skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nutritious non-meat already exists.

As a non-meat eater where the idea of eating meat literally makes you sick, you're not really qualified to talk about what the rest of us meat-eaters would need to switch to more plants. People would absolutely eat more of it if it tasted just like meat and was the same cost or cheaper.

They won't if it doesn't hit the same craving or is more expensive, as we've seen.
I discovered this when I upgraded bash shell to the latest version (5.0) with HomeBrew on my Mac machine. This in turn used the readline 8.0 library that had the bracketed paste feature enabled by default. I had to `set enable-bracketed-paste off` in my .inputrc to revert back to previous behavior.
> Time Span for Ink Cartridges (Winner: Ballpoint Pen)

I believe if you use an eyedropper fountain pen, one 20ml ink bottle will last you more than the 3kms that the Ballpoint Pen Refill promises.

After all, most cartridge fountain pens can be easily converted into eyedropper mode.

I am a microfluidics engineer, and just love holding a marvel of fluid mechanics engineering in my hand as I think/write.
That's not what Rawls is arguing. If you, GP, or anyone disagrees, I'd be happy to discuss philosophy in earnest.

Rawls developed a lot of his ideas as critiques of political philosophy in his time. One such school was the liberal tradition, works by authors such as Locke, Mills, and Kant, that argued that ensuring individual rights and happiness was the most important aspect of political society. Another school was the dialectical materialist school by authors such as Marx, Althusser, and Gramsci which argued that political society's goal should be to dissolve structural inequalities which arise from material conditions.

Rawls wanted to strike a middle ground between the two schools and acknowledge both materialist concerns and the need for individuals' rights. A key part of unifying these notions was to offer the idea of self-respect, that ensuring the key role of political institutions should be to maximize the self-respect of the individual not necessarily their rights or their autonomy. Self-respect is a lens that exists for social and political institutions to target, not an extant property of individuals themselves, they exist together [1]. The existence of state institutions is justified as tools to maximize self-respect and justice. As expected philosophers from both camps criticized Rawls's work, libertarians asserting that self-respect led to instances of infringements of rights and dialectical materialists claiming that Rawls's ideas would uphold bourgeoise inequality the same way democratic societies do now.

It's a problem I find with these sorts of discussions online. People use quotes from political philosophers to lend credence to their ideas without considering the totality of the philosopher's ideas. You can't reduce a philosopher into a pithy quote or tweet.

[1]: If you recognize Lacanian discourse, then you can view equity institutions as the Other with the messy bits of individuality and self-respect shaking out as the Real.
I think you are oriented for defending the American election. I think a better way to orient is to compare how Taiwanese elections are run to how American elections are run.

My assertion is that Taiwanese elections are much more simple and therefore much more understandable and much more trustable. American elections might be cheaper per capita.

If we are choosing a method of elections that is more complex and results in less trust, why are we doing it that way?

Election day isn't even a holiday.
I use the practice of creating a new employee specific password manager account instead. Once I have an employee email address, I use that to register on either Mozilla's password manager, or BitWarden. It works out nicely, isolates everything, and should I ever leave and someone needs an account I once had, I can safely pass along an old password with ease.
But consider that economic development helped turn south korea and Taiwan from brutal dictatorships to relatively stable and sustainable democracies. It wasn't crazy to think it would work in China, and it looked like there was buy-in and progress for an (if slow) gradual bringing into the fold process that suddenly t
reversed course in 2016-ish
I've noticed a similar effect from tall management hierarchies in my career. You end up spending hours every week making presentations to managers, working with managers to make presentations to higher-up managers, etc. Everything is done in terms of "What will Jim (the VP) think of this?"
>just could gave tried less hard and easily worked 5 to 10 hours less per week with the same result.

I think this is an important point. Too many people spend too much time at work thinking all those extra hours will somehow pay off for them. They almost never do: the slacker co-worker who leaves after his 8 hours are done might get a slightly lower raise, but after 10 years you won't see a significant difference between the two in savings or career trajectory, all other factors being equal. The slacker might not be as well-liked by management, but he'll quit after a couple of years anyway and go to another company and get paid more than the hard-working guy putting in 60 hours/week, then do the same after 2-3 years, etc. Loyalty is not rewarded.
Juicero’s 127M funding round certainly came from QE. As did WeWork’s 40B valuation, Uber’s 32B in burnt cash, and all the inflated salaries that money funded, which, in turn, created $3M 2-bedroom houses in SF.
I was in the process of learning it at the end of my 20s but hadn't quite gotten there until the cusp of 29/30. I did firmware, data science, physics research, and developed a scientific software framework before that.
How about I just leave this link here?: https://1kb.club
It is a great question, the answer is nobody really knows for sure.
Well there are currently over 14k bitcoin nodes securing the network. Even if you deployed 20k new nodes, more than doubling the number of existing nodes, to run a fork that supports an increase in supply, it still wouldn’t work.

