skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Animal protein seems to be good for wellbeing, and there's a lot of overlap between veganism, wellness awareness, and alternative food choices.

Given that and the already-existing ability to create collagen/gelatin in a lab that's suitable for vegans, I've always wondered why nobody has managed to get it to market as a food.

There's already a growing group of wellness-focused people who don't want typical non-gelatin jelling ingredients like carrageenan and various gums in their foods; these provide only the jelling property and none of the nutrition of actual gelatin, and they are associated with inflammation.

Edit: Maybe all of the funding is going toward grail projects like synthetic beef patties that have an element of technical novelty, rather than the comparatively boring process of creating collagen at scale and getting FDA approval?
This reminds me to one of the rules in Hammurabi's Code. "If someone breaks the leg on one of your slaves, you now have the right to break a leg on one of his slaves".

China has 1.4 billion people: do you think it's a good plan or even morally defensible to attempt to hurt all of them to get to affect a fraction of a fraction of wealth of maybe 200 politicians?
This is what I love about HN and puts a smile on my face every damn time.

For some reason, it makes the whole internet with its billions of users feel so small, for a sharp and brief moment.

Of course we live in our own bubble on HN, so it's quite a specific and targeted demographic already, but still.
While I won't accuse any one person of this exact opinion, I do enjoy that the gestalt of HN appears to believe that for this upper-middle class job from which you'll have the power to easily destroy millions of dollars' worth of value if you screw up hard enough, you should not have to 1. solve problems in front of someone in an interview 2. bring your laptop to your interview 3. have to provide any evidence of your programming ability via open source samples or past work 4. have a take-home work problem 5. be hired to do the job on a trial basis for a period of time 6. put up with the fact that the interviewer has power if for no other reason than you are one of multiple candidates 7. essentially prove your ability to do the job in any manner whatsoever.

I can understand the arguments for many of those, but... uh... somehow you're going to need to prove yourself. We can't just throw everyone who shows up into the position to see how they'd do... and the HN gestalt would presumably complain about how awful that is, too.
I have a master's degree in math and a PhD in STEM so I know how linear algebra works. So when I say it's excellent writing, I don't mean perfectly calibrated for me or you. I mean it's excellent writing for a wide audience to get the gist of it. I think that's very difficult to do for math. An average 12 year old would not understand matrices without a very clear explanation.

Having taught math to both children and undergrads, I think it's very easy to underestimate how easy it is once you already understand it. A sentence like:

> for any ε > 0 and 0 < δ < 1, using poly(dimension, #nonzeros, condition, 1/ε, 1/δ) floating-point operations, our algorithm finds a solution having less than ε error with probability 1 - δ.

Would confuse the shit out of most people.

This video explains really beautifully what I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M64HUIJFTZM
One of several motte-and-bailey tactics used by vegans is going from

“Veganism is healthy”

To

“Veganism can be healthy if you exercise an impressive amount of restraint, discipline, and judgement in your vegan diet”
> Today, it's typing.

Not for math, at least not for my kids. I was helping my son with his high school physics homework a few days ago, and IMO his poor handwriting was a genuine impediment to his mathematical problem-solving.
We could go on forever adding victims.
Please stop perpetuating this tedious flamewar. Crossing into personal attack is particularly not allowed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: actually you've been breaking the site guidelines so shockingly and so frequently that I've banned this account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Show HN: I made a tool to convert images of tables to CSV
Or people could work on their ability to identify normal human modes of speech.
I’m staying out of the larger discussion, I was specifically talking about what you said:

> "So much backlash", yet nothing has been done.

I’m not sure that’s a sound argument here, because nothing is ”being done” about any of the actors mentioned, really.
Hi !
I couldn't find a tool like that when I needed it, so I made that as a Python beginner's project.
Hope you'll find it useful. :-)
And in fairness to the FAANGs, it seems like we actually know the rules: review your fundamental CS algorithms and grind leetcode. Compare this to any other company who is looking for whatever the fuck culture fit means and how to get a job there is anybody's guess.
I could have written all of your comments in this chain myself and am similarly confused. Sample size +1.
It's the new status contest among men in technical circles.

Who can self-deprecate, feign uncertainty and fake modesty in the most sophisticated way. Everyone is competing for the "nice guy" designation - or perhaps they're frightened of the "asshole" designation - and they're using deception as the means.

