skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if this is true (and I've never been able to find credible evidence it is), what we're seeing now is just the upper bound of sustainable plant-based food production. As they scale it up and take advantage of technologies like precision fermentation, all evidence suggests this will continue to improve even further. Compare that to animal agriculture, where thermodynamic limitations on increased efficiency are strong, and most of the options to increase sustainability come at the cost of terribly inhumane practices.
I like to walk home from work (about 1.5 hours) once or twice a week, no headphones. I like to be able to live comfortably with my own thoughts for an hour and a half without the need for constant stimulation and I have friends who truly seem to have lost that ability.
Does anyone have any financials on this?

I get that if your heart is set on having a heat pump you need a heat pump, and that's the end of all financial consideration.

But how does, say, $10K of heat pump compare to $10K of insulation and better windows/doors/roof, or $10K of solar panels and cheap ultra-low-tech repairable all-electric HVAC, or $10K of some other form of physical investment I'm not aware of?
Eh, IDK. Seems to me iPhone, and the 21st century tech it symbolizes in this article, made people's lives more intentional than anything. The option to wander aimlessly is still there, and some take it. Yet being presented with options, I'm not surprised that to many it might sounds as enticing as watching paint dry.

As for the rest of it, it sounds a little.. forced. As if there's some kind of conspiracy. Can't it be that people value control of their time/life over some amount of spontaniety? Tech provides them that, which makes all this a side effect of a choice people make.
Everyone can have their own opinion but the best research says that replacing animal fats with plant fats in one's diet leads to longer life: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qInpEKHdjXk
> But I think fast-food places have few alternatives to this practice

Yup. Your practice is certainly a great one and it works for some things and gradual changes, but it probably won't work very well for people who are not very fond of change when they notice it, which is likely most of them.
> expecting to get paid for stimulating programming is fairly unrealistic

Works for me in ML.
New York Post. Less reality than the National Enquirer and the Star combined.
As a mid-40s programmer, I can agree with most of these observations.

Looking at myself, I think my biggest strength is in knowing what not to do.
Circumventing regulations just sounds like a different way to say breaking the law
Ask HN: Given reference design, can any SaaS add styles to raw HTML?
I hate messing around with css and design is a real skill I haven't taken the time to develop yet. I'm wondering if a tool exists that takes inputs: 1) raw HTML, 2) some webpage whose style I like (but don't want to copy precisely). And outputs: HTML with styles applied.

Generally speaking: design resources/tools/courses for busy devs?
You can't use DNS/hosts to block ads on sites like YouTube because they use the same domain to load ads and videos. To block the ads you have to block the video itself.

So while still useful, that's not really a replacement for browser extensions.
Have we tried nationalizing coal, oil, and gas, and having a democracy so we don't get any more local coups from the financial hegemonic masters of said resources?
Also: Why can't and won't you try dancing?
I'm not a vegetarian but the first time I went to Indonesia and tried tempeh I thought it was fantastic and could be used as a substitute protein in so many western dishes.
I have an apple watch but its not the LTE variety so I cannot stream (i've gone all-in on Spotify for like the last decade). I haven't even considered until now that it might have enough onboard storage to store podcast episodes.
Distant rumbles? More like to cunts revving their BMWs in dense 19th century quarters. Never was more glad to wear ANC buds.
I’ve been amazed at how much the desire to mutually communicate gets undermined by the anxious anticipation of both parties to reach a conclusion that was their desired outcome going into the conversation. I would take special pains to be absolutely calm when communicating complicated ideas to others. I would also do everything in my power to listen to their ideas, understand their idea, and convey this understanding.
ahahah, https://www.flickr.com/photos/marikoen/ this one? he seems to be sneaky, but also quite miserable. I have no idea why people do this for imaginary internet points. His photos are also quite boring.

Overall, flickr compared to instagram is so pleasant these days, no spam, just photos and some really good curated group.
I don't really understand how a web browser needs 400m a year, that's a lot of employees
I found I lost interest in vapid work. Programming is still fun, but it's a big challenge to find a job that is fulfilling.

When I was younger, I'd work on whatever. Then everything started sounding like yet another get rich quick company, and is that what I was giving up my life for? Just to move little green pieces of paper around?

The most appealing thing I'd seen recently was a company that wrote software to help maximize farm yields. At least there was some real, effective benefit for a great many people.

It's like the goal of the company gradually became more important than the tech or money. And altruistic companies are very rare.

But I always really wanted to teach, so that's what I do now. Pays about 40% of what I'd make in industry, but I get to geek out all day and do work that benefits the world.
Acceleration Robotics and AMD design robotic compute architectures with ROS
I think the big difference is that government is mandatory, whereas belonging to a co-op is voluntary. Both are useful and important.
<friendlySarcasm>You're definitely better than those people.</friendlySarcasm>
"This content is not available in your country/region."

