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janimoon Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says

According to Our world in data wild terrestrial mammals make up 2% of the total number of mammals (in biomass so it is not exactly headcount, but also includes predators and rodents not strictly herbivores), while cattle, pigs, goats and sheep are >50%. So when looking at suffering you may want to take scale into account.

janimoon On Web3 Infrastructure

Much more thoughtful than yesterday's blog post addressing Moxie's concerns.

I wonder if the quality of conversations around this subject were improved if similarly to conflicts of interest declared by scientific paper authors, each public critic or supporter of web3 would disclose whether they are currently financially invested in 'crypto'. For outsiders it's harder to tell apart hacker/geek types from speculators and lurkers (not that there couldn't be an overlap). The fact that this article mentions there exist much fewer Ethereum nodes than "Ethereum nerds" may suggest that the non-technical group controls the public discourse and expectations.

janimoon Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda

one difference is that authoritarian regimes have been known to infuse everything with state propaganda, whereas almost nobody expects this from western democracies, showing just how much more subtle and even effective the latter can be.

janimoon Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?

seconded.

janimoon Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?

A tie between two well known books: "The making of the atomic bomb" and "Manufacturing consent". Both great in very different ways.

janimoon Novel mind-body program outperforms other treatments for chronic back pain

Sarno's book, mentioned in other comments was also on YC's reading list a while ago: https://blog.ycombinator.com/ycs-2017-summer-reading-list/

janimoon Object Detection at 1840 FPS with TorchScript, TensorRT and DeepStream

Thanks for the links. I think there also isn't an API for accessing high FPS cameras on Android devices that support slow motion video capture.

janimoon Object Detection at 1840 FPS with TorchScript, TensorRT and DeepStream

How portable are these techniques to other architectures? Could >100 FPS be realistically achieved today using only CPUs or mobile phones?

janimoon Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator

Logged in just to say congrats, this attitude is seldom encountered, even among those building their products almost entirely on freely available foundations.

janimoon Almond: An Open, Privacy-Preserving Virtual Assistant

When did Chrome stop supporting web speech to text?

janimoon 1000fps image projection on deforming non-rigid surface

Something like this should play a role in the future of more sustainable clothing/fashion.

janimoon Launch HN: OurWorldInData (YC W19 Nonprofit) – Data on World’s Largest Problems

The top comment in the thread has the most recent debate I know of.

janimoon Launch HN: OurWorldInData (YC W19 Nonprofit) – Data on World’s Largest Problems

"Facts can be a powerful weapon against fear, a gloomy worldview, learned helplessness". This is so true.

However I also notice a frequent and not so helpful use of such data, namely as a way of countering people's legitimate complains about their current state. It is especially concerning when the positive trends are touted as consequences of certain public policies, even when the correlation is questionable. There are heated online debates between the Bill Gates/Pinker/Factfulness camp and the 'left' on the role of the free market vs a strong state in shaping progress during the past 50 years.

How can you avoid any sort of bias creeping in the content of your site?

janimoon Map shows trillion-dollar reason why China is oppressing its Muslims

Same here. Exactly the 'reason why' advertised in the headline is missing from the article. Is it the collateral environmental destruction if any, that the locals are opposing (in which case it's irrelevant that they are Muslims)? Is their traditional way of life under threat?

The geographical and economical pointers from the article are welcome however, so the oppression of Uyghurs can be put in a context that is not about cultural or linguistic differences.

janimoon Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing

Want to stop amateur-level, easily-debunked and low budget fake news? Pay for the real thing coming from established sources /s

Seriously, fake news has not been invented in the past three years, it was just 'democratised' with the help of twitter and facebook. The large majority of publications, even reputable ones like the NYT, have contributed to the spread of false information and knowingly mislead the public more than once.

janimoon Cruel and Unusual Punishment

What about replacing the collective work of several misogynistic and racist authors, especially since the work itself lead to heavy discrimination?

cough the US Constitution cough :)

janimoon Japan to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission

I am pretty sure we do not want to go down the 'cannot reason so can be eaten' path.

janimoon Japan to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission

As opposed to? Aren't pigs or cattle sentient?

janimoon Japan to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission

Why should whales get protection that pigs, cows, and other animals don’t?

Most westerners do not consume whale meat, so there's no cognitive dissonance to prevent them from firmly opposing whaling.

janimoon Karl Friston: a neuroscientist who might hold the key to true AI

I agree the style is annoying, using many such paragraphs to meet the required word count, but Friston's reputation is well established in scientific circles (although I first heard of him yesterday).

janimoon Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment

It's the js bundle that is large.

janimoon Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment

In a fresh create-react-app project, their getting started example that includes only a button results in a minified js of 570K. Apparently the whole of Blueprint.js is included as a dependency. Shouldn't tree shaking take care of this seamlessly?

janimoon Tailwind: A Utility-First CSS Framework

For websites where having a unique design is not a requirement or a priority, Bootstrap and similar frameworks are very helpful.

janimoon Google Optimize now free for everyone

Hacker News :)

janimoon Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging sabotage' by employee

Killing Hope and Overthrow are two books on the subject.

janimoon Your GitHub Alternative

I don't know how many people actually consider switching, but adding a few private repos to the free github plan will probably make 99% of them reconsider on the spot and even make others switch to github. I doubt MS made the aquisition for the direct profits.

janimoon How to Be a Systems Thinker

It is only appropriate if you cannot conceive government actions that have nothing to do with force :)

janimoon A new reason to love OpenDNS: no more ads (2014)

That would also be a web without net neutrality.

janimoon Umbra Privacy Platform

Hard to take seriously with all those ambitious goals and talk about privacy but without https configured on their subdomain.

janimoon A Book about Qt5

go-qml is good enough for small apps, but it's QML only and not very actively maintained unfortunately.