skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a lot more likely that in 50 years, per capita animal consumption will be higher than today, simply because the subgroups that tend to favor vegetarianism are shrinking as a share of the overall global population (and tend not to have as many children), whereas global income is increasing.

Certainly global meat consumption has been on the rise, going from 150 Billion kilograms in 1990, to more than 350 billion kilograms today (https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/04/26/1023636/sustaina...)

In terms of per-capita consumption, it has increased by 20kg per person since 1960. (source: https://ourworldindata.org/meat-production)

There is no reason to expect this trend to reverse. I do think that in North America, per capita meat consumption will decline a bit since in the U.S. we really eat too much of everything and there will be more pressure to switch to more humane meat production that is more expensive per kilogram. I think this is a positive development, but humanely raised beef is not that much more expensive - maybe 20% more expensive, so not at all "caviar".

Pro-tip: Check out butcherbox and other services for free range beef, chicken, and pork. Lots of services like this are springing up.

OTOH, world population will level out soon, and may even start shrinking, so total meat consumption in 50 years may be lower than today. Per-capita consumption will be higher. I don't see vegetarians increasing as a share of global population, the majority of the world loves to eat meat and will continue to do so.

In terms of climate change, this promotes more beef consumption because beef is the best way to turn a large portion of the earth's dry arable land into food production (at least unless humans evolve to eat grass and shrub). A large part of the planet simply doesn't have the fresh water supply to support growth of food crops, and this is where cattle graze. If you believe the earth is going to get drier, then this means the global diet will shift even more towards beef consumption as farms that used to grow corn exhaust water tables and revert back to pasture.

This will continue to be the case as the earth warms, and such warming will advantage beef over other forms of food production more dependent on wet areas with steady rains.
Are you talking about the COVID vaccines that now have little over seven and half billion administered doses worldwide?

Those are likely the most tested vaccines in history.
Those mitigations affect syscall speed. Syscalls are not required for IPC.
>It would be like a commercial property developer hamstringing their property development by selling shovels to builders.

>I can understand why Shovel Product Managers might want to keep shovels profitable, and not a subsidized product, but why are MSFT execs on board?

Shovel Divison Managers don't care if the company is profitable or if their actions hurt the company, they only care if their division makes profits so they can cash in some bonusses and make them seem important to company's future.
So robots programmed to learn could be considered sentient ?
Totally agree

Not saying it’s good/bad but I see this as inevitable given the tendency of increasing sensitivity of society
I don't get why a new polygon data format is needed at all. Sculpted models are always on polygons, and that's good, but almost as much bulk of 3D models are CAD models "rasterized" into triangle polygons and that's just pain. Aside from patents and/or rights reasons, why can't we just pass around CAD data to feed CNC machines?
wonder if the creators of phhhoto had this horse in mind
So, that means we are going to not being able to kill, and eat them then, right??
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As hard as for anyone who couldn't afford a $1000 drug or someone who couldn't afford a $100...

The ugliness of inequality fueled by capitalism is more pronounced in medical treatments, I've witnessed it firsthand several times.

In early 90s as 6-7 year old I had to undergo a revolutionary treatment at most expensive private hospital in India, days before surgery the doctor privately demand a large sum of unaccounted money. This repeated several times for subsequent surgeries and my father had to go in large debt each time.

We were a middle-class family by Indian standards yet my family's lifestyle were severely limited by from my medical expenditures, A poor family doesn't even stand a chance. What's worse is that the doctor had made incorrect diagnosis of my ailment at that time which lead me to a life-threatening recently.

This is what worries me about the COVID pandemic, Medical professionals who honestly believed that they're doing a service to humanity rushed to the front lines without any regard to their or their family's safety and many of them have perished. Now the ratio of corrupt entrepreneurs masquerading as medical professionals who flew to COVID-free islands during pandemic to the medical professionals who treat their profession as a service has now further worsened.
As a trained economist, I feel every decision made should have expected value and include opportunity cost at least at a mental or back of napkin calculation. Everything compounds so make the highest EV decisions today. What this really drives home is how much effort to put into your full-time job where progression (and the rewards) are heavily influenced by thing you cannot control like office politics or the broader economy. Even if I don't get a promotion, a job switch should yield 20% every couple of years. I'll do the the bare minimum advised by my boss to get him to recommend a promotion, everything else is spent on my side projects which have potential to replace my job and multiple promotions. Live life too so block out time for leisure or recreation. Don't use this to analyse if you should watch a movie with your friends on the weeked or do work. Generally:

