skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you mean by putting themselves on a pedestal without having experienced life _at_all_ and living in nothing but theories. Yeah, sure.

I hope the irony that this describes a large portion of the tech industry is not lost on you.
Sure, totally, but how many of us live in places where we have access to the cows but not non-animals foods that can sustain us? Virtually none. So while its true that human beings ate meat for good reasons for a LONG time, its not really something that most folks need anymore.

Is it true that everywhere we have cows we can also grow soy or wheat or whatever? No, definitely not. Does that matter? No, definitely not.
"I see a non-negligible number of false claims and false promises on Julia's performance on the web every now and then. and when people test it for real production code they get disappointed with it."

Can you cite one or more specific examples of this? I'd like to see what you mean.

Edit: You seem to be a Fortran fan
There is a very good argument to be made that the life of cows on factory farms is worse than never existing.
> I'm having a hard time following this... are you saying that you don't think about the reality of killing animals for food because of some biological mechanism outside of your control?

Pretty much everyone needs to kill things to live, even vegetarians (thousands of baby plants were killed to make every loaf of bread). Theoretically there are fruitarians who don't, but my understanding is that is not a sustainable diet and many famous frutarians regularly cheated.
Ask HN: Where should I sell a $10k item (HNT hotspot) without sellers history?
Do you know of services where one can sell highly valued items without having an account for 10+ years?

I am trying to sell my HNT miner, they go on Ebay for close to $10k now. Me nor any of my friends can get above $5k selling limit, craiglist/FB marketplace are out of question.

Any crypto enthusiast who knows how to approach this?
With ads you're not just paying with your "attention" (waste of time and focus), you're also paying with changes in your behaviour, perceptions, and attitudes.

As much as we like to imagine our minds to be impenetrable bastions of rationality, they are not. We can easily be enticed and manipulated to do things we wouldn't otherwise do, to see things differently than we otherwise would, to consider things we wouldn't consider, and all of that is exactly what the advertisers are paying for.
Yes. It’s the cycle of life. Biologically, I am a carnivorous animal, so are you. We simply possess the faculties to choose not to be in a reasonable way, but it doesn’t stop the fact that nature/universe/god/whatever made you to eat the life out of other animals.

Doesn’t bother me either.

Side note: This is beyond the convo of the merit in how we do this today. Whole different convo.
That's very helpful, thank you.
I'd be curious to know which ingredients are the most worrisome. I don't eat much Beyond or Impossible at this point, but I could see myself eating a lot in the future if they made lower-fat options (more like ground turkey than ground beef).

But I don't want to eat something that is made out of unhealthy ingredients. What should I look out for?
The parent comment explicitly and clearly attempts to use an emotionally designed device leveraging people's presumed distaste for distressing animals. An errant assumption.
Alpha-gal is extremely rare and introduced exogenously (via a tick bite). Natural (i.e. not caused by an identifiable medical condition) meat allergies in humans are exceedingly rare, whereas natural plant allergies are exceedingly common.
From some local fine foods places: chicken/sage/onion, chicken/spinach/pinenuts, duck/veal, lamb/feta, pork/capsicum, pork/fennel, lamb/beef/garlic/rosemary, beef/shiraz, pork/lemongrass/coriander, lamb/sundried-tomato, duck/orange/pistachio. Had some with pinot noir grapes in them once at a grape picking brunch event.

Some of these like pork/fennel or lamb/rosemary, spiced Italian, etc are pretty commonly found for adults at a BBQ in Australia (at least amongst my friends). I grew up eating cevapcici and bratwurst.

But it doesn't take much in the way for herbs/spices for many kids to turn up their noses and the bulk sausages people typically buy for children look and taste very ordinary.
Didn't realize Raleigh was a tech hub. There's the Redhat HQ here, Epic's HQ is in nearby Cary, and I think Analog Devices moved in recently.
How a frankenfood can be even considered?! If you want to be vegan or vegetarian, stick with traditional products for your dietary style. The analogy is a recovering cannibal making babies out of carrots and eating them with "clear" consciousness. The company should rebrand to "Beyond Junk"!
You like the taste of a dead animal but don't want horrific treatment?