You would have to somehow take down the vast majority of nodes, many of which run on Tor.

Notably, neither miners alone nor the core Bitcoin devs could force an increase in supply without the support of the majority of nodes.

Note also, you can run a node on a Raspberry Pi so most node operators are regular folks securing the network for themselves. Bitcoin is run/secured by plebs, not whales.

In the Blockwars of 2017 many large miners and custodial exchanges tried to increase the block size but were thwarted because the majority of nodes didn’t agree with the change.

I think the 21 million cap is safe for the foreseeable future. If anything we may see a switch to Satoshis (Sats) as the default currency to replace Bitcoin. There are 1 Billion Sats per Bitcoin which should be more than enough for some time.
I'm never going to unsee this now, curse you!
Eliminating misunderstanding comes down to willingness to ask more questions if you have low confidence. The main reason this doesn’t happen is subordinates afraid to look stupid or lose jobs. None are concerns to an unthinking machine.
This is so funny to me.

Good luck with the whole "empire in decline" coping process.
I love YouTube premium but the most frustrating thing is that there is no guest mode. You can go incognito but then there are ads. Which means my recommendations get messed up whenever people visit and play things on the TV!
More than half of working age adults have college degrees. I wouldn’t call that a satisfying definition of “elite”. When I think of the elite I’m thinking heads of state, CEOs, and leaders of the arts and sciences. Not a rando marketing manager with an English degree.
I will be honest I have kind of given up on trying to maintain a lot of these systems. Some I am still giving love but every year it gets a little harder, particularly with weird power supplies, dying capacitors and (now) odd ball storage systems.

About 3 months ago I finally had to sacrifice a PowerMac G5 (Steve Jobs Folly as I called it), I kept the case and it is now a semi-sleeper PC but the original G5 board was dead as a dodo and not willing to go any further. The heat sinks on that thing was intense!
Related:

How AltStore is building a haven for forbidden iPhone apps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31323321 - May 2022 (1 comment)

AltServer 1.5 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31253588 - May 2022 (1 comment)

AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27568379 - June 2021 (215 comments)

AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25028786 - Nov 2020 (173 comments)

AltStore is an iOS App Store alternative that doesn’t require a jailbreak - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21201810 - Oct 2019 (1 comment)

An iOS developer built an alternative App Store for the iPhone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21162548 - Oct 2019 (1 comment)

Altstore – An alternative iOS app store, no jailbreak required - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21088998 - Sept 2019 (1 comment)

AltStore: iOS App Store alternative that doesn’t require jailbreak - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21083828 - Sept 2019 (1 comment)

AltStore: Alternative iOS app store that doesn't require a jailbreak - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21083092 - Sept 2019 (47 comments)

AltStore is an alternative iOS App Store with a built-in Nintendo emulator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21081639 - Sept 2019 (1 comment)

A home for apps that push the boundaries of iOS. No jailbreak required - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21076155 - Sept 2019 (1 comment)

AltStore - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21075818 - Sept 2019 (1 comment)
I mean, I was pretty clearly talking about the future, and not the present.
It’s an interesting article. In my view, Non-conformists start companies. Possibly aggressive non-conformists most of all.

In my personal case, I made many questionable choices, including turning down a job at Microsoft in the nineties (would have been better financially) and leaving multiple great jobs (one of which afforded me corporate apartments in Honolulu and London) to risk everything multiple times to start multiple companies.

So there’s risk-seeking behavior there as well as a refusal to accept “good enough” even when it was almost definitely a better choice from a financial and physical health perspective.

I can still see my dad shaking his head about turning down Microsoft…

It sort of worked out. I had a good exit but nothing like kicking it at M$ for 30 years would have been.

I’m not sure we why we glamorize this. But in the end I wouldn’t change it. I did it my way. I’m now trying to do it again.

This is why I can’t play any games which require grinding (looking at you Eve) because I know it’s more fun IRL. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Philipp von Jolly - Max Planck's professor (1878)
Maybe I was a bit too harsh on Bitwarden for a moment there, it's chiefly an issue with chromium. https://github.com/bromite/bromite/issues/547
This is brutalist, not minimal.
There is a long lag between taking on excessive risk and failure.

In that period, your excessive risk taking will likely show excessive growth, which will likely lead to stronger stock prices. If you’re a banking exec, your salary is linked to stock performance. You can easily run up 5-8 years before the whole edifice crumbles, pocketing fat bonuses in the interim.

