skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's no path from where we are now to nobody eating animals that involves us just making incremental progress, a bit at a time.

It sounds like you’re imposing a specifically slow set of increments here.

We know that these goals can’t be met overnight, so the only option is some kind of incremental progress.

But the size of those increments certainly isn’t set, and will be increased (voluntarily or not) as our situation becomes more dire.

> Long-term goals are great, but long-term goals that can't plausibly be achieved are bad.

I think it’s problematic to conclude that what we’re discussing can’t be plausibly achieved. Insanely difficult, sure, but at some point these decisions will be made for us, and abandoning hope is one option that seems guaranteed to lead to failure.

Going further and calling these kinds of goals “bad” seems actively harmful.
> Now I wonder if this is how everyone with a normal omnivore diet reacts to all those plant-based meats.

As an omnivore and lifelong enjoyer of meat, the modern meat alternatives like beyond or impossible are great. They don’t reheat well, but the macros are good and they’re super tasty when fresh.

The older stuff tho, yuck. Tastes funky and the macros are all wrong. Much prefer cottage cheese as a protein source, no fake meat required.

And that’s my main gripe with fake meats: there’s a whole world of amazing delicious vegetarian meals that don’t need meat fake or otherwise. I’d much rather have those than a fake steak.
Applications and operating systems can be a lot faster when there is no layered security and everything runs with admin privileges.
Also antibiotics seem to work this way too, as they're essentially destroying a lot of the peanut gallery screaming for junk.
These sorts of assignments are terrible on many levels and, in my opinion, tells you something important about the company and what it will be like working there.

If I'm presented with one, I take it as an immediate sign that I'd be a poor fit there and move on.
I don't understand talking about salads for 50% of your comment unless you think iceberg lettuce salads are the one alternative to meat or that you think restaurant vegetarian food is just salad rather than any combo of things like beans and grains.

Also, https://www.myplate.gov is very reasonable. The problem with food guidelines aren't that they're wrong. It's that nobody adheres to them the same way they don't adhere to a guideline like "get daily exercise".
Shame even harder.
I live the same way. I don’t consider price much just total cost of ownership per year. Purchase price - sale price - transaction fees= total cost

Divide by usage and you get a pretty guideline on if something is worth it
How do you phrase the rejection to maximize the chance of proceeding to the next interview stage?
> When will the mass media stop feeding people with that crap?

They won't, and that's why I think we, as a society, need to move past journalism.

That sounds like sarcasm, but it isn't. And I know what you're thinking- "oh but a free press is one of the legs of the tripod of society!" Well it was, decades ago. Now it's literally all tabloids and propaganda. It's time let it go.

We have various tools that allow individuals to securely communicate with each other. Let people communicate the news, word-of-mouth. We don't need bloggers and corporations anymore to put a spin on the facts.

"Democracy dies in darkness" is a threat, not a plea. Do you listen to cancer when it admonishes you, "don't excise me, or you'll be sorry!"
guys, the sub was woke
Just for fun, what percentage of the population is in your situation? Meaning cannot eat plant based because of allergies - I can't imagine it's much more than 1% ( I might be wrong!)

If that's the case, wouldn't a world where you get lab grown meat and everyone else eats plants make more sense? Since it's a medical issue you get special treatment, it seems to make more sense than supporting an entire industry just for you!
You're right, changed "just" to "start by". Part of my point is that so many solutions go straight into forcing people to drastic immediate change, which is bound to be unpopular and only increases division and resistance.
> And my moral philosophy isn’t comprehensive or consistent, essentially I think there are some useful moral standards (eg golden rule) but when it comes to details I’m a relativist, we can choose what we want, there is no true right or wrong.

Which kind of moral relativism? There is quite a big difference between the various flavors...

> Descriptive moral relativism holds only that people do, in fact, disagree fundamentally about what is moral, with no judgment being expressed on the desirability of this.

> Meta-ethical moral relativism holds that in such disagreements, nobody is objectively right or wrong.

> Normative moral relativism holds that because nobody is right or wrong, everyone ought to tolerate the behavior of others even when large disagreements about morality exist.

> Said concepts of the different intellectual movements involve considerable nuance and aren't absolute descriptions.

Quotes from Wikipedia [1], even though I prefer the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [2] for more detailed explanations.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism

[2] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-relativism/#ForArg
The difference is in the level-of-detail.

Humans can't create logically-consistent models in-depth, no matter what the domain. Programmers, at least old-school domain-model-driven programmers, live in a world of constantly reminding people of this.

Put differently, "logically-impossible" is a relative term. It's relative to human intelligence, not domain area.

This is much akin to chess, where really smart people may be able to track a dozen or so symbols in a mostly-consistent way while others may just track a few. But nobody tracks 50, at least without some sort of logically-consistent computational domain model.
Cherry-picking the fuel for jets example makes sense, since somehow we don´t expect aviation to transition completely to airscrews.

