skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Protein powder?

Ensure / Boost? (important for people who can't chew food)

Canned or similarly preserved foods? (important for people without access to reliable refrigeration)

Even staple grains (wheat, rice, corn) are pretty highly processed. One can't exactly eat these raw, they need some machinery and sometimes chemistry to really get at the nutrients.

I guess this all depends on your definition of "ultra-processed" and "good for people." But the processing of food is a discovery that allowed for the civilizations to appear. Feeding people on fresh meat and veg doesn't scale.
None of that is legal in the state I live in. Based on my personal experience in other states, I think you're exaggerating the likelihood that collectors will do anything except leave voicemail. But I don't know your definition of "a lot." Is $15k a lot?
SPAs can be built to work well offline. I've written them myself. There is nothing inherent in an SPA that make it poor at this, quite the opposite. SPAs have excellent tooling for offline use.

A SPA's network dependency or robustness totally depends on the product's design. Some types of applications lend well to offline first (anything where the user owns their content/data, todo, notes, documents, pictures, etc). Others are much more dependent on fresh data. Which pretty much means anything big enough it's unreasonable to replicate it to the device.

I'm a fan of "offline first" design and have been a proponent at various companies. To the point where I can build the feature in at very little additional cost if it is considered and decided in the design phase. Bolt-ons patterns are messy.

However, the reality is that very few customers see this as a significant advantage. Which means that it doesn't really translate to market success. If budget is the #1 priority I can't in good conscience advocate for offline first unless it's going to offer a significant win for the company somewhere.
We noticed it while traveling recently, too - same family-visit trip we've made several times before, but this time there every single leg had at least one driver cancellation, sometimes two, and very inaccurate estimates of wait time.
It is a US thing. Sugar and salt in things most of the rest of the world couldn't imagine having sugar and salt added
Eating fruit vs drinking fruit juice is completely different in terms of amount of sugar ingested.
> do you really think it could lead in that direction?

If you asked me 20 years ago, or even 10, I'd have said it was total science fiction. I wouldn't have been able to imagine how to do it. If you asked me 5 years ago, I'd have vaguely said something about AI, half jokingly. At the time I thought perhaps the models could be trained so we can do test-only development and let AI trained on formal test cases generate endless code until all tests pass, but I didn't really imagine it would be possible to get a computer to take freeform written English (even in a tightly controlled manner) and produce functioning code.

Over the past couple of years I have seen increasingly fluent demonstrations and tried a few myself, and I have fallen off the fence and I think that with the pace that machine learning and AI assisted programming keeps advancing, this outcome is all but inevitable, as far fetched as it seems.

I was messing with the OpenAI sandbox over the weekend and it helped me generate several game design concepts from prompts similar to my post above that I could see myself being interested in building and playing. It's not difficult to imagine down the line with a few more advancements in this tech that the generated design could then instruct the code generator, fetch the assets, and stage the environment for a player or user to enter without ever touching a line of code.

I'm not close enough to the research itself know which of those problems are hard and which are easy, so I don't know if we'll see the first totally AI-generated "proto-holodeck" tech demo in the next 5 years, or the next 20 years, but I can't see it being more than 50 years away, and something tells me with the pace of things it will be much sooner than that, assuming we're all still around at the time to enjoy it.
>Just a reminder it was the US that blocked vaccine exports.

There is and has never been a US vaccine export ban, and the US has not seized vaccines meant for other countries.

The Trump administration last year signed gigantic contracts for every planned vaccine, because no one knew which ones would work. Like, enough for every American from one manufacturer, let alone the current four major available ones. More importantly, the contracts guaranteed the US the earliest deliveries.

By early June 2020 (<https://web.archive.org/web/20200603171013/https://www.nytim...>) the Trump administration had already identified and was planning to sign the aforementioned huge contracts with Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J, Merck, and Pfizer. (An 80% success rate is fantastic in drug discovery.) By that time the US had already paid $2.2 billion to three of the companies. (Also note the skepticism throughout that any vaccines could be delivered anywhere within the timeframe the administration was promising.)

