skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going on a decade ago, I worked with a DBA who would get angry and scream about things and often at me because I was one of the few willing to butt head’s with him. He would want to change something in the database schema and I would calmly explain how that wouldn’t work for the business logic it was representing. He’d go on to berate you and the data design.

He was very difficult to work with, but also inarguably one of the smartest people I have ever met. I learned so much from him that I still use today. We were even relatively friendly outside of work topics, talked about our mutual interest in minimalist music pretty often.

When he was let go for obvious reasons, I was the strangest combination of upset and relieved I have ever experienced.
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What's the tradeoff: self-hosting vs. self-managing software
> lower quality than real meat

Strawman, no one said anything about the quality of the meat.

> higher cost

Literally the opposite of what GP said?

> those who go to sleep hungry(children)

Weird appeal to emotion.
There's a framework of skill vs agreeableness, where you get {brilliant,incompetent}{nice,jerk}. If someone is objectively an incompetent jerk, there's not much to work with, otherwise there's usually a way. You don't have to like colleagues, just work professionally with them.
I just move on and work with someone else. Not worth the stress.
This is about cultured meat, which basically doesn’t exist yet
Long and quite dense review of Harvey Sachs' Schoenberg: Why He Matters, looks interesting if you like that sort of thing; I do, so added to my Christmas "hint dropping" list.
Individually? No. Collectively? Then I would say it does. Will it cost tons of lives? Yeah of course. But the US cannot bomb its own civilians into a functioning economy or obedient populous. The only force even remotely in a position the challenge the US military is the US population.
> to goods like tea and coffee

coffee and tea came to Europe through Ottoman Empire.

> other new goods coming across the silk road

Marco Polo went through the silk road, but Italy did not invent it.

The silk road went from China to the actual Crimea.
Ah ok yes I agree. How many years is really the million dollar question. I’ve begun to act as if it’s around 5 years and sometimes I think I’m being too conservative.
The law also limits the freedom of corporations to dump experimental foodish products onto the market. What a travesty
In what reality ...?!

> For instance, replacing beef with beans in the US could free up 42% of US cropland

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7184671/

> Global soy production has increased more than 10-fold over the past 50 years. This has been driven by increased demand for meat

https://ourworldindata.org/soy

Sorry but i have to call you out here, because the list of sources is huge and it is even common sense, that meat consumption requires more resources.

I think you urgently need to esacpe the bullshito sphere in which this is disputed. It is sickening to read such ad hoc bs on evident and pressing issues.
And probably a few decades out of date
The unicorn framework ;) but seriously maybe using using something like Wordpress or drupal with plugins would work or maybe something like the elixir based phoenix framework deployed on fly.io
Nothing works if that person is your superior and holds absolute power over you.

Examples situations close friends of mine have experienced:

1. You are a PhD student and he (and it usually is a he) is your professor.

2. You are in a profession with limited opportunity (say, HR) and he is your boss.

3. You are an immigrant, and losing your job means leaving the country.

4. All of the above.

I feel articles like these are written by people that have never been in above situations. If you are in a dependency situation, you are fucked. Pro lifetip: Avoid dependency situations whenever you can. And sometimes you can't and just have to hope for the best.

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This... basically doesn't matter. Italy is known for its food culture and they take it very seriously. If you don't believe me, try ordering a latte after noon.

Cultivated meat is now in the realm of semi-feasible science fiction. In theory there's a Jose Andres restaurant where I could try it, in practice its very expensive and there's so little supply that very few people can even get that tasting menu.

If it works out and winds up taking off, bans are reversible. Italy will never give up its red cows but who knows.

On the other hand, everything I've read about cultivation is its an incredibly interesting science project. The texture is still weird, the price is still astronomical, despite an astounding quantity of resources poured into this you're just not going to be grilling lab-burgers any time in the foreseeable future.

If the goal is to make meat sustainable, the fastest way to cut percentage points are to roll back American burger portions to what they were in the 1980s, and start a falafel craze.
> what a good lawyer does, that makes this system work. It is not the bluffing, or the outrage, or the strategies and tactics. It is something much simpler than that. What a good lawyer does is tell a story that persuades. Not by hiding the truth or exciting the emotion, but using reason, through a story, to persuade.
When it works, it does something to the people who experience this persuasion.

LOL.

Nope.

I have never seen a court (cult?) use reason.

Never.
Tesla have a habit of doing things that make no sense and making a success out of it regardless.
"Burger" is not a meat-specific term. It's simply two usually round bread patties with some other savory ingredient placed between them.

I wonder how long it will take Italy to make coconut milk producers/distributors to rename their products to "coconut juice".
I can absolutely recommend FolderSync. It's not open source, but absolutely solid for automatic and scheduled uploads of various files.
My favorite thing is when names that I often have to communicate verbally for written use have ambiguous alternative spellings.
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I don't get all the fuss. I remember seeing the prompt, was a bit startled as I never seen such a proposal from Facebook but YouTube used to prompt me all the time before subscribing to Premium so I didn't think anything's amiss.