Seriously? In this day and age? On the internet?

I believe HN should have a policy of deleting links to content that isn't accessible worldwide. Either we play the Internet game, or a "bunch of walled gardens" game.
My hottest take has been that fast-food restaurants in the US will be 100% plant-based in my lifetime. Whether it’s economics, politics, ethics, or health that drives the decision, something is going to make it happen.

My original belief was that one big prion disease outbreak in the US would be the tipping point, but post-COVID I don’t think that’ll do it.

Now, I think it’s going to be climate change. I honestly don’t see how animal meat is sustainable for more than another generation or two.
Not just people looking at their phones but people walking a dog, with two kids in tow, and still looking at their phone.

I do a 12 mile walk at least once a week and I'll encounter maybe 2 or 3 people on average who'll smile and say hello. It's worth it just for that reasurance that not every other person is an arshole.
What's the use case for something like this? I'd think that instead of building a distributed version of SQLite on top of another database engine, you'd just choose a distributed database in the first place. Are there benefits to the way SQLite works that outweigh the choice to just use some other flavor of SQL?
40 years old is aging/old?! That was more than a decade ago for me and I definitely didn’t feel aged at the time. I still spend all my time as an individual contributor. Their have been efforts to move me into more senior/management roles and I have refused them all. I know my strengths and working with people isn’t one of them.
The negative health effects of red meat are one of the few things in nutrition that we have consistent, overwhelming evidence for.

See for instance the studies linked here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_meat#:~:text=Health%20effe....
They do mean an end of line character (linefeed on Linux), not an empty line by itself (i.e. not something like `hello\n\n`).

> have pointed out, every line ends in a newline character, for most text editors).

My colleagues always add changes that end with that `\ No newline at end of file` diff for certain source files.
Trying to compare a veggie fake meat to real meat is like trying to market wacking off is better than the real thing
So do I. I liked both shows, very different though.
The video speaks for itself tho
It feels like most people don't have ethics most of the time. You have to convince them on other grounds. Price would be a part of that.
There's lot of ways you can measure it to make it sound better.
However it comes across as a sort of centralized future cyberpunk failure mode.

Again we are talking about 3 of the 30 vehicles they have on road failing at the same time.
Imagine if 10% of taxis in your city suddenly froze in place for 20 minutes until a special tow truck came after a pedestrian called the number on the back?

Or if all taxis in your city, when traveling through a particular intersection froze in place, requiring bystanders to call a response team from the taxi dispatch to come out and show the driver what to do?

It would be interesting to see the metrics of number of interventions/calls/responses Cruise is experiencing daily/weekly/montlhy.
I have grazed steers on my property and they didn't make such a positive impression on me. If they didn't produce beef I'd much rather not have them around.
I think you're right that a bean burger is more tasty than the processed beef texture burgers -- but neither are anywhere near as good as actual beef.

You know what's really good, though? Fake chicken patties. And it's been good for decades. I really wonder what the fixation is on beef patties, when there are other types of much more easily replaceable meat.

I also wish we would see more creative partial substitutes. Bean and beef patties? Sign me up.
> But capitalism cannot tolerate “free” time and space. And, so, at last, we have the iPhone.

To be clear, capitalism has nothing to do with the problem the author brings up in this article. The existence of the iPhone does not imply the overuse of the iPhone, or the misuse of the iPhone. People choose to look at their phones while walking, and I find it as frustrating and ridiculous as the author, but it's got nothing to do with economics.
Thanks for the list, I ran across runpod.io yesterday (no experience with them though)
Engineering in Plain Sight [pdf]
This is why I'm starring to get interested in games programming. It is so far removed from the kind of code I do for a living that it is a lot of fun and recaptured the magic of learning to code when I was 11ish.
I absolutely agree it’s not ready for regular people to use.

> I've been hearing the Western Union usurper argument since 2010. I doubt any of the people making those arguments actually use those services.

I know you weren’t talking about me but I’ve actually used western Union, and while it wasn’t bad, it wasn’t a particularly pleasant nor pain free experience either. Wise is EXCELLENT though.

More importantly, money exchangers and check caching places extract a TREMENDOUS toll on people who are forced to use them, and the prospect that could change is actually pretty good.

Up until now the main issue was the wastefulness and lack of scale/purpose fit of blockchain. It seems like ETH is poised to solve those things where BTC was stuck due to the interests of miners.

There are problems, but it really does feel like blockchain might have just finished it’s infancy (the scam era, let’s say).

Maybe I should publish something longer form on this. I had something written then chose to self censor
You can judge the quality of a contribution by looking at the code. Who wrote it is completely irrelevant. The trust in the Linux kernel never came from knowing the names of all the people that contributed to it.
I don’t understand the phenomenon of reciprocative following. Is it just an unspoken scheme to artificially inflate each other’s internet points? Like a kind of very low-level corruption?
I'm approaching 50. Just a scant decade away from being old enough to tap my retirement accounts and have the OPTION to retire. These next couple of years look like they might not be fun, but overall it looks like I'm actually going to make it.

