skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is wrong. Cattle farming is not a labor intensive industry which is why high wage first world countries like USA, Australia, France, Germany are among the top producers and western countries export to places like Indonesia and China competitively with Brazil and India other big beef exporters with lower cost of labor.

> you can't leave cows unattended.

Of course you can. There are remote areas that essentially let cattle roam freely over thousands and thousands of acres and bring them in as little as once a year for maintenance (branding, medication, castration, selling, etc). No fences, no roads, rarely ever being seen aside from routine checks of water points (which is becoming less common with remote monitoring equipment).

> they wander off, get injured, fall ill, might be stolen, and all kinds of things. if they don't eat well enough they might not be worth slaughtering.

> you can either keep them in cages and attend to them there, with all the distasteful complications that brings, or herd them in large pastures at the cost of very difficult and dangerous skilled labor.

There is not much dangerous skilled labor at all. Difficult, yes like a lot of manual labor. Dangerous and skilled no outside of some rare cases like the use of helicopters to drive cattle in aforementioned remote areas with terrain sometimes not even accessible to motorbike so helicopter and horse is used. Importantly even in those situations, the amount of labor required per value of beef produced is simply not very high.

And those aren't really the options. Feedlots are increasingly used (what distasteful complications?) but most of the world's beef is not produced that way, and where those are used it is often as a finishing step after a free-range life to improve consistency and make up the last bit of weight.
I discovered the other day that 80% of the music I've ever bought from them is just gone now
The market is not so big here so I would think certain client's security policy about localized data storage would play a role in their decision to build a center here.
You would be able to detect those packets then - like if your phone is connected to your home WiFi router.
i've been living in a rural area for years and suffering from poor internet. how in the world did you get unlimited 4g data for only $20? The mobile hotspot plans are all capped?
Alongside Xcode I find BBEdit very useful for editing data files, diagnosing merge problems, writing shell scripts, etc. I still do almost all my real coding in Xcode to use the autocomplete.
Tower is useful for anything non-trivial in Git. For basic operations the Xcode Git support is useful.
Thanks for the additional perspective and positive info on Euro dairy. I saw the oversimplified “dairy fat good” analysis on regular media, which made me happy but then instantly realize there’s probably a lot more to it than that.
Notebooks are really getting real. I am just trying to figure out some of the implications of VS Code notebook support, in addition to remote sessions and .NET Interactive.

PowerShell, C#, F#, Python, in notebooks:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-interactive-is-her...

I was able to run a VSCode session ("Code Space") hosted by GutHub, the front end on an unmodified Amazon Kindle Fire HD that I got for $100.

Another case of Microsoft playing the role of iceberg to Jupyter.org's Titanic? Somehow, I think not. They all seem to be having fun. But I'm an optimist. I think notebooks are a big step forward.
One time pads punt on the real problems of key distribution and framing (eg a stream cipher uses a "one time pad" as a building block) and also don't provide all of the qualities we expect from modern cryptographic systems (eg message integrity).
I keep SSDs less than half full and use trim, paranoiacly. Because of this I use an SSD for a year or two before I get a larger one, or an additional one (software and game assets keep getting larger!).

I've never had even the cheapest mwave or microcenter special ssd die. Sata or nvme m.2, nothing.

I also haven't had a spindle die in 15 years, ever since I started letting them sleep and using UPS to smooth out power.

That noise you hear is me knocking on wood pretty frantically.
This is what my terminal shows:

sudo curl https://repo.waydro.id/waydroig.gpg > /usr/share/keyrings/waydroid.gpg && echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/waydroid.gpg] https://repo.waydro.id/ $DISTRO main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/waydroid.list && \
> echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/waydroid.gpg] https://repo.waydro.id/ $DISTRO main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/waydroid.list && \
> sudo apt update
bash: /usr/share/keyrings/waydroid.gpg: Permission denied
I feel like you are side stepping the thrust of my question and mischaracterizing my argument.

1) I am glad the NIH continues to investigate additional options like Ivermectin, and acknowledge that some treatments currently exist. Thank you for sharing some of the more recent NIH studies that I was not aware of.

2) Im not claiming any grand conspiracy to hide cures, just a general public resentment of people trying experimental therapeutics.

3) I am disheartened by vitriol, outrage, and focus on people making medical decisions in consultation with their doctors. I don't understand how it is newsworthy or worthy of outside criticism/condemnation.

4) Despite known treatments, there have been 400k deaths in the last 12 months, so there is clearly room for improvement. If I put myself in the shoes of someone hospitalized with Covid, I would want to look to what additional drugs are being studied, and ask my doctor if the risk/benefit based on current data warrants administration. I wouldn't want to be shamed for enrolling in an RCT for Ivermectin, or being prescribed it by my doctor off label if he thought it had benefit. I wouldn't want a pharmacy overruling my doctors prescription.