EV = Probability of Outcome x Value of Outcome

Cost = $ or time/labour/effort

EV of next best opportunity (choice) forgone
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i miss the 2000s and 2010s. the best era of the internet. everything was there for the taking. nothing was monopolized. there were thriving communities and a lot of things to do, to read, to play, to watch... today, everything has been monopolised by facebook, google, apple and other tech giants where a single person can no longer conquer the world. where people are vendor-locked-in into facebok groups and reddit pages. there are no more online communities or fun and positivity and wonder. internet went to shit and i hate it nowadays, even though i loved it before and i made money making websites and apps in it. the good old times, so to speak. i really hate modern society.
If you are in another country, 120k should be life changing then.
I'd say what you probably need most is to get the hell off the internet as much as possible, because so many apps are designed to suck away your time and have known negative consequences for mental health.

I'd also say - get some professional help. If there are indeed some issues you need to work through, then processing them will enable you to have more perspective and "solve" the problem you've outlined here.

But for a very quick starter: "don't compare your insides to someone else's outsides".
A new text based 3D format in XML... in 2021?

> Microsoft

Oh that makes more sense.
Judging by that thread in the Apple forums, people are for some reason unable to change the default port their development environment uses, so they blame Apple for using a port they have been using for a long time. Not sure why they are unable to change them, but the typical Apple user isn't directly famous for their willingness to configure their own software (either changing the ports of their development environment, or configure their OS to stop using that port), so I guess it's fairly common to end up with scenarios like this.
Rider has all but intellicode, just (IMO) better. The main reason to use VS that I can see is a) there’s a free version and b) taste.
Thank you for the tips! I really appreciate it.

I ended up donating $200 to this kid who lost his finger and then got a staph infection: https://watsi.org/profile/08a347b3594d-savy

And then fulfilled the bet by donating $20 to Watsi.
It feels like a "not there yet" missing feature - this seems to be a mvp launch, without all the bells and whistles it'll have when mature. The amount of effort is pretty high for a two man team.

I agree, though - a front page link to a download page with indexed items and collections would be perfect.

Kudos on this, Gytis & Sayed!

You might try using your pipeline on The Pile - https://pile.eleuther.ai/
Are ports 1-4999 already in use? Can we reserve a private area like 192.168/24 for IPs?

Also why is there no official TLD for DNS for local domains?
So you mean grapheme clusters or code points? Do you want to count zero-width characters? More specifically what are you trying to do?
We can't buy Cortex/Neoverse equivalent modern core design on POWER/SPARC
While you're right, that's certainly not by choice but rather stems from the fact that right now, workstation-class OpenPOWER boards are a rather small market.
You have to design the board for this server-class chip and break even on the costs for that + manufacturing a board that can actually hold these kind of chips.

So while it's unfortunate, it's not a case of ignoring the low end deliberately but mostly flows from the economic realities of not having anywhere near the addressable market of x86 or ARM.
The small community of ppc64(le) enthusiasts is very much hoping for a future where this changes, however small that chance might be...
MRNA vaccines could be monstrous - we have no long-term data on them.

Most of our vaccine experience is with weakened or dead virii, but MRNA is a different thing. Note that MRNA, RNA and DNA are interchangeable genetic mechanisms and can transcript into each other. (There are recent papers published about this in 2021.)

I just hope corona and MRNA vaccines don't turn out to be as dangerous as Zika, which started out as a curiosity in the press, and turned into a deadly threat to newborns. Corona attacks female reproductive tissues, so we'll learn over time.
> Why are Democrats and the mainstream media taking Trump and Republicans seriously?

The recent Virginia election debacle proved that independents care about reality, not wokeness.

The Democratic/Marxist party is remarkably weak on actual government, and long on woke rhetoric, which independents place no value on.

Both parties expect the Repubicans to win 2022 with a blood-bath, gaining control of both the House and Senate.

Republicans/Trumpists hope that the Democrats double-down on their insanity. :)
I bet some people are genuinely living your comment out, just with VR goggles. We are in that weird bit between "normal" and cyber dystopia/utopia that doesn't get much explanation in fiction.
.... 1999. At least, that's when I remember learning about XML.