Why not buy your meat from a smaller farm. It sounds like you don't like factory farming. Not all meat is made that way.
Ridiculous and completely non existent.
Reminds me of David Chapman’s “ Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution”

https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
Isnt this how water ring vacuum pumps work, used for vacuum generation, instead of air compression?
> Although legally the state is obligated to approve all compliant THPs, practically speaking they can find flaws in the THPs, drag their feet on approval, and you may need to take the state to court.

this is for large-scale harvesting. I'm seeing <2 months from public comment close to THP approval, usually 2 weeks [1]. how long do you think is reasonable?

individual lot tree removal is a pretty straightforward form [2]. provide reason, site plan, maybe arborist report, etc.

[1] https://caltreesplans.resources.ca.gov/Caltrees/Report/ShowR...

[2] https://www.placer.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/40240/Tree-Per...
It is not even remotely a feature of all growth-focused businesses.

For example, Slack is a growth focused company that uses a subscription model for revenue and has no incentive to maximize time spent in their App.

You are correct that advertising, microtransactions and gambling lead to very similar business model incentives.
I don’t mean to sound like an ass (but probably will), but the style of your writing here couple with the subject cracked me up.
For my part, I enjoy fast food burgers (think Wendy's, Burger King, etc...). These burger patties are not exactly rare Kobe beef. Once you put that thing on a bun, add cheese, slather it in sauce, etc... I don't find the difference in the patties very noticeable. I notice how fresh the lettuce is more than the patty.

I eat plenty of meat, so I don't have an anti-meat agenda. But, for me, for fast food burgers, I may as well choose a less environmentally damaging, and yes, more animal friendly, alternative, because it hardly makes a difference.
yeah, they mentioned 30-50$ monthly on their site.
Is there any way to hide the unformatted content before the script loads? The quick flash of raw text is distracting.
lol with that income you'd live like a king in most of the US
> Fake meat has all of the health downsides of lousy meat

Even cheap meat still has a great nutritional profile compared to vegetables. In fact, meat consumption is quite (economically) progressive because expensive cuts subsidize nutritionally similar cheap cuts.
The idea of soldering the main storage still seems insane to me. Also it's not like a standard M.2 connector is profile connection either.
100% agree. Beyond & Impossible are alright, but there's an uncanny valley quality to them that can be kind of off-putting (to me).

I've been proselytizing these black bean burgers to anyone who'll listen for a while now -- they nail what you're describing.

https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-the-best-black-bean...
devices fail. it’s not something you can avoid in the aggregate. backup your data!
How is this “serverless”? There’s still a S3 and Lambda server.
If they ever have the option to live full, healthy lives without eating other animals, I'll hold them to the same standard.
Are you saying that it's privileged to be able to avoid killing animals while others must do it to avoid starvation?

I think you could be a vegetarian while recognizing that you'd 100% kill an animal if you would starve otherwise. I haven't met anyone who thinks people should die at the expense of an animal.
> We can debate all day long about the merits of explaining systemic racism to young black kids vs keeping them ignorant about it. However the people ignoring the facts are the ones who deny systemic racism exists.

Because “systemic racism” is a term used mostly by college educated white people for other college educated white people. Not only that, it deliberately repurposes a label that ordinarily refers to prejudiced beliefs, and applies it to structural forces that operate without any individuals being consciously racist. The same academics who talk about “systemic racism” readily admit that prejudiced beliefs have actually declined.

If you educated people about the history of e.g. FHA redlining and how that affects people today, I think you’d find far fewer people deny that those effects exist.

Besides that, we’re now teaching it to all children of color, who definitely don’t suffer from systemic racism. Asians and Latinos are on a course to achieve economic parity with whites, just like previous immigrant generations:

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/135/2/711/5687353

> It may be better for children of color to be ignorant about it, but certainly not adults of any racial background.