The UK signed a similar contract for the AstraZeneca vaccine. The EU and Canada did not assure themselves of such quantities. Canada also bet on CanSino because it was afraid that the US would ban vaccine exports (which, again, never happened). Of course, the Chinese did not live up to the contract.

Before you say "But what about—", the Trump executive order from December 2020 merely sets up the legal framework to prohibit exports if desired. But that does not mean that the framework is invoked. Let me repeat: The US signed contracts that were a) huge in size/scope and b) from every pharmaceutical company working on a vaccine, which c) got the country the largest and among the first deliveries. The UK did the same thing with the AstraZeneca vaccine, and spent a lot of money to retool domestic plants to produce it in addition to the non-UK doses it bought.

(I don't disagree that to country B waiting on doses, the outcome is the same whether or not the cause is country A implementing an export ban or country A having bought up all the doses by having signed the contract first. But there is a difference.)

If the situation were different, might the US have implemented a ban on exports, similar to what the EU did implement toward Australia? Perhaps. But, fortunately, the US never faced this issue, because of the huge amounts of money it invested a year ago and the contracts it signed with said money.

>While we in the EU let the free market handle things.

Except Italy as I mentioned, blocking export of vaccine to Australia that the latter had paid for. More to the point, the EU did not ban vaccine exports more widely because it was afraid that the US would cut off component supply chains.

>Of course, EU countries were smart enough to buy vaccines collectively :)

... and because the aforementioned collective effort was delayed relative to the US and UK, the EU saw significant vaccine shortages earlier this year.
Somehow people have been programming just fine in statically typed languages for decades without turning their code into a shitshow. It just appears that JS attracts a lot of poor programmers due to the low barrier to entry.
Was WhatsApp $1 to download back in the day, or did users pay after download via some kind of subscription?
I'm really curious if China will go after bytedance next in its crackdown.

My guess would be no. Alibaba, Tencent, DiDi, Meituan all are either local champions that have no competitive advantage overseas - and thus does not help China's growth. But TikTok actually represents that China might have a competitive advantage in deep learning algos that takes massive amount of data - therefore it would be spare from crackdowns.

FB, Google, AWS, and Azue all have a competitive advantage that China don't - English.
They attacked the models of similar ridesharing services in Southeast Asia.

The whole model in itself is a con and the author isn't shying away from that; he's just demonstrating that the biggest player is a particularly egregious offender.

And sorry, but the fact that he has strong opinions doesn't mean that they're not backed by facts. You can be impartial and have strong opinions if the opinions are the obvious, logical conclusion that all the evidence brings out. If anything, I applaud the author for not pretending the modern media BS narrative of theres-two-sides-to-the-story, as if they had equal weight.
Thank you. Good idea. I will look into it.
CTO vs. Head of Engineer
I would pay for iTerm to be ported to Linux, but I know it's very MacOS coupled.
The march away from language continues. Facial expressions may be a rich form of communication but the kinds of ideas you can communicate with them are severely restricted. Literacy was hard won and now it seems like we're letting it go. Then again, maybe I'm just too old to understand.
> supercomputer to predict the chaotic effects.

This might be the hardest part of your proposal to achieve. Chaotic systems are fundamentally difficult to simulate, not just because of their differential equations but our lack of perfect knowledge of their initial conditions. Blanket solar reduction seems more feasible?
Ejecting and minor adjustments are very different things.

Plus, the idea is to extract the energy from Jupiter's orbit.
You just have to be the Chinese government?
To boldly reframe your frame of reference where no man has reframed that frame of reference before! (cue music...)
WhatsApp used to cost $1 to download when it was just starting out — this was before Apple added subscriptions to iOS apps.
The Greek Freak, General Hospital, and the Common Man
This isn't really small startups competing, though. It's a state sponsored/backed entity with more goals than just disrupting the market.
> I mean we all know why this isn’t the case. It’s also why Democrats aren’t pushing for it either.

