skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think, that English language has a linguistical problem with name of "God", as it has no etymological understanding what is it behind this word and the only meaning to it is coming now only from Christianity. Other languages have different meaning for word God and even etymological meaning behind it.

If you translate Greek ancient pantheon... well, Big Bang would fit in it, just like all the gods, that described nature and things that were ruling over people, along with other gods that were describing human behavior.

Quite many of etymological meanings to most of names in other languages for God is Giver. It is not much different from Luck - the main difference between those are only in gender, but not in function. So, if someone thinks, that Gods function was to be responsible for Big Bang, they should be very disappointed or very disillusional, as the only function for God for any society was to bring prosperity to the believers(and wrath to enemies).

There are many different beliefs what is God, what is soul and so on. There are belieffs, that animals were gods - even today there is a belief in Tibet, that gods incarnate in people - young girls. Gnostics even believed, that humans are Gods and that was a big issue with Christianity...

As for something that there was something before - that is Christian construct for most of Europe. Ancient Greeks knew, that first there was a Chaos(a gods name)... for many others there was only a sea from which God emerged as a bird. So, there is not uniform belief, that there was something before, or that gofds themselves appeared into this world before creation of this world - sometimes Gods appeared even much later than Christianity is depicting them and for some American natives Gods appeared only as animals, who created humans.

If the discussion is about still unexplainable mechanisms on how this world works, especially about RND and calling it a God... well, there is a problem with English word of God, because it does not have that meaning in etymology and claiming that it is something that we can assing is not really working. Also, none of other God names means any of those things, so it would be better to establish new term for these mechanisms, how the Universe works, as God has nothing to do with that - not to mention, that extension of Christian God is not possible because of clash of meanings.

>>>I mean, are we gnats on God's

There is always possibility to accept that there is no God(who has eyes? - what about God for worms or trees without eyes, like it is for most of Life?). Rivers run without God, Wind blows without God. Life exists without God and need for it. Humans and not God are responsible for attrocities they are doing for each other and other beings.
My first idea when seeing the site, was how I can exploit it.
This is the internet, where many systems can be gamed.
I'd rather be born and die than never exist at all.
Yeah the generic version is TVP, textured vegetable protein (made from processed soy). It comes in all kinds too: like those curls, slices that are more like beef slices for stir-fry, and mince-like granules for making "mince"!

Its cheap as, and at tonnes of asian supermarkets or vegan stores.

Rehydrate with beef-style or chicken-style stock and you're off to the races. Some of my friends have started using it to save money on meat despite not being vegan :)
yep. Brazil too. AFAIK there is only one Apple store in Sao Paulo (though there are Apple resellers too) but Samsung has stores in virtually all high end malls. Xiaomi had a pilot store here too.

The context is that Brazil has high import duties on manufactured goods. Apple doesn't manufacture domestically. Samsung does.
spare me the blogs please. Its not even relevant: don't compare a meat-only diet to a low-fiber diet. All A are B but not all B are A.
It wasn't a problem of losing the DB. The database got corrupted some how. All of the backups eventually became corrupted. This prevented us from upgrading from some version to some other version.
What evidence exists that we (humans) can make accurate predictions for the states of complex systems decades or centuries in the future? It seems like "things will be different" and "there will be catastrophes" are always solid bets, but modeling complex systems -- especially systems with many unknown variables -- always involves probability distributions. Unwarranted confidence always leaves me skeptical, suspecting ulterior motives.

I would much prefer to hear about progress toward adaptability. Bad things will happen, no matter what. Let's plan to deal with the bad things so we can minimize future suffering.
Then you are under a confirmation bias.
People seem to think that there's just one antibody that everybody shares when they are vaccinated or develop natural immunity. You can readily develop different sets of antibodies from separate exposure events.
Yeah, I want to know what happens if they fire me in a month because I found something in the accounting code that I wasn't supposed to.
"Herd immunity from natural exposure is dangerous and isn't going to happen. A year and a half on, only 4% of the population here has tested positive."

That's because a lot of people have had it, never felt too bad, and never got tested while the virus was actively replicating in their body. This has been proven in randomized serological tests in many jurisdictions now.
Imagine that you were waved into the building by guards, and have been under 23 hour/day lockdown in prison awaiting trial for 9 months, and the government is refusing to release video you say would support your claim. The state is apparently using video evidence to prosecute you, but your lawyer can't get other parts of the same body of video evidence.

https://djhjmedia.com/rich/department-of-justice-admits-in-c...
> What makes you think the vaccine is an extremely effective solution to lockdowns? There are now many examples of high-vaccination countries with the same rapid case count rises that were the excuse for lockdowns in the first place.