Sure, we should definitely teach kinds about the history of these things, how they create structural barriers, statistics on persistent disparities, when they’re old enough to understand. But even then, we should actually say what we mean instead of using rhetoric chosen by activists for shock effect.
> in 1980

Ironically, my grandfather at the time made his career by selling correspondence courses for college degrees. It was the equivalent in those days. He met my grandmother selling her a course in mechanical engineering she used to get a better job at the phone company.

My grandfather started literally at the bottom - shoveling coal into a steamship's boiler. A dirty, dangerous, sweaty job he did for years. He improved his lot by taking correspondence courses, and liked them so much decided on a career in selling them, primarily to sailors.

> If everyone

I wouldn't conflate "don't" with "can't".

I know about the MIT course because I took it myself (along with others) to fill in gaps in my education. And why not? Education doesn't stop with the diploma.
I was in that same boat, which is why I decided to migrate off gmail and move to a paid provider. One day I just woke up an realized I had to much important shit tied to my email to not be a customer. Paid services to replace google are surprisingly affordable. And best yet, if there is ever an issue, there is also a number I can call. Totally recommend migrating away.
With most advertising mediums, you can only show correlation.

But with many parts of digital, you can show certain pages of your website exclusively to those who have clicked on ads (ie. hide those pages from regular browsers).

In this way you can directly measure the direct effects of the advertising spend.

There are many businesses, including three that I own, that have grown as a sole consequence of social media advertising. We have not promoted these businesses in any other way (no SEO, no trade shows, nothing).

I'm not going to share my advertising accounts with you; I'm just going to ask you to trust that when I get my laptop out and show my results to my 'marketing skeptical' friends, they stop being skeptical.

Actual words, from one of these friends: "wow. That is like a money printing machine."

Consider for a second: how many advertisers that are actually succeeding are going to publicly call attention to their success? Would you?

The only hint is Facebook and Google's revenues. They go up, and I am one of the people who makes their revenues go up.
This is something I don't understand either.

People saying things like "the texture and mouthfeel is not like real meat", and yet ground beef burgers vary wildly and are also not like real meat.
> Beyond Burgers, is they require no violence against animals.

I find this interesting, in that cropping has plenty of violent against animals but one step removed.

I have a small cattle property, we run on hill country with diversified ecosystem, mixed grass and bushland. We have a heap of native animals living across the property. And at the end of the day the steers do get sent of for slaughter after 18 to 24 months + we kill feral pigs when they get in large numbers.

While cropping properties they tend to be monoculture, very little native animal presence. The spray like buggery wiping out insects with all that flow on effect (and to be fair we spray too, herbicide only and never pesticides and far less frequently). Also the cropping properties tend to shoot 'pests' heavily. We don't mind a few kangaroos and ducks type thing about but cropping properties are very serious about deterring and killing anything that hits their property.

And to be clear, I'm not having a go at you. I admire vegetarians for their genuinely caring moral position, and my family actually try to do more vegetarians meals. While at the same time I'm not sure plant based options are so devoid of killing, only the end product is one step removed.
> You like the taste of a dead animal but don't want horrific treatment?

Yes.

> It sounds like you don't like factory farming.

This is true! I think it's awful. I also don't like animals dying at all for my food. Factory farming or otherwise.
What you are missing is that Bison lived off whatever plants naturally grew in the land, and that their numbers declined and increased with the available food supply. The loss of natural habitat and biodiversity alone should be a cause for concern.
Compared to grass fed beef fake meat generally involves the killing of many more animals, due to the way industrial grains and vegetables are produced.

From a cruelty perspective probably the best thing to eat is free range Buffalo, but whale or elephant could potentially be better.

