skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is one of those situations where most of the people who care enough to debate are those with an economic interest. Like perfumers. Conflict of interest is possible I suppose, but Tisserand's rebuttal seems well reasoned regardless, and he provides a list of other rebuttals from other people.

> Does the 2013 rebuttal study in that link tell us anything about the safety of ingesting lavender extract?

No, only topical application, albeit in far greater quantities than is seen in typical usage.

> Wouldn't that involve much higher absorption than topical application?

No, not necessarily. Silexan is delivered in 80mg doses. Higher levels of the same chemicals can easily be delivered by common foods. For example, a dish that's well seasoned with thyme or coriander can easily contain far more than 80 mg of linalool, and a few other ingredients would easily provide the same terpenoid profile as found in lavender, just as if you were to eat a large amount of lavender oil. Lavender really isn't anything special.
Reminds me. Few months ago a friend was wrestling with one of those big life changing decisions everyone faces sometime or the other. He spent a whole lot of time meticulously analysing pros and cons, but just couldn't decide one way or another. Then one day he does this "remote" tarot card reading session (facepalm) and bam! Decision made. I was shocked. Don't know how many times I had to then hear, "...but dude just look at what the tarot card said". Psycologists really need to figure out how this "magic" works and how we can use it more effectively.
You have to tell gcc it should also build a generic version. Then, it should work.
If you’re talking about the core of the project of course they’re not massively changing that, but in the article it mentions that Gutenberg is implemented with React and other modern web technologies.
Capitalism is not the only force in the world, as much as capitalists strain to argue.
The solution there is not to set any writable bits for the up executable. Then only root will be able to write to it (which is ideally what you want for any tools within /usr/bin (whatever) anyway
Invention isnt the same as adoption. They were spread to the west, becoming the scientific standard, through muslim/arabic scholars. Had they not done so, the numbers might have stayed in india for centuries, or roman numbers (I V M etc) be adopted into a base-ten system instead.
Calling your child "hyper intelligent" makes you sound like a dick.
We want friggin 32 gig of ram like all the other top laptops. We want 4 cores. We want them not to cost double the competitors and not have worse components than many of them that cost less.
Same situation with Italian.

The introduction of the radio and the television played a big part in the shift to Italian and French becoming the normal languages for their respective countries over the multitude of regional languages.
Been remote for a year and a half and I've taken payments in several forms including bitcoin. My preferred method when getting paid by European companies is transferwise since they let me get paid in euros and convert them to usd or whatever local currency of where I am residing. In a Pinch, I'll use paypal but its far from ideal.
Methinks you are confusing altruism with philanthropy/charity.

Either way, it is more than that due to PostgreSQL's software license. Because of that, we all (potentially) benefit.

And it is a commitment. A (somewhat) stable source. More so if more companies commit to such a pledge.
After the Cambridge Analytica news broke, I thought about writing an amnesiac evil quiz app that did all the CA stuff but then once the user was done, it told them exactly what it did as a way to educate people as to what was possible (and forgot everything it learned once the point was made). This way the evilness is restricted to the person who owns the data (and thus isn't really evil).

I do think there's potential in something along these lines, but I agree with child post that it would need to be done carefully so as not to cause collateral damage. The other question in my mind is how to market it such that people get their friends using it and thus spread the word rather than panicking and reporting it.
It has to do with their sales approach and technology. Last time I checked they are selling a lot directly to consumers with local slaes reps. That is expensive. Offering leasing agreements is just adding to their financing needs and cost.

Installation requires a local entity, either in-house or a third party, to plan it, visit the premises and so on. Offering a fixed rate up front (some companies in Germany do that, not sure whether Solar City is doing the same) carries risk for bith parties. In a nutshell, sales is expensive and capital intensive.

Regarding tech, solar modules are a commodity by now, they get cheaper basically every quarter. And more efficient ever year at least. So on that front there is not a lot to gain. Also, full grid independence is still not achievable for reasonable prices. Smart grids are better solution, inverter producers and utilities are in a better position than the company produucing and installing solar modules.

The technological curve results in guaranteed obsolescence. For solar roofs that means either to keep production for older models up or reliability high enough for the full life time of a roof.

