skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Using many processed ingredients to replace one is a valid reason why its not appetizing.

No, it isn’t? That “one” ingredient is just a thousand in disguise. Even aside that there are lots of scary-sounding chemicals in all living things just to keep us alive: Is the beef hormone-fed? Does it have BSE because it was fed ground-up other cows? Antibiotic abuse for weight gain? And so on.

> Its a expensive frankenstein "food" with poorer nutrients that no normal people will willingly accept when there is real meat around.

It’s no more of a “Frankenstein food” (a term I previously only associated with GMO) than, e.g. Snickers candy bars, which are wildly popular.

> They will never adopt it,

Perhaps, perhaps not. But IMO failure is more likely to come from alternative non-meat (or vat-meat) than because of what you’re objecting to.

> the heath concious vegan that buys from whole foods will look down on it,

Sone will, some won’t. The big four (fat/carb/protein/fibre) ratios won’t put anyone off, especially not people who might otherwise go for Quorn burgers.

> most vegans say they hate meat and won't eat things that taste like meat,

Do they? I don’t know what meat tastes like. But then, I’m not even vegan, I’m a vegetarian (who avoids cow milk yes, but not derivatives).

> and the meat eater won't think highly of it either.

You might not — you might even have tried one of them in order to make a fair comparison, though you’re writing in a way which suggests to me you have an identity of being a meat eater — but I have accidentally cooked vegan meals for people who are normally heavy meat eaters and they’ve complemented me for it. It feels like you’re projecting to claim that of most people.

I suspect most people won’t care, assuming it’s cheap enough. How much do these things cost in Burger King or McD or wherever?

> Most people who ate it or will eat it as a novelty once

Wouldn’t be surprised. Most new things oversell and under-deliver.

But I wouldn’t write them off, either.
My landlord has set up an LLC where he is the only employee.
Ask HN: Is Triplebyte.com Abandonware?
support@triplebyte.com bounces, signing up as a company shows the "We’re currently reviewing your account" splash forever, and they haven't posted on their blog or social media this year..

Perhaps unlike much of HN, I always liked Tripebyte's screening quiz thing, as a hiring manager I found it to be a pretty good predictor of onsite performance -- would love to use it again
I think metaverse is just a fancy name for communicating with people online supported by technology (both present technology, future technology and meatspace communications supported by technology).

It’s clear from Facebook’s presentations for instance that they consider text messaging via WhatsApp to class as part of the metaverse.

It’s not anything new, but I think the metaverse strategy is basically Facebook saying “we want to own all communications, and push the boundaries of what owning communications even means”. That’s my take anyway, but I have found most people are focused on the VR aspect and have missed the more scary all-encompassing and broader definition.
I'm laughing at the state of the industry in general. I'm definitely not laughing at the person who wrote this documentation since they're obviously part of the solution.
I own an apartment. I bought it. How are you going to "allocate" this "resource"? Just try me.
well, your sysadmin created your AD account, and probably has some means of root access to your box too, so they could already impersonate you. *

*this may or may not be true depending on how Enterprise-y your workplace is.
One of my major objections to systemd is precisely that it sticks us forever at a local maximum, since it ate a bunch of other low-level components, so now if you come up with a superior service manager... good luck; nobody will ever use it since 1. everyone's just decided to support systemd and will never consider an alternative, and 2. you will have to provide replacements for all the other stuff that systemd does. And the continued EEE ensures that it will only get worse.
> It’s the reason why the Internet took a long time to take off: using the Internet on a desktop computer sucks. When smartphones took off, so did the Internet.

What?
Absolutely, the idea of a shared virtual office (as opposed to just a solitary home office) would be a realization of a VR metaverse. Of course, aside from meetings (where the whole point is to interact with other people), I think it remains to be seen whether the idea of a shared virtual office is actually something that anyone really wants, or whether it's simply a case of a lack of imagination from people who are so accustomed to the idea of shared office space that they try to shoehorn it into the virtual world without really considering if it makes sense to. Personally, if I'm going to be working in a virtual space, I'm going to be working somewhere in Earth's orbit, or under a tree on a hill on a rainy evening surrounded by fireflies, and not in a 3D-rendered cubicle.
Exactly. My comment was debunking the parent comment conflation of qanon and anti-vax. I am neither qanon nor anti-vax but I am not covid vaccinated and brown (usually doesn't matter but relevant for the parent comment).
Yes, I was thinking "when was the last time Amazon had an acquisition blocked? “
From what I recall of a BUILD talk once on the deep dive fundamentals, Fluid is based on CRDTs under the hood (or possibly the CRDT predecessor OT like Wave was), but Fluid believes writing CRDTs is hard (it is), especially writing them that obey the math laws CRDTs are supposed to, and then getting that to perform well (including and especially things like catch-up/replay) is also hard, so yes the actual programming interface Fluid presents is high level "distributed data structures" though the wire format is closer to CRDTs with some cheats from assumed knowledge of the data structures (things like sending the latest contents of a list for catch-up rather than replaying the entire CRDT chain for that list).
Mapping the Metaverse (GitHub Discussion) – OMI
> sftp for ANYTHING

