skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if you could improve the pollen image using super-resolution techniques Shouldn't be too difficult, just requires a several images (stacks in this case) from slightly shifted viewpoints.
Can't recommend a specific link, but I remember when looking into vitamins and so on several years ago I found the Vitamin D Council and the Weston Price Foundation both interesting and useful.
Well, that's just one case, there are older ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_revolt

Pau Claris, head of the Generalitat of Catalonia, called the politician members of the all Principality in order to form a Junta de Braços or Braços Generals (General Estates), a consultive body. (...) This assembly, which worked with individual voting, began to create and apply various revolutionary measures (...), while the tension with the monarchy grew.

Echoes of the past :)
Google compared to DDK is like an elephant fighting a goose? That is not remotely the original meaning. The original meaning was nothing more than google being much bigger than DDG. You're vanishing into the very same HN comment mental masturbation that was mentioned.
I don't think that's what it's entirely about. It's way more efficient for people to eat plants than meat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_flow_(ecology)
That's true, I think that Socialists should abandon older and rigid methods of central planning; research has been active within the Socialist community for finding new methods of planning, such as the work of Paul W. Cockshott.

That said, Venezuela is far from a centrally planned economy.
I hope that means deliberate eavesdropping. The street that runs right outside my window is frequently used by people walking home from the bars, and drunk people don't notice how loud they're talking. I've overheard some strange (and sometimes very personal) conversations.
Get into climbing, specifically traditional climbing and alpinism. You get everything: danger, fear, awe, overwhelming sensory experiences, deep camaderie and a feeling that you've participated in something both meaningful and meaningless. Trust me, you won't regret it.
Regardless of feeling overwhelmed, the convenience of picking up one meal kit box vs knowing what ingredients to get, finding them, getting the right amount (often the minimum is far too much for the meal), etc. is huge.

AFAIK a lot of the margins for online meal kit companies is the shipping+packaging cost. Grocery stores don't have to pay for shipping to the customer and can keep the boxes refrigerated which would make the packaging much smaller and cheaper.
Perfect, as everybody can say anything for the "right" of this new thing, the "self-determination all people have" I require you to free the oppressed people of Ohio, quit the area right now, and anexionate the state to, for example, France. And if you do not agree to do what I want then I will shout loud that "this is not a democracy and all of you are nasty fascists". Happy?

Yes, is exactly like that.

Last year the catalan goverment spent 5 millions euro (stolen) from taxes of all spaniards in a similar "referendum" show. Money used against the interests of the same people that give it. Instead to pay schools and hospitals they bought cardboard urns, candies and fireworks and make a wonderful theater full of passion, and drama. Do we understand the meaning of the term "diversion of public founds and prevarication"?

This year trying the same dirty trick again and take the freedom that all spaniards have by law to decide about their country.

And of course they are the "victims" in a world that do not understand their uniqueness and fantasy extravaganza.
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No, ISO are terrible. Most folks would be dealing in RSU, and if they don't they are being taken advantage of.
It's much rarer than development roles. Doubt that they have significant data.
>The 17th amendment[1] is another, which allowed for the direct election (and thus hyper politicization) of Senators.

The time before the 17th Amendment wasn't exactly all roses, that was the age of outright bribery of state legislatures for Senate seats. William Clark's famous quote "I never bought a man who wasn't for sale" was about this and the surrounding corruption of his election brought the 17th Amendment around.[0]

Listen to the 6th episode of the Constitutional podcast for some extra background, it is very interesting. Some states really wanted this because they were unable to even elect Senators due to political parties of the time simply not agreeing on anybody.[1]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Clark

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/constitutional/
So.. if the US hadn't supplied the Mujahideen with stingers, and brought down the soviet backed government in Afghanistan.. none of this last 30 year nightmare would have happened?

Cool. Think of all the amazing things we could have done with that surplus capital not going to bechtel...
The vast majority of the crops we grow end up feeding livestock. If you're concerned by suffering caused by agriculture, we can counterintuitively eat more plants to reduce our total plant needs. See biomass transfer efficiency.
Actually they are cheap - the reason why a significant amount of on chip resources can be assembled into the IME on all of Intel's chipsets is because IC process technology has advanced by many orders of magnitude. The Pentium 4 represented the edge of consumer grade CPUs 10 years ago, and it was around that time we reached practical limits on frequency. As hardware manufacturing shifted towards more cores and caches, SoC ICs became the standard. Slapping a cheap, low power system of CPU and memory on every chipset is easy, cheap and natural.

With extra hardware being cheap and easy, Intel put 2 and 2 together and tried to monetize this by offering businesses extra capabilities as a standard. Obviously this introduces new attack vectors, and the opaque nature of this new "standard" feature attracts attention from all sides.
Well met. I hope I didn't sound like a jerk.