Wikipedia adds that XML 1.0 didn't come out until 1998 and started in 1996.
I found the generation technique fascinating, but the images felt 'wrong' - I felt like I didn't know where to look to get an overview of the scene, and when I tried to focus on details it was like me eyes kept 'slipping off' because nothing would resolve itself.
Since Herpes Zoster reoccurrence can be triggered by stress, or many other environmental factors, the base rate is that there would be some reoccurrence after a vaccination. In fact if this number was 0, that would be it's own paper and a PhD waiting for someone righ there.

The base-rate fallacy drives a lot of 'but the vaccine did X'. Plus it's publish or perish you know.
Spec wise it compares well with the Tesla Model Y.

EV6 has vehicle-to-load, faster charging speeds due to 800V system.

And doesn’t look like a pregnant frog from the front/rear.

Y has 3rd row for your little minions though.
Which they do and did.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/22/22740701/microsoft-dotne...

https://dusted.codes/can-we-trust-microsoft-with-open-source
Other tools can do that too. The thing that keeps me on VS is muscle memory. And I'm fine with that. But that doesn't mean that there's no entire different world out there that's viable. :)
> I find smalltalk with people I don’t really know to be extremely challenging and tiring. And yet with people I do know, or in conversations on topics where I feel confident, I struggle to shut myself up.

This sounds more like ADHD.
> You think I’m wrong

No, I was on my way to upvote your comment when I got to

> but you know I’m right because you can’t define it with any precision no matter how hard you try.

It's when somebody decides to optimize for one thing that temporarily mattered to them at the time, at the expense of other things that matter afterwards.

Eg, having that demo next week may truly be existential for the project, but all the foundations you didn't dig and the rebar you skipped putting in to tick that box mean you cannot successfully build on it without going backwards first.
I guess it might come across that way, but I was happy to see the "Vision Zero" thing in the bottom left. Vision Zero has been a very successful road traffic policy in Sweden.

> Vision Zero is based on an underlying ethical principle that "it can never be ethically acceptable that people are killed or seriously injured when moving within the road transport system." In most road transport systems, road users bear complete responsibility for safety. Vision Zero changes this relationship by emphasizing that responsibility is shared by transportation system designers and road users.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Zero
> We can afford to feed everyone and give everyone a decent life without killing each other. Also saving people gives us a bigger pool of talented people and diverse genetics.

We can also afford to feed everyone without harming so many animals. In fact, reducing our reliance on animal products is likely the only and much more efficient way to feed everyone. And not only that, we're also destroying whole ecosystems because of our unnecessarily large demand on animal products, which in consequence causes huge problems for future generations.

So harming animals less is definitely in our interest.

> When we cannot give each other a decent life, we resort to mass killing (even today) - think of all the wars started due to hunger or ethnic reasons.

I'm also thinking of all the wars yet to come, because of the consequences of climate change or uninhabitable areas, which both were (among other things) caused by our ridiculously high meat consumption in a few wealthy countries.

> My point was that we are responsible for the safety and prosperity of each other, not any animal.

The fact that people even have to fight for children to not get abused for us having some luxuries (rare minerals for the latest smartwatch or phone, coffee beans, chocolate,...), should make it clear that we don't feel responsible for each other on a grand scale. There's a varying degree of responsibility and it quickly vanishes with greater physical distance to each other and the less we feel connected in one way or another.

And it's not uncommon to feel more responsible for animals than for humans. Like my neighbor's cat is treated better than those children working in some mines or farms, also because it's more beneficial to some of us to treat those children badly.

Or to put it differently, responsibility for other human beings which are outside of our closer groups is nothing that comes naturally or just is or is even necessary for our survival. It's something we had to come up with on our own with our ethics. So we have to fight for it and constantly remind ourselves about it or otherwise we keep doing all the horrors we still do to each other (e.g. slavery). It's no different than our ethical beliefs in other regards, e.g. animal suffering.
It sounds like you're suffering from a spectacularly severe case of Imposter Syndrome. I can relate because I suffered the same when I cared a lot about what others thought about me.

I can't explain exactly how I broke free of this mindset but I think that the people around me helped a lot. They supported me, encouraged me, cared about me, and gave me the confidence to be less self-conscious in almost every aspect of my life. I stopped asking "why me?" and started asking "why not me?".

