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Even more annoying: it's now considered necessary to have a bunch of videos about any major new product or project. Video production is either very expensive, very time consuming, or both, so it's a new "tax" that you have to pay to look serious.
You're not considering opportunity cost.

Meat-as-food can be substituted with non-meat products which net lowers suffering.

Since "animal" basically means "non-human" in the case of "animal testing", by definition, there is no substitute which net lowers suffering.

Humans suffer as least as much as non-human animals.
Confession: I used to work for one of the larger "flash game studio's" back in 2008-ish. I coded one of their main titles and added various cheats and easter-eggs in the game without anybody knowing.

I remember one code making one of the characters go off on a rant on how "game development is a grind, don't do it, I hate my life." Something like that.
the old internet still exists here and there.
they changed the title apparently after I submitted
> It’s no longer trivial to build a “home” page that fits one’s diverse interests. People are lured into frameworks which prescribe a certain level of structure. How do we make it easy for people to freely add content to their “pages” , in whatever form they envision?

1. Sign up to $5/mo virtual hosting service and choose a domain name.

2. In their control panel, click "Install Wordpress".

3. Open Wordpress.

4. Write and publish whatever you want, structured however you want.

This is much-much easier than working with Frontpage or Dreamweaver was in the olden days. Connecting to a server via FTP alone was a huge hurdle. Now it's all WYSIWYG in a browser.

Obstacles to self-hosted personal websites are smaller than ever before, but the corpo web has turned everyone from homeowners into hotel guests who have to follow their house rules. It's a cultural problem, not a technical one.
Most of toxicological studies are cargo cult level science, so yeah it's hardly surprising it's "ineffective". The worst part is that it is codified in regulations and it's now a political problem to fix it, which makes it a lot harder.
However, it needs to be 'pure energy' not mass, a body of matter.
I've had several recruiters take my LinkedIn profile as a basis, and send the company something based off that. All the best interviews in the last year were off my LinkedIn profile, and that's how I got my current role.

I'm grateful to those recruiters - that was really helpful. One of them told me they have a team who will sort that out if there's good information in the LinkedIn profile already.

It also helped with a mental block, because it is so hard to cut down decades of diverse experience into a couple of pages that somehow encapsulate it. A good recruiter knows what the company wants to see better than I do, and if something is genuinely part of my skills and experience that I wouldn't have thought to include, that's really helpful.

I don't know why but I found things pretty difficult mentally last year. Those recruiters who were able to hook me up with a company with less ritual proved to be catalytic.

If a cold-messaging recruiter asks me for a CV now, I apologise for not having an up to date one and tell them they are welcome to use my LinkedIn profile. If they continue needing a CV, the process stalls. I feel I should have something ready, but during times where I was seriously looking for a role, I ended up with my attention taken up with calls, interviews and offers from other companies before I got around to writing up a targeted CV, so ended up not writing one. Perhaps it's just luck but that's how it turned out the last couple of years.

Similarly, companies that took "as little as a month!" to interview were eclipsed by those who took less than a week to make a good offer worth considering.

Good recruiters have been catalytic in getting those offers quickly, as well as negotiating on my behalf (taking into account my input, not blindly). So I am grateful to the good ones. They are facilitators.
Yes I know! It's a really good improvement. Note that your link nicely proves OP's point ;)
... Or simply a text-mode browser, yes.

To be fair, full HTTP is ludicrously complicated on the server and almost nobody actually does or uses it. I don’t know of a single web app framework or library that properly and conveniently does all of content encodings, transfer encodings, content negotiation, caching, ranges, ETags, and so on; what’s worse, if you’re doing anything dynamic much of this is application-dependent and so I don’t really know how it should be done. The parsing (on both sides) also kind of sucks, if not as much as for 822. Gopher (on which Gemini is based) is almost laughably simple by comparison, you can do it manually in shell script and not feel like a dirty hack.

I do not understand why the Gemini people don’t do NNTP, though. The relative inaccessibility of Usenet in the modern world? Still, you don’t have to federate with it if you don’t want to, and the tech is quite nice, if somewhat difficult due to the inherent complexity of the problem.
>Seems like some folks like simple stuff because they feel more included in the magic of it all.

Or, well, because:

(a) it's more resilient (and they already have lost tons of formats of the last 40 years that can only be read with emulators now)

(b) it's simpler

(c) it does what they want (document web) without bloat

(d) it's hella fast

(e) it's light on resources

So, it's not "kinda like some folks like manual-transmission cars", but more like "some folks like a toaster that it's not internet connected with 30 toast programs and 5 buttons", or to squeeze their own orange packs without a $400 Juicer [1], or they like the plain old Hacker News webpage and not some social media sharing monstrocity with 200 options, and prefer static file serving instead of a CMS+Database+...