As for the disposal of HEPA filteres loaded with air-stable inorganics, that still is pollution, only the kind of waste you store safely, and if not give people cancer, but highly localized so.
Could you tell us what you have learnt about the performance of these tools? E.g. when you write about different approaches to building charts with d3 and react here (https://www.react-graph-gallery.com/about), is approach 2, which directly interacts with the DOM, more performant than approach 3, which has to go through React? Also, what, approximately, is the upper limit of a dataset size after which the React+d3=>svg approach begins to stutter?
I think this idea is disproven in the first couple paragraphs by simply comparing markup over previous payments:

> Until 2010, Boeing charged an average of $300 for a trash container used in the E-3 Sentry, a surveillance and radar plane based on the 707 civilian airliner. When the 707 fell out of use in the United States, the trash can was no longer a “commercial” item, meaning that Boeing was not obligated to keep its price at previous levels, according to a weapons industry source who spoke to RS.

> In 2020, the Pentagon paid Boeing over $200,000 for four of the trash cans, translating to roughly $51,606 per unit. In a 2021 contract, the company charged $36,640 each for 11 trash containers, resulting in a total cost of more than $400,000. The apparent overcharge cost taxpayers an extra $600,000 between the two contracts.

> In another case, Lockheed Martin hiked the price of an electrical conduit for the P-3 plane as much as 14 fold, costing the Pentagon an additional $133,000 between 2008 and 2015.

> Jamaica Bearings — a company that distributes parts manufactured by other firms — sold the Department of Defense 13 radio filters that had once cost $350 each for nearly $49,000 per unit in 2022. The apparent markup cost taxpayers more than $600,000 in extra fees.
This is something I'm also working on, but using off the shelf hardware for now and working on the OS first[0]. I'm going for something lower spec and portable for now, mostly because there are a fair number of relatively well documented RISC-V processors these days (the single core, 1 GHz C906 CPU inside the SoC probably technically counts as open source!), where it seems feasible to write drivers. I'm not sure it would be a wonderful "full desktop" solution (it's close to the original Pi Zero in terms of performance), but I hope to target larger chips as the OS gets more mature. The i.MX8 they mention in the research paper is actually one of the ones I've considered, it's also used by the MNT Reform (definitely worth a look if you haven't seen it before, and are designing your own larger scale computer!), and the Librem 5 (which I got after many years of waiting, and don't have a ton of use for right now).

I actually would like to eventually play around with treating all the "hardware bits" inside of the computer, like the wifi chip, graphics card, etc., more like a distributed system than black boxes, but this generally comes down to writing a lot of the firmware myself (luckily this is a hobby/research project, so "non viable" solutions are still on the table).

The more immediate goal for me is something portable, and comparable to a palm pilot/blackberry in terms of performance and capabilities. The current hardware will likely have an ESP32C3 for wifi (32-bit RISC-V), the main D1 CPU (64-bit RISC-V), and an RP2040 (32-bit Arm Cortex-M) for keyboard and IO, so I'll be able to test out some of my "network of tiny computers that make one small computer" ideas.

[0]: https://onevariable.com/blog/mnemos-moment-1/
Sure does.

Does the switch to 64 bit slow things down enough to explain what happened between Windows 2000 and XP?

Does the operating system have to support virtual machines? Seems easy enough to install vmware then run operating systems inside it for most use cases.

I mean, you can keep 'what if'ing me here, but, is it really worth having all the features that you, clearly as a power user or professional, use installed on every computer everywhere? No. No it really doesn't. It's bloat.
Futuristic UIs peaked decades ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xfTryfN050

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exz1KzuthrQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC3k0d4u5BQ

I really wish we had more interesting and functional examples nowadays - the web is bloated anyway, why not make more elaborate use of that bloat? Here's another example, albeit just a singular art project:

https://virtualself.co/

Still, it requires taste and an eye for design, and balancing all the maximalist elements makes it especially hard to nail.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_looping_combustion
Free for personal use, not workplace.
They really nailed the conversation aspect, better than any other LLM I've used.
Very much so. We're kind of arriving at a workflow which dictates: If one of the experts or architects has to be asked about some topic, the documentation in that area has to be improved, ideally together with that expert and based on their answer. Similar to how an SLA relevant outage requires a post mortem to fix or mitigate root causes.

Not gonna lie, initially this was somewhat annoying. You had to type up long aeswers, or talk about a topic a lot, and then you had to write the same thing down again. So much repetition and so much markdown! So much time not doing tech stuff.

But doing this for a while.. well initially we ran into the problem of having too much documentation and needing to organize it. We enlisted help from technical writers in the company there a bit. But doing this for a while has resulted in very effective documentation for the teams. Not just architectural decisions written from an ivory tower. Very hands-on design guidelines, explanations and how-tos from practical projects in the company. If the ivory-tower-architect yells at you with a direction, those tell you how to get there.

