skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>As a big fan of the idea of manufacturing meat in an environmentally sustainable way (and without having to resort to raising and killing animals), reading this article felt as if someone was throwning a bucket's worth of ice-cold water on my face.

Indeed. But the problem isn't that lab-grown meat is too expensive. It's that the industrialized murder of hundreds of millions of sentient beings EVERY SINGLE DAY (and that's only counting the land-based animals!) for the pleasure of our taste buds has been made cheap.

Eating meat should be at least 1000x more expensive than it currently is. Or more correctly, it should be exactly as illegal as killing a human being and eating them currently is. But more expensive would be a fine starting point -- it would work better with the principles of human freedom, and it would make it possible to make the living conditions of our food better. Plus it would make lab-grown meat more viable.

As it currently is, we are forcing these sentient beings into horrible conditions, and committing genocide every day. If we count sea-based creatures, we are killing a number equal to the total human population every 2-3 days.
Archive without the annoying popup:
https://archive.is/enQvE
Yeah I quickly put it back post-update, but can definitely see the point.

But it already auto-hides and I rarely enter random addresses by hand on mobile so I could almost do without it if it weren't for search.
Rethink taxation so people living in suburbs pay proportionately to the cost of running services to them, and you'd very quickly see a denser city. Dense habitation is just way more efficient, more ecologically friendly, and more cost effective. If this was reflected in the law, you'd very quickly get a situation like you have in Germany, where you basically go from multi-storey apartments to farmland with no suburbs in between.
the link doesn’t seem to work…

Is this https://www.cs.unc.edu/~brooks/Toolsmith-CACM.pdf ?
Lol.

I make a lot of typos on regular keyboard as well.
Greenwald may be right but he seems rather angry in this article, which diminishes his credibility a bit. He sounds angry at the media who doesn't agree with him, so they must be in cahoots with CIA and the big tech. Does that sound a bit like a "conspiracy theory"? It sounds that way to me, of course he may be right. And curiously it seems he laments the fact that this information was not covered more widely before the election, which could have helped Trump win so it seems he laments the fact that Trump didn't win, because he is angry at Biden and the mainstream media.

Every act of opinion writing is political, what you write about and what you don't write about. Do you criticize Biden or do you criticize Putin? Either way you (try to) move the public needle to one direction or other.

OK, so I read an interview of Greenwald at https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/now-we-re-talking/en/gle... and, now I think I know where he goes wrong, at least in my view. He seems to blame "USA" a lot for its past misbehaviors. What's wrong with this view, in my view, is that there is no single "USA". There is the US government. But the current government is totally different from the government of last 4 years. There are two political parties one of which doesn't seem to like democracy much at all. Doesn't seem to care about people dying of Covid because of vaccine misinformation. Whereas in the case of Russia there really is singular entity "Russia" meaning its current government because that government seems to be in power permanently. That is not the case with USA. US government this year is totally different from last year. Why? Because there are two political parties. Greenwald doesn't seem to see this difference, he thinks (or wants us to think) that Russia and USA are a pair of evil twins.
The scale is vastly different, is it not?
G Heavy Industries - the maker of the keyboard used in the article - also makes a keyboard specifically for plover if you are interested. (not involved in the company, just a happy customer)

https://www.gboards.ca/
Those are all problems solved by JupyterHub and putting your notebook in a git repo I believe.
Does the Live Captioning feature work in Waydroid?
Sounds great for users...
Indian gig-doctor does 1k consultations a month
Thanks for your feedback! I was looking for a voice over that does not sound as polished as a radio ad. Sounds like I went a bit overboard with that :)
Windows 11 seems to be a targeted competitor of iPad OS and just pretending desktops don't exist anymore. Hard to see the thinking in Microsoft's strategy here.
Those machines came and went a bit before my time, but I do recognize the sense of excitement and power I feel in notebooks in the recollections I’ve read.

Similarly, comments about ‘how do I distribute a Smalltalk program if it’s just the image of the entire VM’ rhyme just a bit to my ear with ‘how do I share my notebook with my coworker if it’s really the agglomerated state of my interpreter and language environment’
5.0: Indonesian truck driver Apriansa’s consistently-perfect rating
Good luck finding the people who are willing to support an old operating system forever. Even Linux shuts off older versions from updates.
Nature is experimenting all the time though. Damage to DNA is random and stable and mutable parts of the DNA have an equal chance to be impacted. Beningn mutations accumulate and non-viable ones don't persist for very long. Also, accidents during cell division can cause parts of the genome to be lost.

Sometimes more extreme changes happen during cell division when genomes are duplicated. Retroviruses that manage to reach the germ line can also have a huge impact. In these cases, the new genetic material can take over entirely new functions.