Who cares if Joe Shareholder gets left with nothing at the end? You and all your exec buddies can make off like bandits in the interim.
There are managers who aren’t competent, either at their functional craft, or managing. And there are organizations which have too many layers. But effective leadership is indispensable to make a company successful. And the best way to distribute leadership through an organization is through a hierarchy, and that usually means managers. Anyone who exclusively sees the negative aspects of having managers has only played the organizational game in easy mode. Large orgs are really freaking hard to coordinate.
They no more "refute" other models of language than numerical methods invalidate or refute symbolic math and exact, closed-form solutions.
You don’t need to have a model if you are a sufficiently advanced autocomplete.
Well, so far it does nothing but switch to an audio captcha. Nothing else happening, no error message or other feedback. Pretty similar to when I last used it.
I totally understand looking for graduates that know SQL for certain positions, but it is a specialty not taught in any core class. You can absolutely know CS and entire areas of programming without it.

I used SQL all the time in web dev but haven't touched it since going to college. I do embedded so it's just never been necessary.

Now if this is a web dev or data related posting and students are coming in supposedly for this specialty then this ask HN is a little more understandable. Although perhaps poorly worded.
> I mean yeah sure it's cool that something can do all your work for you but as your boss, I wouldn't need you then would I? I mean this aspect of economic impact must be considered along with the convenient fact that it makes your job easier.

Digitalisation is basically replacing manual tasks, so I've frankly been doing it for a decade and a half. I wouldn't mind if the AI could help me write a lot of the boring code and I'm not worried about it replacing me, because even if it makes me more efficient, I've spent 7 years in the public sector seeing how little use "no-code" solutions have been to people who can't tell IT support if their phone runs android or ios.

> I also find it hard to see how you're unimpressed?

The first answer I got from ChatGPT worked, but it used a library that had been deprecated for at least 2 years. Which it then explained by it's data-cutoff point being in 2021. Since then we've put effort into getting it to do things for us, where it's ranged from "well this is a pretty outdated/less efficient way to do that" to "you're outright making stuff up, aren't you?".

I should've screen grapped it, but at one point, trying to get it to do some asp.versioning, it told us to use a conveniently named method on an object. Only it turned out that the method had never existed in any versions of asp.versioning.

Co-pilot has been even less of a success.

I've also used it for fun. I've had some discussions about books that it obviously haven't read. It's very good at pretending that its answers are correct, but it'll absolutely make stuff up. Maybe that gets better as time goes by, but a lying AI is sort of useless. On the flip-side. I'm an external examiner for CS students, and I can get it to pass most programming questions students are given. Simply by entering the exam question into it... Typically it'll give a better answer than most students will, and it'll do it in like 1 minute on the free version. So it's obviously very good at churning out results for questions that have a gazillion answers on the internet and in a much more efficient way than any "old" search engine would. It's just that when it's tasked with doing something that hasn't been done a million times before, then it sort of falls flat.

I still have high hopes, that AI's will help automate a lot of the things we write. We'e seen some use of them for automating documentation, which if they can also maintain it to keep it up-to-date would be a game changer, but on a whole, they are largely unimpressive to me personally. But I'm open to be impressed by the next versions.
You can explain quoting syntax to ChatGPT, and it seems to understand data formats like JSON, so I assume that that should work.
But horse carriage drivers were never out of a job, because cars still needed people to drive them... (yes, people can drive their own car, but they can also drive their own carriage, so nothing is different there). In contrast, horses were out of a job; do you think we are more like horses than like the people who drive horses?
He was right, we're seeing more proof than ever.
Let's say you have 99% certainty that your changes are perfect. That means every two years you royally fuck up your weekend. Is that infrequent enough to not wait two days?
Related ongoing thread:

Glaze: Protecting artists from style mimicry - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35224219 - March 2023 (181 comments)

A link like this should probably be a comment in the original thread, to avoid split discussion.
I was a PM at Meta from 2016-2022. I work at a startup now and have to write detailed specs and deal with lots of small details —- something I was discouraged from doing as I rose in rank at Meta and scarcely did after the first year. Looking back, I don’t even remember what it was that I did if not that —- lots of strategy docs, aligning other teams, but no specs. I am having to unlearn a lot of bad attitudes and habits to do new gig effectively.

I remember when I left feeling funny that there were as many people working on metaverse stuff as were in company when I joined (like 16k), and it’s mind boggling to me now that the layoffs are affecting around same amount.
Reading this entire thread makes me wonder why in the world wouldn't people use Android. From Aurora Store, as the safest method, which by-passes Google play locality restrictions, through the likes of F-Droid, all the way to dedicated apk files or site-repositories of such, of course with all verifications carried out, for safety/security reasons, there is an incredible wealth of resources. And I'm not even considering rooting, and/or alternative OS images, to the vendor provided ones.
I've never needed a LinkedIn account to apply for jobs and you don't need one to search for them on LinkedIn either.