Just a couple of thoughts.
You've posted tons of comments grinding this axe, and it has passed the point of tedium, so please stop.

Just to be clear: the issue isn't that you don't like SF or whatever, it's that an idée fixe becomes a broken record and drags down discussion quality.
I glanced at the DO terms of service, and crawling is prohibited.
What if users don't want you taking control of their computer?
"English won the game because bits and bytes were invented in English"

English as the dominant language in Science is a new thing, just 100 years ago it was German.
Has anyone actually seen this? The only video available is clearly a fake demo. Remember Magic Leap.
Actually, I have trouble understanding even simple poetic writing, like Shakespeare, and I'm a native English speaker with a graduate degree. I'm sure there are more like me, especially among engineers!
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Friends at Tesla?
I am a native Arabic speaker. It is an awful language. As the article points out, the dialects are just too numerous for it to gain any kind of critical mass of adoption. But beyond that, I'd say the biggest problem with it is that there are just so many exceptions that knowing the rules of grammar is nowhere near enough to speak it correctly. edit: I also wanted to mention that written Arabic differs from spoken Arabic, and the dialect factor multiplies this problem.

It also encodes ideas very inefficiently for multiple reasons. 1. It's very convoluted and it takes many more words to describe things accurately than latin and/or germanic languages; 2. Due to geographical and cultural separation from the West, the vocabulary is just not adapted to modern life, so "workarounds" need to be used to refer things that have become common in our daily lives. I can recall a humorous TV ad that made fun of this, which involved a wife asking her husband for "the thing" and him being confused about what she was referring to.

If we're to compare it to a programming language, I'd describe it as PHP ecosystem/stdlib/development practices combined with Rust syntax.
I wonder how much of the bias for publishing positive results is a holdover from the days of having only paper journals:

On the Internet, we have unlimited room for publishing results; there's no reason not to publish the negative ones.

When research was published only in paper journals, there was scarce space even for positive results; possibly it would have been considered a waste to use that precious space for negative results. Also, people reading those journals had limited time and wanted the most important results; they may have expected what we would call a 'curated' collection of studies. These days the studies are published in databases and nobody expects them all.
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But this is still subjective. The objective problem is the reliaility of the butterfly keyboard, but there are people who prefer it and the giant trackpad. I really like them and when I had to use my old MBA for a week I suffered not because of that shitty TN display but also because of the input devices on it.
There are no known negative effects on developing boys. See my comments down-thread. The "studies" purporting to show hormonal effects were extremely low-quality, and have not been reproduced. Other more recent studies are only in-vitro, and in-vitro hormonal effects do not translate well in living humans.

Besides, lavender shares a chemical makeup with many other common herbs and foods, or combinations thereof, and nobody is claiming that those disrupt our hormones. The whole hypothesis doesn't pass the smell test.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments, especially rants, to HN? We're trying for better than that here.

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Even if it doesn't, there's a whole world outside of theoretical physics.
>CORBA defines commonly needed services such as transactions and security, events, time, and other domain-specific interface models.
I really like it. About 9 months ago I started working on a plugin for my workplace to turn the platform into a logbook for our researchers, and got to build from scratch for the new platform, so to be fair I am not experiencing any of my prior work breaking, but I do like what I see.

Adding extra behaviour to the classic editor is fragile, especially if the feature involves adding or changing something about an existing part of the UI. Gutenberg makes this relatively simple, and at least provides a blessed way of doing this (via plugins), whereas before you relied on the structure of the editor's HTML not changing and breaking your stuff.

Furthermore, everything is retrieved and sent via the REST API which seems like a great approach: it means you can reuse your plugin logic for other parts of the site, and in principle the new editor can be bolted on to some other non-Wordpress projects with only a few adaptions, and WordPress itself may one day be implemented in something other than PHP.

One other thing I like is the ease of use of Gutenberg. While it takes a few extra clicks for things, novices won't care about that, and having more visual clues will really help them. Plus, the blocks now give you a way to make things truly WYSIWYG, especially shortcodes which are otherwise just short strings that only generate their content when you preview the page. Now it's possible to make blocks instead of shortcodes that render whatever needs rendered in the editor.