Human evolution is pretty slow because of a generation time of 20 to 30 years, but in more short-lived species such as fruit flies much more interesting things can be observed. Some of these indeed remind me of software development.
This is the way. I also use Spotify because it makes most of my music available instantly on all of my devices and the discovery is good enough.

But that $150 for Spotify is only a small fraction of my yearly music spend. With most of it going to concert tickets, merch at concerts and merch/downloads on Bandcamp to support the artists I like.

Spotify and Bandcamp are not mutually exclusive
What has exchanged is 1) the massive scale of the human population and 2) wider access to animal protein. Without the subsidies, I expect prices would rise for consumers (most farmers are not making vast profits despite subsidies) and that is not a vote winner.
>But even if they fell wholly on the purchaser, consumers would, I suspect, be willing to pay a few dollars more for a gadget if that meant reliable access to software for it—indefinitely

The author's premise is entirely wrong, and years of consumer behavior show this. If you offer consumers a $99.99 microwave that will die in 2 years and a $107.99 microwave that will last 5, the VAST majority will buy the cheaper one regardless of the cost per year.
The source code is all right there in play.js

This is a solution to every puzzle:

eval(goal_program);
draw_checkerboard = draw_checkerboard_goal;
Correct! I've even tried transcoding via FFmpeg - successful video playback on PC over WiFi but not on iPhone - https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/pull/611
I swear FaunchPad has seen 3
Or 4 different input methods like this be developed, I'm not sure what it is about the hardware but I'm absolutely in love with what you all do with it.

Nice write-up OP! Excited to see where you go with Peggi :)
It'd be nice to have something like lab-grown unfertilized chicken (or other bird) eggs. Not the same as meat, but it's kind of close to the goal: a biological protein source that's completely unconscious and doesn't require any death to create. It'd be very difficult, but nature already did a lot of the work there.

I imagine it might be much tougher to design a full animal without a brain. You'd always be on the line between it not being able to stay alive due to loss of functionality, or, in the other direction, possibly having some degree of thinking/consciousness. This on top of the fact that we'd need a far better understanding of brains and genetics to ever hope to engineer such a thing.

If it did exist, I think it'd not only be more ethical to kill it but that it'd be (hypothetically) completely ethical. I don't think it would be an animal. It gets a little weird, though, because one would have to also accept that you could hypothetically use a similar process to create brainless humans and that it'd be fine to kill and eat them if you wanted to. Or do whatever else you wanted to them. That human also wouldn't be an animal.
I was holding off and waiting for a new Surface laptop or 2-in-1 until recently when:

- Windows 11 was announced and proves to be another Vista-like misstep.

- I have learned about Framework laptops and repairability and being able to upgrade one has become a killer feature.
Is this so? How does the consumer know that the slightly pricier one is more durable and not just slightly pricier?
I'm perfectly fine with navigating the landscape of cancel culture; provided that of course the accuser(s) has/have a credible platform and no case of misjudgment, abused (by choice) mind altering substances to their credit, history of harm, sufficient related dishonesty, nor history of lawbreaking in their notable past.

We all know though the biggest problem in most cases is that the claimants are usually rarely accountable nor identifiable in most cases, and that claims can be weaponized easily in the Internet age. Sometimes cancelling people is a good thing, sometimes not, it's increasingly being leveraged for many not so good reasons and outcomes, and often without proper credibility or facts applied.
Insects. The meat would then be reprocessed into something different.
The Search Engine of 1896
Anything where you want minimal latency, worldwide.
I got stuck in a loop when trying to install Big Sur on my old Macbook Air. It would pretend to install, then reboot the laptop. When it came back up, nothing would have changed, and no error messages in sight. After several rounds of this I figured out it was failing because there was too less free space on the disk.
Netflix's first European market was the UK.

IIRC, we did some advertising, but beyond that there was significant local demand, with 250,000 paid signups the first week.

After looking at the wild metrics graphs, I asked an engineer how that was possible, and he said, "We're that good." :)

Source: former Netflix engineer on the UK rollout, shortly after the new AWS region started there.
A record number of cargo ships are stuck outside LA. What’s happening?
Agree with this. Smartphones have enabled profligation of low effort posts and comments, emotional outbursts and mood based content.

This sort of direct or indirect attention grabbing content which is more often than not extremely unhealthy for society gets pushed up by people, because it satisfies our primal dopamine instincts.

As communities get larger and harder to moderate, more and more people assume it is the status quo to create such unhealthy content, and because of smartphones, it is extremely easy to push up such content, and those who werent originally into this also get dragged in.