5) I was curious about your take on the negative reaction to people seeking and trying potential therapeutics, but you dont seem interested in engaging on why this might be. If your position is that people & doctors should not be able to deviate from the NIH guidelines, that's OK, but we disagree, and I don't know why. Are you saving them from themselves? Is it to enshrine control or keep costs down?
> control your side and reduce your liability

if your actions (or messages) are a liability, then why make them in the first place?

If you deleted your messages, it doesn't delete the record (from someone else's phone, for example, like a screenshot).

If the adversary is powerful enough (like a state actor), it matters not what your phone history is, because they can pin something on you anyway.
Valve Publishes New Steam Deck FAQ with Details Anticheat Improvements Expected
these criminals were prosecuted for crossing a border to get takeaways, not prosecuted for having banned takeaways.
>> Humbird likened the process of researching the report to encountering an impenetrable “Wall of No”—his term for the barriers in thermodynamics, cell metabolism, bioreactor design, ingredient costs, facility construction, and other factors that will need to be overcome before cultivated protein can be produced cheaply enough to displace traditional meat.

> I have no experience in the area, but just to point out that you could equally apply some of those arguments to meat production.

> The current meat industry is only cost effective because we've spent the last few millennia optimising the everloving hell out of it

Eh. I'd probably say the meat industry is cost effective because they have a superior bioreactor design: rugged, self-contained, low maintenance, and cheaply replicated. Lab grown meat probably can't compete until they re-invent "animals" in the lab.
I believe AppCode uses XCode behind the scenes for most of the magic stuff anyway. It's just a more capable facade.
> A technologically advanced civilisation is also likely to rebuild their organic bodies specifically to overcome these limitations...

I wouldn't be so sure. It is a question of philosophy really, but there is the argument to be made that a change in form correlates with a change in function, even to the point of changing what a mind is. Suppose humans did that, changed our bodies to survive different environments rather than change environments. At some degree of modification these changed creatures would no longer be human, even in behavior, not just appearance. Where is that degree? And then, what's the point? What is our goal, to spread earth's version of life, it's biosphere? Or to spread minds and create more? Or to spread humanity? If it's the last one, it makes no sense to extensively modify our bodies, because you wouldn't be spreading humanity, just life, or just minds, at which point why not just send tardigrades or awesome computers into space?
Tablespoon of peanut butter really isn't any more work. It's probably less.

> How many beans equal a serving of meat?

> In general, 1 ounce of meat, poultry or fish, ¼ cup cooked beans, 1 egg, 1 tablespoon of peanut butter, or ½ ounce of nuts or seeds can be considered as 1 ounce-equivalent from the Protein Foods Group.[1]

[1] https://www.myplate.gov/eat-healthy/protein-foods
Your negotiation, but also your perceived value. During my time as a manager I was shocked by the difference in salaries. I mean one person making 60k another 120k. I mean, same job, same experience.

Actually the 60k guy was the most talented on my 15 person team. The reason is simply when the 60k guy came on they asked him how much do you need, and he said 60k. He never asked for a raise, but they actually bumped him up anyway cause they thought he may be a flight risk if he ever checked out the marketplace.

I also found, people are much more likely to underestimate themselves than overestimate.

Only 10% of employees would consistently ask for more money every year. Everyone else almost never asked for a raise.

Now its not solely just negotiation cause if they were a star they probably got it. If they sucked it just made management like them less. When management doesn't like you, and comes time someone needs to be cut. That's who gets cut.
Until we solve the problem of regulatory capture, there is nothing that can be done on the individual level that will make a big enough dent in reality.
It's important to point out that this isn't dairy as a whole, or on its own, that the researchers were looking at here. This is strictly about dairy fat.

Keep in mind that there is a mechanism of action that explains why the consumption of mammalian food products (including dairy) significantly increases risk of chronic inflammation, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer in humans: the autoimmune response of dietary N-Glycolylneuraminic acid
(Neu5Gc) uptake in human cells.[1]

Neu5Gc is a sialic acid which tend to exist on the ends of proteins.

1. MedCram's video which explains the biochem and physiology that describe this mechanism of action and how it relates to the 4 conditions mentioned above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRkRilP1OTU
Inventing lab grown meat is a good way to make the problems of scaling the raw inputs for custom grown human organs to be sufficiently cheap that everyone can have them.

Building a factory to make aluminium foil is extremely expensive if that's all you're trying to do: it's a lot cheaper if there's already a global mining industry producing aluminium in many near-finished states.
Astronauts talk about sex in space
Would people stop calling attention to the fact censorship systems are inherently broken/trivially circumventable?

