skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just for show. There is no genuine lab meat yet, and Italy certainly wasn't doing much to pursue it anyway. So for the time being not much is really lost, but perhaps some political points are gained.

Once lab meat becomes widely available and affordable, there will likely be a different government, a different public opinion, and a new law to allow it.
I'll take the bait. It's not so surprising to see "reactionary" politics when social 'progress' continues to become more and more demented. But I'll admit, fake meat is not even present on my list of problems.
VSCode Debugger, something you haven't probably used yet
What I would like to have is a small Nextcloud installation (max. 200MB, preferably even smaller) that I can host on a ultra-cheap tiny server. I just need file sync, calendar and contacts. The total size of the synced files isn't much either.

Nextcloud used to be small enough for this, but they kept adding things, bundling word processors and other stuff I don't need, meanwhile making the contacts and calendar optional. I have had to move to a larger server only for this reason, to keep Nextcloud at a supported version.

Does Syncthing have contacts and calendar syncing? Any others? I like having a central server.
>The unintended consequence of the new law is to ensure that Italy 100% misses out on the many promising social, economic, and environmental benefits of a transition to synthetic and plant-based food. The new law strikes me as very shortsighted.

Whatever they are doing with food laws in Italy, I am 100% ok with it. There's a reason why anything imported is strictly superior to the US made version. They are dead serious when it comes to quality and purity, and I appreciate that greatly.
I set up paperless-ngx w/ a scanner attached to my nas and a bit of scripting to get the scan button working a while back, but then forgot about it.

For me, as someone who wants my docs on my own server, but well, doesn't care enough to want to constantly keep up with forks/changes/migration/updates, I've been looking for just something stable I can use for years (or maybe decades?, eg part of the appeal of something like Obisidian is that it just falls back to .md text files).

Curious if there are any long-term active users of this (or other systems) for handling all their paper and what they think about maintainability/longevity?
> The notion that all soldiers fighting on the Germany side in WW2 were monsters is, however. If the world subscribed to your ideology, there'd be a catacomb of millions buried under Nurnberg (there's no such thing, if you wondered).

Where did I say that all soldiers fighting for Germany in WW2 were monsters?
I invoked Nazi Germany because you said there are no nazis and monsters and everyone is a regular human.
> I was fired shortly after.

Such a simple summary of how companies will chew you up and spit you out.
We had this - 10 years ago. In our case there was a QA environment which was supposed to be used by pushing code up with production configs, then an automated process copied the code to where it actually ran _doing substitutions on the configs to prevent it connecting to the production databases_. However this process was annoyingly slow, and developers had ssh access. So someone (not me) ssh'd in, and sped up their test by connecting the deploy location for their app to git and doing a git pull.

Of course this bypassed the rewrite process, and there was inadequate separation between QA and prod, so now they were connected to the live DB; and then they ran `rake test`...(cue millions of voices suddenly crying out in terror and then being suddenly silenced). The DB was big enough that this process actually took 30 minutes or so and some data was saved by pulling the plug about half-way through.

And _of course_ for maximum blast radius this was one of the apps that was still talking to the old 'monolith' db instead of a split-out microservice, and _of course_ this happened when we'd been complaining to ops that their backups hadn't run for over a week and _of course_ the binlogs we could use to replay the db on top of a backup only went back a week.

I think it was 4 days before the company came back online; we were big enough that this made the news. It was a _herculean_ effort to recover this; some data was restored by going through audit logs, some by restoring wiped blocks on HDs, and so on.
> very shortsighted

While the western world is getting angry about change, China is out eating our lunch by moving into all these emerging technologies. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a conscious effort to push conservative extremism in western countries for this exact reason.

If I just look around in my country, new electric cars are quickly becoming mostly Chinese and most solar panels are Chinese. Meanwhile, a very large group just voted for a party that wants to stop pretty much every investment in renewables, while also pushing out migrants in an already very tight and quickly aging labor market.