Gemini might not be practical, but that's because the majority wont know about it, as it wont be pushed by companies, and thus it wont be adopted in any large numbers (heck, advertising wise, it's against the whole FAANG model).

I don't have any plans on hacking with it, but I was looking for something like Gopher-revived to cut back on web bloat, years before Gemini started. That said, I'd prefer if it could somehow be part of the web (not another server/protocol, but a forcefully cut-down web - maybe with something like a HTML's version of Javascript's "strict mode" - when that would be toggled, only a minimal set of HTML and no JS would be supported).

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-19/silicon-v...
I would love to know what the errors actually were, maybe a deeper dive into what and why compatibility was supposedly broken. Did the rust developers know that they were breaking compatibility? Firefox is a pretty big high profile user of rust, a breaking change couldn't have just snuck by.
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> However, I'm of a mind these days that full-time, salaried jobs are rarely the best option. Freelancing, bootstrapping, or founding are all usually better given today's market.

Sounds interesting. Care to expand on that?
It does so, but via an inefficient route (plant -> animal -> human instead of plant -> human), which causes huge sustainability and animal ethical issues.
LSD and psilocybin increase the fractal dimension of brain activity
Would you rather have your drugs tested on potatoes?
there are a number of replacement methods, though i don't know if they cover all the cases. these include using tissue cultures, diseased humans and software modelling. also, when drugs have been deemed sufficiently safe, they can be further studied using human volunteer trials.
You can both respect people right to make personal decisions and think these decisions are shit and affect their relationship with you negatively.

If my mother decided she was going to join not just a religious order but one of the most strict and one of the only ones preventing her to see us I would not be particularly happy about her choice.
> How else would you test the safety of a new drug or other chemical?

Use computer models first as much as possible, while we know they are imperfect.
In vitro-studies before in-vivo. Then test on volunteers (paid), starting with very very small doses of whatever you want to test to reduce the risk to the maximum, and measure the effects on living systems as you go to better understand how it is metabolized.
If animal experiments were banned in neuroscience I think it's likely that would force the development of new technologies for studying the brain that would actually accelerate progress in neuroscience - "necessity is the mother of invention".
Here is a useful link in case anyone wants to read up on this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_level#Biomass_transfer...
I upvoted you, simply because you state facts. Frankly, while we know a majority either supported or at least accepted Nazi policy, condemning all Germans from back the day is a tad harsh. Simply, because people back then didn't have much of a choice after 1933.

And Nazi propaganda was quite effective. I have more of an issue with the fact, that denazification wasn't even half as thorough as it should have been. A combination of national denial / shame and Cold War realities had people like Fillbinger make distinguished careers after the war. Despite being a hard core Nazi judge he rose to prime minister of Baden-Württemberg. But I guess, that was the best possible outcome after all.
> If you believe you are not religious, it just means that you don’t have the cognitive tools to recognize the secular ideology that you have adopted.

There is no mechanism by which the ABSENCE of a belief in your parent's invisible sky wizards becomes just evidence of an alternative belief system.

Not believing in the tooth fairy does not make my understanding and endorsement of say, the periodic table, an equivalent, dogmatic, religious, ineherited-from-parents belief.

The two are not the same. One is better.
What a bigoted and narrow-minded view of the world you have. This has no place on HN.

The fact that you take issue with abortion rights activists and not the right-wing protestors who have murdered doctors, shows your true, bigoted colors. Shameful.
That's true. But even leaving science aside, and focusing only on non-falsifiable aspects of human ethics, there are many examples such as slavery where Christianity for example has changed over time quite radically (and not even linearly)
Many secular people are very fond of pinning all the worlds problems on religion, so I think it's fair to use the term back at them when they constantly act in the same exact ways they decry.

It clearly hits a nerve too.
Also the way trophic levels work humans eating plants is way more efficient as a system than humans eating animals that eat the plants.

Humans eating animals eating plants is an ecological disaster.
The article gives a lot of examples of cruel, useless or ineffectual animal testing but does not address useful or critical animal testing at all. They are simply implying all animal testing is in the former category.

> The quality of discourse on HN goes up when we all meaningfully engage with the content. The goal shouldn't be to see who is fastest to post a dismissal of the headline.

The same could be said about comments.
I don't know which bit you're referring to. If it's the hard problem, then no, we haven't cracked it, and redefining the question to try to ignore it doesn't work. This approach typically comes from enthusiastic scientists (biologists in particular seem to be common) rather than actual philosophers, and often the premises were discussed and dismissed hundreds of years ago.