What are you talking about? Have you even looked at the data? Vaccines are overwhelmingly effective at reducing infection rate, hospitalizations and deaths. The latter two are down drastically among highly-vaccinated populations. And infections are only up because restrictions have been lifted.

Being able to achieve lockdown-era infection and death rates without a lockdown is pretty fucking spectacular.

> were not the heroic things you thought they were.

I don't think they're heroic. I'll stay home forever. As long as it takes. Was it worth it? Completely. You're clearly not aware of Canada's early vaccine shortage. Lockdowns worked perfectly until we were able to get most people vaccinated. Now we're just chasing the long tail.
Reasons why this company's business model is unethical and deserves outrage:

1) Professional networks operate on the basis of reputation and goodwill. This company seeks to make them into exploitative MLM-style cash grabs.

2) Well-connected people with rich friends already get opportunities disproportionately. This company would exacerbate that social problem.
> I'm not currently willing to sacrifice that for a higher paying but probably much less enjoyable experience somewhere else.

my coworker lives in denver and works remotely for my company in NY. You can easily make 250k+. We have good work-life balance ect ect.

> I'm not currently willing to sacrifice that for a higher paying but probably much less enjoyable experience somewhere else.

lots of good companies with higher pay. higher pay doesn't equate lo 'no family time' ect, it has been the opposite in my expreience.
It would be interesting to have studies that distinguish between ethical vegans, ethical vegetarians, and cultural/religious vegetarians.

Vegetarianism has been practiced around the world by for thousands of years among Buddhists, Hindus, Jains, some Greeks, etc and there are hundreds of millions of vegetarians worldwide who avoid meat for all sorts of reasons. Some are born into cultures and religions where it is the default, others go out of their way to choose it for ethical or health reasons.

As one example, if studies found different rates of depression in ethical vegetarians compared to cultural/religious vegetarians then that might be an indication that the depression is correlated with the choice to practice a non-standard diet rather than the diet itself.

And when it comes to veganism, that is a smaller and more recent phenomenon. Most of the vegans I know were not raised vegan and consider being vegan to be a major part of their identity, devote significant effort and commitment to it, take supplements, and are often actively involved in some kind of animal welfare activism. Interestingly I've also heard that about three-quarters of vegans are female, which makes me suspect there may be other confounding variables.
Here's the rub, all the things you're asking for cost way more energy and produce way more carbon than being third-world poor.
I'm not quite sure how to say this but I think it's all part of the "post enlightenment" behavior that's going on, where trying new things and having different thoughts is looked on as heretical.

It's not about whether ideas are good or bad (I think this idea is bad), there are now mental gymnastics about why it never even should have been considered in the first place - see the comments about how we need a filter to identify things that should never be tried. This is the same idea as people who think there are ideas that should never be questioned, or concepts we shouldn't be allowed to talk about.

(Also, as I reread many of the responses, there also seems to be a healthy dose of people just not having read and understood the concept)
I understand the business case and problem it's supposed to solve (onboarding is costly), but it's so utterly distasteful.
If you’re blocking on IO that’s you’re cancellation signal. You can of course close the pipe you’re reading from which surfaces an error in your synchronous thread.
I don't think this is correct at all. Google's decision was intentional to capture every request, even ones who are simply searching for a known domain. Users adapted to google's pattern and learned things the wrong way.

This is only one example of the damage caused by very-low-friction, addictive interfaces. Users have increasingly lost the capability to navigate hierarchical interfaces and increasingly use web search instead of looking around for the right button
All of the rounds have shifted a bunch lately and companies are going public sooner than they used to. What I really meant was that you should join companies that are on a clear path to have a major exit within the next 2-3 years.
This seems to be my experience with these sort of topics.
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First of all, lets not level accusations without some level of explanation. That's just rude.

Second, on what basis do you claim that I'm the one with a confirmation bias and not yourself?
food supplements are not medicines. If you claim there is science behind the claims show it. But as you already admitted, it's probably weak evidence.
I would just remind people that there is a lot of talk about "when i became a vegetarian/vegan". There are many many people that did not become vegetarian, they have always been vegetarian.
I’m all for trans rights, I haven’t seen the special yet. Either way Netflix has absolutely nothing to worry about. I’m sure whatever pushback is a minuscule drop in the bucket.
> There's no fundamental difference between this and any other area of life where a wealthy network aids in success. Which is pretty much all of them.

I can think of one rather prominent example where having a wealthy network doesn't help nearly as much as it does when you're "skipping the interview."

Job interviews. The thing that this product is trying to replace.

Also, you've stumbled past the is/ought distinction. Yes, it's true that being wealthy is an advantage in many areas of society. But that's very obviously a bad thing. Not only does it shut out potentially productive members of society and elevate wealthier incompetents, it fucks over vulnerable people and helps the rich get richer while the poor get poorer.

