did a similar (in spirit, to save time) thing [1] to be able to skim on technical presentations: it creates a static HTML page with regular shots from the video with the corresponding Youtube CC on the side. It can help decide if a presentation is worth a watch (or just get the gist of one). Uses youtube-dl and ffmpeg under the hood.

[1]: https://github.com/rberenguel/glancer
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Oh nice. I wasn't sure how it would land.
You know friend, I have seen a lot of software developers die before their time. While drugs and suicide claim more than I want to recall, heart health has claimed a lot of amazing people.

If I can be of any help, even the smallest, most fleeting bit of help, it’s paying back a lot of amazing people who looked out for me. Worst case scenario, laugh at me. Best case scenario, maybe we can prevent a few premature deaths.

My email is in my profile. Feel free to reach out if you ever need a human and thanks for your kind words. It’s scary to talk about this stuff (so I don’t do it more often) but feedback like this is really encouraging. :)
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> This is how leadership works when you're not a dictator. It's essentially a never-ending negotiation with a faceless and mercurial second party.

I’ve had leaders that misrepresented facts in order to obtain compliance, as Fauci has, and leaders that were honest with me. I know which I prefer and I know which is considered ethical.
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That's especially bad given that the Oxford/AstraZen vaccine has the most permissible storage requirements (basically, fridge temps, not -20C or colder for the mRNA vaccines).
Not just themselves, but those around them as well. The only defense is that they usually telegraph their headbutts, if you keep your eyes on them when they're within striking distance.
He linked it with a GPL IDE disk emulator. That may limit the options.

Edit: Also a fair amount of code from https://github.com/h5n1xp/Omega which is MPL licensed.
I certainly wish you luck - I don't think there's any shortage of people who want tax preparation to be less awful.

But am I understanding correctly that you feel you've already got the tech, the money, and the ability to put this together by April, but you'll only do so if people give you $50,000 ahead of time? Why not just build it and then show people how much better it is?
This headline is sensationalised, it could have been an oversight, not necessarily an intentional decision.
If I, as a (non-practicing) scientist (physicist), look at the evidence for something in vogue (say climate change), and say I have trouble with some of the conclusions, then I am immediately and permanently labeled with the absolutely ridiculous "climate denier". Yet, and this is important, SCIENTISTS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SKEPTICAL. Their job is to, generally, build new hypothesis, make predictions, test predictions, and not, in any way shape or form, fall in love with a theory, such that they exclude evidence that may contradict their belief. More broadly speaking, they should not believe. They should be skeptics.

The facts, the arguments should win the day. Not the histrionics.

Sadly, we are human. We are fallable. We see political winds that impact our funding for our research, and we avoid rocking those boats.

In 1918, Einstein's theory of General Relativity was not considered the way things worked. Eddington and Einstein made a prediction about deflection of photons near the sun during and eclipse. Newton's equation gave one result, while GR gave another. Eddington made the measurements, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Theories rise and fall based upon evidence. Attacks on evidence you don't like, or the source of funding for research that raises difficult questions, really doesn't help.

Look up Lysenkoism for a great lesson in why following political/popular guidance can be a really bad idea for science.
The other day I was here sharing my "sphere collision" project [1] - talking about how it can be used to create a variety of other games.

well, here's the proof. Hope you lite it.

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26021842
They're surprisingly good. If it wasn't more expensive than meat I would have it more often.

I'm not going to pay more for lower quality protein (from a body building perspective).
A scientist's first commitment should be to evidence based truth. They should tell it how it is, then the leaders can figure out how to get there. If scientific papers came to a conclusion based on what people are willing to accept or what is popular, we'd rarely find anything surprising to advance science. Lying isn't science. Telling people to follow the science while your top scientist lies about what the science is-- that isn't healthy and it will make sure the average person starts to distrust the "science".

If he's willing to lie about that, what else is he lying about?
At some point all this comes down to ethics and choice: who do you want to be.

There no level of technical education that can fix that. You need either live examples and/or possibly a background in philosophy. That said philosophy doesn’t answer, at some point you still have to “choose”. Easy? No. We learn to avoid responsibility since childhood. Better diverge the responsibility of choice elsewhere.
Are you, though?

It seems a lot more like you are trying to force a veneer of respectability over what is still a whole lot of pretty awful views here.

I would be more impressed with an actual push towards trying to get people to genuinely be less awful, rather than trying to push them to be polite while doing so.
> You cannot sell GPL licensed software

Wrong
Not necessarily in the middle, but skewed where it is advantageous to its backers. For instance, Russia Today seems to have decent reporting until it comes to smearing or undercutting the US, or promoting it’s interests.
Sample size of one, but I eventually changed my habits because I care about trying to reduce unnecessary suffering.

For years I knew I was inconsistent - I thought it was wrong to eat meat, but I did so anyway because I like hamburgers and chicken (and was focusing will power on other things). The pandemic gave me the opportunity to make the change.

The impossible burger is perfect for me because it’s close enough to satisfy the fix. I hope more meat substitutes trend in this direction (or even more so with lab grown meat).

Most people believe crazy things and hold wildly inconsistent views so it’s not a surprise that people don’t change their behavior. Having consistent views that are tied to reality is hard. Changing behavior is hard too.