If it's the claim that you can't explain the universe with logic, then we're perilously close to things like Tarski's Undefinability Theorem, and that has me convinced.
In my experience having been near many church splits I still feel this simply isn’t true. Churches operate like git forks and merges of ideas.
The first three points seem like normal human behavior, we used to call it “the marketplace of ideas”. The problem comes in with the weak willed company management who decides to fire the person. Let’s put the blame where it belongs, here, not with the Twitter mob.
Lack of guides for setting up a private nntp, I'd say. If you have some resources, please share them.
> while claiming other people don't have the cognitive tools you do. I'm amazed this comment didn't get downvoted.

it's the HN psuedo-intellectualism. Most HN readers tend to believe in their above-average intelligence, and that their view point comes from a place of rationalism and superior intellectual capability to analyse the world.

I myself, also fall into this category.
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LEO is ~10$ per kg in fuel. Given a similarly reusable vehicle space travel could be relatively cheap.

The economic issues are more about how space flight has been funded than the underlying physics. The space shuttle for example had some terrible tradeoffs relating to which orbits it could achieve and needing to return cargo etc. SpaceX has dramatically lowered the cost to orbit, but they don’t have the funds to explore dramatically different designs.
Its still there, its just buried under all the other crap.

As more and more people generate content, more and more bullshit exists. Unfortunately, Google etc. - despite all their big announcements - can obviously not keep up filtering out that bullshit. We drown in bullshit.

Where's the semantic web that was promised? I wonder if we're still paying for the mistakes that were made with the whole XML stuff ...?
> Poor people will be tested after animal testing so it is not that worst.

> Animal testing is unnecessary most of the time. Even when its necessary they are brutally tortured

If animal testing involves brutally torturing the test subjects, then surely it would be much worse for poor human test subjects if they are swapped in, compared to what they go through now. Those steps that involve torturous pain would have to happen with the human subjects instead of the animals.
Firefox might be a pretty bad example here. IIRC it was only recently they stopped using the undocumented RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP to enable unstable nightly features in stable Rust.
Is this maybe related to not accounting for Rust editions? https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/editions/index.html
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I feel like a lot of those nostalgic posts are made by people who were simply happier when they were younger. And they conflate this general decline in happiness with a perceived decline in quality (of anything, be it the internet, television, music, etc). But in most cases it's just that things change and they no longer fit their desired qualities - they haven't become worse per se.

For a lot of people who are young today the internet the way it's right now (with TikToks, Instagram, Twitter discussions, rants and memes) will be the one, true internet. And in 10-20 years they will say it has changed and how they miss it. This is a cycle as old as time.
> Another thing. If animal testing was outlawed, the same testing would probably end up being done on poor people instead. Is that worse? I think so.

Also, some Asian countries would get a huge advantage as they don't seem to care as much about animal rights, unfortunately.

Anyway, it's a bad argument, but one that has to be taken into account as the practice won't stop anyway.
False correlation. People realizing that belief in imaginary beings somewhere out there is false is a good thing. Any correlation at the same time of a rise in people becoming political or ideological zealots has nothing to do with the failure of religion in modern science based societies.
Should be fairly straightforward to implement in say Python?
There’s tournament model and then there’s just straight up dysfunctional.
Adult humans who have given informed consent would probably be preferable to potatoes. In most cases, at least.
"Plebs" - this arrogance is also characteristic of the cast of scientists who think they can do philosophy.
Id would be better to start a blog to collect these post. Old post here have very low visibility.

Also in a blog you can classify them by subject, and are easier to link.
Conform to their generation’s norms? Yes. Conform to the older generations’ norms? Not nearly so much.
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Chomsky might be important to linguistics but this quote is the insight of an edgy teenager
Nevertheless, people are exposed to those sectors, oil being a prominent one. I won’t quibble over what is big or massive. I still standby the idea that the virus is causing all these price swings and that it’s temporary. I think we’ll still have inflation, just not hyperinflation.
I disagree with point 3)

People used to have big desire to meet each other and exchange information. Internet evolution has throttled that desire greatly, we don't have one to one or group conversations any more, not nearly as much as we used to, social media & mainstream access are the culprits.
The only issue with gemini is that is should parse gopher for backwards compatibility.
Add another level of indirection to make it even worse, that is by eating predators that eat other animals. Tuna fish are an example for this.
The issue is seen when it comes to the question of what intolerance a secular person will not tolerate.
Did you see any atheist kill someone because he was religious? Or even attack some believer for the sake of attacking?

This is way to much strawman for me . And I did believe what you said in another post on Modi as governor, now i guess I'll have to check myself.
Protected classes were supposed to be about things that are innate, like skin color or ancestry, not about your ideas or speech. Obviously religion is sort of borderline here.
It seems to me as Lee wants to force everybody away from Freenode to Libera and other servers. I just don't understand why.
This is a classic. It was put up 18 years ago, and still has plenty of relevance: https://www.internetisshit.org
The lack of images is really an important "feature."