Solid Explorer (Android app) connects via sftp to Linux machines just fine. While I use Termux and rsync to do backups and bulk transfers, Solid Explorer allows me to rapidly browse remote files.
I don't see how data recovery is an issue. You should be backing up off-site and locally anyway. Why would you optimize for the specific case of most of the laptop dying but not the SSD? It's more likely your laptop will get stolen or lost or dunked in water or burned in a fire. The soldering will make no difference in that case. Use backups.
It looks to me as if the Republican party is broadly still Trump's: he has a powerful voice and as far as I am aware very few Republican politicians have disavowed him. Can you tell me what important nuance I am lacking here? Perhaps you are saying: supporting Republicans doesn't necessarily mean supporting Trump and his allies — but in practical terms, surely it does?

It's obviously difficult to be certain of which information is reliable and which information is not. In my view, the discourse has shifted rightwards such that there aren't any longer any genuinely left-leaning sources in the mainstream media. The Guardian, the NYT, CNN and suchlike all look solidly centrist to me.

The Guardian piece I linked is by an academic, so I have a bit more faith than usual that it will be an intelligent and independent viewpoint. But that Guardian piece is not the only thing I'm relying on, and the events of 6 January are not the only thing I'm relying on either.

In particular, there appears to be gerrymandering, voter suppression, and worse on the Republican side [1]. I'm not aware of Democratic attempts to undermine the democratic system to any similar degree, but perhaps you can point me to some?

[1] e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/podcasts/transcript-ezra-...
Modern English doesn't have the thou-you singular/plural distinction. My preference is to keep these details in reading translations of religious texts, and I personally prefer to keep "thou" over having to say "you all" for plurals, and especially over collapsing them all to "you". The old stuffy style consideration is not as important to me. Maybe I'm just used to it now
> This would be easy to fix with legislative

Whenever people say anything complex can be fixed easily with legislation, I'm pretty sure they don't have a clue.

These types of issues are never easy to fix, because they're cause by many factors that have taken years to form. There are no easy legislative fixes in practice. They only exist in theory.
well, you have no choice but to accept it. whats the alternative? depression? meth? some tips i'm thinking for myself are: rely on the wisdom crutch--solve the right problems. stop investing mental energy in chasing the next persons fad / weekend project. take advantaged of mastered knowledge, have it finally pay it's dividends.

the older i get, the more i appreciate technology that isn't rewritten every release candidate cycle. a tip for the fifteen year old self, don't take this advice just be aware of it so you know what technology to invest in. You'll eventually want those dividends.
Real meat doesn't require you to research that or worry about it. No thank you to some weird expensive frankenstein food to replace a single ingredient with poorer nutrition.
Is betting against crypto a smart move? How much could you earn potentially going with the whole crypto movement instead of betting against it. Some people love being right other people like making money.
SEEKING FREELANCER | Philadelphia & New York | REMOTE (US Eastern time)

Promptworks is a software development shop focused on software craftsmanship. Our calling is to help companies create amazing, intuitive web & mobile applications, APIs, products, and services.

Pair programming, continuous integration & delivery, kaizen, and TDD/BDD aren't just ideas we pay lip service to, but core practices of our day-to-day work. We are polyglots. We use lots of Python, Python, Elixir, and JavaScript (mostly React, Vue, and React Native).

For current projects, we are looking for developers experienced developers in the following technologies to work alongside our team building scalable web and mobile apps:

• React web

• Vue.js

• React Native

These projects are production apps being used by tens of thousands of people every day around the world, generating real revenue. But, this isn’t maintenance work. We are building new apps and large features.

https://boards.greenhouse.io/promptworks/jobs/4793138003

[...continued in child comment]
https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi...
Costs trickle-down... Profits don't.
The Combination of Content and Knowledge Management
Can you actually wear the heavy goggles for that long?
For future projects, we often need experienced development help in the areas below. We love to connect with you now in anticipation of our future needs so we don’t have to wait for a monthly HN post to connect.

• Smart Contract development, especially Solidity

• Python

• Ruby & Rails

• Elixir & Phoenix

• JavaScript & TypeScript

• React, Vue, Angular

• React Native

• iOS, Android

• Kubernetes, Docker, AWS Lambda

https://boards.greenhouse.io/promptworks/jobs/4793848003

https://www.promptworks.com/jobs
Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn

It may be old, but it's a true masterpiece of the RPG genre.
Readability is not about formatting, that's an orthogonal issue. It's possible to have terrible code that's perfectly formatted.