Considering how many animals whales kill, especially blue whales, we could be doing the planet a massive service by hunting them to extinction.
This is a phenomenon that all too often suffers from the distaste of ruinous empathy [1] and moral superiority. I personally don't care why/how [you] _feel_ about this product. Stories about morality and feelings in the alt food market are insufferable and immediately invoke an epic eye roll. I care about what I eat in this order:

1. Is it healthy?

2. Does it taste good?

3. Is it sustainable?

Fake meat, at this point, barely meets #1, absolutely gets nowhere close to fulfilling #2 for my taste, and seems to fulfill #3. But it tastes like hot garbage compared to actual meat. I'll wait for lab-grown muscle to reach maturity. My taste buds and macros matter more in the meantime.

[1] https://www.radicalcandor.com/faq/what-is-ruinous-empathy/#:....
These days, Standard uses gVisor so there are fewer and fewer constraints. Most things just work.

Flex really is for the edge cases where you need really big instances or really long execution times.

(I used to work at GCP)
There is no difference between "filter out black people" and "filter out X, (X correlates 99% with black people)". And I mean that legally, morally and practically.

Here's a list of ways around "cannot filter by race". It took 2 seconds on google:
https://www.searchenginewatch.com/2011/12/06/how-to-target-e...

But, you seem to be shifting the goalposts pretty significantly. So, do you agree with the base point that targeted ads can produce pretty bad results?
The nutritional profile of a fast food beef patty is actually quite excellent, especially once you factor in the cost. The same cannot be said of the fake meat alternatives.
> there's just one way to pronounce "S" in Finnish, whereas there are four ways to do that in English

What are those four ways?
I disagree. While there will no doubt be friction, people should be confronted with the reality of their choices; long term we can't preserve their bubble of ignorance, might as well address it now
thats the rub, the companies dont need to pay you on exit and they can manage against the average they would have granted in the first place and prune employees taking more. net win.
Thanks! For the adoption, I meant more like new folks to crypto. I think sending someone new to Coinbase is a lot easier than having them set up Metamask, telling them how to get some ETH and sending them to Uniswap (and also having them understand gas fees, etc, otherwise their Uniswap transaction will take hours and maybe be cancelled due to slippage).

Anyway those third party GUIs sound interesting.

I also figured there already was HFTs on crypto, but good to know.

We'll see what happens with potential regulation. I do hope the US understands that not stifling crypto innovation would support them in having companies and leaders in this upcoming field. I do think crypto is in it's early stages at the moment and mainstream adoption to me is having crypto adoption at the level of say the US stock market.
As a vegetarian, I really don't get why people are so focused on realistic meat replacement. Like, there are other things to eat.

I especially don't get why people want the texture of red meat like beef patties. So you like... soft food?

There's no arguing tastes, it's just weird to me that that's what other vegetarians would care about.
It is pretty neat. Off-topic, what anime is that test from?
The 'S' in MSG is 'Sodium'. If you're limiting salt due to high blood pressure, you also have to avoid MSG (according to NIH and AHA)
Absolutely.

Venture capital isn’t investing in fake meat because of some love of the earth. It’s a vertical integration play for fast food. Any shift of the demand curve hurts beef producers a lot, and they don’t have the economies of scale that a factory has.

If successful, they’ll be making 50 points of margin on a tray of mush.
I agree with this 100%. The problem is that I present white (although I do not identify that way) and so I have been stripped of the right to even suggest the very point you just made under extreme penalty of being labeled a “racist”. Which is…the worst thing you can be in American culture.

My voice isn’t worth much and I am afraid, but if you stand, I will stand with you.
Part of the issue is also that there is simply far less grassland now. The prairies and other grasslands used to be huge, and supported 2/3rds of the number of bovines. Now they're a tiny fraction of the size and supporting 50% more.
I had, and still have, a 2014 MacBook pro. I bought it used in 2015/16 but still paid near a grand so I babied it. Pushed it as a dev machine but took good physical care of it.