Last thing we need is to trigger someone into making a better mousetrap.
> They're grown adults capable of making their own decisions and their own mistakes.

in a society, "ones own mistakes" can have effects on those around you (e.g mask wearing, vaccine (not)taking, spreading misinformation etc) which can result in unintentional hospitalization or death of others

we dont live in isolated bubbles, so there is a limit to how far we can go with putting everything on the shelf and let everyone do what they want with it
Animals are not Humans. They don't have the mental faculties that allow thinking about "purpose". The animal is satisfied as long as its needs are met, and not living in agony.
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Yeah. Totally agree. Thanks a lot.
I was prepared to believe I was wrong about the technical definition of ‘gene therapy’, but your links are to a description of the journal called “Gene Therapy”, and an article about “Gene-Based Therapeutic Approaches” that mentions the term once.

A google search for “gene therapy” brings up many links to respectable organizations and publications, most of which state that ‘gene therapy’ involves altering the patient’s DNA. No vaccines do this. To call them ‘gene therapy’ to the public (or to ‘low information people’, if you insist) is misleading at best and scaremongering at worst.

As for the link to a Miami Herald article about the CDC’s wording change, how do you suggest I search for the likely source of the parent comment’s information?

It said (with no sourcing) “The United States CDC literally changed the definition of "vaccine" this year, so that these products could still be identified as vaccines” and I wanted to get a sense for the truth of that - and if true, if the legitimacy of the change. What I found did not concern me.
great news, there's also apparently a new line being dragged across from Australia that will land in Southland, will be good to get a direct line to Australia that doesn't need to go via the North Island.
FWIW, I made a post on HN pointing out that at least some of the claimed hunter emails were cryptographically verifiable using DKIM (e.g. that at least google had attested to them being faithful) and the post was immediately flagged.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24950026

I don't have any real opinions about the hunter biden emails, rather I think that DKIM is an interesting and relevant danger to your privacy because it creates a non-repudiation vector that few expect to exist.

Unfortunately, it seems that too often political partisans are unwilling to tolerate the distribution of facts that might support their opponents narratives.
depends on what you do outside of work too. you need to use it in social and informal settings. once you can relax and start using it colloquially then you'll get more comfortable.
Sure, but generally because the aggregated polls were systematically off. You may be thinking of other examples, but the 2016 US presidential election really wasn't that bad of a look for 538, they had Trump at reasonable odds going into election night. It's not like he was at 5%, 538 pegged him at 1/3 odds as polls opened if I remember correctly.
Well paradoxically, it having taken so long for us might mean that it simply takes a long time, which would imply that we are, in fact, early. The truth is though that we just don't know. I think we are early.
Is Joe Rogan really right-leaning though? He voted for Bernie Sanders after all.

He doesn't strike me as particularly ideological, and I've never gotten the impression that he had a partisan axe to grind. Granted that he is sometimes susceptible to conspiratorial thinking, however that's not a personality trait exclusive to conservatives.
The rise (or lack thereof) in general compensation is surprising. It is on par with inflation.

"The average change in compensation over the last three years was $9,252. This corresponds to an annual increase of 2.25%. However, 8% of the correspondents reported decreased compensation, and 18% reported no change"

I wonder what this might mean for the tech sector.
Thanks, I read some of your other posts describing the same thing (and linked blog post), and I’m fairly confident that would indeed work in the majority of scenarios.

I’ll have to try it out sometime now ;) there is still some nagging sensation that I’ll run into a fairly major blocker somewhere, but right now I can’t articulate what I’m afraid of.
Microsoft Warns of a Wide-Scale Phishing-as-a-Service Operation
A Look at Nintendo Switch Emulation in 2021 on Linux
Do you work in an international setting where everyone speaks English as a second language, with or without a strong accent? Or, do you find yourself surrounded by native speakers? Is good English a matter of status in this work context?

For some reason, I find it easier to speak good English around native speakers. I seem to have instant access to more idioms in my vocabulary and my pronunciation is better.

Personally, I sometimes get the feeling that non-native speakers of English try to impress each other. Whereas the native speaker tech biz expat crowd, or the pleasant persons among them, mostly seem pleased to be around people they can communicate with and are happy to accommodate.
I'm not sure that's a given. Animals aren't humans; they don't know what's going to happen to them. Is it really a given that it's morally worse to raise an animal on a small farm, have it live a comfortable life, and then eventually slaughter it for meat, than to have it never live at all?
While this won't result in a stablecoin, cryptocurrency, or similar, the likely outcome is the Fed being vocal about the benefits of FedNow (instant value transfer) with the possibility of FedAccounts (deposit accounts for citizens at the Federal Reserve) based on the Biden administration's OCC nominee Saule Omarova [1]. Dollars are already digital, we're just haggling over the implementation and middleware.

> OCC nominee Omarova favors shifting bank accounts to Fed

> Saule Omarova, who has said she wants to “end banking as we know it,” will be tapped to run the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as soon as this week, according to three people familiar with the nomination process who asked not to be named before a White House announcement. The OCC supervises the nation’s biggest lenders including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc.