It's more about good usage of idiomatic language constructs, which still requires good human judgement to evaluate.
> A lot of people hate systemd.

I did. I'm still not happy with the way it was forced in, and how the predictions of teething pains of a from scratch init system being developed by inexperienced developers came true. I still remember the growing pains from PulseAudio, the previous project by the same developers.

But SystemD was a response to the definite problems of past init systems. It might not be the optimal UNIX philosophy architecture, but it's grown into something stable and powerful.

At the end of the day, as a working IT or SWEng professional, you just want to get shit done, so you learn a new abstraction for the zillionth time, put it to practice, and get on with the problem you were trying to solve. Having moved from MS-DOS, to OS/2, to Slackware, to RedHat, then Debian (and staying on Debian for decades, for desktop and server), I trust the Debian devs to put out the most stable and reliable OS I've ever seen.
I agree. Here in the Netherlands, NIMBYism isn't really a thing. If you don't own the land, you as existing resident have very little say in new developments around you, exceptions aside.

Even in this situation where almost every development is approved, it doesn't lower prices at all. The reality is that when demand is continuously high, you can never keep up with supply. It just keeps coming.

Which is what happened to my town. A small, quiet, rural town. That was 20 years ago. Now it's packed. Every inch used. Traffic jams just to get to the center. Agricultural and nature areas transformed into concrete.

Quality of life is down whilst prices just keep rising regardless. Do these people have a right to live here? YES. Do I have a right to forever preserve my old town? NO. I'm just saying NIMBYism isn't some roadblock standing in the way of an actual solution.
So if a "Standard Backup" contains all your files, but the machine cannot boot because the internal drive has failed, what is the plan forward? $4k for a new laptop and restore from the backup to the new machine? Kinda makes me glad I'm broke.
More like 6 hours, if you consider work time, commute time (for folks who'll still have to do that), meal prep, etc.

But I don't think that's really the point. People use those 6 hours in a bunch of different ways. Some of those hours might be replaced by a metaverse experience entirely (as in, "I used to do play video games on my console, but I can get the same experience, but better, playing games in the metaverse"), and other activities might get nudged out because they aren't as (subjectively) enjoyable as the metaverse to some people. And other people will just not do the metaverse thing, because other activities are more fun to them. FB is betting on the user group being very large, and I don't know that I'd disagree with them.

And the same thing will always happen: people will continue to kick themselves for not finishing that book, or getting that extra workout in. That will continue to be the case with or without the metaverse.

Also consider that something like a metaverse could become the standard way for remote knowledge workers to get in a "room" together to collaborate. That alone seems like a large user base.
The govt uses facial recognition for unemployment benefits because of the fraud experienced.
> Your daily search quota has exceeded.

> Please come back tomorrow or upgrade to one of YouGlish's Premium account plans.

Well, that was a fun 10 minutes while it lasted... One can definitely have endless fun with this. It's almost like clicking "Random" on Wikipedia except you have to think of a word/phrase first. Or use Wikipedia's "Random" and input that word into YouGlish :D
Wave was perfect for summer specific processes, like development of a tech specifications or making a complex contracts. Collapsing branches were much more usable than comments in Google Docs: you can't have a lengthy discussion in Docs, but in Wave it was natural.

Still, the team has to be disciplined, or else Wave quickly became chaotic.
To echo the sibling comment: the largest possible deviation you can make when filming Foundation is to undermine the entire premise of psychohistory.
"Well, one strategy would be to preemptively rebut common misrepresentations and meaningless critiques..."

The reply: "What's that got to do with anything I said? I'm saying <a rephrased version of one or more of the misrepresentations>." If they reply with a different misrepresentation, it becomes the Gish Gallop; they will eventually cycle back around to one of your rebutted misrepresentations, but by then everyone will have forgotten your rebuttal.

"And if it's just misinformation with no merit, use Hitchen's Razor."

The response: "See, they're not even responding to our evidence! They're silencing dissent!"

"We should investigate evidence that casts doubt on consensus if there is some merit, even if it is painstaking."

Which is one of the points of this article: while you are reconsidering the evidence for thermodynamics, you are not addressing the problem. They've won. This is why it took thirty years after the original Surgeon General's report to begin to address cigarette smoking. This is why humanity has done essentially nothing about climate change.

Established science has been wrong before, but when facing an immediate problem the current consensus is probably where you want to put your money.
> Can you imagine if he’d donated to a cause that was against inter racial marriages?