As for "flexible" and "intelligent" govt. regulation., I'll admit I chuckled when I typed that in. We'll be regrowing limbs long before that, I'll wager.

I'm not sure how to remedy the situation until then. It sucks that you have this extra burden just to use your own barn.
- An initial assessment of my needs, formulation of goals and a strategy to reach them.

- a weekly correspondence would be nice but could be as simple as as an email/report

- a monthly meeting/call/video session partnered with the weekly email/report would probably be crucial to ensure the 'student' was being held accountable for producing results.
I follow the numbers closely... it’s always coming from CIS.

It seems to have risin after the attacks.

http://www.elmundo.es/cataluna/2017/07/21/5971c7f7468aebd53d...
It's really funny listening to the President of the government of Catalonia talking about repression when his salary is 145.471 euros, and the President of the government of Spain salary is 78.185,04 euros.

Yep, the public salary of many presidents of a part of Spain is bigger than the president of the whole.

That's for give you a picture of the current craziness.
Sure, but what he wrote wasn't the equivalent of a manifesto defending a racial hygiene law
I’m getting the same error, and I’m on the iOS 11 GM(not the public release yet).
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Alright, there are ~5000 cases of foodborne illness since 1998 in this report, ~600 resulting in hospitalizations. ~1 in a million over 20 years
>But it seems kind of antithetical to how grocery stores make money.

It is, but they are probably looking at what Amazon has already done to brick and mortar. Then seeing the Whole Foods acquisition. And wondering where that progression ends. So, maybe this isn't the right direction, but staying put is arguably worse.
Write an immutable object with methods that return a new (changed) immutable object. Boom, you're an Object-Oriented Functional Programmer.
The considerations are hardly bizarre.

People live in warzones. People live in warzones just after they've been warzones. This is even more true in urban warfare. This is why the civilized world tries very hard to avoid using landmines in war, and why there's so much effort into preventing civilian casualties with unexploded munitions like cluster bombs, for example.

There is an argument to be made on whether or not the risk of collateral damage is justified, it's impossible to make war completely "safe", of course, but with DU the evidence is stacking up that the collateral damage is extreme and probably not a good tradeoff.
Thankfully built-in parking AdBlock on newer browsers is forcing domain speculators to start dropping their less valuable names, as parking pages are no longer producing any revenue. I see most tech companies coming back to .COM once their given domain is available / priced cheaply as speculators are forced to sell.
Cutting public infrastructure like sidewalks prevents self-reliance — it’s saying that anyone who isn’t able-bodied and affluent enough to afford a car doesn’t belong in the community. If, instead, you provide things like accessibility, public transit, etc. millions of people can actually contribute to society rather than being dependent on charity.
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>Markets are necessary for successful diversification - avoiding shortages and economic collapses when key industries suffer downturns.

Out of interest, why do you think this is true?

(Edit: Why does this comment have a score of -2? What can I do to improve the quality or relevance of my comments? Will the downvoters explain, please?)
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Recipes are everywhere though.

Plated's market is probably for people who mostly want to save time, but don't want fast food or frozen meals.
>look at history for numerous cases of dominant OSs being displaced by newcomers...

Er, what? Let's see, what we're the dominant desktop OSes back in 1997? Windows and Mac. 20 years later? Still the same. Even 30 years ago it was DOS, the direct predecessor to Windows, and Mac.

In servers, various flavours of Unix have dominated for even longer. Arguably the dominant version at any one time was just the one that was closest to being a generic Unix as possible. Incompatible 'innovation' was punished mercilessly in the market.

The problem upstart OSes have to face is that encumbent OSes have established ecosystems of hardware and software support. Look at mobile. To compete with iOS you don't just have to compete with Apple, you have to compete with a $100bn+ ecosystem of apps, peripherals and services. Same with Android. Microsoft was just a few years behind them and it was too late even for them to break through with all their resources.

Unless Google or Apple do something monumentally stupid, they're going to stay dominant for decades to come.
In contrast, we tried this at Gott's at the Ferry Building (in SF), and were all content. How the kitchen preps food is always a factor.

The Impossible "meat" was unlike other veggie patties. If you had served this to me in McDonald's, I wouldn't have thought twice.
There's a lot of integrity in the weight of the request, even if it's out of a place of wanting less pressure.
if you're worried about just getting sick, the odds are more like 2/100000 per 20 years from ground beef, although I trust these numbers less, despite being from the CDC.
It looks like a step backward from it's "prior art" that was installed in Oakland.
I actually really hope that this is exploitable remotely and causes a massive global problem.