In the long term, our own bigotry and climate denialism is going to severely bite us in the ass. Especially since we're already barely above sea level.
Oh wow. This reminds me a lot of the OLGA.net (On Line Guitar Archive) back in the day before the Harry Fox Agency shut it down. Thanks for this.
In London contracting rates of £700+/day are not abnormal and those are usually minimum 6 month full time.
According to this article, this law bans "cultivated meat" which is cultured from animal-derived cells, and it bans labelling of plant-based products with names that use common meat products like "steak" or "salami".

The law does not ban plant-based meat-like alternatives. Italy will probably continue to increase its consumption of these products, and they'll just have to use names that aren't traditionally used in the meat industry in Italy.
Agreed 100%. Plant-based meat is not the same as normal meat at all. Synthetic meat is the same though.
The unintended consequence of the new law is to ensure that Italy 100% misses out on the many promising social, economic, and environmental benefits of a transition to synthetic and plant-based food.

I'm glad I missed all the benefits of introduction of margarine because they couldn't use the word "butter" on packaging.
True, their goal was to keep their current ruling class firmly entrenched in their positions of power so banning the printing press makes sense. Probably a few take aways there for current events.
The lack of basic logic training in the responses are hilarious, and some of them can’t even notice there is a damn “likely” there.

The fact that A does not imply B, and A often implies not B does not mean that you cannot find an example that show both A and B. But it is sufficient to weaken the argument to support B using A.
It really sucks that we ended up with only two mobile OS's.
> I ate some chicken nuggets made out of rice

Do other people not see how ridiculous this is?

I partially agree with Italy's decision, at least to the naming of food.

You didn't eat chicken nuggets made out of rice. You ate deep-fried rice balls trying to simulate the taste of chicken nuggets, and they might have tasted similar to chicken nuggets, but that is an incredibly low bar to set in terms of taste (mostly spices) and texture (terrible).

The nutrient profile wouldn't have had nearly the amount of protein, vitamins or other nutrients an actual chicken nugget would have had, either.
> It's called "humanism," and it's not bullshit. It mostly says that killing people is wrong. Of course, you think otherwise, so it might seem like bullshit to you.
Where did I say that killing people is right? War criminals should be executed for their actions, but I'm not saying that every russian should be killed.

You are saying that there are no evil people and that everyone is a regular human. Then what about concentration camp commandants, mass murderers, war criminals? Do you think they are no worse than normal people, and deserve to live a good life? Then what you're saying is definitely bullshit.
One of the main jobs of the USN is to protect commercial shipping lanes. This is of US national interest because a lot of commerce flows through international shipping lanes. Its not unique to the US either. Its a historical duty of most nation's blue water navies. The persian gulf does not belong to Iran. Its international waters. But they have a history of using piracy in the persian gulf as a tool of the state and generally acting a destabilizing force in the area. So the US, and other nations often patrol the region to protect civilian shipping.
Has there been unambiguous, conclusive proof that plant-based meat is safe or at least as safe as naturally derived meat?

Noone likes big state but at the very least we should avoid making the same mistakes we have been making for decades with pesticides, forever chemicals etc before we declare victory for growing a burger patty.
You're a not forced to eat or do anything. That's the same argument religious people have against abortions, even though no one is forcing you to have one.
> When there's a call it answers/declines, mute/unmute, and ends a call

Literally do not care about a phone call when it is raining. Hopefully, it at least has coyote time on it so when you adjust the wiper speed it will ignore a phone call.

> Not sure I need a button for steering wheel tilt, should only be when stopped.

I've had to adjust while driving. I don't remember for what reason, but I know I've had to do it a few times in my hundreds of thousands of miles of driving.

> do I change gear so often I need a dedicated stalk? It's not a manual car. Direction/park is only done when stopped too.