That is not the same thing and is far from the point I am making. It would be the same thing if he argued, "gay people can't marry, period". But an argument that "marriage is a life long commitment between a man and a woman" is something different. Not about gay people, it is about marriage as an institution with a special status.

Note, I am not entering this discussion to argue what is right or wrong. But I think it is an entirely valid opinion to have, and not something to be cancelled for.
I edited it reflect your better rendition.
I am constantly amazed at how reputable news outlets like the New York Times misstate data from Facebook's CrowdTangle - usually in a way that overstates the spread of the questionable information. But Facebook seems to deliberately want to prevent outsiders from getting access to information that would help us judge the scope of the problem.
Ungoogled Chromium comes without web store support. Once you’ve installed this plugin you can install other plugins like you’re used to: https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store.
Thank you. Yes... this is almost certainly happening because of the intersection of the Illinois settlement, the current microscope FB (no, I will not refer to them as M*a) finds themselves under, and the Consent Order that they have almost certainly violated dozens if not hundreds of times in the last few years. They've done the risk assessment, and they're reducing the risk profile in order to decrease potential liabilities and penalties.
Without any substantiating information, that's just another shallow dismissal. I don't know what happened either, but "someone told me", from a random internet account, doesn't count as substantiation.
To be honest, do you think that matters?
> The JSON<>React serialization doesn't seem to offer much value

I mean, you don't see any value in being able to declaratively state an entire app? ...
It only seems to exist in a handful of cities to date?

New York City had a decline in evictions when it was enacted (the decline outpaced nearby areas).

https://www.cssny.org/news/entry/nyc-right-to-counsel
Maybe it's just me, but not having the net provides some level of "fun".

Most of the projects/companies/teams I've worked on didn't have tests, adequate backups or had scenarios where errant keystrokes blow up production but it's nothing that has been world-stopping and these jobs rarely involved anything were downtime equated to real harm (outside of the economics of the companies themselves, but usually nobody necessarily cared as long as things got fixed).

Companies that subscribe to YOLO-level development usually already _know_ that and with it, comes a certain understanding that shit will break, it's just minimizing the blast radius by learning/knowing the code bases and leaning on those with more experience.
Anything with a better user interface will replace traditional devices. Computers are still too difficult to use. It seems like VR/AR is primarily a computer interface that is easier to use because everyone already knows how to navigate reality. It still seems a long way from being able to emulate reality well enough to be a good computer user interface however. My guess is that some kind of general AI is needed to make computers truly easy to use.
I don't think Zillow points their agents at it without their own analysis first: I'm assuming Zillow leverages their data set to identify a large portion of opportunities. A local agent on the ground can sort through things with some judgement, but if a lot of their leads are directed to them by Zillow's algorithm for identifying worthy investments then there could be room to game that system.
> I gather then that you're not a fan of SaaS.

I'm neutral, I think? I don't quite see the point of it would be more accurate. I don't think I've used any SaaS in my personal life (other than streaming services. Which I'd prefer as a local app anyway, and I still do, for music, but not video)

I'm sure it's a matter of opinion, not something with an objective answer, but "burden of running software on their own computers" genuinely confused me as I read your comment, I thought "burden? what burden?".

As a user:

If software is designed properly (and most isn't...) you download it once, and it runs. Is the burden the time it takes to do the download? Compared to the noticeable burden of using a webapp, with problems like crappy and frustrating responsiveness, an inability to work without an internet connection, and frequent inability to handle tasks of real complexity, I'd choose a local program any day.

As an employee:

Heck yes SaaS! $/month >>> $$$/customer :D
Of course it's rent seeking, and I take (and give) no shame in that.
Investors and speculators don't live in houses, renters do. If there isn't renting demand, than it doesn't matter how much speculation there is, prices will fall. Blaming investors is directing the anger at the wrong place. Blame regulations and building restrictions that prevent housing supply being built where people want it.
I'm also a landlord and in a state that is trying to still push a moratorium and on top of that make it harder to evict once its lifted. You're right. The more strict the laws, the more that goes into tenant screening.

Right now the only requirement for me is that you need a security deposit. That'll get adjusted to credit checks, criminal checks, and leases that allow me to void them over basically anything I can get away with per the law.

Others, I fear, won't work within the law and start screening on perceptions, stereotypes, and personal history with individuals that get projected onto groups.

In short, the quicker it is to evict someone for failure to pay, the less protections a landlord needs to use or worse, invent, to protect their livelihood.
> I will just take the property off market.

And do what with it? Pay taxes for it to be empty? Sell it (thus providing exactly the same unit of living space to the market)?
Since institutional owners like this make up a tiny percentage of ownership, your solution would have a huge impact on small landlords, which would be passed along to the tenants.

Basically you're asking renters to pay for this behavior...