Images seem to do something to the human brain. They grab attention in ways text does not as evidenced by the fact that a dumb image meme can be used as an anchor point to advance the most inane bullshit in either meme or short-attention-span text form.

Image boards and their capacity to originate and amplify utterly inane bullshit are the canonical case, and the format illustrates the principle exactly. Each post consists of an attention grabbing catchy image along with text that is usually one or more of banal, mean spirited, or irrational, and the image meme sells the message to the point that these sites almost feel like cults. Take the images away and there is virtually nothing compelling there.

Edit: there was interesting stuff on the chans once. 4chan was not always identical to /pol. The fact that /pol, originally a containment board, became 4chan and edged out everything else tells you everything you need to know about the format and the medium and what kind of thinking it encourages.

Media guides discourse. This is the most important idea of Marshall McLuhan and why we still talk about him; "the medium is the message." When the quality of the ideas on a medium almost universally declines over time, the medium is the problem not the users of it.
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Unless your boss is a total jerk, they wouldn't do that. Also, you are not as important as you think you are. Everybody is replaceable and people leave all the time. Your boss is unlikely to take the trouble to call some random person just to badmouth you. He's got better things to do. Having said all that, I still think you shouldn't tell where you are going. The reason - it serves no purpose to your old employer and they don't need to know. Your employer never gives you any information during your employment that you don't need to do your job and you are not obligated to give them any either (especially when you are leaving).
There is evidence that the vaccines are not safe, but that is not my question. My question is why the "hard-sell" and blanket rejection of ANY contrary views.
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Nope, but close enough. Almost nobody trusts vaccination in general, the problem is not tied to a specific vaccine. Pfizer would be even worse as it would be interpreted as coming from the "enemy of our people".
As someone who has done drug development this is a horrific idea.

I remember using computer modeling - the lead said “oh yeah, tweak the molecule here and you’ll double the potency”. Cool, make the tweak and…potency was 1/10th.

And we do toxicity filtering already, before we get to animal models (why trying something you know will fail?). Despite this we have plenty of highly toxic molecule make it through. I remember the rats who testicles went necrotic after the first dose. Never saw that coming and thank god it didn’t happen in humans.

We’re so far away from even modeling molecules docking with receptors. Toxicity? You’d have plenty of phase 1 volunteers dying every year. Or being horribly harmed.
>This is fine, but not very inclusive, just because it is focused

That's neither here, nor there though. You can have 20,000 other individual Hacker News style sites on every subject, and the simplicity would still be there on each individual one.

Not every thing has to be everything to everybody, for the category of the thing to be inclusive.

And Gemini is not like content or like a speficifically-themed website like HN, it's a content delivery format (like HTTP/Gopher/etc). The allusion between Gemini to HN was for the simplicity of the presentation, wasn't referring to the kind of content HN carries.

In a site's with HN design the content could still be whatever, from whaling to development, and from rocket science to religious practices.

(If anything, something like Gemini would be much easier to make inclusive to e.g. low powered devices in the developing world, or screen readers, compared to the modern ultra dynamic news and content websites that have tons of moving parts, trackers, popups, interstitials, animations, and random JS just to deliver news and text content).
It looks like they still use that in a bunch of places?

https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/search?q=RUSTC_BOOTSTRA...

Specific example: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/d36cf98aa85f24ceef...
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Link to the interesting “60 secs or she dies” roleplay: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_NWElrHgbGo
Thanks for the link. The video was pretty informative.

I'm not from the US, had a different experience. We went from tape to CDs pretty quickly, and had some niche MDs market.
Cryptographic content-addressability (with inherent data deduplication) is superior to simple caching in every single way: efficiency, facilitation of distributed storage, and security.

A link should point to a hash. Now you can go get that hash from the same host you used to get the link or any other host that stores it anywhere in the world. That hash could unpack to data or to a list of other hashes. Go get those. Where you get them doesn't matter one bit. You can verify the correctness of the data trivially.

This is how BitTorrent works but it could work equally well on top of a simpler protocol.
I pity people who think renaissance was a thing.
Yeah, but maybe this is an argument for treating the food animals, rather than ridiculousness of standards for science animals.
That is the best mature, professional people can do.

Spiteful incompetents, on the other hand, don't think that there are issues they should fix (the employee isn't a good fit); are afraid of exit interviews; and can be unprofessional enough to burn bridges and damage the company in order to damage the quitting employee.
I think and hope you dug further than just a name match, names aren't necessarily unique!