It's reminiscent of stale scientific writing where every statement is hedged with
endless caveats just so they can't get singled out for overstepping slightly.
Hey HN - I'm the author of this post. (Founder of WorkOS)

Lots of people have written about how to scale event-based systems or how to design distributed infrastructure for queue management. But what's often overlooked is the subtle-yet-important product decisions that go into designing webhooks for a great developer experience.

We don't actually offer webhooks-as-a-service at WorkOS, but we provide webhooks to developers and I've built this feature twice now, previously at Nylas and now at WorkOS. Hopefully this article helps the next person who builds them. :)

For anyone curious how we do it at WorkOS, here's our webhooks API reference: https://workos.com/docs/reference/webhooks/connection
Change is slow to come and be pragmatic.
Unfortunately that's not an option available to the Palestinians. You don't get to have a one-state solution when you're effectively held prisoner in an apartheid occupied territory.
We're getting into some philosophical areas here (and these are very deep waters for me, so forgive me if I misstep), but it sounds to me like you think the only way to get empathy is to put the other party to get into the same theoretical situation. I think there are other ways to get others to understand you and get empathy. I don't think you need to make someone else experience the unpleasantness to make them feel empathy, you can communicate unpleasantness without (in this case jokingly) threatening to inflict it.

In this case the person you are talking to is probably not at all responsible for the original problem, so I think the need to consider both the human and the company you are talking to is larger than when dealing with a single person.
I have never heard anyone say that to me.
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in the US most middle, high schools have a top down organizational hierarchy (in my experience, no data on this point but willing to bet on it), therefore the parent poster is asserting that in the US most middle, high school top administrative officials are men (no data on if this is true, not willing to bet on it)
Great read, thanks for sharing.

The company I work for is currently transitioning from Vue to React and so far it's been a positive experience.
I would contest that assertion - some blockchains regularly change their PoW algorithm in an attempt to stay "ASIC-resistant."
Maybe they just dont care.
"I cannot afford to waste my time making money." - Louis Agassiz

I'm not quite there, but if I leave money on the table to avoid a place that treats people in an abusive way, I'm okay with that. I don't need the extra money that badly - it's too expensive.
I think we disagree about what a future energy grid looks like, and that's okay. I enjoy the conversation regardless!
I found the site's architecture quite interesting: It uses inline JS to transform the Markdown in HTML. view-source:https://jott.live/markdown/elementary_blockchain

Ideally it would be as a Service Worker that pulls pages and transforms them into HTML, so you could serve your Markdown directly, without a separate build step.
>Do physicians have to perform surgery to demonstrate their knowledge when they change hospitals?

Not sure how serious you're being but the answer is yes, surgeons seeking to change from hospital A to hospital B have interviews where a surgeon from hospital B will visit hospital A to supervise a surgery or other operation. Depending on how critical the position it may even be a partner from one hospital doing the supervision. In fact nowadays the supervision can be done remotely.

Furthermore surgeons are required to maintain their accreditation by earning credits on a yearly basis through continuing education and/or training and they do so on their own time.

These guys don't mess around and if you think surgeons get hired because of their wonderful personality then you sorely underestimate the medical profession (and overestimate their personality ;P ). It's incredibly competitive, demanding, and prestigious in almost every sense imaginable.
Very much in favor of not consuming products out of concentration camps.
A large part China's justification for their expansion into Tibet was about "liberating" the locals from a pretty harsh caste-based monarchy system.
Not exactly bringing democracy, but not far off it.
Ask HN: Why does HN ask my browser for the PW even if I don't click on “Login”?
Or is this browser compromised?
That's not the same as Trustpilot. Their rating system is specifically built so paying businesses can remove ratings themselves while nonpaying can't . They can ask for proof of purchase and then only accept those that have both proof and a good rating. That's what most do.
Attributing colon cancer to meat is, it turns out, complete bullshit, just like most other nonsense anti-meat fear-mongering (uric acid, cholesterol, etc.).
How should you deal with it when you're not even seeing it and can't even prove that the woman is being held in her home against her will if her will is already so weak that she'd wear a burka? This is what I meant: you just make the problem disappear from the public with that measure. You don't solve anything and make it actually worse for the women.

I don't even know how you get the leftists in there but at this point I'm too afraid to ask...
Downvotes incoming for me. I honestly believe that HN threads on CCP are targeted/brigaded.

I am like 40% in going so far as to say a target of known to exist comment farms (CCP even has a game-ized crowdsourced app for this).

HN is a perfect target: low volume, high impact with an audience that has much more power than the average FB user.

There are so many examples of whataboutism, misdirection, bad faith wrong facts throughout this thread alone.

