skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fortnite - alright that one may be stirring the pot a little... but it is honestly a good example. Installs are in the tens (hundreds total?) of millions and the revenue is regularly over 5 billion per year. Honestly it's not "what popular app" that's the problem, it's "what are unpopular apps supposed to do".

I still think it'd be good to de-bundle distribution fees from payment channels though.
What is HN opinion on the practice to one day you show a popup to your user with new terms, you either accept or you leave , no way to enter and export your data or contacts. It is kind of shitty IMO all this ToS that are always updating, even with paid products you are forced into accepting the ToS or get fcked
to be fair, it's a rite of passage to do something like this.

But you should definitely have bought that man a beer :)
Auth companies are high value targets for hackers. You'd think outsourcing auth is a smart idea because it's difficult to get auth right but otoh you might never have been a target if you hadn't used Okta.
IIRC they got in trouble in Germany for this already because certain controls were mandated by law to be a certain way and they flaunted it. I just bought a new car and a make or break decision for me was the control layout. Too many automakers jumped on the touchscreen bandwagon. Its fine for some things like android auto. But all touchscreen all the time was stupid in star trek and stupid in real life. Having physical controls for things like the lights, wipers and hvac is critical.
Constructive dismissal isn't that hard for a tech worker to prove.
The key thing though is whether it is tastier.
Is it viable to manually inject nutriënts into the meat?
Statement from Ardent:

https://ardenthealth.com/news/ardent-health-services-reports...

They mention Epic specifically, but a majority of hospital systems rely on Epic.
> Once cultivated meat is significantly cheaper [than real meat]?

Is there any real chance of that in the next, say, 100 years?

I would imagine the bio engineering that evolution arrived at for converting nutrients to meat+organs+bone is quite close to optimal for its purpose. If so, getting anywhere near, even if you get rid of the organs + bones*, would need a looooong time. Especially since you'd be converting cheap workers taking care of animals with bio-engineers tending meat vats in pretty good sterility.

*which anyway is probably not fully desirable if you expect the full taste of real meat
Do you know that you actually need this? Have you measured how much time you're losing to this process?
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I sure hope there are no changes to standalone roundcube, because I'm just starting to think nextcloud is too heavy.

I see people on selfhosting forums asking for alternatives.

It would be sad if they swallowed roundcube, which I remember as a decent web email client.
It works fine for Windows/Mac/Linux (and Steam Deck) /Mobile, so its a great tool for first-time developers, game jams, etc.

For consoles there's a company called W4Games developing a console exporter using Godot's GDExtension API, and some other companies will port for you. There's a popular game on Xbox right now - Cassette Beasts - which was developed on Godot 3.
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>many promising social, economic, and environmental benefits of a transition to synthetic and plant-based food

Can you elaborate on that?
The other big difference with BBC Basic was that it had functions. The other version of Basic I used only had Subroutines accessed via Gosub.
I don't think so, at least not if that timeframe overlaps with the current regime. This is something like an ID pol issue for the conservatives in power in Italy (and FL).

Further context focused on the US: https://newrepublic.com/article/171781/meat-culture-war-cric...
It is software-related.
Just the CPU perform badly on some software instruction.
I think you could make a program to mmap() all the files you want and then call mlockall() and never exit.
I'm sure that if Tesla creates the best robotaxi software, it will find its way onto the road one way or another. My feeling is that they will operate the robotaxi fleet themselves. But they might also just sell or rent the cars. Or even just the software.
I thought it was chasing cosmetics, size, and quantity (e.g. giant bland tomatos, overfed hormone chicken) that led to nutrient deficiency.
Wow, this detail I did not know yet. It just was a reckless rush to the moon, no matter the cost at this time. Without the deaths, nothing would have changed probably.
Factory farmed meat is cancer too. I'd say, save the animals, and give a little toxicity to all the proles who haven't gone unprocessed plant-based yet.
Short term: Odds are very low. Long term: Odds are very high.

Science is not done in TikTok videos.
Have no idea about cost. I don't have much of an ethical problem with killing and eating humanely and sustainably raised and cared for animals for a reasonable degree of those things, factory farming and assembly line slaughterhouses are not that. Better for the environment seems a no brainer given the ecological costs of the amount of meat we eat. I can't imagine it will be the same as in no difference at all, or undetectable, maybe it will even always be more delicious, but I think it's reasonable to think that for lots and lots of dishes with meat in it, it would pass a blind taste test.

Raw steak, maybe not. Beef stew or chicken curry or a burger - def...
If it isn't broke don't fix it...

I use to use Canon printers and in the 90s, as computers were becoming more powerful, they moved the "smarts" into the drivers inside the computer reducing cost. The printer no longer accepted anything but dot by dot instructions from the driver. Being strictly windows driver, my new printer was a paperweight with my Linux os. Since then, the Linux Community has developed support from the printers but I moved on to Brother. Canon has lost me for good. I've been a loyal user of Brother printers for decades. They just work, reliably and more economically.
Skyrim and The Witcher 3 are cool. I could play them over and over.
It's all about the spices.

I ate some chicken nuggets made out of rice and they tasted just like the ones from Mc Donalds.
That seems a bit far fetched, this is only the very beginning of that field of research.
I loved coding assembly on for the 6809 for the TRS-80 Color Computer: there was the cartridge editor/assembler, a disk assembler, and eventually an assembler for OS-9 that worked together with C, Pascal, and other compilers. (e.g. if your assembly function or a wrapper around it follows the calling conventions, you could write your tests in an HLL)

The 6809 team saw themselves as revolutionaries of system software for microcomputers in that the 6809 supported PIC (Position Independent Code) which could be used to implement shared libraries, even in ROM.

So it is totally in character to have your function in one file and have another file with a test harness and another with the actual test that when linked together form a program.

So far as the verbosity of the tests you could solve that with a good macro assembler although I don't remember ever using one for the 6809. The Coco3 could support 512kb of RAM so it could have supported a full phat assembler in OS-9. Macro assembly for the IBM 360 was particularly powerful because you could specify a register in an argument, I am wondering today if you could get away in 6809 with adding an "LD[parameter]" instruction which could assemble to LDA, LDB, LDX or such depending on the value of parameter.

The tests don't have to be as comprehensive as he says they should be, though some fundamental algorithms really can use a comprehensive test.
> they dont treat their citizens like cattle

"We replaced our citizens with plant-based citizen alternatives, as they fart less".
Godot can export to iOS/Android just fine, the consoles are an issue because their SDKs are behind an NDA. I wonder why they still do that, seems like it only hamstrings developers.
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You know, pgAdmin seems fine to me. About on par with MySQL Workbench (that one has nice ERD features and reverse/forward engineering), maybe a bit better in regards to just messing around with SQL code. Sometimes there's even nice unexpected surprises, I think there was a visualization of geospatial data when working with PostGIS even.

That said, I haven't found the one RDBMS tool that I'd absolutely love, along the lines of the "aha" moment I got when working on large Java codebases in IntelliJ IDEA, or using VS Code for throwing something smaller together quickly, or even using GitKraken for making Git palatable, or MobaXTerm for SSH and RDP/VNC/SFTP sessions.

pgAdmin and MySQL Workbench are both okay, but not amazing (even when autocomplete isn't broken in either). DataGrip by JetBrains somehow feels a bit clunky to me. DbVis is perhaps the best one I've seen for visualization, but that's all it does well. There's also Open Jail which is great for exploring datasets... but there's no tool that does pretty much everything in a way that is satisfying and lets me fly through tasks.

I'm still glad that there are options, though. DataGrip supporting lots of different RDBMSes is already a good thing, as are the more specialized options like pgAdmin.
Personally I give it the same P or timeline as quantum computing.
If they could read, they'd see the writing on the wall. So much for a free market, eh?

Yes, upheavals are bad, but it isn't like the idea of cultivated meat substitute is from three months ago.
Not just one example. They learned from many examples that dragging someone or something along is not a good thing.
> reduced rates of reoffending

Sounds like something bad for business when you run for-profit prisons.
Ultimately protectionism has many negative externalities. At best you are amortizing the pain of your economy becoming uncompetitive, at worst you are permanently kneecapping your future competitiveness.
>We can't even make non-meat meat that's as cheap as meat and you didn't even have to grow or feed the cow.

In the US if you remove the government subsidies from meat production the price of a pound of ground beef jumps ~500%.

https://scet.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/CopyofFINALSavi...
I didn't care much about it, but now that it's going to be banned, I feel like I should try it while I can. Where can I get some of this cultured meat in France?
Eat exactly these seven plants in just the right ratios to get roughly the amino acids your body needs before crossing 2400 calories. No room for error.

I'll join you when we've bred twice the protein quality & quantity we currently have in our plants.

Until then, I'll save money with my factory supplements,thanks.
I sure hope they don't treat their citizens like they treat their cattle.
I'm Italian, and unfortunately, we currently have shortsighted politicians. They seem clueless about their actions, and rather than promoting progress and research in various fields, they are attempting to halt time or, in some areas, even regress. They are a group of illiterate fascists who don't even understand how they attained their positions. The advent of cultivated meat doesn't mean that our Italian traditions will be eradicated in its favor. Both can coexist, allowing people to decide what's best for themselves and the planet. For instance, Italy has a ban on GMOs, yet our intensive farming practices involve feeding chickens and other animals imported GMOs daily. So, what's the point of this ban? It's mere propaganda with no scientific basis, and it's ruining our country.

Extra fun fact: Lollobrigida (Italy's minister of agriculture) holds his position as a Minister, solely because he is the husband of the Prime Minister's sister, and that's the extent of his qualifications.
I thought only the disabling of swap partition would guarantee no subsequent disk i/o.
Never understood the emulating part.

Google didn't copy Microsoft, and Netflix didn't copy Amazon, and Apple and Microsoft and Yahoo do their own thing also. Every big tech company claims its culture and tooling is the best and yet they mysteriously share none of it.

And in any case, your company isn't Google. And it doesn't succeed or fail based on using this or that tooling.

Identify your own pain points and solve those instead. Maybe you need a code search tool and buy it from the author, maybe you don't.
“Meat production accounts for 57 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions of the entire food production industry. It also results in widespread deforestation and loss of biodiversity, and each of these means that it significantly contributes to climate change.”

https://sentientmedia.org/why-is-eating-meat-bad-for-the-env...
Yes, but Italy is a parliamentary republic, the president has only a ceremonial/ guarantee role. Governments/parliaments last much less, maximum 5 years, but often way less
This is probably the easiest way.

You could also write a small c program that mmap() and mlock() all the executables and shared objects you need and then stays around in the background.
Why do cars need to be patched OTA? Why isn't the code for something as mission critical as a car not written right before it was shipped? I never needed an ECU update on a car before? And my infotainment rarely needed one to the point where the handful of times it did get a firmware update it was handled during servicing just fine.
Something that is interesting (even if you don't like the streamer's style), is that Netflix had a seemingly simple requirement:

For a particular show, instead of recommending to viewers to start at S01E01 (which might put people off the show due to that particular episode being distastefully vulgar to some), by default start at S04E01 (which was actually the first episode produced by Netflix after they acquired the show).

It turned out that this seemingly simple requirement went against a very deeply ingrained (almost fundamental) assumption in many places in their systems, that shows always start at the earliest available episode.

In the end, implementing this seemingly simple requirement landed up being (according to the streamer) a 4 month project.
We've replaced our plant-based citizen alternatives with stars. They twinkle and we like to look at them.
Does this mean that McDonalds will be banned as well?
/dev/shm is convenient, if available
Nice work Devon!

It may be “super hacky” as you say, but these projects are important.

We may have had a theoretical understanding that this was possible, but seeing your demo opens up our experiential understanding.

Lights up totally different parts of the brain.
I imagine you will see similar things with Icefrog, in their tenure as the custodian of DotA map in Warcraft 3. Balancing a competitive game is something that even Blizzard struggle with.

(well, Icefrog isn't burdened by the need for monetization.)
No, if you cover the light, it will refuse to take photos or videos. Who cares about the next glasses from another manufacture? We are talking about the current Meta glasses that just came out.
Good for Italy. They have perhaps one of the richest food/cooking cultures in the world. Fake meat is an affront to that. Not only is it expensive and gross, but insanely processed with a mile long list of ingredients. Ground beef usually has one ingredient: beef. I've gotten a good chuckle over the years seeing it disappear from shelves and menus. I'm sure you can still find it in abundance at Whole Foods in SF or Portland Oregon, but now I routinely see maybe 1-2 items and the stock is always full. People wouldn't even touch it during covid when everything was flying off the shelf.
As per the other replies, you've seriously misunderstood some fundamentals about EA.

But aside from that:

> The better solution is to (1) increase tax rates on the wealthiest sectors of the economy by restoring 1960s-era tax brackets for income, corporate, and capital gains and (2) change how those funds are spent at the federal and state level, i.e. move away from funding foreign wars and towards fixing all the basic domestic problems.

Why are these mutually exclusive? Why can't I favour progressive taxation and better foreign / domestic policies, while also making donations to stop people dying of preventable diseases? Obviously EA people aren't all the same, but I'd say that was a fairly typical position among EAs, and I see nothing wrong with it.

If there is some slight way in which donating to malaria prevention as at odds with taxing the rich, is it really worth the large death toll associated with withdrawing funding from the former?
The first link refers to "servers" - not "CPUs". I assume "servers" contains everything server hardware related, not just the CPU.
> 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.

Not sure how truthfully labelling products would mean all that. I think the consumer is smart enough to make choices for themselves, and the language of food labels only benefits, not harms, that.
The American perspective, which prioritizes fostering innovation, contrasts sharply with the approach in many European governments, where there seems to be a prevailing tendency to legislate and impose restrictions. This difference in mindset is a key factor in why the United States is making more rapid economic advances compared to Europe.
AskHN: Are you still evaluating alternatives to OpenAI after things stabilized?
The point of Christ's teaching is that rich or poor, no one is deserving. It's only by admitting one's sinfulness and inadequacy and turning from it to instead accept God's mercy and gift of Christ that anyone can be saved.
We conducted a survey with our customers & community on Nov 20-21 (n=81) and found that people were quite unhappy with OpenAI. Curious to see how that sentiment has changed, what are you looking at now?
One thing pgAdmin 4 does very well is the geometry/geography viewer for spatial data.
Merf I just found that out and edited it right before you posted.
A new kind of solar cell is coming: is it the future of green energy?
Seems like he’s telling the guy to sell all his stuff and give it away, or bugger off.
Weird how laws that base their validity on “culture” tend to be absolutely shitty laws.
Those are heavily disputed claims.
More like AI code assistants can replace expensive so-called 'senior developers' that have low energy and are too expensive to justify their inflated salaries in the first place.

The future is less developers are needed. Both juniors and seniors are affected and it will only accelerate.
Seems stupid. As long as its safe, people should be able to eat it if they want.

> The measure also prohibits the use of meat-related terms, like ‘salami’ or ‘steak’, for plant-based meat substitutes

Im actually ok with this. Vegetarian food should stop pretending to be something its not and be willing to stand on its own feet as what it is.
I agree that the person who made such a mistake will be the person who never makes that mistake again. That's why firing someone who has slipped up (in a technical way) and is clearly mortified is typically a bad move.

However, I don't agree that this is the "real" lesson.

Given the costs at play and the risk presented, the lesson is that if you have components that are tested with a big surge of power, give them custom test connectors that are incompatible with components that are liable to go up in smoke. That's the lesson. This isn't a little breadboard project they're dealing with, it's a vast project built by countless people in a government agency that has a reputation for formal procedures that are the source of great time, expense, and in some cases ridicule.

The "trust the 28 year old with the $500m robot that can go boom if they slip up" logic seems very peculiar.
There's a pretty good episode from recent (4 years-ish) South Park: “Let Them Eat Goo”(1), where Cartman only desired to "eat the same garbage" he always has, and since the “goo” is definitely garbage, he does not care that it is more sustainable or ethical.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_Them_Eat_Goo
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Of course, we should all be drinking Soylent and eating pill-based food. Who cares about preserving a tradition of high-level cuisine that exists from time immemorial, when we can live like they did in bad science-fiction books from the 1960s or 1970s instead.
Replace 'party' with 'partisan voters' and you're even closer.

The Uniparty is evil, but the folks who still buy into their schtick are mostly ignorant or naive.
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How exactly is it cheaper and healthier to plant-based protein foods?
Does synthetic food show or promise improvements in any of these aspects?
Just as a note, "insane" registrations and sales tax are not "insane." Driving a vehicle has negative costs on society that neither the owner of the vehicle nor the producer pay for, and fuel taxes do not fully cover these costs.

Seattle/Washington charges you money based on the weight of your vehicle, which is reasonable since weight is the primary driver of road wear. A lighter vehicle costs the city and state less money in maintenance.

Sales tax in Seattle is also relatively typical for a city, and applies to every product you buy. It has a very similar sales tax rate to cities like Nashville, Memphis, Phoenix, and New Orleans.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cow+chicken+efficiency&tbm=i... doesn't seem efficient with this near comical amount of disparity between animals
As an Italian, I despise them as any other reasonable person.

But this decision is not unreasonable.

Let the World eat it so we can gather data. We are Italians, we've never been early adopters of anything coming from outside our borders.

Especially food wise and except mobile phones.

It is also not unreasonable to label things for what they really are.

Almond juice is not milk as in "the white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals" and plant based meat substitutes are not a steak or a burger, they are vegetable patties.
Very sad to what happen to Hong Kong. Fallen no doubt. But still not vanish and the machine should reach it still. Sadly no order link. Whilst might be arrested, china is not Hong Kong in posting.
It doesn't seem faster. Seem would imply that it isn't the case.
It is faster currently on that setup.

But since python runtime is written in C, the issue can't be Python vs C.
"The Man Who Was Thursday" still works, i found -- which is kind of a surprise!
Synthetic meat can be cheaper, more environmentally friendly and more ethical at scale.
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These are poor counterexamples as murder and rape are two things universally agreed upon as being bad by all societies.

Try something contentious - e.g. homosexuality. Who has the authority to judge that?

While morals can be based on analytic philosophy (which I'm personally a fan of) the fact remains that analytic philosophy may still be susceptible to Gödel's incompleteness and moreover, not everybody agrees with this approach.
Ah. I was wondering why I can never find anything I want to watch on Netflix.
If you are willing to spend some money, rather look at OwnCloud hosting or maybe self-hosting with professional support. While NextCloud just added feature after feature and IMHO bit off more than they could chew, OwnCloud started to rewrite things in Go and improved speed and stability. Also, I hear their support is better.
This is super dumb. I am very much hoping synthetic meat will replace "traditional" meat (mainly due to ethical reasons, aka less animal suffering)