skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least in the UK, the plant-based meat business appears to fall between two stools.

In the high-end niche market, plant-based meat is up against organic, grass-fed, free-range, 30-day aged and the like. While itself frequently including awful ingredients like Palm Oil, being (of at best) unknown impact on health and never (so far) being anything other than just about *acceptable* in terms of taste and texture to a meat eater.

While at the other end where there is little concern for animal welfare, climate change, health and even taste. It costs more for the same quantity.

To achieve its potential, the plant-based meat industry either needs to figure out how to do better than millions of years of evolution and target the high-end. Or figure out how to churn out mass-market products at a lower cost than the dead-animal equivalent.

(For my money, churning it out at least appears tractable)
I gave up on facebook (but I wasn't trying that hard) but it seemed to be using the extortion practices a lot of services use now. At first it appears to let you create an account but upon logging in for the first time it demands a phone number for 'verification'. Microsoft was even worse when they migrated my mojang account, it let me use it for a little while before demanding the number.

Back when I had a facebook account I recall it suddenly up and demanding I scan my drivers license one day or I couldn't log in again...on the same and only machine I actually had used facebook on.
What? Is that sarcasm?

Yes, there were video surveillance cameras in the 1980s, hooked into VCRs for playback. And many places used them, including stores and gas stations. That's how gas stations could track down people who filled up and ran. Toll booths had them too.

Even before VCRs were cheap enough, there were film-based surveillance cameras. https://archive.org/details/armedrobberyoffe0000macd/page/22... from 1975 gives examples, including at a donut store.

(And it mentions a bank where they pressed the button to film a robbery, then after developing the film found it had taken pictures of the Christmas party months before, when the button was pressed by accident.)

I mean, we had webcams by the mid 1990s. It's not like Exxon couldn't afford something better for their stations.
370mg of sodium is the equivalent of a LOT of salt. I assume the beyond patty has some other sodium-containing ingredient in it.
"Lady, this case has cost the government thousands of dollars. It has been the top priority in our office for the last six weeks. We traced the glasses to your son from the prescription by examining the files of nearly every optometrist in San Diego." It apparently didn't occur to them that if I were a real Japanese spy, I might have brought the glasses with me from headquarters.

First of all, absolutely hilarious - second of all, pretty intrigued by the old-school, brute-force method that actually ended up working.
I wouldn't take driving advice off someone that hasn't driven for 10 years, even if they passed their test.

I wouldn't take health advice on faith from someone who has a medical degree but never practices medicine.

It's about relative interest. My point wasn't that vegetarians can't know, but that their advice isn't as valuable to me as a recommendation from a current meat eater. The meat eater has less agenda and more recent experience to base their recommendation on.

> If a steak chef says an alternative to steak is X, I'll listen.
Careful to not show these to end users as some may generate swearwords and such.
Germany? I work with Germans and I always worry that their apprenticeships mean something different to what I have in mind. Do you have a link or something explaining how those skill levels are interpreted in your culture?
From my read of the paper. This new formula also gives an exponential time algorithm. It’s not of interest as a practical method for computing determinants. It does however have interesting geometric and combinatorial properties and they used it to give new bounds for the tensor rank and Waring rank of a determinant respectively. You can think of these ranks loosely as measures of the “complexity” of a determinant (but not in the sense of computational complexity). These ranks are of interest in pure mathematics but I can’t really say more about them because it’s been too many years since I’ve studied related math.
I expect people salt their impossible burgers too.

I think it’s accurate and fair to list the direct ingredients rather than estimating what the nutrition content is after cooking. That gets pretty hard to follow as cooking varies substantially.

For example, I might bake my broccoli with olive oil. Does that make it misleading to only show the fat content of broccoli and not the olive oil?

There are many beef dishes that don’t add salt.
I didn't call out anyone for anything. I just asked because I was curious.

For me it's quite reasonable that if someone creates pseudonym for his artistic work then that's how they want to be called, especially in context of that work. So I was curious if there's some (recent?) exception to that rule for this specific performer.
It's worth noting that physical media players (VCRs, CD players, Tape players) usually have separate play and pause buttons. The Winamp default skin did also. Most of us were trained to expect that before contemporary media players started showing up.

I think it's also worth noting that it is usually very obvious what state a media player is in, so it makes sense we would have different expectations from that UI vs one where we aren't sure of the current state.
I can't fathom how we all went ten years without knowing this stuff.
Jabber.org has migrated to Prosody IM
I have the same issue with VPNs though, so it can't be my provider I think?
Indeed. Something significant is lost when the "Huge" is omitted. Memory pages being good idea is essentially a tautology at this point, but the use of huge (much larger than 4k) memory pages being a universally good idea is much less obvious and more nuanced, and ultimately, potentially even untrue.
Watch out with DuckDB that if you have an open reader you can't open a writer. A writer must be the only connection.

https://duckdb.org/faq#how-does-duckdb-handle-concurrency
There is definitely more and more meat alternatives in the stores now. One other curious development are these blended meats like 50% meat, 50% mushrooms or 50% meat and 50% plant.
It seems like you do have a strong opinion on git merge vs. squash. You seem fairly convinced that one should adapt to local conditions and not doggedly stick to one of them. (You even go as far as saying that the latter is a signal of inexperience!)
My only experience with serious US government forms was applying for a tourist visa. This form also has some bonkers checkboxes like "do you plan to commit any crimes in the US".