For most of my career, I've been told (and I believed) that I would probably get forced out of a hands-on individual contributor role as I aged. During the late-2000's, I even had an early midlife crisis and earned a law degree, expecting that I would need to make a career change into IP or something. That hasn't been the case.

What I think people missed is the compounding effect. The supply and demand for computer programmers seems to double every decade (maybe the interval is even shorter). With each doubling, the older cohorts become a smaller and smaller share of the whole. People look around and think, "There aren't many older programmers here", and base predictions off that observation. However, the more accurate observation would be, "There have been A LOT of younger programmers added here!". I don't believe that it's actually a zero-sum game, though.

I don't know if this human resources cousin to Moore's Law will continue indefinitely, but it's certainly held up through my career. Even when it inevitably slows down, I think that just means you'll see the age cohorts balance out more over time.
Tiny nitpick... Irrelevant nitpick is what I would call it and it's not correct. It has nothing to do with ij being a digraph, the following are also digraphs au, ou, ei, eu,... in Dutch. You don't write AU or OU at the beginning of a sentence or in a name.
The most important thing about communication is to be aware that these three things might not be the same:

- what you intend to say

- what you actually communicate

- what the other person takes away from what you said

If you say a factually true thing in a very insecure way for example, the other side might not be convinced. If you mean to say something, but always find yourself to lack the words to communicate what you wanna say, chances are that what you actually communicated was not the thing you intended. It can also be that everything you say is alright, but your articulation and levels are off (too silent, too loud, slow, fast, unclear etc).

As with any thing you want to get better in the first step is to figure out which thing specifically needs improvement. A good way to do this is to record yourself and listen to it.
Good enough? As a vegetarian who moved from EU to Canada, I honestly dislike the meat-free replacements here. They try to make them represent actual meat and it doesn’t work.

More variety in EU and overall better quality. (That actually goes for many food products though)
The article wasn't about infrastructure or resilience, it was about technology stacks.

Maybe those other things were there, maybe they weren't but it wasn't about what you should do, just what he did.
Hey, talk slow and pick up audiobooks in local language. References, cultural context awareness and a bit of slang go a long way.
Also make jokes, it puts you amour if your comfort zone in a safe way, makes you likable and almost guaranteed to work. Jokes from a non-native speaker are 2x funny
Most live in representative republics, not "real" democracies, or they'd spend all day every day reading bills and voting on them.
That’s what I generally consider when I reject most forms of “it’s the fault of tech that the ways I likes it is changing!”

The old options are all still there.

I feel this fits into our generation’s epidemic of, “everything bad is someone or something else’s fault.”
Chess is a primarily mental competition, but players at the top of the world tend to hit their peak at around 35 years old. Players can continue playing at an exceptionally high level until the end of their life, but on average there is a gradual downward slide from that peak. Magnus Carlsen, the current world champ and arguably strongest player of all time, has decided to simply stop defending his title (held since 2013) at the age of 31.

I think something that tech and chess may have in common as well is the ever-shifting grounds. Electrical engineering of today is not dramatically different than electrical engineering of yesterday. But programming (depending on the domain) is quite different today than yesterday. This is going to result in an age bias because at some point you start to simply become jaded learning 'Incremental, overhyped, and not strictly necessary new trendy framework/language [that nobody will be using in 10 years] #2,743.'
I think you're mixing concepts... It's a free market economy if you can choose who to buy from; it's a democracy if the citizens choose the rules and laws, which may prohibit you from buying certain things.
For heavily seasoned stuff like tacos, I find ground turkey to be much closer to ground beef (and easier to prepare) than impossible meat.

Impossible doesn't audit or disclose their carbon footprint, but it has been estimated to be a 90% reduction from beef. It turns out switching to turkey also produces a 90% reduction, and is much cheaper:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220429-the-climate-bene...

The article I just linked is excellent. It also has data on climate emissions from transportation and refrigeration for different food types (transportation is a tiny factor for most foods; refrigeration is a larger factor than I realized) and data on emissions from food waste.

Tl;Dr: buy rapidly perishable goods locally; don't bother with things that have a long shelf life. Avoid beef and other ruminants. Don't waste food.

That last point is a big deal for us, as we feed scraps to the chickens, and doing so reduces our emissions way more than I realized (rotting food has very high emissions).
Things that are bad for the environment are bad for all of us and those of us who aren’t born yet. Source: The world.
There’s a legit issue in there, but us old’ns might have to own up to some of the problems we’ve caused (or even just failed to solve) and the legacy we’re leaving. ;) I’m mostly joking, but I honestly don’t think this is a young vs old issue, I think it’s a byproduct of happening to live through the time when the internet took over the earth right while programming exploded as a career. The amount of choice, complexity, scale, and expectation in software today is so much higher than it was 20 years ago.