Just below this parent someone blames the reporting 'Why do you assume that everything you've just read is true?'

I find that outrageous. There are vast vast amounts of evidence and so much reporting from so many respectable outlets across the spectrum including outside the US.

If you're interested on learning more I recommend checking out the recent Fronline episode which has actual leaked primary sources from CCP itself & emotional testimonials escapees (china calls them graduates :( ).

Another example is this recent and well reported detailed New Yorker article which didn't get any traction on HN....

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26277641
Do you have an example where this is true? I have not seen an example with > 2 ulp difference from the true value or > 1 ulp difference between the two algorithms.
It has nothing to do with superiority. More girls are "average" than boys. More boys are "brilliant" than girls but also more are "dumb". It's about variance and distribution of intellect among each sex. A boy is more likely to be a genius or a dolt than a girl and a girl is more likely to be competent than a boy overall.
Nuclear can’t follow the load without becoming vastly more expensive. France is heavily dependent on exporting subsidized electricity generated by nuclear at a loss and importing renewable and fossil fuel generated electricity. But even with that massive exchange for load balancing they still have excess nuclear generation driving up costs. Just compare capacity factors between US and France to understand the true story.

It looks fine on paper, but France was dependent on other EU countries avoiding nuclear.
Oh my, what have you done.
App store monopoly and monopsony status is a seperate (albeit related) problem from app stores having no or shitty quality control. If a non-monop'y app store wants to control peoples' business... well, they can't; people will just use a different app store; that's the point.
meanwhile GME is back to 200+
> Just judging from what I read iso8601 is based off of rfc3339 (as i assume the "request for comments" phase is before the iso standardization).

No that's not how this works. The ISO one is from the 80s, the IETF one from the 2000s. It's the other way around. The RFC is a profile of the ISO.

> ISO slightly improved the rfc, but it is largely the same.

This is not a true statement.

> ISO has taken the free (as in speech) and is now selling a derivative work.

This is also not a true statement.
I absolutely love everything about it (the logo <3).

Super fast. All my test searches returned what I was looking for.

What is your relationship with semantic scholar like?

Any plans to integrate ranking signals like references, etc?

I'm going to double my monthly donation. This is great.
Yet, being a minority male in tech industry, I am regarded as more privileged than white women just because people of my skin color are more successful in tech industry. It reminds me of the quote from The Office "Andy Bernard does not lose contests. He wins them. Or he quits them because they are unfair." If there's evidence that supports my ideology then it's fair, otherwise, there's oppression.
Doom Emacs Configuration
Can the Energy Dept store 50 tons of weapons-grade plutonium for 10k years?
Why don't we have universal daycare / preK?

How about increasing the tax credit that goes to all parent, regardless of they choose to do childcare? Maybe for some parents that would be enough that one parent could quit their job and finally have the joy of spending more of their time with their own kid. I don't see why we should subsidize institutional childcare over other forms of caring for the very young.
I'm just not convinced that renewables are going to live up to their promise as a total solution sans nuclear. I think having some investment in nuclear is inevitable and I would rather build out excess capacity and be wrong and not need it than be right and have to play catch up.
I guess The Man is why homing pigeons are extinct now.
“Take responsibility or risk a SolarWinds repeat
Just remember that the free to play model is about using tricks to encourage you to spend money, usually with shitty game mechanics unless you pay. If you are not going to pay on a multi-player game, your role is to improve the user experience for other players that are actually spending money. To replace an AI, so they spend more.

So I would skip the free to play games if you don't have a budget for them.

My personal favorite free and open-source game is OpenTTD but it's a bit dated.
I once wrote a negative review of a business on Google, and it went up, but when I went to look at the business's reviews under my wife's Google account, it was not there. I waited an hour and checked. Then a couple hours and checked. Then a day. It never showed up.

I posted the review under her account and did the same checks for my account. It never showed up.

I do not know why it didn't show up, but I wouldn't be surprised if the business had been able to pay money to Google to be able to check reviews before they went live and mark them as spam.

Edit: Because some commenters did not seem to get the implied message, what I am actually implying is that in this context, or any context, I don't trust Google. I have no evidence of what commenters said I have claimed. (I have not claimed anything; I just said I wouldn't be surprised.)
That simply makes two currencies - before-fork, and after-fork. There's no rule that the one that "should" win does, especially in the face of large computing power making the former more attractive. See Bitcoin Cash, versus Bitcoin Classic.
Yep.