Maybe then we'll see companies that take security seriously, thinking twice before they include things like ME in their products.
They're not "exceptional" they've just managed to find productive ways to reinvest their profits.

The reason their stock is valued so much is partly because if he wanted/needed to, Bezos could wake up one day and cut all programs focused on expansion and return the saved costs / new profits as dividends. The reason this doesn't happen is that the money is (thought to be) better spent on increasing the size of the business. There's no reason other companies couldn't do this, although I expect the main limit to this strategy is the extent to which you can productively reinvest capital. This is a function of foresight/luck (e.g. branching into AWS) but also of the market you're in: to what extent do you begin to experience diminishing returns as you spend more money on improving your product? I think that with logistics, as with Amazon and e.g. Walmart, the returns diminish very slowly, or even increase with money spent (economies of scale).
"Wouldn't it be kind of great if millions of people were secretly running minix, it would finally go mainstream!"

The engineers probably thought something like this when deciding to use minix.

Now it might achieve the opposite result by associating it with a worst-case scenario of computing freedom and security.
One of the major national supermarkets here does delivery[1]. There's also a cheaper option where you can pick up but they do the shopping for you, so you can just stop by and get your cart. Both are actually a really nice service and good value for the time you save too, but I'm not sure how popular it actually is.

You do miss out on being able to select your own fruit, meat etc, but they did a good job the couple of times we've tried it. Occasionally something you ordered isn't actually in stock, and you can choose whether you'll let them sub it out or just no include it. The ordering is per-supermarket to minimise that happening - every store has a slightly different online selection to match what they should actually have.

There's no competition here either though. If there are any other grocery delivery options around, I haven't heard of them.

[1] https://shop.countdown.co.nz
>This country is one of continuous self-improvment (or at least, ATTEMPTED self-improvement)

yes, and last presidential election was such an event.
To the people saying the local police do nothing even with a face or even the identity, you need to go up the chain. Start contacting the local prosecutors and your city council.

If that doesn't work then it gets a little difficult, you need to make it political and change the local government. If it happened to you, then there are probably 100 more people who have similar stories.
Some other languages that make Go's tooling look awesome: C, C++, Java

Cargo is comparable to Go's tooling in my mind (in terms of ease of use; I think it's better in other categories), but figuring out how to use libraries (mod vs use) and organize a multi file project is a notorious pain point with no analog in Go. This means it's harder to get started with Rust than Go (language features notwithstanding), which is pretty much what we're discussing here.

I don't really know what to say about Ocaml. I don't have much experience, but most of it has been bad. It seems like you're supposed to use Makefiles, and an Opam file. The more I learned the less I liked, and it seemed to be the consensus that the build tooling was one of the language's weak points. I will say that installing packages from Opam was a painless experience. The build tooling wasn't the only thing that drove me away, but it was right up there with the poor standard library, ecosystem fragmentation, and low-quality documentation. Which is a shame because the language features look great.

With Go, all you need to know to get started is "go get".
How much can a great CPU designer help a fundamentally (non-deterministic) AI process?
Wow, this is great news. I'd pretty much given up on sailfish ever being meaningfully open - let's hope it's not too little, too late!
>But it seems kind of antithetical to how grocery stores make money. They're low margin, high volume businesses. And this directly attacks volume.

Not necessarily. The margin on meal kits are stronger than the ingredients alone (e.g. sliced fruits & veggies). In relation to the volume, meal kit buyers still need to eat. The hungry buyer must cook at home (w/ groceries), go to a restaurant, or buy a second meal kit. To me, this sounds like an attack on the fast food / restaurant industry. Grocery stores can market these meal kits as more affordable, healthier, and 'hip'.
For the record, not overly happy with the response, I've sent this follow-up to spoof@paypal.com:

>Hi there. Thanks for the quick response.
I do have a question.
Why would PayPal refer me to a form not hosted under PayPal domain? How can I tell it's a legit PayPal communication?

Expectedly, never got a response.
What the.. That, unlike all of those dark UX patterns they are masters of, actually seems deeply deceptive and potentially illegal, depending on your locale. If this is true they have stepped across a line.
> JavaScript is ~2x less energy efficient than Java, so it will eat twice the battery.

While the citation you provide is interesting, it doesn't inherently prove that in real-world usage, React Native apps consume twice the power of their native counterparts.
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>can allow us to make progress

As long as there is healthy debate on what is progress, I am all for it. No suppression of free speech.
it's temperature * time, actually.
He's not the only one. [1][3]

In fact some places like Kyo Aji from Kenichiro Nishi - who is apparently a very good and famous chef - go as far as ban michelin tourists. Or at least try to.