Putting together a decent web app today that is competitive with what’s out there and doing it in a reasonable amount of time is something that just requires frameworks and library mashing. Even though I can fully empathize with your comment, from experience, and even though my beard is almost as grey, piling stuff I don’t understand together from yarn or npm is exactly how I start a new web app. My job recently switched from web to hardware, and the workflow changed dramatically into writing and scrutinizing every line of code, and complied instruction even. But even still in the hardware company there is an overwhelming sea of choice and complexity and an army of young and old programmers all borrowing and reusing code at all times, with everyone just treading water and understanding only the tiniest sliver of it all.

I think we have no choice but to embrace the fact that it’s no longer possible to avoid swimming in 90% code you can’t control or understand, and figure out how to better manage it and encourage people to snorkel under the surface whenever they can. I don’t think we should blame it on the kids though, they’re just trying to get by the same way we did, but in a different world than we had. The good ones will still shine through and be amazing, and the rest can learn their mistakes the long way just like we did when we were young and obstinate.
Yeah, problems that definitely need to be solved!

Also, I almost went on a zeppelin this year, I didn’t know it was possible to still book them in your town!
I have been a vegetarian the past few years and can absolutely not relate. Bean patties at majority of restaurants are dry, I can’t even remember a good bean burger I got.
Yeah, I mean soy burgers already were full of so many additives they weren't much better than beef. And those have been around for ages.
I wouldn't bother purchasing earbuds or headphones without both noise canceling and transparency, at this point.

Being able to switch to hearing the world without holding something in my hand is critical for a good time.
Systemd Comes to Windows Subsystem for Linux
he had found how plant it in artificial environment, maybe can't work on recovery population but enough for this.
No.

For one, a vote is a right. It costs you nothing to vote. A vote has a single purpose.

Buying an item is not the same. You have a fixed amount of money and there is an opportunity cost to buying anything. Moreover, you need to buy certain items to survive.

If you are poor you are not in a position where you have a choice, you have to buy the cheapest items that you need to survive. If you are rich you have more than enough resources to survive, to buy the items you actually want, and more beyond.

When you are forced to vote in a certain way because you cannot afford not to, that is not democracy.
Well, I understand your skepticism, which is always healthy. I recommend a good Google/Reddit search to find all of the nuances of the subject, but overall, yes, if you are legally working in Sweden for 4 years, you can become a citizen.
Is that why Twitter locked them for releasing the Hunter Biden story? Because it was true and admitted by the New York Times years later?
What’s your favorite lever action?
Maybe we need professional certification for CEOs.
This seems pretty tame to me. It's exactly the sort of failure when testing this tech I'd like to see. "Cars blocked traffic for some reason" is way better than cars hitting people.

I'm impressed it works as well as it already does, and I'm looking forward to more bugs getting worked out.
Hey I've got an idea, let's artificially restrict the flow of USD currency behind oligopolists, then double-dip and own the company that makes it slightly easier to transact. Can I have a billion dollars now for inventing paypal cause I know HTML? I'm Peter Eat-your-meal, you should listen to what I have to say because I'm the smartest conman in the room.
Going Online with a 1976 Apple-1 Computer
If you have it, it doesn't matter, you will spend it and scream for more. Look at wikipedia.

Wikipedia collected 162m in revenue (no ads!) and spent 112m dollars! I'd be curious to dig into what % of that goes to core wikipedia and what % goes ancillary projects. You'd have to dig very deeply into their finances to figure that out.

Firefox should set apart a large chunk of that 400m/year in an endowment intended for Firefox to continue and to be independent in perpetuity. That could easily be a multiple-billion dollar endowment by now and their spending and growth from that spending should be on revenue from that endowment.
Watching baseball and my kids. Probably at the same time.
Depends on what you mean by "worth it" :)

I develop applications (c) on AIX and it is a bit different, I find it rather close to the BSDs. There are minor oddities, but I think it is rather good, and I personally like it.

As time goes forward, I think RHEL is going to be the direction.

It is a bit sad to see these proprietary UNIXs fall by the wayside, but most of the reason is their fault for the restrictive licenses they have.
This is my problem. Id rather have an “old school” black bean or soy based veggie burger. I’m not a low fat adherent or vegetarian but I’d rather have the nutrient density, fiber content, and fewer calories of the traditional alternatives. Otherwise I’m ordering a quality meat product or a salad.
Fitbit users will have to sign into Google from 2023
Definitely (though not half and half). We usually put breadcrumbs and eggs in our meatballs, for example.
People can like multiple things at once.