And this generates a lot of velocity and trust in the teams. You have a problem, you pick up the guide, and for seasoned topics, your problem disappears within that sprint with that guide.
The definition of the word "fuel" does not include the requirement that it was originally found laying around in the environment.
Are you suggesting that race and weight are equally immutable? Or that man-made consequences (incarceration) is the same as automatic health consequences (heart problems)?
More details: this game is an economic MMO. If a major player that used to produce a huge chunk of the supply of coffee suddenly decides to quit, then everyone in the market for coffee will notice. Fortunately, almost everyone needs coffee (it makes your production times faster), so ideally someone steps up to fill that supply because they know the demand is there.

Things take hours to do. Fly a ship from Deimos to the commodity exchange at Antares Station? That's going to take 7 hours (like 7 _real_ hours). A smelter facility will take 10 real hours to smelt a batch of aluminum. You want to be a real good planner. Unless you like having to wait another day because you miscalculated the amount of flux needed to run your smelters, causing your aluminum production to run idle for half a day.

Where do you sell your goods? Well there's six commodity exchanges spread across the galaxy which accept one of the four currencies used in the galaxy (and yes there's FX markets). The bid/ask for goods varies so you'll want to decide where it may be optimal to sell (fuel isn't free!). You don't have to ship it yourself though, you can post a contract at your planet for someone else to ship your goods and deliver them within X days for a price.

This game is crazy. I have somehow ended up in a position where I now pay money to pretend to be a supply chain analyst and write my own ERP software. These are the scripts I use to run my company:

`csv.py` - converts exchange and inventory data to csvs

`production_line.py` - performs analysis of current production lines as described in `data/production_lines.json`

`analysis_increment.py` - Based on current production lines, gives a list of next building/recipe to invest sorted by ROI days

`analysis_multi_step.py` - Starting from current production lines, plots out the next several buildings/recipes to invest in based on their ROI days

`analysis_supply.py` - Gives a per-planet supply breakdown including planned productionn lines if included

`analysis_vertical.py` - Given a material ticker, returns an analysis of production lines with varying degrees of vertical integration to produce the given material.

`analysis_arbitrage_trip.py` - Takes origin, destination, capital, profit threshold, mass, and volume. Will give a list of materials to buy at origin at ask prices which then must be sold ASAP at destination bid prices
This is interesting! Do you have a good reference?
A notorious "ugly" proof is that of the 4-color theorem.

It has been proven using a computer. The problem was first reduced to a few hundred cases, then a brute force algorithm was used to solve each case.
Hey!

1. I'm working on adding Slack commands to the bot, so you can search, and even directly ask questions off the bot from within Slack. You're right that the need to switch to another website to find information is annoying -- in fact, that's where the full Struct Platform would be of incredible help -- one platform for chat and knowledge capture.

2. We sync the conversations every few hours. At that point, if there was some new chats in a conversation, we re-run the AI. So, it updates the title and summary according to the sum of all the chats the thread has so far.

The bot doesn't, but in Struct, we'd allow for a way to merge threads which are similar, or fork a thread which has deviated from the main topic.

For engineering, even sales and marketing, this would be amazing! I can think of so many use cases there -- for example, every GitHub issue, every sales deal, every customer issue, all could be threads in Struct, allowing easy communication with all the context readily available. The possiblities are VERY exciting! :-)
> Turning off Windows Defender's protection(s) should give the first visible speed boost, if that's what you prefer.

It's extremely hard to do that in recent versions of Windows. The most I managed to do the last time I tried was to disable it temporarily but it always comes back after a while.
I'm not a vegetarian but my gut reaction is this yuck, you're literally eating tumors. Or am I wrong?
>death-debt spiral where it pays for itself with donations from foreigners.

That's not how it works. As long as the trade deficit exists, and the reserve currency is the dollar, there will be huge demand for treasuries.
But, I cannot find any trend nor glorification in this article? Even not that there is a tone of "we don't do it because it's the opposite of what racists did" thinking (as a sibling poster states).. if someone gets that impression out of this article here, imo they have a problem - or I am too ignorant?
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Ameglian_Major_Cow

Be careful what you want, you just might get it.
>Much of the land use for raising animals would not become a lush forest if left alone. There's a reason it is being used for animals and not crops.

With scrub land, that is about the only agricultural use for it. Putting cows on arid scrub land turns useless land into useful land. It's so easy to falsely reason about agriculture when one is so far removed from it.

>What's the ultimate purpose? To subsist using the minimal amount of resources?