On an aside, is it really ethical for a company to make insane amounts of profit for being a platform which enables people to bicker, fight and create echo chambers? Agreed that not all social media communities are like this, but even so, is it fair?
Taxicab distances are perfectly fine in Euclidean spaces
I remember that a couple years ago Motorola was pushing its Moto Mods - hardware extensions you could clip at the back on your phone. I always thought that a Mod for alternate input (like this, or chorded/braille) would be very neat. Unfortunately looks like it never picked up.
Only for those that never had a Symbian or Windows/PocketPC phone on their hand.
>If there were a way to objectively quantify a news outlet or newsperson’s track record with accuracy, that might be a start.

The problem with this sort of "fact checking" is that its keepers are biased as well. So you need a "fact check" on a "fact check" which might lead to stack overflow eventually. Unless you can objectively judge the accuracy yourself. And track record means nothing if say a reputable news outlet is purchased by a billionaire with a political agenda.

I think many people break through the walls of their echo chambers when they stumble upon some basic inconsistency and discover they are being lied to by seeing e.g. raw footage of an event vs. its media interpretation.

For many people however finding the truth is not interesting or important enough. I guess echo chambers are for those who deserve them.
I'll never pass the opportunity to share the documentary "The Vanishing of Flight 370" by LEMMiNO whenever appropriate: https://youtu.be/kd2KEHvK-q8
These look great and are exactly what I needed today. Life is strange!
Could we agree to a wiring harness for devices that is compatible with some sort of raspberry pi like device, so that worst case we swap in a card running Linux when the caps die in the original PCB?

I don’t think we need this eternal support for entertainment systems, but we are transitioning into this same problem set for major appliances and that’s just not a good deal.
I think we are not discussing ethics in depth enough in our soviety. What specifically is it that is unethical about the meat industry? Is it the way the cows are slaughtered? Is it that we take their life? Is it how they live their life? Can any of these arguments be made void from an ethical standpoint, if they are addressed somehow?

Since this discussion lead into brainless cows, why does that solve the ethics problem? Could it not be argued that it would be even more unethical to breed severly handicapped cows, without ability to experience the world?
> This is something even Windows gets right. It comes from the fact that Canonical does not have the resources to build each app around a unified design and UX principle

Isn't it a bit on the nose that you accuse Linux of failing at the one thing that Windows is notoriously bad at, UX cohesion?

More seriously -- Linux reflects a different mentality and way of doing things. It is not for everyone. Downloading the software you want is the expected way to do things. I have no idea whether Ubuntu ships a "paint" replacement, but regardless, Pinta or Paint.NET are like three clicks away, thanks to the software repository approach.

Linux is more or less for people who want to experiment and configure things their own way, and make software that solves their own problems in the way that they want those problems solved. Creating a single, opinionated, out-of-the-box working desktop experience with perfect hardware compatibility with whatever bullshit proprietary-blob using silicon is out there is (a) hard, and (b) not what most Linux-using developers are interested in.

The people who use Linux largely recognize that yes, it is a compromise, but also that using Windows or macOS also represents a compromise. Having used Linux for nearly 15 years now myself, I can say confidently that the trade-offs for me weigh heavily in favor of Linux.
Wow, looks great. Might replace my Firefox with aging pentadactyl extension.

Small typo on front page: "that allow you to quickly analayze -> analyze"
> if they had to comply with proposed water and soil quality regulations that they wouldn’t be able to exist due to the increased costs involved

People always say things like this until they are forced to, and somehow find a way.

(Particularly if imports were charged similar tariffs)
The surface duo is just such a great concept, compared to the folding screen phones. They avoid all the tech risk and expense of the folding screen phones, and the two screen form factor is just a legitimately good way to organize apps on a screen, like having two physical monitors.

The tech seems too early for the folding screen phones, and they unfold into something which is an awkward shape. There's nothing I want to do on my phone with a really big square of content.

I wish the surface neo could have gotten a chance to shine.

While we're on the subject, I wish the surface band had been given a little more time. Google has really dropped the ball with android wearables, it would have been a huge opportunity for microsoft.
It took me a few minutes to figure out how to read the Executive Summary (Table 0.1, page xvii).

The AQG number is the main recommendation, and refers to the concentration in micrograms per cubic meter (ug/m^3). So the report says the world should aim for 5 ug/m^3 or less of PM 2.5 annually, and 15 ug/m^3 or less PM 10 annually.

The interim targets are meant to be realistic goals to set along the way, so anywhere with worse than 75 ug/m^3 PM 2.5 on a daily basis might aim for that goal first.