Eventually same or similar issue where it just wouldn't boot. I took it to Apple and they said they had to send it off somewhere else but they suspected gpu failure, they noticed some screen tearing and said they could do that for me no problem and warrantied it.

Got a call later that my MacBook had passed the gpu tests and they had to do more to figure out what was up. Another call and they said my MacBook had water damage and they wouldn't touch it. I called bs because they wouldn't have warrantied the screen if it had water damage, and also I babied the hell out of the thing. The person I was talking to said she was going to get to the bottom of it and would call back.

They replaced every component in the damn laptop, but only after it broke and they tried to take no fault. I'm never going to stop complaining about this experience but at least I still have this laptop for now
I tried impossible burger once. Wanted to like it for all the good environmental / ethical reasons. However, it just tasted nutty to me, like somebody had ground up some nuts that had a visual appearance very similar to ground beef. Tasted nothing like meat to me.
But you should be mindful about it and try and minimize your impact.
I’ve never been quite sure about my accent, but it’s probably closest to Australian English. The relevant sound change is /l/-vocalisation: syllable-final [ɫ] → [w] with accompanying vowel changes, and syllabic [ɫ̩] → [u]. So I have e.g. pool [puːw], wall [woːw], adult [ˈʔæɾʊwtˢ], peel [piːw ~ ˈpiju], apple [ˈʔæpʰu], middle [ˈmɪɾu].
The South Bay area where Silicon Valley is has some of the best of that best soil. Deep loamy soil that really doesn't need much or any preparation and in that climate you can grow just about anything. I'm a gardener and I always try go grow a garden wherever I've lived, when I lived in the south Bay the soil was just the best I've seen anywhere by a long ways - it was so easy to dig and it was quite rich. That's why it was known as the Valley of Heart's Delight way back when it was an agricultural area.

Also there's much actual semiconductor manufacturing in Silicon Valley anymore.
You would admit, then, that you're not the norm, and that your experience - while interesting, certainly - does not appear to extrapolate very well to others?
I have to use mongo at work. They used it because they thought it would be easier for the developers, but I find the query pipelines confusing at best. It can be extremely nuanced depending on how complex your aggregations are. I usually have to rewrite complex queries often because there are so many subtle details that can make your queries return incorrect data.

Even the docs in mongo tell you what kind of SQL query certain operators perform… I would rather just do SQL.
Obviously skin heads exist. I’m referring to the academic usage of “white supremacy”—an overall system that keeps non-whites from advancing. That’s just not true. Asians and Latinos are economically converging with whites, just as previous generations of immigrants did. Asians are the richest demographic. They live the longest. They’re over represented in elite institutions. And when you adjust for age and citizenship status, the supposed “bamboo ceiling” disappears too. Asians are evenly represented among Fortune 500 boards and over represented among new board member appointments.
Tgggrg
Funny, that means its own intelligence and military are criminal enterprises. I guess they assume their diplomatic communications should be open to all too. Maybe using CB or ham radio to ensure open access?

I do sympathize with the problem of dealing with criminals and terrorists. But when adversaries are everywhere (note the many SIM-catching eavesdroppers around Washington DC, not in Australia to be sure but I bet it’s a problem in their capital too) everyone needs a private option.
One thing I've learned is real security takes real effort. It involves disruptions and breaking of otherwise easy flows.

But it's worth it, especially if you work at a major company with hundreds of millions/billions.
Vinland Saga

https://youtu.be/7U7BDn-gU18
If you're using a USB hub/dock (the author says he isn't), you should upgrade to macOS 11.2.2 because:

> macOS Big Sur 11.2.2 prevents MacBook Pro (2019 or later) and MacBook Air (2020 or later) models from incurring damage when they are connected to certain third-party, non-compliant powered USB-C hubs and docks.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211896#macos1122
So you happen to have a list of these niche sites or a link to a site that reviews the review sites?
My mother, who is dead, somehow rose from the grave and posted in support of repealing NN. That there will be no criminal consequences makes me very, very angry.