A supercritical CO2 turbine runs at 1000+ psi but if the pipes broke and the CO2 sprayed out into that salt, you might get an overpressure around 10 psi in a not-too-big confinement because the volume of working fluid is tiny.
This attitude is why I insist on having my developers manage at least one small project before moving to a senior role.
You raised a great point. All the diversity initiatives I came across seem to solely focus on race and gender but never age.
No, I mean stuff like

2007-03-01T13:00:00Z/P1M

For something that occurs on the first of each month.
In other industries, it’s mostly about credentials. The reason a surgeon doesn’t have to prove themselves when they switch hospitals is because a medical degree means something. Getting a medical degree is brutal. The failure rate for exams is very high (60+% for specialist exams). The whole process is effective at weeding out anyone who won’t be able to do the job.

In comparison, software has no equivalent credentials. Universities, collages and bootcamps have no incentive to fail anyone. As a result plenty of weak students pass - only to discover that they’re largely unemployable. This does a disservice to lots of people - companies can’t trust degrees, and need expensive interviews. Good candidates have no way to reliably demonstrate their strengths. And weak students waste tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of their lives failing to learn to code.

But the benefit of our system is that we allow programmers to be self taught. If you can’t afford to go to collage, or you are from a poor country, or you just don’t like school, that’s no barrier. You can learn programming in your own time and still get a great job. There’s lots of great programmers with the aptitude to become lawyers or doctors - but who would never be able to get the piece of paper they need to get those jobs. That’s something we as an industry should be proud of.
Still, it would be a fun lawsuit
It doesn't even take oodles of money from a SaaS platform to motivate turning a library into a service.

Even in in-house development, developers are often motivated to build services and have internal customers take dependencies on them so that they can expand influence and demonstrate ownership in a way that gets noticed by senior leadership and put them in line for promo. It also opens up the possibility for stakeholders to build their own little fiefdoms with access controls, intake processes, and a justifiable source of funding.

Can't do that with a library.
Some studies seem to have found a bias towards girls when it comes to grading: https://www.bbc.com/news/education-31751672
> People don't view it as a privilege.

It's difficult to view it as a privilege in a society that, over the past 70 years, was deliberately constructed with the expectation that everyone drives.
Women avoid saying such self-deprecating things because they already have a tougher time than men being listened to, taken seriously, promoted, etc. Not that there aren't exceptions, but most women are acutely aware of how they act and are perceived at work because they start off at a disadvantage. I imagine few men ever think "will my gender get in the way of my ideas, or my work relationships or my career trajectory?".
Military systems will probably become provably secure before the next great war.

The situation will be totally different than on the commercial side.
Where is this quote from?
You're changing arguments. Your first comment was phrased in present tense and was about current Israeli aggression. Now you are supporting your one-sided view by claiming the original settlement was illegitimate.

The reality is at some point you have to move past history to make the best decision now. It's neither moral nor practical to uproot or kill the people currently living in Israel because the original settlement was wrong or misguided.

Palastinian claims over Israel make as much sense as Taiwanese claims over mainland China (or PRC claims over Taiwan). And I say that as someone who is very against continued aggression from Israel and for recognition of a Palastinian state.
Example: someone has an abusive spouse that they’re trying to get away from a needs a way to communicate for help without them being able to find out
I can never understand why enforcing (sane and secure) TLS and adding a (shared) secret request header isn't the usual simple answer.

As far as I know, TLS prevents all these security issues, except authentication of the webhook caller, hence the shared secret which your webhooks should check.

I've verified in the TLS specs that every issue I've seen raised by people is actually covered, yet people still think (and write) that TLS doesn't sign traffic (it does), or TLS doesn't prevent replay attacks (it does), etc.

Usually I give them pointers to the specs, and they say "it doesn't hurt to add even more security" but they're really rolling out their own encryption, which you shouldn't do.

I'd say enforce TLS and authenticate the webhook caller...
Ok. Perhaps not every proof-of-work currency, but a vast amount of them still suffer from the issue I mentioned.
>I'm pretty sure that it's much easier to sell a 50€ app than a 10€ subscription.

Very much this for me, I will go to great lengths to avoid using software with subscription fees. For example, I was fine with paying several thousand for the Adobe suite and upgrades in CS4-6.5 days but no way will I pay $50/month for the same software. The cost may be less upfront but I have an easier time justifying a single one time purchase than a continual unending string of fees. I don't use the software enough to justify the expense month after month so seeing the bill again and again wears on me until I cancel.
Well, now I look like an ass. :)

I was assuming this was a new thing - my mistake! Makes much more sense now, haha.