I see no good reason to engage in apologia for systems that favour the wealthy. "Oh but we would need to change lots of things to fix those systems" yeah we do need to change lots of things. Don't cry to me about how improving things is hard. If you have nothing constructive to contribute, at least don't pointlessly denigrate the idea of improving our society.
reddit runs on hyperbole.
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It's ridiculous to think that whole ecosystems will just collapse instead of adapt with the species that are good generalists and can manage a warmer climate and the ongoing impact of humans. Plenty of wildlife manages to live inside cities, including various plants, fungi, insects, birds and mammals. Will it be pristine and as diverse before? No, but it will be what survives, as has always been the case on Earth since life evolved. Some parts of forests and ecosystems will die and other parts will take their place, and some will do even better because it's warmer with more CO2. Not always what we'd like, but nature will be there in one form or another.

The current diversity of the world evolved form times of less diversity which came from times of greater diversity and so on for several major and minor extinctions over the past couple billion years, and plenty of upheaval on more local and regional scales. Nature is always changing and adapting. There are always species migrating around and adapting or going extinct.
> The oppression is being barred from travel, work, and many aspects of public life.

I'm sorry, but you're not oppressed. You've decided not to take a free and effective vaccine, and society is going to make collective public health decisions whether you participate or not.
That would show up in test positivity rates, and it has not. At least not here. The only time when test positivity rate deviated significantly from daily counts was in the first wave spring 2020 when testing infrastructure wasn't there yet.

I can't say anything about places in the US where it spread like crazy through the population in the first wave. But I've seen no studies to back up what you're saying here in Canada. Also various cities have been doing testing of sewer water for the virus, and the values have matched, roughly (and in advance), what has been seen in testing rates.
I am (and presumably the people who created and funded this are) capable of critical thinking, and I don't share your judgment. Maybe you're right; maybe I'm right. Either way, your confidence is epistemically unjustified. That is why these ideas need room to breathe.
I know several vegans and none of them are particularly empathetic.

Is this proven true?
Modern capitalism driven by profit that doesn't account for externalities.
It's in plain sight. YC even highlights it in their website. I'm not making it up. See this page of the list of YC funded compaines https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/

It explicitly lists "Black founded companies", "Latinx founded companies", "Women founded companies"

At this point in America everything is a meaningless social cause/outrage driven thing. Diversity, renaming things even if those names have proper meaning in their current used context. It's all now a complete outrage and drama driven society.
Virgin Galactic to delay commercial space travel service
It seems the idea is more that current employees can help onboard their friends by eating the upfront costs.
Different topic completely than universal government mandates.
K2 seems to stick out to me as one vitamin that would be hard to get, but I'm not sure if it does anything for mental health. It's mostly in animal products (though can be made by bacteria or something which I think is how they make the supplements). If I recall correctly, B12 is potentially problematic too.
> even with 20 years of experience and I can't even get a FAANG interview (let alone pass it)

If you want one, I've never had the impression that getting an interview was the hard part. I participated in Google Code Jam maybe 9 years ago, passed either 0 or 1 rounds (there's a "qualification round" which I definitely passed, and later a "round 1" which I have a feeling I probably didn't pass), and every so often they offer me an interview unprompted because of that.
That's not an instruction - it's a digression. The wording there is "can be used".

The actual instruction is to follow the AFM Runaway Stabilizer procedure. That's exactly what the Ethiopian Airlines pilots did.
There's not a lot of data. ACIP found that there was more severe illness than vaccine side effects in 12+ age groups (with a disclaimer that the group had less data due to less 2nd doses being administered):

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-...
If you spend a lot of time paying very close attention to all of the minute sub/unconscious actions of your body as you go throughout the day, you have these weird epiphanies that your consciousness is just a passenger barking orders to a meat machine with a mind if it’s own.

Do this long enough and you’ll experience episodes on non-verbal communication with whatever is at the helm. For me it occurs when I get stuck in thought and my body sort of involuntarily feints an act to remind me what I was doing before my mind wandered. It’s only happened to her three times in my life, probably many times before I realized it the first time. It’s subtle, but really weird. And probably just a product of my imagination, but that’s been my experience.
The thing is, I think having the address bar at the bottom makes a lot of sense on the phone.
That was a rhetorical device to emphasize our buildings still crumble from earthquakes, our villages still get consumed by fire and our cities are still evacuated by flood.

The damoclean sword of nuclear apocalypse still hangs by a thread despite our best efforts and 25 years of international meetings on climate has produced only platitudes and promises.