That is the ultimate purpose to reduce the standard of living of the poor and middle class.
They mention that with hydrogen. It's cheaper to produce hydrogen but much harder to transport it. Fortunately, hydrogen can reduce iron oxide, which turns out to be a great complement. Their analysis is that the system cost of burning iron and renewing it at electrolysis plants is lower cost (and safer) than using hydrogen directly.
Yet, when you lose value alignment with the project, the best thing to do is to abandon the ship the sooner as possible. Insisting on total collaboration is bad for every party.
This is the only thing that comes to mind:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_burning#/media/File:Bunde...

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_burning
Remember: Regulations are written in blood.
You're completely missing the point. It's not burn vs. no burn, it's controlled burn vs. uncontrolled burn. The fire is going to happen one way or another, so why is pollution a bigger concern than saving lives and property?
Parler. Someone defend their detonation for power/politics by Amazon and Apple. Do it!
I like the boldness of the title and the simple clarity of the writing.

Academic papers are frustrating to me in that they seem to use esoteric language in order to create a veneer of importance, sometimes above trivial real content.

This stands against that trend and harkens back to papers of old.
That’s still a mess, if the particles are magnetic a magnet will be a way cleaner and more effective filter.
I edit a markdown-based website for a living. I'd say that it works really well, but a proper text editor theme makes a big difference.

I tweaked my Markdown theme to make headings bolder, links linkier, and blocks blockier. Sublime also collapses link URLs.

This keeps the text very readable, while letting me edit text with powerful tools. There's a table of contents plugin, but Cmd + R is a much faster navigation tool.
Windows 11 is doing all these desktop effects (transparency, animations, rounded corners etc) in the compositor. You can disable all those and it will improve things. Also the security related stuff that Windows 11 does is something that was not there in the past.
Some of his music reviews were pretty good: Arnold Dolmetsch really was a revelation, and surviving recordings suggest that Joseph Joachim playing Bach really was like an attempt to scrape a nutmeg on a boot sole.

But Shaw strikes me a lot like Twitter. He spoke and wrote less because he had something to say than because he wanted people to hear how well he said things, and his reach increased because people enjoyed how well-put his remarks were and how stylishly he put down objections, rather than because of the quality of his opinions.
Culture eats policy
Cloudflare’s Speed Week. Where we’re going, we need speed
Well, if you can burn it to produce energy + spent fuel

and then put back energy in the spent fuel to make new fuel again

then you have really a battery. That's how li-ion batteries work. The issue is the efficiency: how much of the energy you used to recharge the "battery" (iron) is going to be available when you discharge (burn) it
You can not really turn telemetry off, maybe your apps just keep working against you, collecting the info to send after the next system update which use to enable all "disabled" telemetry features.
Oh please, get over yourself. How many of those oh so smart 90s devs used those elite skills to write code littered with exploit vectors? Or full of bugs? Or, hell, even really performant?

You are looking back with rose tinted glasses if you think all software was blazing fast back then. There was a reason putting your cursor on a progress bar to track whether it was moving was a thing.
It is not necessarily about breaking the production system, just breaking the system because it depends on some bug or contains workarounds that break if the bug is gone. Even if it breaks before production it is still broken and might - depending on how old or central the bug was and how much code was build on top or around it - require substantial effort to fix.
“Unoptimized POC of new technology 25x less optimal than 3.77 billion year optimized process” should be heartening to all
This is a rather jaded take. The article covers the overlap of two newsworthy things:

#1 - To the best of our knowledge, the forests of the region were actively managed via fire for thousands of years. This changed a few hundred years ago, and the result is the unprecedented fires we have been experiencing. The government is reacting by greatly increasing funding for prescribed burns which, to the best of our knowledge, is the best solution at this time.

#2 - The state is bound by federal treaties with the sovereign nations that reside within its borders. The bounds of these treaties are hotly contested. The sovereign nations believe that the treaties grant them the right to the lifestyle they historically had. The federal government wants to curtail activities they believe, if unchecked, might cause lasting negative effects. One of the rights these sovereign nations had restricted were controlled burns, which they call cultural burns. These rights are being slowly returned now that the state and feds view controlled burns in a more positive light.

There is a 3rd indirect element to this article, which is that it is trying to address an audience that has been affected by years of the Smokey the Bear 'all fire is bad' mentality.

You should reread the article. I'm pretty sure you brought along the baggage you are complaining about.
We found a local group that does Shakespeare in the park every summer. When our son was about 12, we took him to a couple shows including A Midsummer Night's Dream which he had acted out in class that year.

Seeing it on stage, with actors who know what they are doing, made Shakespeare "click" for him and really for me too. We've probably seen about 10 different performances by now and all of us actually look forward to the next one.

I highly recommend it for anyone who thinks they don't like Shakespeare but is open-minded enough to give it a shot again.
Yeah, I'm all for the idea behind framework but there's very little actual technical details being shared other than controller ICs