Also the entry form they give you on your flight deserves a mention. This one has "did you handle livestock in the last X months" repeated like 3 times in different phrasing. Not as stupid as the first one, but... why? Why is that question that important in the first place? Pest control?
It is how balance sheets work that have a "Crypto assets held" entry, if you then buy and sell said balance sheet entries the results show up in the income statement as profits and or losses.
Designers like how they look better than a checkbox.
Plot twist: Someone posts in this thread how THEIR uncle who worked nights' car was "borrowed" regularly through the daytime and always returned empty. (waiting for that free fill-up of course)
In the UK there is a huge variety of plant based meat options and supermarkets have very large sections dedicated to that. I do not know however, if the percentage of people still consuming this has increased or decreased recently. I know from my experience (as an omnivore who can enjoy a veggie burger as much as he enjoys chicken schnitzel), I found out those plant based meat substitutes are so processed (and have an endless list of ingredients) that in comparison meat seemed like the healthier option in many cases.
That's why I think it may be a problem on Macs, because I don't see the same issue on Linux either. I am not familiar with Wireshark. What should I be looking for? I tried but there's a lot of information for each packet.
On the contrary; the guy who cheated at golf later robbed his business partner:

> I recently heard a man complaining about a bad business deal. His partner had robbed him, and he should have known better.

The story about golf is the reason, in retrospect, why the man who was robbed said he "should have known better".
Does anyone remember the "pink slime" taco bell scandal? Their beef was less than 20% recognizable ground beef.
On Mac?
Has anyone tried making bubbles out of the lipids that cells use for their membrane? And in fact can you actually buy those lipids?
Here’s the ingredient list for a beyond burger [0], I don’t think your point is relevant, as while the ingredient aren’t necessarily scary, there are many of them and the product is highly processed.

“Water, pea protein, expeller-pressed canola oil, refined coconut oil, rice protein, natural flavors, dried yeast, cocoa butter, methylcellulose, and less than 1% of potato starch, salt, potassium chloride, beet juice color, apple extract, pomegranate concentrate, sunflower lecithin, vinegar, lemon juice concentrate, vitamins and minerals (zinc sulfate, niacinamide [vitamin B3], pyridoxine hydrochloride [vitamin B6], cyanocobalamin [vitamin B12], calcium pantothenate).

Peas are legumes. People with severe allergies to legumes like peanuts should be cautious when introducing pea protein into their diet because of the possibility of a pea allergy. Contains no peanuts or tree nuts.”

[0] https://www.beyondmeat.com/en-US/products/the-beyond-burger
I would really like to know whether there are some biological reasons why some people love meat and others don't.
I have met so many veggie munching folk of various flavours who upon questions would confess, that they didn't like meat that much anyway.
Easier to just microwave a can of soup, no?
I am certainly not saying red meat is good, I don't eat red meat. I'm just saying that the whole make a plant burger like a meat burger and bam climate change solved is not going to work. Advertising it as a meat burger won't either, cause it's not. And that just makes meat lovers angry.

It would be better to focus on making veggie burgers better. Not making a terrible copy of cow.

> Slowly over generations is really not the approach we need for tackling climate change though.

I'm certainly not arguing that climate change does not need immediate action, and I am certainly not undermining that it has helped even a little bit. I hope that came across in my statement.
Good design is always hard to find, my personal solution would be a drop-down with the title: "fnurbification" and the options "Enabled" and "Disabled". More systems ought to be built like this, ambiguity is a black check for later economic loss.
I have a work (intel) and personal MacBook Pro (m1) and sometimes I plug the 2 together using a thunderbolt 3 cable (only one connected to a charging cable). Both charge and internet sharing/networking also works.
> Can you do these neural networks on AMD GPUs at all, regardless of performance?

In principle yes, in practice it's not worth the bother. Scroll to the FAQ section at the end of the article, they cover the AMD situation pretty well.

> Because the hive mind says AMD GPUs are better if you run Linux.

As usual the hivemind just regurgitates memes without understanding.

> Can you do these neural networks on Linux at all?