Coal plants are still being constructed and oil pipelines are still being built, intended to last decades past the dates we promise to dismantle them all, and the world goes on.

Now is not the time to be lulled into confidence by a perceived competence and strength lest we cheerlead ourselves into an abyss. Civilization persistence and failure are both fair bets to make.

We can not rely on the greatness of people yet born to save humanity from the burdens caused by our current lack of will. There will be no future of superheros. We must address the problem at a scale that matches the insanity of the circumstances because they will only become increasingly insane without our immediate and swift remediations. Intentions are fatal where actions are required.
> Of the "mainstream" languages Go is pretty much the only one that has as good ergonomics as Rust in that it supports it pretty much natively (via struct tags)

Swift does this too, using the Codable Protocol. The compiler generates the protocol conformance code for you, if you say a type is `Codable`, and the properties the type contains are all Codable types (Int, Float, String, URL, etc. conform to it), you don't have to do anything.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/archive...
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Outrage is feedback. The people in that subreddit, the people in this HN thread, are all people who have had to apply for jobs and go through interviews, and thus are all potential customers. If your potential customers are outraged by the very idea of your business, that's feedback.
If you want to see what appears to be a training ground for beef industry propaganda, check out /r/AntiVegan on Reddit. The vitriol is overpowering. I simply quoted a contradictory statistic from a paper a mod posted themselves that supposedly showed that not eating meat is unhealthy, and got banned.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AntiVegan/

It's wild to me how angry and threatened people get by a personal choice to not eat something.
I'm very much not a vegan. However, as I've grown more eco-conscious over time, I find myself drawn to it due to the environmental costs (for now though, my stomach continues to win over my mind)
Animals not in factory farms don’t need this supplementation.
Of course it is a concern. No nation survives with an indefinite dwindling population. If nations turn to immigration as a way to bolster their population, it cones with its own set of problems.
> Allowing college students with an out of state drivers license to vote with their college ID guarantees them TWO votes- because they can legally file a mail in vote to the state they have that driver's license in.

Registering to vote in two states is a really easy way to end up in jail.
But if you did you couldn't. The ratio of wages to profit made on the item is way higher for iPhones. The quote is literally true. Textile mills in 19th century England operated with comparatively pedestrian profit margins and factory wages were a much higher proportion of expenses. It's estimated that the assembly costs of an iPhone are in the 20-50 dollar range, the profit margin is in the 300+ dollar range, clearly the ratio is much higher than in any textile mill.
If you want to purchase a home, you probably need to replace 2k with 4k-5k/month for a mortgage on a home (30 year loan) + ~1k/month in property taxes.

Add two kids, each 2k/mo/child in daycare.

That's 7k/month extra.

Still leaves you a nice chunk though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASP-76b

Though it's not Earth-like, we have already got some data on exoplanets using spectroscopy.
Redlined neighbourhoods are still overwhelmingly black. Redlining destroyed property values and scared away businesses, creating ghettos that still exist today. The fact that many of the processes which created an unjust society are no longer in motion doesn't automatically make that society just again.
> But if it were your former employer, it could essentially be a type of severance / outplacement benefit.

The old-employer incentives there are the opposite of what is trying to be achieved by the reward aspect, and the existence of the reward is not sufficient to mend that, though.
I don’t think anyone is attributing any properties to God. God could just be a fundamental force like gravity. What parent comment is saying is whatever was the beginning, is God. Maybe there was no beginning, maybe time extends forever in both directions or loops on itself, or maybe some imbalance caused all this, but we just like to give things names that mean something.
I'm in the process of writing some up as of the last few weeks -- but the core of it is "just replace any beef in your stir-frys or pasta minces with TVP cooked with a particular technique"

Send me an email (its in my profile) and I'll make sure to send the link to you when I chuck them up on my site in the next week or so?

But in short: rehydrate the TVP with boiling water with a cube or two of beef-style stock. Let it sit for about 5 minutes or so, it should become soft.

Drain it, and really squeeze the stock out of it if you're doing a nice stir-fry or similar; it'll fry better the less water is in it.

In a wok or fry-pan, add half a tablespoon of oil, add the TVP. Crack salt, black and white pepper over them. Don't stir too much to begin with, you want it to brown, almost char in places. Then stir, fry as normal.

Now you can use it to replace most beef protein sources in stir-frys, pasta sauces (if you use the "mince" versions) and so on.

My partner and I have come up with some from-scratch(ish) sauces that go best with it, but it's great even without those. My particular favourite recipes are: "beef" and black bean, Thai basil and chili, bolognaise (which is more like a pomodoro with TVP mince added), soy and garlic stir frys, and some others I'm likely forgetting.

Those are the ones I'm writing up :)