When you need it, you need it. I was once driving towards a non-gated, non-indicated railroad crossing in my hometown. There was only a train about once a day that went through there, but that day, there was a train that should not have been there. I slammed on the brakes, pulled the emergency brake, and threw the car into park. I stopped with less than an inch between me and the train.

I also destroyed my transmission by putting it in park at high speed. Worth it.
You extrapolated "I will just be pickier about who i sell it to" into an argument about regulations. If your contention is that sentiment obstructs progress, it seems totally fair to argue that the opposite is also true. Accusing someone of "whataboutism" isn't doing much to move the conversation forward.
The US also has close to no data privacy protection, so you can also practice whatever targeting and manipulative nonsense you want on your subjects.

The delta there shows what that's worth.
I'm operating with the information I have :) Feel free to share your side
If the management continues to under perform, they will be acquired. The FTC investigation showed Zuckerberg was thinking about it. He probably couldn't for Sherman act reasons.

But think about it: they have a good business that has better strategic value for a platform holder. Amazon spent a fortune trying to emulate their business to advantage AWS. That was an incredibly poorly managed endeavor. If they had bought Unity they wouldn't have needed Lumberyard.

I can think of a lot of companies that would want Unity for the right price, or if the US govt would let them buy it. Can't say that about Bed Bath and Beyond!
It takes into account the recent changes. At the top of the window it indicates the Python's version used.
Hilarious to me how proponents of synthetic/plant-based food always seem to gloss over the cultural aspects of food. It's such a spreadsheet-brain way of looking at the world.
> social, economic, and environmental benefits

Can you elaborate or is the first word just extra weight? Please no offense, it's an honest question: I find very interesting how most people, when they want to get a debatable point across, almost always throw exactly 3 profound and all-encompassing adjectives (rarely 2, 4 or 5).

Even ChatGPT has noticed the pattern and picks up this style. But if you break the sentences down, very often realize that 1 or even 2 of such adjectives are fillers.
I had this happen to me as well, though I remember that it was either a docker or snap/flatpak/etc version of it. Got things working but lost a few months of data, likely something I foolishly did while trying to make things work. Stopped using it and went with Seafile for a while - grew frustrated with that and stopped syncing files between computers altogether.

Later on, when I set up an old dell xeon workstation as a home server (using proxmox), I used the turnkey image of nextcloud, and have (knock on wood) not had any issues at all.

Anyway - I wanted to ensure it was fully virtualized this next time if/when this happens again. I have it backing up the base vm once a week (I have the file storage separate/outside of the vm). So... hopefully this doesn't happen again to the degree that it did.
After Melville
See also: "Mac OS 9" vs MicroWare "OS-9", and Apple A1152 vs Man&Machine.
yeah sorry, just because some university researchers and VC backed silicon valley startups are into synthetic meat because they've crunched the numbers and think it'll make them billions and also tug at the collective guilt because of climate change, will not throw away thousands of years of human tradition.
Using a "comma" to refer to the decimal separator when talking about USD while writing in English about software (written in a computer language that uses a decimal point) took me on a mental rollercoaster. So much so that it led me to read the Wikipedia page on the decimal separator. My favorite part:

> Unicode defines a decimal separator key symbol (⎖ in hex U+2396, decimal 9110) which looks similar to the apostrophe. This symbol is from ISO/IEC 9995 and is intended for use on a keyboard to indicate a key that performs decimal separation.
That seems to soften it a bit, in this story he’s saying that the rich particularly have an essentially insurmountable amount of sinfulness and inadequacy to overcome.
Seems it's just a listing rather than an actual guide? (I had to look at the web archived version.)
Ask HN: Tech stack for small SaaS side projects as a solo developer?
What tech stack would you choose for building SaaS side projects as a single developer if these were your priorities:

- build it once, deploy and forget for months or years;

- adding new features is easy (once it's needed once a year or even less frequently). "Easy" here means little time spent reminding yourself how the app works and where to add new features;

- deploying is simple and can be done with little to no setup;

- language/platform/dependencies updates are infrequent, easy to do, unlikely to break the app;

- open source and developed by a community, no dependency on an enterprise.
Schoenberg: Why He Matters
If all you want to do is write CRUD apps, the book is not for you. That being said...