Just look at this discussion on chowhound [2]. Interesting comment:

> Kyoaji is probably sick of rich foreigners trying to book via 5 star hotel concierges. Maybe change your strategy, and stay at a budget salaryman hotel and use their concierge?

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/business/worldbusiness/24g...

[2]: https://www.chowhound.com/post/secure-kyoaji-reservation-930...

[3]: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/09/top-chefs-micheli...
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Definitely. I would rather have a parliamentary system with tons of representatives.
I was looking at that, but ended up buying an Alphasmart Neo2 for $30 instead. No cloud integration; you upload to any text editor asynchronously via USB.

It's basically a keyboard with local memory allowing you to type away from distractions. I've really loved my experiences with it.
This same thing happened under a more liberal capitalist government before. That's literally how Chavez got into power. The biggest difference between then and now is the severity of the oil price drop. An exacerbating factor is that the same forces that tried to coup Chavez in 2002 are of course still politically active and, rationally given their interests, using their economic connections to exacerbate the economic collapse through various means. The United States recently freezed some Venezuelan government finances which is obviously intended to further destabilize the government.

Venezuela is a shitshow, to put it bluntly. But the shallow analyses which focus purely on ideology instead of the physical reality on the ground is asinine, bordering on propaganda (Vox tends to swing randomly between center-left progressivism and center-right neoliberalism). Is the government of Venezuela incompetent? Probably as incompetent as most. Are they dealing with an unprecedented economic collapse caused by structural factors? Yes. On the other hand, most people don't actually know how the Venezuelan economy is structured. They just know "socialism bad" and "capitalism good". It's tiresome because the same structural deficiencies at play in their economy today was there decades ago, when they weren't "socialist".

It should be noted what happens to countries whose economies collapse because their place in the world economy no longer exists and then seek to renormalize via the accepted capitalist channels (like the IMF and the like). The entire country gets sold off to foreign interests and they spend the rest of their decades financing a debt they can never pay off.

As for the repressiveness of the Venezuelan state, it's not surprising. The violence of a state is directly proportional to how threatened it feels. When a state is failing, it is going to be violent. Cf. Spain and Catalonia at the moment.
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Following this line of thought, imagine the reduction of cow slaughtering if all the fast food chains started serving Impossible burgers.
This sounds like an announcement of an announcement, which generally is frowned upon on HN -- though this might merit alerting people.
It goes back a few years. I've been able to find tweets from 2009.

How do you think people keep digging up old tweets to (try to) embarrass politicians?

https://twitter.com/search-advanced?lang=en
Honestly I feel like Haskell and OCaml are severely over-engineered and overly focus on nuance far too much these concepts and ideas can be expressed in a more concise and legible manner in mathematical notation than the programming languages used as examples here.
I think they get away with it by saying, "order in the next 15 minutes and you'll get this", but the truth is if you order after the next 15 minutes you also get it.

They're not explicitly saying you won't get it if you don't order in the next 15 minutes, but they're implying it. Telebrands is the company that's been running that game for like forever. Pretty shady!
I love coffee naps myself, and I've found that even if I don't fall asleep completely I still end up feeling extremely refreshed. If you have half an hour to experiment with it, I think you'll get a lot out of it.
I remember a similar thing with Zocdoc. Something like, the appointment was on time (5/5), but my experience was horrible (1/5), so my review "averages to 2.5".

Reminds me of the thing about "it either will happen, or it won't, so that's a 50/50 chance".
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It probably would, actually.

Though unless the flight is cancelled, I doubt I'd get bumped. I'm platinum in their SkyMiles program, and I think that factors into any bumping.
Your concern is completely valid, ignore the haters. We struggle with the same thing. We try to give our daughter the final say in any and all "structured extra-curriculars" she's involved in, even quitting right after starting, on the hope that her feeling even a little in-control of her own schedule is more valuable than "learning to finish anything you start". But cutting down on those is the only other place I can see to allow more unstructured play. And even then, we try where we can to "assist" with making the unstructured time more valuable, by trying to be present, engaged, and willing to do pain-in-the-ass things (like go run in the hot park for an hour after a long day of work) if that's what she wants. We try to ask her, and suggest options "do you want to stay in and play or go to the park or xyz...". But who knows, there is a constant feeling that no matter what, we're doing it wrong.
Yep, you're absolutely right. I've amended my previous comment.
This goes way above Tim at this point
Everything is terrible and everything is going to crash and burn. :-/
All of the above, AND - I think our community of staff, volunteers, etc. are thinking more along the lines of Toni Morrison..

"I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.'"
It would be neat if they skewed the map to match travel times.