You already have the most important trait you need to succeed in anything: 'always in “learning mode”'. Best technologists I've met have always agreed that they don't know everything but they're willing to keep learning.
We’re Asking the Impossible of Vaccines
I very much disagree. Near every single person I talk to on any regular basis talks about other people "behind their back", whether it is to say good thing or bad things. Those are judgements.

For every comment I have ever read about how "that person working at X store doesn't care about what you do / buy", I know a handful of people who are that person working at that store who talk to no end about the various kinds of customers who enter their store. It's great feel good motivator to those who are oblivious to the lie, but it is a lie none the less.
First thing I thought of reading this title was "Narp".
Julia Liuson had something to learn from Bill Gates in Visual Studio vs .NET infight.

Bill Gates:

"One thing we have got to change in our strategy — allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other people's browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities. Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has to avoid doing something to destory [sic] Windows."[1]

[1] http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/...
> The media narrative against Amazon is not entirely accurate

Anti unionization, abusing providers and streaming their business, allowing fake products, allowing fake reviews,... I am sure that is the press is not entirely accurate. There seems to be more than what usually is discussed.
At least the sales of the books have been on a gradual decline, although it seems like 2020 gave them a sudden boost.

2021: https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/demand-for-ebooks-o...

2018: https://observer.com/2018/11/ebook-sales-decline-independent...

And I'd say that all the devices coming out now do not have the name recognition of Nooks or the PRST1, let alone the Kindle. At least in the US market; things might be different in Asia.
The reason our justice system is structured the way it is precisely to take these emotions out of justice. Property theft isn’t a lifetime sentence or death sentence because our society tries to give people chances to make a mistake and recover. The aggrieved party can’t be trusted to maintain the level of impartiality and long term thinking required for metering out our form of justice, that’s why we have impartial judges and juries. Losing property isn’t worth a death sentence, and everyday people aren’t tasked with protecting their own property to the point where they are given the power to kill, you’re only “supposed” to use deadly force to save a life when no other option exists. Pulling the trigger and killing someone has lifelong consequences for everyone that touches these people, this isn’t a video game.

Also, your example of harm is nuts. Someone steals your catalytic converter you can still drive to work, the car still runs it’s just loud. So, see, you own a gun and you’ve already talked yourself into a situation where having a catalytic converters is some life threatening event, worthy of taking someone’s life for, or at least not having sympathy for. That’s callous. If I were you I’d rethink that position.
And I've been at a company where they did exactly this and turned out to be a complete mess and nearly bankrupted the company (it was even a unicorn).. Without the proper efficient layout and oversight of how a microservice architecture should work for your system you are better off reducing the engineers working on the monolith before telling everyone to switch it over to microservices. Otherwise if you can guarantee the above criteria then yes, I'd agree.
Yes. Sometimes I also give them bread or other food if I'm driving back from the grocery store. It fundamentally doesn't solve any problem but it at least shows them that someone is willing to give them something and help them out and that might be enough for them to start believing in themselves as well.
> Adding more services introduces more complexity in the deployment architecture as well.

This is true, but having multiple services or even instances that can horizontally scale gives you more leeway as far as resiliency against errors goes. For example, the issues in the monolith at my current day job could have a way lower priority/impact, if they didn't risk bringing down the entire application should the application server/instance fail - instead, if there were N instances, the load could just be handled by the other instances.

Actually, one of my first blog posts talks about how scalable and modular monoliths might be a way to leverage the best of both worlds: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/modulith-because-we-need-to...

Of course, if you actually have the operational capacity to support microservices, that may be a good investment in some particular systems - if a part of the whole system would start to misbehave, its impact could be far more limited, for example, due to resource constraints or rate limits that should be in place. Monitoring could also become somewhat easier and you could figure out where any problem lies, except for the most complex Byzantine failures.

> I have personally worked with Rails application monoliths and Node.js microservices and I can tell you that making changes on the monolith is muliple times easier mostly depending on the code structure.

However, where monoliths fail in my eyes, is the strong coupling. For example, i currently need to migrate the very same monolith to far newer frameworks and runtimes, which is essentially impossible to ship, because a large number of edge cases and specific functionality all break when this is done.

So instead of being able to ship the parts that'd work (say, the RESTful API and the front end), i'm blocked by the things that don't work (report functionality, PDF functionality, file handling functionality, database migration functionality), so for approx. the past month it has probably looked like i'm not generating much business value, due to struggling with all of this. I wrote more about the problems with this here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29204841