Um, no, we don't all know why. What are you saying is the reason?
Google is punishing its employees for potentially devaluing its billions of dollars of investments in campus and office real estate.
Hmm. Anyone got a non-paywall version of this link?
That is an interesting article indeed. I see that after the headline, they immediately revert to talking about "payroll-connected APIs". They use this phrase 3 or 4 times, then they switch back to "payroll APIs" towards the end.

All in all I don't know that "payroll-connected API" is any better for you - quite a mouthful and sounds way more techy.

Personally I would like "Payroll verification API" but maybe that's just because we're having this discussion and that fancy will disappear like dust in the wind by the end of the day. It might also preclude you from getting into some of the juicier areas that a16z are talking about (i.e. things that are > just verifiying data), but of course you can always change your tagline :)

FYI this area is of interest as we briefly explored automating some nasty govt systems using selenium or similar (aka RPA). We would run the robot in a VM that was torn down at the end of every session for security. We presented the UI to the user via guacamole - then once they had entered their credentials, the robot took over. Interesting but not the path we took in the end.
AKA "we spent way too much on the lease for you to just work from home pleb"
Flour is arguably "ultra processed."
It's not meant to be useful, it's meant to be engaging.
Why do so many website disable zoom? Why?!
I backup the original claim.

I've been in several provincial schools in 1990s, good and bad, and we've always had strong anti-memorizing sentiment in math classes, despite in literature classes memorizing was mandatory.

Both make perfect sense.

Now I heard it's turning more to the Western model, though.
Bread could be classified as either processed or ultra-processed depending on ingredients and manufacturing techniques.

Ultra-processed bread would probably be made to have a longer shelf life and likely have more additives and preservatives.
Fun thought exercise, but are there any practical scenarios where one has wind but no gravity?
Honestly, that's absolutely absurd and no one should ever rent from you. Also, reminding someone a couple days before their arrival is no excuse to have confusing and absurd policies like that. Unless your listing makes it really clear "NO GUESTS WHATSOEVER ARE ALLOWED" and make it clear to the renter that that's the kind of person you are, people will assume some level of reasonable leeway. I'd be pretty pissed off if some airbnb listing hid "no guests" somewhere in the listing and then "reminded me" a couple days before I showed up if I was planning on getting together with friends. Uncommon restrictions like that need to have uncommon pains to make clear, otherwise the tentant shouldn't be expected to adhere to your rules.
It's possible but extremely unlikely, being a Chinese company. I'm sure the Chinese Government has no interest in letting Mark Zuckerberg own the platform. And it's certainly not like they need the money from Facebook.
> I'm pretty darn sure you would not arrive at the conclusion that ordinary people consider bread and most vegetables "ultra-processed foods".

That depends on what you mean by bread. The sourdough loaf that I make out of flour straight from the grinder is a far cry from cheap white bread.
Well according to the UN document linked in the article a loaf of bread is ultra-processed
I don't think we know too much at this point about how Ingenuity will survive dust storms— I see a reddit thread on this but not much else:

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/lo6k73/what_will_hap...

If there was a dedicated mission for a much larger helicopter, it would obviously be important for it to have a story for weathering these things.
> Ubuntu [...] never does anything I don't expect. Especially when it comes to finder/explorer/nautilus.

You expect typing letters while having the file explorer window focused to launch a full recursive file search?
I’ve been blessed in my life to attend an “elite” high school that produced IMO medalists on the regular. I’ve attended a sports academy as well from K to middle school, and briefly competed internationally in a junior age bracket.

I’ve lost any faith in the concept of “nurture” after watching two things right in front of my eyes:

ive watched some young kids steamroll adults who dedicated their entire life to the sport for a decade or two. it only took six months of training, and those prodigies weren’t particularly obsessed about their training either.