To quote directly fromt a quote in the book, "Now I see with eye serene, the very pulse of the machine." I finally jumped the gun and started reading it during the summer after my acquiring my bachelors. I finished the first volume during that summer. Here are some notes:

The Mathematical premliminaries reads like a novel if you have some mathematical maturity, you don't dwell too much on the sections that are over your head, and you treat the exercises as optional. This is because the book can be read from a HS level all the way through the Post-Grad level. Choose your depth.

The MMIX approach was eye-opening because it opened my eyes to see computers as the 'computing' machines that they are. I indirectly gained a fundamental understanding how everything starts with the CPU. I started seeing all the high-level languages (C++, Python, Rust, Java, etc...) as the abstractions that they are. It is liberating if you have ever felt the uneasiness when you are programming in a high level language when you are nagged by the question "how is the computer doing this?"

Algorithms and Data Structures( a.k.a Information Structures in vol 1): It is like going to grammar school for algorithms! Have you ever asked yourself "Why are we learning all of these abstract things about algorithms and data structures?" I got my answer from the book. What I mean by this is that after studying Knuth's approach to algorithms, you gain a firm, fundamental, and concrete understanding of their necessity, their role. Afterwards ANYTHING I would encounter on Hackerank or Leetcode became digestible. You gain a "first principles" understanding of algorithms and information structures.

I believe that the book stands the test of time largely because of these points.

If you have programmed to the point where you've been exposed to some sorting algorithms and some data structures and you want to continue the road to becoming an expert programmer on a firm footing, it is worth the time and effort. The caveat that I would add is do not wait until you finish all the books before you enter the job market or write software out of your own interest.
Enu: Learn to code and build 3D games in Nim
Enu is a multiplayer programming environment powered by Nim and Godot. It's meant to teach kids to code, make 3D game programming easier, and for experimenting and having fun. It's MIT licensed and will be usable to create standalone games.

Enu is powered by the belief that text based programming can be accessible to kids if made simple enough, and that text is more flexible than visual programming using tools like Scratch and Game Builder Garage. I still have lots of work to do to improve discoverability, but based on my experience using it to run a coding club and teaching my own children, I believe the theory mostly holds. It's inspired by Logo and Minecraft, has a terse syntax for building nested state machines (although it calls them Command Loops), and tries to make it possible to build full games using only simple concepts like loops and conditionals.

I've been working on Enu for almost 4 years now (very much part time) and have put out a few releases already, but I believe this is the first version that really captures what Enu is all about. Let me know what you think!
> It's bad for the developer, sure, but what exactly is "insane" or "illegal" about it?

Anti-trust made it pretty clear you can't be the railroad company and the oil company that uses the railroad to harm competition.

Play store is the rail road, apps are the oil.

> The thing is, you don't "have" to sell in Play Market - even if it was the only marketplace for Android, it would still not be some basic necessity of life that you sell apps for Android. You could always find another trade, or sell PC software, or whatever. In other words, a marketplace for a mobile OS is not exactly a public utility.

1. The Play Stores's massive user base makes it a crucial marketplace for developers wanting to reach the widest Android audience, and opting out will limit market exposure and revenue significantly.

2. Mobile app development requires distinct skills, tools, and strategies compared to PC software, making transitioning between these fields challenging and resource-intensive.

3. While the Play Market isn't a basic life necessity, its dominance in the app economy raises significant concerns about market fairness and competition, as it acts as a gatekeeper to digital distribution. You're essentially arguing the same shit that we would hear in the 90s "you don't need a refrigerator", sure you don't but life sure sucks without it...
> I'm saying that killing people is wrong and war shouldn't happen, and you're telling me I'm supporting Russia

You are literally excusing the killing of civillians by russians, how is that not supporting russia?
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I'm using Nexcloud currently, but an alternative for you to check out for you might be Pydio.