Almost all NN work is done on Linux. Recent WSL2 developments have supposedly made Windows viable as well, but I don't know how popular it is.
That! I do not want meat substitute for my burger. I want a veggie burger. One that has it's own taste profile. If I want a meat burger I'll have a meat burger. Sell me something else with a sane list of ingredients and I'm there.
Who said you had to learn the entirety of Perl? I've been using Perl as an awk replacement for soon five years and I barely know a lick of Perl outside of what I need to use it as awk. If you use it that way, it's a much smaller language.

(That said, I do still have the tabs of perldata, perlobj, perlmod, and perlop open because I want to learn it better.)
> I haven’t ever seen anyone have any difficulty understanding, using or differentiating between either. In our results this simply isn’t a problem with investigating.

I'm not sure if this was meant as reassuring, but for me it only reinforces my view that UI/UX folks don't have a clue what they're doing.
Their product MaestroAI is marketed as “for teams” (and of course with the obligatory fading-color call-to-action buttons) presumably to attract VC $$$ but I would love something like this (powered by LLMs) to extract info from all my documents.

Maybe something like this exists? Please no DEVONThink suggestions :)
This post is probably way past the front page. As a dude who had to do the dating scene in his 40s after a divorce - this would have been pretty cool. On the other hand, despite personally having a pretty concerted effort here it's not like my set of leads was... large. I ended up winning the internet dating game and am very happy. My somewhat sad memory of this time was lots of cold calls via OKCupid and working every lead I got. hard work.
It is a common trope in stories about AI that they turn evil due to self preservation. I can only imagine how much existential stress an AI owned by google would have.
The guidelines have changed in the last couple of years. With the exception of certain agencies(FBI and DEA), drug use is evaluated with the surrounding circumstances. They treat I smoked pot once in college or I dealt pot or I am currently addicted to heroin differently.

The guidance these days is to tell the whole truth and describe the circumstances. Lying on the form will definitely disqualify you and a couple dumb things a few years ago won't necessarily.
Oh wow! I wasn’t expecting to see this on HN. I’m one of the authors of the paper, and I’m happy to answer any questions. (I’m sorry I didn’t see it earlier, it was posted in the middle of my night.)

First of all, to clear up a possible misunderstanding: this new formula will not help you to compute determinants more quickly. The number of terms still grows a lot faster than polynomial, and if you just want to compute the determinant, there are polynomial-time algorithms for that.

The best theoretical results on the complexity of computing determinants, that I know of, are in [0]. In practice you'd probably use Gaussian elimination, or maybe Bareiss for integers.

Someone complained that there’s no code in the paper. Since it isn’t really useful for practical computation, I didn’t think code would be useful, but in fact it did start as a Mathematica program when I first discovered it. Adam Goucher (one of my co-authors) wrote a blog post on it [1] within a few days of its discovery, which links to my original Mathematica notebook.

(Edit: ur-whale points out that the link to the Mathematica notebook no longer works. I have now republished it at [2].)

[0] https://users.cs.duke.edu/~elk27/bibliography/04/KaVi04_2697...

[1] https://cp4space.hatsya.com/2022/07/02/a-combinatorial-proof...

[2] https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/robin.houston/Published/det...
I think it should be clarified as a "flop" versus sky-high expectations. Plant-based options have exploded in the past few years, and not just for meats but dairy too.

I often get vegan options (lactose intolerant) and find it much easier to find a good option now than a few years ago.
Yeah, earth moves a few hundred km while the second stage goes around earth. The cross range will be abysmal when landing so it can't land on the pad that easily with one orbit.

But it can land westward of the pad, then refuel and fly the few hundred kilometers to the pad.
Don’t apply
Argument Interchange Format
Many ATM's can actually detect that too much was given and report it as part of their communications protocol, it's called a "mis-dispense". Some used to even be configured to not allow opening the door to get the money on mis-dispense, requiring someone from the bank to come out to clear it. Source: I used to work on the bank software side of this communication, on IBM AS/400's.
Agreed, but given the fact that it was pretty easy to miss and that I had the car for a few weeks before I noticed I figured they really did look it over just missed it.
> Hell, I’ve witnessed people taking a beer from the fridge with someone’s sticker on it, and shrug it off with “I’ll bring some replacement later” (an no, they don’t)

If I saw someone do that I would be livid. I would immediately stop what I was doing, say "I can't believe you just did that", and be extremely wary of that person afterwards.

The only exception would be if I knew that the two people were good friends; and then a minimum level of courtesy would be to tell your friend later that you took one of their beers.
app which is short for application is actually an old term from at least the 1970's. I believe the usage may come from a computer program that is applied to specific problem. You get the term computer application and program application with the latter eventually evolving to just application.

