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Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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Post by derangedHorse »

oAlbe wrote: post #84
systemvoltage wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am opionated about this, I am sure people can share other perspectives. When you're operating a CNC machine, as an operator, do you need mess around with internal wiring, schematic, motor controllers? No. You just need a control panel, with DRO and a bunch of buttons, a joystick for manual override, e-stop and a keypad. You're not dealing with the exposed wiring and internals of the machine. Nor do you care (except…

Do you happen to have any resources for learning more about API design in the way you described it? I'm really interested to learn more. Your comment was very insightful. I used to think somewhat along those lines when it came to designing an API. My thought was that and endpoint was to represent an action the user could perform, and it was none of their business how that was implemented. But I've recently been enlis…

Having the client able to dynamically ask for data from models sounds like a horrible idea to me (if I’m understanding correctly). I once had to work with someone who used the Open Data protocol to make an API with a similar approach and hated it because it felt like query writing was moved from him, the backend engineer at the time, to time the front end engineer. In addition to that, the way he did it could have lead to data we didn’t want exposed to be leaked easily by mistake

Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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Post by max_ »

1. Flutter - Cross platform development of user interfaces is now a solved problem.

2. RISC-V - It may make it easier for guys to get into chip design.

3. Scilla Lang - The clear logic of formal Mathematics applied to finance.

[1]: https://flutter.dev

[2]: https://riscv.org/

[3]: https://scilla-lang.org/

Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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Post by raverbashing »

whiskypeters wrote: post #29
tomashertus wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is “5d glass storage”? Do you have any links on good source of information?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage

Pretty cool. But this:

> Assuming a 100% efficient laser, that is one watt-hour (3.6 kJ) of energy consumption for a maximum 0.5 Mbits of data storage.

Is not good

Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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Post by rhn_mk1 »

quiescant_dodo wrote: post #94
jimdavenport wrote: post #4

As an ethical vegetarian for the past five years, I've very interested in cultured (lab-grown) meat technology[1]. FWIW, I'm very happy with my diet and probably wouldn't switch back even if this does become affordable, but I'm 100% supportive of the concept of cruelty-free meat. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat

What is an ethical vegetarian and how is it different from veganism? Sorry if I'm misunderstanding.

Perhaps it's someone who doesn't think in absolutes: sees the value of the ethical argument, but allows that other factors may dominate depending on the circumstances.

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Post by rhn_mk1 »

wolco2 wrote: post #60
saila wrote: post #38

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Massive amounts of grain are fed to livestock, and vast acreage is cleared for grazing livestock. If everyone went vegetarian, I'm fairly certain the amount of crops grown and land we use for agriculture would be significantly less. Turning grain into meat is highly inefficient.

Why does everyone have to become vegetarian? When everyone stops eating meat and turns to "healthy" meals like corn based vegetarian burgers I think we are all worse off. Variety, locally grown produce, locally raised animals is the best way to keep diversity and quality. The vegetarian food available now is good because it's not as mass produced.

The point of ethical vegetarianism is not keeping diversity and quality of foods, it's preventing bad life of animals.

It's also not the point of ecological vegetarianism: it's preserving the diversity of natural ecosystems, as opposed to food farms.

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Post by Funes- »

jimdavenport wrote: post #4

As an ethical vegetarian for the past five years, I've very interested in cultured (lab-grown) meat technology[1]. FWIW, I'm very happy with my diet and probably wouldn't switch back even if this does become affordable, but I'm 100% supportive of the concept of cruelty-free meat. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat

I'm interested in cultured meat as well, but also in cultured dairy. I follow an ovolactovegetarian diet, and I exercise heavily six days a week. I find it really difficult to take even the minimum 50 grams of complete (which is crucial) protein just from eggs, dairy, and plant-based foods. Having the chance of eating cruelty-free meat would save me from thinking so much about coming up with ways of fulfilling my nutritional requirements.

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Post by AntiImperialis2 »

jimdavenport wrote: post #4

As an ethical vegetarian for the past five years, I've very interested in cultured (lab-grown) meat technology[1]. FWIW, I'm very happy with my diet and probably wouldn't switch back even if this does become affordable, but I'm 100% supportive of the concept of cruelty-free meat. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat

I will never go vegetarian and will never eat fake meat, whether it's fabricated or cultured.

I think it's ethical to kill living beings you can get away with. You may choose to limit it to plants. Some of us don't like to put fake limits on to ourselves like that.

Even if I took the vegan position to show pretend virtue in front of people I wish to impress or annoy, I would still:

- kill an animal to protect my child

- pay to abort my unwanted child to protect myself from future obligations as a parent and a partner

- kill humans who pose a threat to my life or that of a loved one

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Post by progval »

tomashertus wrote: post #21

https://hotwire.dev/ - alternative approach to building modern web applications by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire. https://temporal.io/ - is the new kid on the block of state-dependent service-orchestrated application development platforms. https://workos.com/ - is building enterprise-readiness as a service, enabling new companies to start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. htt…

> https://hotwire.dev/ - alternative approach to building modern web applications by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire.

I find it funny that it's now considered a promising alternative approach; conceptually this is very similar to AJAX, which was the standard way to make pages dynamic ten years ago.

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