> Picking Omarova, who teaches at Cornell University Law School, is a shot across the bow for Wall Street as she’s expected to pursue tougher oversight and stricter rules. The pick also raises questions about whether the Biden administration would support Omarova’s agenda if she pursues some of her most radical positions, such as moving consumer banking to the Federal Reserve from private institutions.

> She’s also cited the rapid rise of cryptocurrencies as “benefiting mainly the dysfunctional financial system we already have.” Omarova contends that digital tokens threaten to destabilize the economy and are vulnerable to abuse by private firms at the expense of public safeguards.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-22/biden-to-... (Biden to Tap Crypto, Big-Bank Critic to Run Wall Street Watchdog)
no one speaks in english outside my work :(
The new generation doesn't seem to have a need for extracting substrings from strings then. The existing Swift syntax for slicing strings [1] is horrible.

[1] https://www.cocoaphile.com/posts/string-slicing-in-swift
> why does the world continue to be stupid on China and pump up their economy by having the majority of their goods manufactured there?

Because big companies make lots of profits from it, I imagine.

> Its going to continue to bite us and everyone in the butt.

Yes, unless we change our ways.
True, but flipping through the book to copy all pages is too much effort to copy the file to my remarkable instead.
I loathe the idea that everyone getting replacement organs is some kind of good thing to be shooting for.

I have a condition where organ replacement is fairly common. I very much wish the world invested more effort in keeping people like me actually healthy rather than celebrating the macabre prospect of giving more of us replacement organs.

So this is a problem space I've thought about a fair amount and I have zero sympathy for an argument for engineering organ replacement for everyone.
A fat binary might also be a good way to share a notebook with a non-programmer. To make a comparison, right now it's easy to share an Excel spreadsheet because "everybody" has Excel. But hard to share a Jupyter notebook because people have to get through the Python installation process. A simple one-and-done installer for Jupyter would make this a lot easier.
Walmart will do that. I worked at a mall bakery where some lunatic threatened to blow up the place because he was dissatisfied with the cream cheese serving size.

He was banned from all properties owned the malls parent company.
> Connecting to a Wi-Fi network is simple enough. Just download the Spotify Box app and give the pushbutton a press to start searching for networks. Then you can choose your Wi-Fi network through my app to get connected.

This is the same process that iRobot does to connect their Roomba cleaners. Is it done over Bluetooth maybe?
> Prosecutorial discretion definitely undermines the rule of law, and is a well known people, but it’s everywhere in every justice system and has nothing to do with the government’s approach to guns.

Prosecutorial discretion is an incredibly great thing, and is another element of the legacy bequeathed to us from the Romans by way of the English, through English Common Law.

The old statement de minimis non curat lex (the law does not concern itself with trifles), alternatively, de minimis non curat praetor (the praetor does not concern himself with trifles) illustrates why justice must be tempered with wisdom, although not exactly the same thing as prosecutorial discretion.

The government does not have unlimited resources with which to pursue cases. When it does wield the terrible power of the justice system against a suspect, it should be in the right instances, and for the right reasons, for an example.

A good example of prosecutorial discretion is around a case where a father finds his daughter or son, actively being raped/molested. In some cases, it may go to grand jury if there is a death [1]. However, in other examples [2], a prosecutor declines to prosecute given all of the circumstances, and weighing what happened.

While there is such as thing as selective enforcement, where bias has entered the mind of some element of law enforcement and enables some to be pursued, or others not to be for some bogus reason, that is not what we are talking about here.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/us/charges-texas-father-beat-death-da...

[2] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2700872/My-son-save...
Then who decides the purpose and which purpose is just/noble? This seems to be unanswerable since we do not have counterpoints by other species. By this same logic it wouldn't make sense for people to create offspring, nor would plants be serving a noble purpose as our food.
True, but wouldn't lab grown meat be better? It's a more ethically sourced protein, and can be tailored to the individual for optimum health
To that I'd say if you had a jazillion monkeys with a jazillion typewriters, the monkey that types Dwarf Fortress has at most at 50% chance of having a PhD
Daily reminder that a former sitting president is still banned from a major social media network yet we are blessed with updates from literal terrorists, so when another big tech co keeps their eyes open for "terrorists" you know it's a facade to impose their draconian wishes, and remind us proletariat who really is in charge.

Daily reminder that big tech is the biggest threat to democracy we face today, even bigger than some conspiracy Q theorists LARPing in the capitol.

Daily reminder that if we simply enforced our current anti-trust laws, we could disassemble the bulk of these companies, all the meanwhile distributing the opportunities and improving the economy for all.

If Microsoft deserved it in the 90s, Google sure as hell does today.