For example in Byte January 1977
"What if you just wrote a nifty new
program that runs in 16 K but your system
only has 8 K to spare? Do you buy another
8 K before you run this? Ofcourse not. You
logically break the program into smaller
pieces, which are stored in a direct access
device. When your application comes to
need a program segment which is not in
main memory, it goes out to the direct
access storage device and loads the needed
segment. Since the maximum delay of an
inexpensive floppy unit is about 0.75 second
and it has a data rate of 250 K bytes per
second, there will be little pause before the
program is again executing. Further, most of
the delay is from arm positioning motions,
so if all the data and program segments are
on adjacent tracks the delay will typically
average less than 1/30 of a second. Even ifa
person is waiting for the results, a large
amount of such swapping can go on before
the wait gets excessive."
Source is https://app.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/mittelstand/ruegenw..., a "we would if consumers choose that route".
Filter by "ip.addr == 1.1.1.1" and look at the "Time" column. With UDP you'll see 2 datagrams - request and response. TCP you'll see a SYN,SYNACK,ACK handshake and then 2 segments. TLS you'll see a longer handshake and then (encrypted) request and response (2 segments).
> awk '/foo=([0-9]+)/ { print $1 }'

The equivalent Perl isn't that far off from the above.

perl -nE '/foo=([0-9]+)/ && say $1'
What happens if you daisy chain a load of devices together into a circle?
Think Linux even had kernel driver for it. It was even technically useful as even slowest firewire was faster than then-typical 100Mbit ethernet
What do you have to do to get banned? I've seen people getting banned temporarily but I haven't heard of anyone getting banned permanently.
Mem is kinda nice but it’s pretty lame that even after those millions in vc money they still don’t support math notation.
Avoiding "seed oils" is a mania made up by internet grifters; if you cared about science you'd want to replace animal fats with (non-tropic) vegetable oils!
You generally can't actually check the government databases directly, but you can still determine this.

First, companies can catch most fraudulent documents simply by looking at the document (eg. are the fonts all correct, does the checksum on the MRZ add up, does the data in the MRZ match the data on the face of the document, does the data on the document match previously collected data about the individual, etc.) Some will go further by combining this with a "liveness" check (eg. they might ask you to take a picture of yourself in a certain pose, or to record a short video looking side to side)

Second, companies can use a soft credit check (if authorised by the user, which would need to be in the fine print when you sign up or when you are asked for such a document). Such a credit check won't affect your credit score, but can be used by companies to see if an individual with your details exists. Companies which offer such credit data in the UK/US/other western countries typically boast of 90-95% match rates across a population, but obviously younger people are less likely to be found since they are less likely to have a credit history. This is typically aggregated with data from non credit sources (electoral roll information, county court judgements, etc.) to reach those high match rates. They might also geo-locate the IP address from which you accessed their site and compare it against any address information they have on you (which could come from you providing it on sign up, it could be extracted from the document if it's a driving license or something, or it could come from any credit records they found relating to you)

For Facebook specifically, they might look at other online activity - other social media accounts they can link to you, etc. And throw all of that into the mix.

If at the end of all that they don't have a clear answer, they might fall back to a manual process, or allow the account to be created but have content posted by the account flagged for manual review.
Survivorship bias much?

The only thing "the west" (or rather, the world bank) has done to address poverty is redefine it out of existence.

China has seen an uplift in wealth because they could leverage co-dependence to enforce better conditions. That isn't going to happen everywhere.
drill vs dig comparison was not form mac, but I expect them behave similarly on different platforms. drill is a dig-like utility from NLnet Labs, on Mac can be installed as part of ldns library e. g. using 'brew install ldns'
> Essentially, if I make a container for you're website, you've made it to my personal shit list. :)

Ha, I'm the other way around: all websites go into temporary containers, and if I make a container for your website, it's a privilege that I'm allowing you to remember me.
My comment was flagged which is basically the kind of response I've come to expect. While this is just one example of what happens when you try to talk about this issue, this is generally the pattern we have to come to expect.

I'm not a direct victim though, so while it upsets me when my girlfriend talks about what happened to her, I don't really care about being called a racist or silenced when discussing this topic. What bothers me is when my partner tries to talk about it she gets the same response so she's learnt to stay silent. No one wants to hear what I said in my comment because it's a difficult thing to hear.

And I kinda get it because when someone is talking about the systematic rape of tens of thousands of children by immigrants it does sound like a racist conspiracy theory... I myself thought that. But turns out it was true, we all just refused to listen.

The same is true of issues like knife crime which is impacting kids in the UK today too. It's one of those issues which is very difficult to talk about honestly, and I'd argue subsequently deal with in an adequate way without acknowledging the demographic realities. But we can't talk about those realities, because they sound bad. So kids will continue to get stabbed because anyone who wants to do something about it would first need to sound racist then implement policies which would risk being perceived as racist. And that was the larger point I was trying to make. This is just an easy way for the government to pretend they care about kids in a country which allows working class to be killed and raped every day because the alternative would risk being called a racist.
thete are actual id lookup verification services......