The decision was quick: content quality and quantity on Facebook in no way compares to YouTube, once I take out the Reels, Instagram and TikTok ripoffs (which are mostly available on YouTube as well), there's very little left.

Text content is abysmal, particularly when the reference is Hacker News. Links to retarded news sites and magazines which present one line of "content" which merely repeats the all-caps title spread across 15 pages of seizure-inducing advert horror.

Literally most of the use is to keep in touch with old and estranged acquaintances but that's not worth 6 or 10 euro per month they were charging for ad free.
Given the multitude of choices that can affect the performance of the end product beyond just the lithography, it's mostly because the performance uplift going from M1 -> M3 is much more significant than from M2 -> M3.
This is easy. The other way around, even more when you're new in the team and the person that doesn't like you is well established is the biggest challenge.
Yes all those things also. I oversimplified for the sake of brevity.
> We can't be writing individual code for each N x M x O x P combination of hardware + software + workload + configuration

That is kind of exactly what you would do when optimising for popular platforms.

If this error occurs on an AMD Cpu used by half your users is your response to your user going to be "just buy a different CPU" or are you going to fix it in code and ship a "performance improvement on XYZ platform" update
It's interesting how the situation seems to shift depending on the lens you view it through:

A) Facebook is free, but pay €9.99/mo. if you don't want ads or ad tracking

B) Facebook costs €9.99/mo., but will enable a free tier if you'll accept ads/tracking

Option A seems to provoke outrage (like this article/lawsuit), while option B seems... perfectly reasonable. Even though they're the same thing.

People just hate having stuff taken away from them. They feel that Facebook ought to be free because it always has been, the same way a lot of people are still bothered by checked baggage fees on airlines because checked baggage had been included for decades.

But legally, there's really no difference. And companies have to make money somehow. It would be fascinating if EU regulations actually led to the birth of an alternate, optional internet model where you paid $40/mo. extra to your ISP that got sent to Meta/Google/etc. according to your browsing proportions and resulted in no ads and no ad tracking across Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, AdSense, etc.
Yes, but it's also Iran. What you're not getting is the "mortal enemy moving a war machine right at your gates" bit.
Maybe the truth is nobody can stand up to targeted attacks.
The atmosphere is almost the best example of a commons that we have. If a reason for cultivated meat is greenhouse gas emissions, then Italy misses out on virtually none of the benefits by banning it.
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The problem isn't opinions but inconsistent ones which the Left is imposing on others. Here's Richard Dawkins tearing apart the Left's logic. A white woman identifying as black women is bad while a man identifying as a woman is ok.
> 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.

Feel free to go ahead and test lab grown meat on yourself and report back in 30 years. Plastic was once considered safe, right? Smoking too?
Interestingly, all these things are required for loving kindness meditation practice as well.
Ask HN: (AI based) image retouching/augmenting tools that require zero skill
I just tried taking some Christmas card pictures with our cat and I'm not a great photographer. All of the photos turned out slightly bad in some ways (the cat moved slightly, extra crap in the picture, etc.).

It occurred to me that there are probably services/tools that can make those pictures look better without me knowing anything about traditional image retouching methods. Everyone is on the AI hype train so surely there must be a bunch of services for such a mundane a task.

What are your recommenations? Both offline and online tools are fine, and so are both paid and unpaid services (although, since it's only one time use, I'm not willing to commit to a year-long subscription plan or something).
I’m working with our local school board, consists of over 200 schools in a wealthy county. Even as I got my PhD in Neuroscience 20 years ago, it’s bonkers to me that kids today aren’t being taught about their brains as performance muscles. The teenage mental health crisis is only being addressed as a need basis. It’s like telling people oncologists are available when you get cancer. If we want better brain health it starts with building better brain tools.
Well Israel doesn't ban unkosher food and _many_ Muslim countries don't ban non-halal food. I think most people would say that the countries that do ban food at a state level are pretty authoritarian.

Individuals that that follow Judaism and Islam _choose_ to limit their _personal_ diets. It's not forced upon them by the state (mostly?). To follow your analogy, you and the rest of Italy can say no to lab grown food, nothing is stopping you from not buying lab grown food.

On this specific topic though, I think banning lab grown meat could be done in a _somewhat_ reasonable way, they just went about it the wrong way. They could have just said they are worried about safety, jobs done.

Bringing in farmers, their livelihoods and tradition seems unnecessarily inflammatory.
For calendars and contacts you can try Radicale if you don't need web access: https://radicale.org/v3.html
Hi all! Author here, happy to answer any of your questions!