I had to check how the concentrations compare to various AQI (Air Quality Index) reports, like my iPhone weather app. 5 ug/m^3 of PM 2.5 is an AQI of 21. Currently an AQI of 0-50 is considered “good”, so maybe down the road the scale will be adjusted based on these new recommendations.

https://www.airnow.gov/aqi/aqi-calculator-concentration/

Curious to see what the previous recommendations were, the 2005 report has the same first 3 interim targets for PM 2.5 and PM 10. The current report’s 4th interim target is set to the AQG (final recommendation) level from the previous report, and the new AQG level is now lower than the previous one. This is because there is now stronger statistical evidence of health damage occurring at levels above the new recommendation, the data has shown we needed a new lower threshold.
I think it's interesting that the author mentions the Playstation Portable as an example: it seems like the reason it doesn't work actually _isn't_ a fault of the device manufacturer:

> You might think that a 15-year-old gaming console wouldn't even be operating, but Sony's build quality is such that, with the exception of a very tired lithium-Ion battery, the unit is in perfect condition. It runs but can't connect to modern Wi-Fi without an update, which it can't access without an update to its firmware (a classic catch-22).

In this case, developers seem to actually have provided updates, but it just doesn't work! Reminds me of when I booted up an old laptop to find that the old root SSL certificates don't work for sites today and everything's HTTPS now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It really points to an issue with net-connected tech (and yes, the PSP actually benefits from being online unlike certain ridiculous IOT devices): really, even if the manufacturer designs with long term support in mind, the rest of the world doesn't. So I don't know quite how tractable a problem this really is in the Internet age; the solution might be just better electronics recycling rather than indefinite updates
No one likes to hear it, because while vaccine advocates are offering free alcohol and donuts for overweight people getting shots, maybe our focus should be on health in general and the meat industry, sugar industry, energy drink companies, alcohol and tobacco industry are all dangerous and have an interest to protect their profits and publish whatever fear articles they can in order to so, just like the FDA pushes through Alzheimer drugs and approving vaccines from lobbyists that end up working at the FDA... maybe our focus in general should be on health and limiting our consumption and reliance on meat. Not only are there ethical concerns, but there are environmental concerns as well.
> Windows 11 was announced and proves to be another Vista-like misstep.

It's not even out yet?
> The parts that make C dangerous, particularly strings and other raw pointer accesses are abstracted away behind safe NSString, NSArray, NSData and friends.

True, and just like in C++, the C tribe that came into the language just ends up using char * most of the time, instead of the safe variants.
This is a very interesting idea, but the hardware could be improved to better fit a phone and use battery+blutooth.
If someone were to offer this [say, on Tindie] I would totally buy it.

(Unfortunately the ;+A didn't work on Safari for me on an M1 MacBook Air).
> I love the Go compiler for speed

Wait till you find out what the Go compiler is written in then.
I run Jupyter Lab locally, so it would be nice to run it as separate app, but I need it to run from me env, of course.
Separating the internet-connected (and therefore low life-expectancy) bits from the analog sound-reproduction (and therefore expensive and high life-expectancy) bits is a great way to build a solid system that can grow and adapt over time.

This is a super cool and gratifying way to deliver the internet-connected bit at low cost (at least for those with hardware inclination, and access to means of production). For those without, Sonos' Port product does a great job filling the same niche. Though at $450 its a ... multiple ... of the cost of the project presented here!
I feel bad for you. Comcast recently accidentally disconnected my service twice now 2 weeks before my move because their internal systems are screwed up and then told me they couldn't fix their own issues because of their system, thus leaving me without Internet for multiple days.
His handle and domain name are super gross. Every time I visit his website, woth its icky tagline, I feel the need to disinfect my eyeballs
Is it possible on the same scale?
Love it!
It reminds a bit on this mehanical programming game https://www.turingtumble.com/

where you have to reconstruct a marble pattern with logical gates controlling how the marbles flow.

Will try this with my daughter next time.
But they are working hard on it. So hard that they ignore all the bugs in Office 365 and just built the latest and (not so) greatest windows.
I've becoming increasingly convinced that this "update culture" is really about encouraging rather than preventing forced obolescence. If they would just make it work right the first time, the way software used to be developed, maybe we wouldn't have this continual update cycle of fixing-and-breaking things every time, but then they wouldn't be able to sell you anything new. Instead, by conditioning the population to accept and even demand continual updates, companies maintain more control over their products and can change them however they want --- which of course can include making them less functional and more user-hostile.

It's the same reason why anything "smart" or cloud-dependent is best avoided. For example, all my white goods are several decades old and most of them don't even have any electronics.

No, we don't "need software updates forever", despite how much the corporatocracy tries its best to persuade you onto the treadmill.
When it can be read (and I am interested), then I will read it before writing a comment about it, but it doesn't always work. When it is audio or video instead, or if it doesn't work for whatever reason, I will just ignore the article, but may still read the comments if it looks like interesting (and reply to a comment if there is a comment that I can read and that I have further comments about). Sometimes an article has bad formatting but disabling CSS will help, so I may still read it in that case (but with CSS disabled).
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The page seems to assume that semicolon's keyCode is 59 so the modifier key in the demo only works with Firefox according to this table on MDN[0]. The keyCode for semicolon varies not only by keyboard layout but also by browser. Mine is 186.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEve...