skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is amazing!

I am not a chef. I cook at home, and my cooking skills might be above average. I believe that the cheapest way to run a school cafeteria is to make food from scratch. It is also a much healthier approach.

For example, instead of serving pre-made and super-unhealthy chicken nuggets, buy those cuts of meat and fish that are deemed "undesirable" in grocery stores, but perfectly fine in term of health and nutrition. They can be used to make stews, or they can be made into ground meat by the kitchens themselves and in turn made into meatballs, bolognese, lasagna fillings, burgers, fish cakes, etc. The same idea can be applied to vegetables and fruits, too. A large amount of perfectly fine vegetables and fruits are thrown away every day just because they don't look nice. They aren't rotten. People won't get food poisoning after eating them. They just don't look good. They are either in odd shapes, too big too small, or have some light bruises, etc. School kitchens can buy them and make perfectly healthy and delicious meals from them.

I do see the issue of this approach. It needs cooks who know how to cook from scratch, especially how to cook those cuts of meats they are not familiar with, or cooks who are willing to learn these techniques. I suppose it is much easier to find these cooks in the countries who have a long and rich cuisine history, like France, Italy, China, Mexico, etc. It could be a challenging task here.
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Maybe one day science can.
No, it is even less than rsync. It can only upload a folder recursively and skip files with common modification time on local and remote.

Considering though that before that you couldn't even upload a directory, only files, this is a huge step. :)
I tried to use and love lambda, spending a lot of time making my use-case work for their poor development and deployment environment (a zip file, really??). In the end, I had to abandon the effort.

They only allow a certain fixed execution time and 500 mb of temp space, max. And they won't raise these limits.

During testing I noticed that frequently I would have the same contents of empirical storage (/tmp) -- i.e. i'd be running on the same host.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the entire purpose of lambda is to resell capacity on hosts that aren't busy -- but could be -- thus the low CPU time limits and storage spaces. I'm sure someone would not notice 500 MB or 5 minutes of CPU time vampired on their less busy, not monitored hosts from time to time. And if the real user does need the capacity, they can just kill the process, which had happened many times in my testing (process would be killed or die for no reason).

Sounds great and amazing in theory, but execution is horrible and unusable except as a toy.
In Europe, there is TTIP. In Asia, there is RCEP. The three agreements regulate similar goods.

There is also TiSA, which covers services in 50 countries.
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Durability is one reason. A physical hard drive in my desk is so much more susceptible to destruction or loss or theft.
The other thing to remember, in the U.S., is that parents are constantly in a one-up war with each other. The two sides of that spectrum are "my kid's got the best lunch for him ever" and "my kid's got the most awesome lunch the other kids will be jealous of". This is why packed lunches should be flat out banned, in my opinion, but I concede that it's a parent's ultimate choice in how they raise their child. On the flip side of that, it's also their responsibility to do more than write articles about the poor state of food and actually try to do something about it.

I'm far too lazy to find the reference, but I recall that empowering the children to do it themselves has worked more than once.
From the article:

The top four sources of calories in the average American child’s diet are grain-based desserts, pizza, soda and sports drinks, and bread. One-third eat fast food every single day. More than 90 percent don’t eat enough vegetables. And each year, our children are bombarded by around $2 billion in child-directed food and beverage advertising, much of which promotes the least healthy products.

If the kids bring their own lunches, those lunches will be crap. I can supply some anecdata on this. My mom taught high school and observed what the kids brought to lunch. I saw it when I did things like chaperone for field trips when my kids were in grade school. One kid's lunch was a sack of cookies. And if you want to be a snob for a while (disclaimer: I'm a bit of a snob), look at what people put in their shopping carts at the supermarket.

And it's quite noticeable that affluent people buy seemingly healthier food, and are much less obese, likewise for the lunches that their kids bring to school and the physical condition of those kids.

And it carries over into adulthood: A large fraction of my colleagues eat restaurant food for lunch, at least a couple times a week. The vast bulk of restaurant food is a pile of sugar, fat, and salt.

In my view, the US is not a fancy food country, and what works for us might not be fancy food, but teaching people how to prepare healthy food with modest ingredients. For instance I suspect that a sandwich and an apple would be a vast improvement over what most kids eat for lunch. That's all I ever got in the lunch that I brought from home as a kid. When I got old enough, it was my job to make my own sandwich.
Good catch! I mostly used __uint128_t out of haste. Ideally, I would like to remove dependencies on large integer types. For now, this remains future work.
> idiotic things such as paywalls

> a subscription model could actually be appropriate in lieu of ads

Doesn't a subscription model imply a paywall?
I don't see much evidence in that paper that neural networks have similar representations to monkey visual cortex activations (the paper studied monkeys). They merely showed that the neural network representations were predictive of visual cortex responses in monkeys (e.g. linear regression was a good fit for using the NN representations to predict visual cortex responses in monkeys).
I'd point out that we're generally trying to offer simple, competitive pricing across our services (we're not totally there yet).

This write up is a pretty good summary of our differences on the compute side: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10922105

Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine, and specific to that article launched Preemptible VMs.
Having experinced this (and also student participation in cleaning the school)... You can't do that in America because jobs would be lost. Then there would be complaints about insourcing, or child exploitation.
> Unless you do this all day, there's no way it would take 10 minutes to research all the components that go into a PC and put it all together.

No, this isn't true at all. The first time you put together your own computer, sure, maybe, it may take a bit longer. But the next time and the time after that, it becomes quicker and quicker because you already know the basics. It only takes 10 minutes to see what new GPUs or CPUs have come out.

Hell, if you didn't know anything about PCs, it would only take 5 minutes to look up all the parts in the latest Mac and order them off newegg. You could build your own exact copy of the latest mac and the research time would be negligible since you already know what parts you need since they're listed right there on the Mac SPEC sheet. And you'd save yourself hundreds of dollars.

> Last two times I got a new computer, it took me 2-3 days before I could work on them at full speed.

My 64 year old senile-ish father without any background in PCs put together his own PC and had it up and running in less than 4 hours. I don't buy 2 days at all. That's either an exaggeration or an outright lie.

> I'm a power user

A power user that cannot put together his own PC in under 2 days? I'm not sure I buy that. It's like a MLB player not being able to hit a ball that's traveling over 65 MPH. Even the pitchers are well enough versed to get hits occasionally.
Nice demo.
You want to ban lunches because someone might feel bad about it? I went to the wealthiest (public) schools in the wealthiest town in the wealthiest county in my state. A place where kids got on that MTV Sweet 16 show, and not once was this ever a thing. This is the same argument they used for uniforms, that people would get made fun of. Never once saw that either. It's a joke. Sorry not everyone is wealthy, but that is a solution looking for a problem.
Fish oils are NOT trans fats. Omega 3 is a polyunsaturated fat, while trans fats are those we artificially saturated.
At least a few years ago, shared hosting with Hetzner used to be a complete security mess. By default, every user could access many other users' www directories via SFTP, including loads of PHP config files with MySQL access data inside. No SFTP jails in place, no automated process to prevent 775 (or 777!) permissions. (Yes, you could delete other users' whole www directories.) Real names of all users on the same server world-readable in /etc/passwd. Didn't exactly increase my trust in their products.
Specifically, the Simpsons' reference to Yakov Smirnoff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8mD2hsxrhQ
Does anyone have a success story for this type of backup and retrieval on another service?
>To fly on an airplane, you just had to walk through a metal detector, and if someone was there to meet you or say goodbye, they could go all the way to the gate without a ticket.
>If a flight was longer than a couple hours, you got a free meal, sometimes two, and it wasn't bad.

Still largely true in Australia.
Obligatory mention: https://github.com/avinassh/rockstar
Sports?
Open up the link and look for "Add to". You can then create your own playlist and put any videos in there for later viewing.

I hope this helps.
That said, this is Amazon, who will refund you for a product if you ship it to the wrong address accidentally...I'm sure OP could get a refund.
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It's fine to do that, just compose them in a way where it wouldn't matter if it were another server.

That way it's easier to migrate off later, if needed, and easier to scale as well.
Some folks mentioned about lowering costs; I may misunderstood that context but has there been any math done by any entity on how much of a cost-saving it would be for organizations that chooses to switch to a blockchain data storage solution?
Of course, my grandparent comment demonstrates how much easier it is to correct someone claiming a lack of addressing the point, rather than the tedious nature of getting into trying to match someones rebuttal to a claim that may have only been partially made.

Also, I don't think the claim that quoting the points your addressing solves all the problems in organizing a debate, just some of them.
I wonder what they would be like if they were made by software engineers.
To be fair, we do have quite a handicap in that respect. A machine intelligence could, at least theoretically, pass around perfect copies of its learned knowledge near-instantly (maybe not though... integrating two neural networks that developed separately might be terribly difficult or even impossible... I wonder if anyone has attempted or studied this? If NNA learns to recognize human faces, and NNB learns to recognize text, is there a way to merge them? It's not like you can just average their weights together, especially if using a method that connects/prunes neurons as necessary). Humans, on the other hand, have to translate bioelectrochemical patterns created in very differently structured networks into flapping of a meat strip rhythmically to cause air vibrations that will rumble a thin membrane of meat, feeding electrical impulses into the differing network, and its success depends upon an expansive, and almost completely unknown (to us), body of similar, but not identical, experiences, from hearing the same patterns of sounds while seeing objects or pictures of objects, possibly decades earlier, to accepting unspoken social cues early in development. What is astonishing is that language works at all. It really, really sounds like it shouldn't have a snowballs chance in Hell.

And the weird thing is, I've got this niggling suspicion that this handicap is actually a profound strength. That evolution didn't produce so many species of organisms separated by walls of flesh and bone, detached from one another and capable of wandering far apart, then incapable of even expressing fundamentally novel concepts (I mean novel novel, such that your language has no word for it and such that any metaphor would be more misleading than enlightening). We could have evolved such that when holding hands, a flow of specially produced chemicals seep from ones hand to the other, travelling to the brain and making the changes necessary to convey concepts exactly. Bacteria communicate in this way. They change each other. Directly. We could to. But... we don't. And there is maybe a reason for that.
I just saw that! I read it a few days ago, but went back to catch up. I came back to edit my comment.
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I wouldn't be very happy if I opened it in the background tab on a metered connection (say, 3G).
This appears not to be the case, so it's me who's saying things based on misunderstandings now.
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I agree that batteries look to be way superior, and I don't see any point in hydrogen. I especially don't understand why companies like Toyota are pushing it.

However, it's good to have alternatives. Maybe some big breakthrough will suddenly turn hydrogen into the better alternative. (This is not that breakthrough, to be sure.) So even if electric is better, I'm glad to see research like this.

I disagree that electric will mean cars are mostly a software game. Exterior look, interior accommodations, and driving dynamics still count for a lot.
"The solution to this of course, is to simply make a high quality product. Ensure the content is top-notch, kill anything that isn't. Make sure page performance is excellent. Hand-curate ads such that they're non-invasive, fast, and not killed by ad-blockers."

I agree with this strategic sentiment, but I'm not sure the solution is as simple as you think it is. Higher quality content generally requires much more expensive production costs, and it's far from clear that the revenue side of the equation will support these costs at anything more than hobby-level scale.

"Admittedly the last point is difficult, but it can be done. If the publication is sufficiently niche, a subscription model could actually be appropriate in lieu of ads; nautil.us is a fantastic example of this."

I love Nautilus, as I imagine a lot of HN readers do. But how is it doing as a business? Is it thriving? Is it crushing it? Is it barely scraping by? I'm not posing these questions Socratically; I'm genuinely curious to know the answer. Extremely curious, in fact, as someone who's spent a lifetime in the content business and desperate for any glimmer of hope along these lines.

My instincts lead me to a similar hypothesis as yours: find a niche, overservice it, and invest in quality as a differentiating factor. But historically, these sorts of publications have rarely been goldmines. Many of them, especially in the old days of print, were borderline nonprofits -- heavily subsidized by charitable publishers or donors.

I suspect there is a niche out there for the specialty publications of the world: your web equivalents of Road & Track, Field & Stream, Wine Spectator, Robb Report, Foreign Affairs, and so forth. I am not as sure there is a lucrative niche in general-interest categories, such as news. Even still, I'd love if any of the niche publications in today's brave new world -- Nautilus, for example -- would let us in on their business data. Even just a slice of it.
> I'd love to use Guix/Nix, but it's a hard fight to win in a corporate environment.

I don't know how large or flexible your organization is, but I've been driving hard at my company (which is a bit shy of 100 employees) for using nix, and it's working. When I started advocating for it there was no small amount of skepticism, but we started off just using it for a very small and specific use case, and from there it has slowly but steadily gained acceptance from other developers (most of whom have no particular interest in FP) as a real solution to innumerable problems that we have w.r.t. package management. If you're interested in Guix/Nix, I'd encourage trying to get permission to use it to solve a specific problem.
I've got two kids in school, and have honestly never seen that kind of competition. We pack lunches for our kids. Typical fare is a sandwich and a piece of fruit. Sometimes it's leftovers, and maybe cut-up vegetables if we run out of fruit. We bake our own bread.

If parents were competing over lunches, I'd see pictures of those lunches on Facebook, because that's how parents compete nowadays -- like the pictures that people share when they summon up the courage to cook a meal at home.
Roger that; I used the DRM term incorrectly, meaning copyright law. Most of my collection was bought in Norway, but I did the ripping a decade ago plus minus a few years in Australia. For the time being we have much better consumer protection here.

I don't even use my collection now that I have Spotify Premium. The only music I've bought lately is some 24bit high bitrate stuff.
Ah, now that makes sense. ...well, as much as anything in the Bitcoin world makes sense, which isn't much. :)
Quoting from PG's first essay on inequality: "The great concentrations of wealth I see around me in Silicon Valley don't seem to be destroying democracy."

This is where I disagree. The risk of dynastic wealth is that the wealthy can pay to change the system, in effect pulling up the ladder and shutting down all future disruptive startups. So we not only need to fix the problems at the bottom of the economic ladder (which is where I agree with PG); we need to make sure that those at the top don't capture the government.

Cynical readers might suggest that this is already happening.
That's what caught my eye as well. I didn't know that was possible to get via the browser and started to think about its implications. I wonder if exposing private IP to any website is a very good idea when router firmwares have all sorts of basic security bugs in their web panels.
A 120MB video downloading and playing in real time as a torrent is a lot more impressive than a 1MB clip. A page showing a 120MB video that is not DDOSed by making it to the front page of Hacker News is even more impressive ;)

This is also not different (on desktop) from visiting a Youtube channel page which has an auto-play "intro" video. I just hope this at least tries to detect device/connection type before starting on cellphone. Wonder if there is an HTTP 'connection-metered' header or something like that...
Another big limitation is that you currently can't run lambdas in a VPC, so using Lambda with RDS is pretty much off the table if you don't want your database to be open to the world.
There are far too many unknowns to even attempt that. No one even agrees what methods will lead to AGI, let alone how long it will take to make the necessary breakthroughs in those fields. This subject is entirely within the realm of opinion.

I'm not arguing you should take the predictions as gospel. It's just an interesting and relevant datapoint. Maybe the only objective datapoint we have.
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You can try out WebTorrent at Instant.io[0]. It's probably the easiest ways to share files with someone, as long as both people have modern browsers.

Unfortunately, after a certain file size it'll just crash your browser. It'd be great if there was a way to work with large (+2GB) files.

[0] https://instant.io/
I'd love if this were possible by human election and not, as I fear, by eventual disaster. I am just baffled as to how we might accomplish it.
U.S. school teachers are routinely on duty during lunch periods, as crowd control, so I'm not sure that's really a difference.

U.S. school lunches are absolutely woeful. Just check out the #thanksmichelleobama pictures on twitter for a general overview[1]. I think there's got to be some big kick-backs given by the packaged food distributors, because there is no way that frozen pizza and McRib sandwiches are cheaper than cooking actual food.

[1] https://twitter.com/hashtag/thanksmichelleobama
I'm would guess that some would consider something to be ruin, and that it being ruin is its justice? I am not sure how to word that better.

I mean, In the same way that one might see an execution as justice being done, one might see a ruining as justice being done, and consider it to be ruining in the same way?

I think "ruining" might be more like "killing" than it is like "murdering". But I am not sure.
The ship's hitbox is the top left of it's sprite (which is above the ship). Turning off the custom cursor made it much easier.
Google, one of the richest, most powerful companies in the world, can't get the city council of an 80,000-person town (where they own an eighth of the real estate) to let them build a small bridge: http://www.mv-voice.com/news/2013/12/12/council-deadlocks-on...
Sure, I'll do my best :-) even if I can't sort it out I can help point to the right places of maybe ask the right folks for suggestions on what's going on.

chris.sherlock79 at gmail.com is my email address, or hop onto #libreoffice-dev on Freenode and ask to speak to chris_wot (that's the IRC channel I hang out on the most frequently).
WebRTC can bust through NATs with STUN and provide a TURN proxy in case the NAT can't be busted through. STUN will generate a number of candidate addresses that may be tried for initiating WebRTC connection(s). These addresses may be exchanged through a third party or directly communicated between peers once a data connection is established. It looks like the addresses in the animation are generally the local host addresses of the machines you are connected to. Perhaps the site is just showing the first candidate in the list, or, intentionally picks the local name to allow for moderate privacy.
YouTube channel featuring many videos on older jet engines: https://www.youtube.com/user/AgentJayZ
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Simply providing a counter-argument to an argument, whether it's 'pessimistic' or not, does not constitute a fallacy of any kind. The author's chief complaint seems to be that people have the temerity to counter his arguments. You can't call an argument a fallacy based solely on your perception of the motivation of its proponents; a true fallacy can be proved simply by examining the argument itself.