skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Animals are extremely efficient at converting inedible food to edible nutrition.

And survive in a very complex and hostile environment, adapt to changing conditions, procreate, and build all the structure and tissues and organs that requires. That's a lot of energy that bioreactor-grown steak doesn't have to expend. At scale, and with some genetic optimization thrown in, can we do better? I don't know for sure, but I don't think it's an impossibility, given that most of the current meat supply is already grown in factories.
And initial forays into many cores was decades earlier then that. Aside from big iron, going back to the early 60s, there was some business class devices like those made by Sequent:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequent_Computer_Systems
Agree, my productivity with phone UI:s is near zero. But that's what billion people use.

I agree with the "get of my lawn" sentiment but that's not how the world uses computers anymore.

I don't see how this can work either but it seems it does and shows no signs of returning to sane Xerox-park derivatives I prefer.

There are power users and their needs are catered for but in terms of market share expert users are a diminutive niche.
User moderation solves this. You’ll know if something is or is not wanted by users, as they will moderate the content itself.

There is no need to destroy privacy, waste resources, create terrible ux, gate content…
OK, but hypothetically, assume it does become immoral, and then illegal.

If you eat a burger now, with lab-grown meat not really available, are you behaving immorally?

If you eat an animal in (say) 10 years' time, when lab-grown meat is readily available, are you behaving immorally then?

If you eat an animal in (say) 20 years' time, when that involves quite a lot of effort (finding a butcher who sells it, paying the price premium, etc). Are you behaving immorally then?

If you eat an animal after they ban killing animals for food, is that immoral? (i.e. is it the law that makes the action immoral?)

At what point does our (presumably moral) action of eating meat become immoral? Is that up to us as individuals, or is it up to our churches, or government, or what? Who makes this decision, and how is that communicated, and is it retroactive?
The running example in my comment was overlapping windows. a POS system might not need windows, much less arbitrary overlapping ones. That was the specific "friendly user interaction" i was talking about.

I think you're taking me a bit out of context in order to talk about something you care about. I agree with you, so please don't hold me up as something I'm not.
... as opposed to doing what?
I have a habit of not shutting down my laptop for long periods of time. I used mac os for like 8 years, till High sierra and it got slow. this was a late 2012 macbook pro.

Then also owned a macbook pro 2018 with mojave, that crashed every 2 days like ol' windows. switched to ubuntu for my thinkpad, still hibernate wasn't reliable. end up putting win 10 pro on the thinkpad, n stability from hibernation is amazing. it feels like the old os x.

so yeah, win 11 for me is a moot point - no need to upgrade
It is also common trope that people say "but consider the typical user." I think both arguments are valid. At differing points in user skill level.

For example I would not expect a "typical user" to know or want to use a terminal to navigate directories, however as a more experienced user I know one can navigate much more quickly using a terminal than using the hunt and peck style of most file system GUIs.

Some things are useful before they can be made easy. Some things are easy that have more uses with more effort.
From a comment above,

> But you have to feed the cells. And you can't just grow some plants and feed it to the cells, you have to manufacture a very precise blend of chemicals (amino acids, sugars, surfactants, antioxidants, etc.) at >99% purity for each one. Often extremely nasty solvents are involved in the production process. Usually, some sort of petroleum product is a feedstock.

How would you assess these statements?
Gonna need a citation on that one. Commuting doesn’t hold a candle in CO2 production compared to industrial manufacturing and agriculture
Is it really telling? A couple of things to consider:

- The original Macintosh did not use icons as heavily as software in 1995. From my vague recollections of 1995, the computers of today may even use fewer icons. (It was a time when there were icons on buttons, like a check-mark on an Okay button, and icons on individual menu items.)

- Even arbitrarily overlapping Windows seem less common these days. People have been maximizing applications for ages. These days, tiling is increasingly popular on desktops (e.g. Windows Snap) and people typically run apps full screen on mobile devices (with split screen, rather than floating window managers, being the only alternative). It's also worth noting that 1995 was part of the era of multiple document interfaces, which were arbitrarily overlapping windows inside of arbitrarily overlapping windows.

Wirth seems to be taking a far more extreme stance than the examples I have provided, yet the early years of the 1990's were also an era of excess. While 1995 Wirth would probably strongly disagree with the software of today, modern software looks austere compared to some of the software of the 1990's while the performance of modern hardware means the user is going to feel less of an impact due to the user interface.
Exactly, and the scary thing is not only do we emit more carbon every year, the rate of emission is also increasing, i.e. we are still on an exponential growth curve.
I really dislike the notion of throwing entire swaths of people into a single bucket.

Some vegans will eat it - others won't. I don't think you can say with confidence what portion of them will until there's some data.

Many are vegan on ethical grounds - which don't apply here.
The # of content ID rightsholders impacted by this would likely be much smaller than the # of creators right now being impacted by claims (fraudulent or otherwise).

Blocking legit claims also would not threaten legal protections if done correctly. Under normal circumstances if a content creator is subject to a fraudulent claim they can file a DMCA counter notice, and the creator is required to sue to keep the content down. YouTube just asks the claimant 'is this legit'? And then tells the creator to go screw themselves, even though all they did was ask the claimant whether their fraudulent claim is fraudulent. They're not really following the normal process you're required to follow, they're following a special one they made to stop big companies from harassing them.
That's why freedom of speech and freedom of thought are two different things in France.

You can have all the opinions you want, you just can't go to the town hall and scream about how you want to exterminate the jews
Apple is never going to release a folding phone, it's way too gimmicky.
I think that's a fair point. I'd love to see more of this done in coalition. Google doing solo not only can bend the web toward Google's corporate interests, but it undermines the growth of other social structures (e.g., citizen movements, nonprofit advocacy groups, regulators, governments) to solve problems like this.
> Climate Change is first and foremost a political problem.

It's not a problem at all.
If it wasn't obvious, my comments were made from an American point of view. The greens are, I'm given to understand, an actual political force in Europe, not merely a bogeyman.

Germany's certainly doing an admirable job with renewables in general, and increasing their wind power capacity specifically. Not to mention the manufacturing and tech associated with that stuff. I live in the US near a turbine made by Kenersys in Germany and it kills me that it made sense to import that, instead of buying one manufactured locally.
I'm excited for these to be readily available and around normal meat pricing - but articles never seem to show any photos. I'm really curious how they actually 'grow' it, what sort of form it takes, and then what the final product texture is like or how versatile it is.

For example, the '5k burgers' figure comes from dividing the mass produced by some nominal figure for a burger. But is it actually mince they're producing? Is it minceable meat that could also be sold as steaks or .. 'joints' or 'ribs' (-like meat without there, presumably, ever being a bone)? Are they (expecting to be) able to differentiate different cuts, sirloin, rump, etc. that are pretty different when naturally grown?

Or is it just a sort of vague meaty thing that you can have in whatever shape you want, but is pretty homogeneous, and like an 'average' chunk of meat, or whichever piece they sampled for it initially?
My #1 biggest pet peeve with the web right now is that nobody labels their form fields either correctly or at all, for any kind of field. And more generally just doing tons of stupid garbage that obviously breaks browsers.

I've seen so many permutations of garbage UX:

* the 2FA flow trying to save your password
* credit card inputs not having any labels, only having some labels, or having wrong labels
* credit card inputs doing some javascript bullshit like manually autotyping a space to simulate the groupings of the card numerals, which inevitably breaks in many comical ways when the browser sets it. My favorite it when the grouping code conflicts with the "don't type too many numbers" validation code and results in only 3/4ths of the number being inputted.
* things not labelling login forms properly so that mobile browsers pick up the hint to offer you to open your password manager
* websites having a million similar domains they own and copiously link between, so that you end up trying to log in to like, citicards.com but your passwords is only saved for something.citibank.com or whatever.

I know it's a cliche but I'm commonly wondering: have any of these people even tried using their own website even once???? I know that if I owned a company and the way that people give me money was so comically broken, I would be sending Bezos-style ? emails to the teams responsible.
Cows don't use a lot of electricity, so it's got to be higher emissions. ...even considering the cow methane.
> no programs needed changing at all to get the full advantage of all the cores (barring some special cases)

Some programs just don't have any available parallelism in them - no matter how many processes you split them up into. You need to build parallel algorithms and data structures. That's still often a research-level topic.

Erlang's not going to magic parallelism out of thin air in a program that doesn't have any.
I agree. Ill extend this. Climate change is an engineering problem, especially when time constraints are not considered. However, if we want to work at a fast rate to reduce climate change, it is certainly a political problem. That is just because the wheels of invention and innovation take time. It is an engineering problem, but because of quick demand for reducing carbon emissions, it is a political problem.
> Apple is insignificant outside of the English speaking first world

Japan has a higher share of iOS than the US or UK. Also China is ~20% iOS. Sounds small until you realize that percentage equates to more iOS devices than the US.
Good people exist who can and do serve governance tours of duty, without the need to be or turning into sociopaths.

We fundamentally disagree it seems, although I appreciate the dialog. I hope we can agree we should do the best we can with what we have where we are.
I think a major issue is that the viability of solutions is compared on a short term cost basis that ignores externalities.

As an example: on a very short term basis, it is easier and cheaper to pile your trash in your basement, or to not brush your teeth. The value of those things only becomes very apparent after a day or more.

On a short term basis, fossil fuel based solutions are really great, flexible, stable, and cheap. We have to do something different despite that, because that short term basis doesn't tell the full story.
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Was the computer science professor Niklaus Wirth, a creator of several programming languages, a layman user of personal computers?

Why did Amiga, the series of computers beloved by artists and musicians, have overlapping windows and colorful icons?
That is describing the different formats it will accept.

Further down the page:

> If s contains time zone information, this method returns a DateTime value whose Kind property is DateTimeKind.Local and converts the date and time in s to local time. Otherwise, it performs no time zone conversion and returns a DateTime value whose Kind property is DateTimeKind.Unspecified.
Nothing. Just like Astrological signs cannot predict anything.

It can give a vague discription to some obvious traits, and many people need validation or direction, so that's why it "works".
"In software this would be the equivalent of just writing components or html for an extended period of time without any variety, which is soulcrushing."

I actually want less variety. I never get consistent work. How can I be an expert if I don't have a steady type of work. I'm really struggling right now. A lot of that is because I know that anything I learn at work will be used once and then thrown away. What's the point of learning it at all?

For example, right now they want me to learn AWS Step Functions to automate our regression testing. The first thought I had was "there's nothing else I can see us using this for on our team". My second thought was "how will this work when the test data constantly changes and the tester's time is dominated by troubleshooting issues, mostly data issues".

I want strategy I can believe in and a role that allows me to grow into a respected expert. My only option is to switch jobs which is depressing (not a lot of good stuff out there for me based on my past). It sounds like this is anyone's best option when the underlying issue is dissatisfaction with the work.
The Youtube system is not required by federal law. It's a worse system they created themselves.
I would wish that people would be that excited and felt that it was that level of incredible too. However, the presentation felt, to be honest, forced. Like the entire emotion was an act.

Nothing in the presentation was something to cry over. Nobody in the audience is ecstatic, nearly crying, about how Teams is built in to the OS, or that the Start Menu button is now in the center and how that now puts you in the center (his words). We all know this isn't a big deal and yet he's so emotional about it, and that's off-putting and makes it feel fake and forced.

It's an extreme reaction to details that, frankly, most of us are looking on in horror over. Upsetting 26 years of muscle memory is a good idea? Building Teams into Windows, which almost no family uses and is a resource hog, is a good idea? A good idea so good it's worth trying not to cry over?
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The UCI Tour of California has been to Laguna Seca too, it was one of my least favorite bike race watching experiences.

Professional road cycling generally has no barriers between spectators and the riders except in key areas or start/finish lines. A race track designed for cars of course has enormous run off areas and view blocking steel safety structures, tire walls for 150mph+ accidents - you don't need these for a bike race. The result is spectators generally sat far, far further away and the atmosphere is IMO much worse for it. I've had far more fun sat at the side of mountain stages with friends and a few beers.

That said, of course it has the advantage you get to see the riders multiple times instead of just once as is case on most point to point stages, but easy access to live streams on phones/tablets makes the race so easy to follow at the roadside anyway.
A face mask with a sensor that can diagnose the wearer with Covid-19 in 90mins
I don't remember much about the installation process. I think I just got to choose between automatic or manual partitioning, which is when I presumably went with automatic and chose the C: drive.
There is a difference, but it is not 40%. I am usually not in the habit of setting cruise for 55mph on the highway, but I suppose I can try :)

Volvo V60, 4 cyl gasoline engine, 2016 model.
One thing to keep in mind is that this decreases the carrying capacity of highways (cars spending more time in a lane of traffic) and could result in more construction.
ActiveX was more a counterpart to Java applets in particular, rather than "cross-platform Java" in general.
The article directly contradicts your claim. People can use Google's CDN without losing control of any part of their content. It's just a CDN.
It's a pretty binary decision (eat animals or not). What does the slope look like?
I’ve run plenty of large sites and apps, and yeah I always try to represent the users in product planning and for that the reason not once have I allowed captchas, fingerprinting… to be implemented.

The real reasons people implement these draconian measures range from inept cargo culting to nefarious business models. If you have a problem with spam, add user moderation and call it a day. That’s just a justification though, there is never a pro-user reason to destroy ux and privacy.
Would it be fair to say that the web we know today, with a few big players that gather all our data was born on Windows but the web we know and love, with an abundance of personal websites was born on Unix?

Probably not, but there is some correlation I guess
And ECS is fundamentally a trait system!
It's pretty straight forward to integrate anki with almost any tool. For example I use it with tiddlywiki (see https://kebifurai.github.io/TiddlyResearch/ for an example setup).
Note that there exists a spiritual successor to Moment.js in Luxon[1]. The creator was a Moment maintainer and it lives under the Moment project umbrella.

1: https://moment.github.io/luxon/
In Javascript's Date API, the month number is 0-based (January is 0), but the day number is 1-based (the first day of January is 1, not 0). That inconsistency is unexpected and makes it harder to use.

I'm glad most modern date APIs use 1-based numbers to represent the month and the day (not to mention the year from 1 AD onwards).
Revenue is bigger than profit, so it’s worse than that. I think it’s just plain wrong, or it assumes loss is a negative number.
How much does unwanted JavaScript contribute to climate change? Recently reviewed my MacBook power consumption because battery life seemed poor (I usually have it plugged in). Using Chrome's Task Manager I identified a webpage that was using most of the energy: it was an ancestry knowledge base page that I'd had open for months, except it wasn't text-only like I'd thought - at the foot of the page, after dozens of paragraphs, it had a syndicated ad strip.
I don't think your main points here are true.

> Animals are extremely efficient at converting inedible food to edible nutrition.

Animals are pretty inefficient at converting plants to calories, e.g. see https://learn.uvm.edu/foodsystemsblog/2014/07/10/meat-vs-veg...

Most of the energy spent getting grains to the table is in transport/processing. If you just compare the production, grains are way more efficient than animals.

Even though I'm sure goats are better than cows, they aren't as efficient as plants at producing calories, and in all cases you still have to process and transport them.

However if you've got some data showing otherwise I'm open to being convinced here.

> Until we solve that problem, it's better to stop growing too many plants

I think this is making perfect the enemy of the good. Plants use less water, produce substantially less GHG emissions, and so are still a net major win on environmental terms vs. the status quo.
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The DMCA (federal law) already provides a way to punish claimants, both small and large alike. A false claim under the DMCA is perjury (a felony in many locales). YouTube's system isn't the DMCA, which is why it's worse for creators and more generous to fraudulent claimants.
My reply is answering the first question, How can you?. Not the second.
This all makes me curious what barriers (technical, funding, legal, etc) remain for a decentralized P2P video platform to become highly popular. I'd love to see YouTube bring about it's own demise with both the increasingly intrusive ads and heavy-handed copyright processes.
The value of crypto coins is extremely volatile. Once one big party starts selling the price will drop and then everybody else starts selling too. It will be interesting to see if they can recover.
Ten years ago two guys built an app for recognizing movements and sold it to Google for a lot of money. https://blog.ycombinator.com/flutter-yc-w12-acquired-by-goog... If you programmed a neural network attached to a camera that can see the driver's hand and eye movement to identify dangerous dark patterns in their driving behavior in real time, then corps like Uber and Amazon might want that information to save lives, but no shock collar.
This is a really great question! I can't help but think that for some small multiple of the cost of the International Space Station or Large Hadron Collider or any other large government science experiment, the nations of the earth could have gotten together early on and funded a free satellite internet project. It would have been limited bandwidth, high latency and error-ridden but it would have been ubiquitous in coverage, much like the GPS system. And would have accelerated adoption of many of the digital cash and e-banking innovations we are seeing today. As well as gotten a jump start on the physical layer of space based internet ;)
1. Max out 401k and take advantage of employer matching.
2. Max out Roth IRA.
3. Invest in low cost index funds/ETFs.

Good overview: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/all-the-financial-advice-y...
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So don't use gnome and switch to something that isn't abandonware
No way are there 1.5bn windows users. More like 1bn legacy machines that are padding the numbers