Our goal is to get more robotics and AI researchers, engineers, and enthusiasts to get out of labs and into homes, so we open sourced everything!

I also submitted a Show HN with more details that unfortunately didn’t get much traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38453047
Yeah I don't mean Sam is a jerk but there is an element of dishonesty that twigs me.

Elon isn't above reproach either but I share interest with him (aka Robert Heinlein) which informs me on his decision making process.
Three time attempter here. 50 something year old white make living homeless with schizoaffective disorder bipolar type. Trying to end the stigma. Ask me anything.
The US is still pressuring Vietnam to “pay it back for the Vietnam war“.
Ugh: captcha loop again. Last time I added a couple of DNS providers and it worked. Any new ideas? Root cause?
It is kind of sad to see Japanese EVs barely take off. After seeing all the weird and busted stuff about Teslas (on top of the "luxury price for fake luxury interior" stuff)... all I really want for an EV is a Yaris but with a battery.

I just want normal door handles and a satnav with buttons, and Japanese makers seem to be among the last holdouts.
Close cultural relationships are tricky to substantiate. But Germanic people (that likely spread from Scandinavia before dawn of history) were all fairly warlike and had religious beliefs and cultural norms that glorified war and conquest. But in this they didn't differ much from other Yamnaya descendants, like the Celts, Greeks or Romans - or other peoples that did not have any steppe connection like the Mongols or Japanese for that matter.

Still, it is likely that the viking ethos does draw from the culture they inherited from the Yamnaya - and if not, their behavior was likely (often) perceived as similar to how the Yamnaya would have been perceived by the megalithic farmers they displaced: a brutal conquest that largely eliminated or sold off the men as slaves while keeping the women and children.
Yeah, I find it very relevant to AI and firmly entrenching power.
I thought it was going to be one of Adrian Black's videos. He's been finding and fixing Amigas (Amigae?) recently too: https://www.youtube.com/c/adriansdigitalbasement/videos
Of course - societies are heterogeneous - there's always exceptional people that could be a prove to others that change is indeed possible.

I think, however, that fighting poverty is a numbers game. In a society that values entrepreneurship and striving towards a better live at its core, there will be many more people that achieve success and that uplift their surroundings.

In a society where hopelessness prevails and ambition is met with suspicion, anyone ambitious or successful will soon leave for greener pastures.

So, to really fight poverty at large, you have to move the general mindset towards a fundamental believe that a better future is possible.
I don't think that conclusion tells the whole story. If you take a great movie with a very famous twist in in it, they are not good because of the secret/twist, but the secret/twist definitely has greater power if you don't know it beforehand.

For example, there are some movies like The Prestige, The Crying game and The Usual Suspects there is a set up and when the twist happens, you look back and realise the movie was hinting at it at various points but you didn't expect it. If you knew, you would see the hints much more easily and the look back would not be as fun. This sort of has the same impact as a magic trick. It's fun to be fooled.

Some other movies like Se7en, Chinatown and "Easy Rider" I would call "bolt from the blue" where the impact is mostly like being punched in the guts. It's not fun but again if you are not emotionally prepared by knowing what will happen it is much more powerful.

I wouldn't say any of those had a flimsy story. In in all cases the enjoyment comes from the writing, direction, performances etc all being of a very high standard, not just from the twist. The twist really adds something though.
Curious to know how is he doing now
Of course it's not a high bar, but I think that's the point. People eat lots of food for the taste, not for the highest quality of ingredients.

So, if we'd just call them "nuggets" from the beginning on and would have given no implication of the material they are/have been made of, nobody would say anything right now.

Only when you start replacing the little low-quality chicken meat with something that was grown with less ecological impact, people go wild, although the final product tastes the same.
As far as I understand, the fastest way to correct a work relationship going sour, without having to go through an emotional rollercoaster, is to find a connection, no matter how small. Maybe you both enjoy/dislike something, maybe you're both experts at a particular thing, etc.
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Which highlights a frustrating experience for developers. Both App Stores are wildly inconsistent - I wouldn’t mind the 30% if the systems were good, well run and offered a consistent, predictable experience for small devs (I personally don’t care about the sweetheart deals big co’s get, that’s just how big business works)
Average revenue per user is $70/year in the EU and $230 in the US. But how much of that is profit? How to costs compare between serving a user ads and serving an ad-free user?

Server costs for images, text, and the occasional video can't be that high per user at Facebook's scale of billions.

But costs for the Rube Goldberg machine of ad hosting, recommendations, bidding, and serving? There's a whole lot of backend infra and middleware behind that. We should assume, at the very least, that ad-free users are cheaper for Facebook (unless they go through all of the backend recommendation processes for all users but simply hide ads from ad-free users). I assume that with some optimization ad-free users ought to be significantly cheaper to serve.
He was the CEO of president Bioware/Pandemic as part of a VC group he led and was invested in, went to EA, bought the company for almost 1B, laid off the people at pandemic and ran EA into the ground to the point where they fired him.
A few years back I used to use SyncThing + DecSync for that purpose, and it worked quite well. Looks like it hasn't been updated in a while though.

https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync
Thats so obviously ridiculous on its face, it's not even worth answering. In what nation is ground beef 5x the price of USA?
Good. Italy has a very strong food culture and I'm glad someone will resist the cultural imperialism of spreadsheet brains.

There's some things that tech cannot and should not solve.
> The point of this example is that it takes very little for software development to get crippled by complexity without precise language

Ah I was wondering where this was headed. It’s a bit disappointing to be honest. Such a build up for such an obvious conclusion.

Otherwise it feels like the real world. Start with ifs and refactor when you have too many of them…
Effective Altruism is a bad idea. Applying money in a way that does the most good possible is focusing/obsessing too much on one angle. A Local Maximum will be reached without mechanisms to get out of it.
Same. I made many online friends on the forum and it used to be my e-hangout in the early to mid 00s. I fondly remember the IRC channel we used to hang out in. I think I have a tab or two published on the site as well. Every time I pop back in for a visit these past few years it always pushes me back away.
> milk of ambrosia

in the original story of Amrita there was a sea of real milk involved.

> plant saps called "milk"

like coconut milk or oat milk of course. That doesn't mean it's not juice and that the name stayed for historical reasons. And because they actually look like milk. Almond juice doesn't look like milk, unless processed. That's why I mentioned almond milk in the first place.
I would be surprised if it couldn't right now.

No matter what we think about ourselves, we're pretty much the same here and mostly comment the same stuff based on a few niches of beliefs and personal/professional experiences.
> Genocide needs numbers

Genocide does not need numbers, genocide is defined in international law and that definition has to be met. It's currently being investigated by a number of organizations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_genocide_of_Ukr...
They made a snarky single sentence comment. There is no argument about any thing else.

I have a quote from the OP, but address matters from the entire comment.

You are arguing about two sentences.
MusicXML is old hat. All the cool kids are using MusicJSON now.

EDIT: I'd like to clarify that I posted this comment, as a joke, before the below comment went on to clarify that there was, in fact, a JSON-based rewrite of the music standard in progress:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38460827

Never change, tech world!
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38454908
We don't have it yet, but we will let customers run the platform in their own cloud (e.g. in your own AWS account).
they'll just have to use names that aren't traditionally used in the meat industry

and that's how it should be. because the alternative is confusing. as someone who also enjoys vegetarian food i really want to be clear if something is actually including meat or not without having to study the fine print.
Maybe the US shouldn't have invaded several countries in the region and encircled Iran.
When I've encountered it, the interface has looked like this (as I'm in the process of filling it in):

$_.__
$_._1
$_.12
$1.23
$12.34

Typically it also rejects non-numeral inputs, so if you muscle-memory a decimal point it gets ignored and your input (hopefully) proceeds normally. Whereas a "left-aligned" input would be the style that we're accustomed to from general text input:

$
$1
$12
$12.
$12.3
$12.34
How do you account for Singapore?
I am Italian as well and this law is bullcrap to divert the public attention from real problems. But I am happy to let other, "more innovative" countries be the lab rat on this.
Unless literally all headlines around this subject are incorrect (which wouldn't be the first time), Italy banned cultivated meat:

> Italian MPs have voted to back a law banning the production, sale or import of cultivated meat or animal feed

My Italian isn't good enough to actually judge whether this is a case of mistranslation or misinterpretation, so if you have any more nuanced quotes please provide some.
> The wikipedia page for the shootdown incident [4] lists the time as 1349 GMT.

In case anyone is curious, the Wikipedia page mention of this time is as follows: "at 13:49 UTC (49 minutes after take-off), KAL 007 reported that it had reached its Bethel waypoint". Bethel is a city in the U.S. state of Alaska.
Questions for all the knowledge workers here (i.e., people who use their brains for their living) here:

1. When did you get your first course on neuroscience and how brains work best?

2. Did you ever learn in school a tool kit for keeping your brain performing at its best?
I‘ll pay the enshittified Dropbox premium soon.

I have been using Maestral for Dropbox sync on Mac for years now and it works great. The primary downside is that it doesn't have block-level sync because it's not supported by the API. The flip side is that you don't get the memory-hungry Dropbox app that embeds a web engine for some unfathomable reason.

I wish that Dropbox would bring back their old client that just did sync and not all the crap that I don't need.
I started with a Conbee plus deCONZ and it worked very well.

I've since switched to a SLZB-06[0] plus Zigbee2MQTT and it's incredible.

[0] https://smlight.tech/product/slzb-06/