It was the same with academic studies. Some 1-in-million people were truly special. with either ridiculously deep insight where they could see patterns in problem sets nobody else could, or memory that allowed them to memorise 200 pages overnight. Not quite verbatim but quite precise, after only reading it once/twice.

True genius was nothing short of supernatural. There is a reason why we instinctively call it a “gift”.

Unfortunately, the other part of the spectrum exists as well, what we call special education, or the unfortunate kids with head injuries, bad infections, abused or just born that way. It’s quite sad.

What you are proposing is to create an educational system where both an IMO medalist and the special ed student both receive an A in math?

These are the extremes, but the gradient doesn’t just disappear between them. You’ll just teach at the slowest students pace, and eventually put stronger students on the “gifted” track, or super-specialize them based on their interests.
There are plenty of arguments and issues with the politics and moderation of Facebook, but TikTok is more simple than Facebook, and it appeals at that level in the same way Instagram does.
I 100% would - Better to find someone who wants to do that job than someone who has organizational knowledge but isn't really compelled by the work (or who would better serve the team in an IC role).
Making of the Magenta 5G Drone
Bytedance would have to want to sell TikTok first ;)
Unlikely IMO, unless there will be drama similar to what trump did a year ago, but even then I would expect that someone else will buy it
We can call these things "flaws" or "traits", it doesn't really matter. The reality is SIMD hardware is ubiquitous, while the alternatives the article mentions are niche. Maybe except ARM SVE, which appeared this year on the market.
You can make pizza from scratch. It's an oily dough (I think it can be done with yeast), with sauce and toppings. Sauce can be mostly canned tomatoes, which doesn't have sugar.
100% agree. The "for you page" is absolutely the best automatically curated feed I have ever seen.
>Amazing that Canada was forced to import from the EU because we were prevented from importing from our nearest neighbour and "closest ally" and so were set back by two months on vaccinations.

There was never a vaccine export ban by the US (see my other comment for more on this). If I purchase an item before others, purchase by far the most quantities of that item, pay by far the most overall, and pay a considerable amount of money toward funding its development, I should expect that item before others. Any Kickstarter backer knows this; it's what the US and UK did, and what Canada and the EU did not.

By early June 2020 (<https://web.archive.org/web/20200603171013/https://www.nytim...>) the Trump administration had already identified and was planning to sign the aforementioned huge contracts with Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J, Merck, and Pfizer. (An 80% success rate is fantastic in drug discovery.) By that time the US had already paid $2.2 billion to three of the companies. (Also note the skepticism throughout that any vaccines could be delivered anywhere within the timeframe the administration was promising.)

By contrast, look at Canada as counterexample. Consider Maclean's desperate attempt to spin its procurement difficulties (<https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/where-did-canadas-vaccin...>). If you look past the predictable false eliding of the US's firstest-with-the-mostest contracts as an "export ban", the best the magazine can do is admit that

* all Canadian contracts with vaccine providers that actually delivered were signed between late July and late September

* all contracts were signed after the collapse of the CanSino deal, which Canada had loudly bragged about as proof of its savviness at obtaining vaccines ASAP and circumvent any perfidious US vaccine export ban (which, again, never happened), and which it has done its best since the collapse to pretend that said contract never existed

* the other contracts that the magazine cites as proof that CanSino wasn't the only basket Ottawa was putting all its eggs in are with VBI (Who?) and USask. They may or may not yet deliver effective vaccines, but it's all now a bit beside the point, eh?
The barrier is what you pay for the phone, either with Apple's margins (both in the up-front cost of the phone and via the 30% paid via in-app purchases) or, on Android, Google's ability to target ads at you. If consumers didn't have to pay these (arguably hidden) costs, and had to pay $1 minimum per app, then yes, it wouldn't exist or be nearly as popular.
On the flip side, the only time I've ever felt like my work was fulfilling and valuable was when was under-compensated and insanely overworked (like 80 hours was a pretty reasonable work week).
Sonic: Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend written in Rust
It's the meat industry that's by far the worst offender in antibiotics, and they've got too much money to do anything about without an awful lot of screaming.
Alibaba, Tencent, Didi, all have lots of AI and ML/DS experience
This is a far cry from an evidence-grade source, but https://ambrosiasociety.org/ is a pretty wild site to explore.