Whenever I find a job on any recruiting website I always just go to the company's website and apply directly.
recent research indicates that GW1 syndrome is caused by Sarin exposure that was caused by US warplanes dropping bunker busters on storage facilities. the sarin then drifted onto US fighters far away.

no study was made of the iraqi civilians that were nearby other sites that were hit. i guarantee you the toll there is much higher.

https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/s...
> > Our early analysis of performance data suggests that engineers who either joined Meta in-person and then transferred to remote or remained in-person performed better on average than people who joined remotely. This analysis also shows that engineers earlier in their career perform better on average when they work in-person with teammates at least three days a week. This requires further study, but our hypothesis is that it is still easier to build trust in person and that those relationships help us work more effectively.

This is meaningless without knowing how productivity is being measured. It's very possible that said metric inherently favors in-person collaboration over remote collaboration - which would then skew the results of any further analysis of that metric.

This is also meaningless without knowing exactly what's being compared. I wouldn't be surprised if 3 in-person days a week was indeed more productive than 0, but what about 2? 1? 1/2? 1/30? 1/365.24? There's a lot of numbers between 0 and 3, and coming to any conclusions without understanding the actual shape of that graph is folly.

This is also meaningless without information on the wide range of in-person cultures or the wide range of remote cultures. These preliminary results could readily come about from having a remote culture that's more dysfunctional than other remote cultures and/or an in-person culture that's less dysfunctional than other in-person cultures. I've personally experienced both ranges more-or-less in full over the course of my career - as well as varying combinations of the two in hybrid environments.
>> very high-functioning

Author seems to be confusing established companies that hold near monopolies as highly functioning. It is difficult to to learn from large US tech companies. At Google not breaking the webpage might be a good day of work, but in my field not shipping a prototype etc will end our company.

I would be skeptical of productivity statistics from a company in decline.
I just have to point out the irony that a company which believes so much in virtual work that they renamed themselves after the "metaverse" is now thinking to require employees to return to the office.
Do you tokenize that data so that it stays consistent through all the flows? Fits the same parameters etc?
Loved it too, It's funny in the absurdity of it all and the dialogue. There's a delicate balance of dark humour, the Irish charm of the setting and characters, and subtle deeper aspects that emerge from initially simple seeming characters that tops it all off. Not to mention the excellent acting.

But I suspect a lot of that is a subjective taste, so it's not surprising it's not widely appreciated.
Crazy to me that the people making this plagiarised code to make it happen, from the people they're accusing of "theft", and then when called on it they said they'd... open source their GUI, even though the GPL code is also present on their back-end and they're continuing to publish it.

I think property rights are a sham, if we got rid of copyright altogether for code and art and everything else I'd be very happy. But if you're going to falsely accuse people of stealing when what you're actually accusing them of is copyright infringement, probably don't have your literal only production be a product of copyright infringement.
Max Planck was told by his professor to not go into Physics because "almost everything is already discovered".

Planck said he didn't want to discover anything, just learn the fundamentals. He went on to originate quantum theory and win a Nobel Prize.

Is something similar happening in the software engineering community currently with the advent of ML/AI generative models.

Related thread where John Carmack advises us to learn full product skills:

Build full “product skills” and you'll probably be fine @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35216894
Doesn't the "Switch Account" feature do exactly that? If I use it I have the "default" YouTube recommendations that are not based on my main account but it still says YouTube Premium on the top and there's no ads.
I would love to jailbreak my iPhone, if only to get a parametric EQ (EQE) so that Apple's music app sounds decent with their Powerbeats Pro while I'm running. That's it.

Unfortunately, there's no SEP exploit for my phone, so I'd have to disable passcode (and Apple Pay). I did this for a few years, but when I replaced my phone it was on a newer iOS that wasn't jailbreakable.

Seriously, Apple, just make throw an equalizer at Apple Music and I'll come back and pay for it.
Right. I have three accounts myself:
The first is personal with my real name that I generally post to followers only who are people I know.
The second is a professional focused identity for business topics.
The final is a pseudonymous account for political stuff I don't want showing up on a deep background search from employers or intelligence agencies.
It is kind of a replacement for Zuckbook, Lockedin, and Twitter accounts.
Sorry, I meant, 'what have your read out of academia recently' that matches these claims?
reparations, dropping IMF conditions, cleanup of agent orange and landmines, formal apology and condemnation of the actions of the US administrations that pursued the war, and so on and do forth
> The only way for people to live in perfect harmony with nature would be to abandon all economical growth

This is a sweeping generalization. We don't need to abandon all economic growth to have effective conservation of diversity and stop deforestation. The economy and its growth is not chained to the activity of real estate developers.
Right, a tool explicitly designed and used to "deglaze" images would be different from a network that just happens to not be affected by glaze, I expect.
It does matter since it affects the probability of a ban