It has a lot of the same features, and generally seemed a little more stable. However, it was a little more painful to configure, and has a few unique terminologies you'll have to get used to. Also it's UI does load faster than Nextcloud, but once loaded, it is a little less snappy.

For the user downloaded client, I found that it works, but is a little less convenient than Nextcloud (no Automatic pinning of the folder, no partial downloads to save space)
DOM has quite a bit of legacy cruft but you don't have to use those and the new layouting like flexbox and grid and media queries are IMHO way better than anything else out there.

Slint seems very good especially for environments where you don't have a (modern) browser, like embedded, and the API looks clean and first class Node.js is great. And the website is great. Property binding looks promising Separating the widget definition from the code is probably a good idea, although IMHO the content-style-logic separation of HTML/CSS/DOM is even better.

What brings me some really bad memories is the widget-tree-style API (especially with absolute pixel units in all the examples). But this may be prejudice from my part.
Really cool, but in 3d modeling triangles are a "no no". You are taught early on to design in quads.
Samsung Galaxy A53: Aggiornamento Stabile ad Android 14 Rilasciato in Europa

Samsung ha annunciato il rilascio ufficiale dell'aggiornamento stabile ad Android 14 per il suo dispositivo Galaxy A53. In un'evidente accelerazione rispetto alla pianificazione iniziale, l'aggiornamento, precedentemente previsto per dicembre, è già disponibile e in distribuzione in Europa.

Il Galaxy A53 5G, lanciato nel 2022 con Android 12, sta ricevendo il secondo importante aggiornamento del sistema operativo, segnando un impegno notevole da parte di Samsung nell'offrire aggiornamenti tempestivi e significativi ai suoi dispositivi.

L'aggiornamento ad Android 14 per il Galaxy A53 è attualmente in fase di distribuzione in Europa, con la build A536BXXU7DWK6 datata 14 novembre. Questa nuova versione non solo implementa nuove funzionalità, ma include anche miglioramenti alla patch di sicurezza di Android, portandola a novembre 2023.

Le nuove funzionalità offerte dall'aggiornamento includono diverse caratteristiche di Android 14 insieme alle esclusive migliorie di One UI 6, tipiche dei dispositivi Galaxy. Tra le novità ci sono un'interfaccia utente rinnovata per il Pannello Rapido, la personalizzazione del widget dell'orologio sulla schermata di blocco, aggiornamenti delle App di Sistema, supporto per caratteri di dimensioni maggiori, un'interfaccia utente migliorata per il lettore multimediale nella notifica e sulla schermata di blocco, nuovi widget e un restyling delle emoticon.

Se possiedi un Galaxy A53 in Europa, l'aggiornamento potrebbe essere già disponibile o in arrivo nei prossimi giorni. Tieni presente che il rollout avviene in modo graduale, quindi potrebbe richiedere del tempo prima che sia disponibile per tutti. Per verificarne manualmente la disponibilità, vai su Impostazioni > Aggiornamento Software > Scarica e Installa. Prima di procedere con l'aggiornamento, ricorda di eseguire un backup e assicurati che il telefono sia carico almeno al 50%.
100 years is a very very long time. 100 years ago, a little over half of all homes in the US still didn’t have electricity. 100 years ago, around 2/3 of homes didn’t have a telephone.

I would absolutely take the bet that we would have cheaper cultivated meat within 100 years, barring an extinction level event…
Wait, a major story came out of the WSJ on how Instagram was doing pretty much the same thing.

Why isn’t the WP pausing advertising there?
> People only quit if they know they'll easily find equal or better paid gigs than what they already have

I don't think this is true (or at least, it has tons of exceptions). People quit if they think that they have an alternative that is better. This doesn't have to mean equal or better pay. I know a number of people who have quit and taken lower-paying work because those jobs improved their quality of life in other ways.