Someone has put quite a lot of work into mapping the phenotypic traits of Amanita Muscara onto Christian iconograhy (the lamb of god being the wooly mycelium, and the living cup having to do with the way it colonizes wooden containers, etc). They've also got instructions on preparing it for consumption.
More correctly: they can face a prison sentence (in extreme cases) or more likely a fine for entering a venue under false pretenses. Not simply for "lacking a pass".

Flagging for the clickbaity, and misleading title.
Most flour should be classified as minimally processed by the FAO source others are referencing in the thread.

> Unprocessed foods altered by industrial processes such as removal of inedible or unwanted parts, drying, powdering, squeezing, crushing, grinding, fractioning, steaming, poaching, boiling, roasting, and pasteurization, chilling, freezing, placing in containers, vacuum packaging, non-alcoholic fermentation, and other methods that do not add salt, sugar, oils or fats or other food substances to the original food.

Source: http://www.fao.org/3/ca5644en/ca5644en.pdf
What do you call Tarsnap, rsync.net, S3, and Backblaze?
Literacy will always have its place. Short, meme centered, entertainment isn’t one of them I suppose.
the DAO hack and the resulting outcome was the first major thing that shook my faith in the idea of cryptocurrencies. I never had any skin in that game, but I liked the idea of Ethereum as it was posed at the time, it seemed really cool. then the DAO hack happened and everybody kept trying to justify a reason to pretend like the hack didn't happen and move on ("it's not a rollback! it's totally different! here's why it's justified!! it's totally not because us DAO folk have so much invested in it!!!"), and it all just seemed to me to be completely at odds with the "code is law" idea, i.e. the thing that was supposed to make Ethereum different from both fiat currency and e.g. Bitcoin. the fact that Ethereum enthusiasts were largely saying, "well, if we don't 'undo' this hack, it'll cripple Ethereum as a cryptocurrency going forward, and we'll never recover!," but to me, collective human action overriding the "code is law" concept was exactly what destroyed any faith I had in Ethereum, and largely damaged it w.r.t. other cryptocurrencies as well. you're not making a true ideological alternative to fiat, you're just making a new kind of currency with its own vested interests controlling what happens to it... which, I thought, was the main reason for moving to crypto in the first place. when push comes to shove, you're still going to get The Government involved in resolving your disputes.
Actually, food habits in the USA are pretty consistent across educational, income, and racial lines:

https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/146/9/1722/4630474

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5855172/

I wish there were more giant community kitchens in the West, as are commonly seen across Asia. This is one extreme example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT-N5wl0l-s

And at a smaller scale in Melbourne, Australia: https://youtu.be/dG8hH8zE7ZI?t=169
I'm sorry I wrote my comment quickly but I'll expand and I do think I used "regulatory capture" somewhat correctly. Once an innovative industry gets big enough, the public will want it regulated and the largest companies will regulate it in such a way to stifle competition. It's certainly not a good thing.

The stock market, oil/gas, telecommunications are all examples of industries that started as innovative with no regulation. Once established, they were regulated. The stock market got consumer protections. Oil/gas faced environment & safety regulations. Telecommunications face many regulations around zoning and providing rural and not always profitable access. In return, this regulation raised the startup costs so significantly that only the pre-existing large companies could adapt and new entrants effectively ceased to exist.

It's a bit of a tradeoff. As consumers, we get some benefits and the company gets their existence & rent guaranteed indefinitely. The same will happen with digital advertising and the gig economy. The public is already getting tired of the wild west and calling for regulation. This regulation will be twisted and controlled by the companies it impacts to secure their future.