In the extreme cases (particularly with true unknowns) perfect consistency isn’t even necessarily achievable or desirable. That said, trying to understand the world as it truly is and be pragmatic is still good. In the animal case, I think trying to reduce unnecessary suffering is a worthwhile goal.

Related: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/beware-isolated-demand...
NewsBlur has a filtering feature, but I don't see a way to tweak it beyond mashing thumbs-up and thumbs-down buttons and hoping it gets the idea. Might be worth a shot, though, it's definitely better than nothing.
Environmental pollution causing chronic health symptoms is one of the darkest things that I have ever experienced. Even if you identify the source issue, it is a never ending battle against Occam's razor with communities, government regulators, and health professionals.

Overall you experienced systemic failure: the business fails to protect the customer but isn't held accountable, the health profession focuses on managing the individuals mental health instead of recognizing the exposure¹, government regulation did not protect you or help you afterwards. Legal needs evidence and money to make it work. It's all too hard and no one wants to know.

Whats really scary is that happens more than you think... And unless you are a part of a class action of people with similar issues, or you have power and influence, or it is a widely recognized issue, its really hard to deal with.

Look after yourself, your family and do your best.

¹ There could be studies in medical journals, or toxicology reports published by govt or others, but that doesn't mean your doctor will read or follow them. They might help extend your understanding though.
I am afraid, this doesn't quite cut the mustard. Code just can't replace a human readable Architecture diagram + explanations of whys of choices and hows of the system. Programming language doesn't replace this no matter how clear and modular it is. While Go is nice, you're vastly under-appreciating architectural documentation.
I think it's important to make the distinction between religious and civil mariage.

Clearly civil mariage is just a contact, whose main purpose is the divorce (at least in my country - France - divorce is the main benefit of marriage). And as far as I know there is no commitment for it to last for life, but just until the end of the contract.
Agreed. I can’t believe what a massive cultural shift I’m witnessing. Divorce is in no way shape or form a “healthy end” to a marriage. The point of marriage is that it doesn’t end. It is a lifelong commitment.

People evolve and so too should marriages.
The gender gap in the USA/Western Europe appears to be a lot bigger than it is in the rest of the world.

A ratio of 3.4 in the US (77% male) as opposed to 1.7 globally (63% male).
You can pretty easily store most of these data in any database. Don't need something like Snowflake - postgres stock can handle about any analytics queries, especially if you're not writing too much.
Right, but this is still a second-order effect of having more than 100% short on a stock and nobody anticipating it. So this is an example of something bad happening from a situation nobody anticipated. Even if it wasn't nefarious do you agree this is a problem?

I mean it's a problem in the sense we want the markets to be "fair" or at least governed by the rules we've set up, aka the SEC, FTC, etcetera. That's what I mean when I say it's a problem. I don't mean this is necessarily an existential threat on our financial system, but do you agree the markets were not working as intended because of this?

Based on what we know now, it seems like Robinhood (and other brokers) should be regulated differently (not that Robinhood was exactly by-the-books before this debacle). They publicly lied about a cash flow problem which alone seems worthy of fraud (I do not see how this could possibly be interpreted otherwise). They were extremely disingenuous about margin calls, and this is important when they are specifically targeting uneducated investors. I realize nobody was expecting this squeeze and expecting Robinhood (or anyone, including Citadel) to have that foresight isn't reasonable. But why not use the power of hindsight to fix this moving forward?
Turnout in Spain for the 2019 election was pretty high at 60%, compared to average of 50%. Counter to your (somewhat xenophobic) remarks about France and Germany, the most engaged countries by this measure are Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta and Denmark.
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I started trying to google for research on this, but didn't find much.

But I'm pretty sure you're wrong -- I doubt that these companies would be selling these premium meat-replacement products with the word meat if they didn't have lots of market research on it.

It tells you what you can use the things for -- the impossible and beyond products can be used to replace ground beef in pretty much any recipe, and will do the job. People can use it immediately with the recipes and cooking techniques they are familiar with, it makes the product comfortable and familiar instead of a new thing that requires them to adjust their palettes and learn new cooking techniques.

I think you're right that someone who has committed to a meat-free diet doesn't want or need the label meat. (but they'll buy the stuff anyway if they like it and can afford it, they are kind of a captive market). But when you say "meat consumption reduction" -- if every meat eater replaces say 20% of their meat consumption with this stuff, it would be a gigantic reduction in animals killed (for those who care about that). Assuming there is less greenhouse gas and other ecological damage from these meat replacements, a gigantic reduction in that too.

I dont think you can lump together committed vegetarians with ominivores who may replace a portion of their consumption with these products. Perhaps an ever-increasing portion, perhaps eventually they will become vegetarians. But calling the non-animal-based stuff "meat" is squarely aimed at current omnivores -- and it seems hard to argue that it won't work when it is literally working, as the OP outlines in talking about market share and grocery space. Burger king is selling impossible burgers because they can sell them as burgers; and if they tried instead introducing some new product that isn't meant to resemble a beef burger but is just some kind of "vegetarian food", I guarantee it would sell less not more.
> “Obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction”

This is a completely subjective criteria.

So now you have an appointed group who gets to force people to do work, under penalty of law.

That seems like a bad idea.

I am against bigotry.

I question the use of force as a way to alleviate it.