I guess Automattic could have handled the development better, and given more time for the update to be tested and for the community to be informed and give their feedback. In 2017 they kept saying they'd release it in early 2018, which has come and gone, so I can't help but think they're pushing this out in a desperate bid to hit their original deadline at least in terms of the year. That part might bite them later, especially if there are any huge bugs yet to be discovered.
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The performance advantages of a binary wire format are frankly just the cherry on top. The primary benefits of something like gRPC lie in having a programmatically consumable API spec that can turn your service calls into strongly typed RPC’s, and that benefit is a net gain in engineering productivity rather than a net loss.

You can get much of the same benefit with swagger codegen, though. It’s just that by the time you’re doing that, gRPC wouldn’t be that much more work anyway.

Incidentally, the dividing line between where programming languages are faster at handling protobuf than JSON, namely the dividing line between interpreted and compiled languages, is also the same one where you start to care about performance in the first place. And in Java or Golang, I’m not sure that gRPC is any more difficult.
There is a great punk band from New York with all Arabic lyrics: https://haramharam.bandcamp.com/
Here's one way to think of the value of positive or negative results: Everyone talks about the value of negative results, but will we ever see one of those studies on the front page of HN?
This $20/hr beauty booth seems like a horrifying way to exploit people's insecurity for profit.

Then again, .ai is a pretty expensive TLD. Somebody's gotta pay the bills.
It's not a good idea to anthropomorphize HN. Inevitably that makes of it a demon composed of the nastiest scraps of comments you've seen here—and railing against demons, like you've done here, is inevitably unsubstantive. This community has millions of people, and the vast majority don't fit this description.
So Darwin was very lucky? The questions remain for any field: Is there evidence, and is the implication that the leading scientists are consider very lucky?
Please don't be a jerk, even if someone else was. The guidelines ask you to flag egregious comments and move on.

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Not quite - the academic world wasn't Arabic up until the industrial revolution.

The height of Arabic intellectualism was short lived, basically the early middle ages, not even into the Renaissance, let alone the enlightenment.

However PC it is or not - it's true that not much has been done in the Arab world for a long time, say 700 years. Muslim Golden Age: "This period is traditionally said to have ended with the collapse of the Abbasid caliphate due to Mongol invasions and the Siege of Baghdad in 1258 AD" from Wikipedia.

Up until 1950, something like 5% of the Arab world was literate. Very sparse population, very little industry. Without Oil ... most of us would know nothing about 'Arab' - it'd be on our radar as much as Morocco is today (a nominally Arab country without Oil) which is to say not at all. Basically not hugely important to us.
“The black budget can be complicated to calculate, but in the United States it has been estimated to be over US$50 billion a year – a greater figure than current United States expenditure for education.”

Imagine cutting the black budget in half and more than doubling the education budget with that money. Suddenly free community college for all is doable. And you still have 25B for your hidden activities!
Just off the top of my head, in Hebrew the G-R-L root gives you both fate (goral) and lottery (hagralah). The grammatical form of hagralah connotes causing something to happen, and in that sense the word for lottery has a deeper meaning, that it determines your fate.

Same for the S-V/B-R root - you get clear (savir), explanation (hesber), and what's usually mistranslated as propaganda (hasbarah - Google that transliteration and you'll get lots of political articles). Hasbarah is when you're trying to explain something to somebody so that it will be clear to them.

These words are all completely independent and come from disparate sources in English, but the Semitic root system ties them together.
Yeah but most people modify their cars in a way that demands more attention while driving and reap the rewards of modification when they're paying attention to the car.

There are some people who modify their cars so driving demands less attention, but hereunto that was never technology that gave software the authority to control how a car cooperates with other cars. The broomstick on the throttle "cruise control" isn't meaningfully comparable to hacked autopilot at the helm.

Sure, if the driver is paying attention there's nothing to worry about. But this system is dangerous because it may lull a driver into a dangerous complacency.
There is no path to $100B.

Even though this is Y Combinator, no one reading this article will ever build a $100B company (except if we get massive hyperinflation of the USD). In fact, massive hyperinflation of the USD is a much more likely path for you to build a $100B company rather than the path suggested by this video.

It's much more likely that the world will end before you (who is reading this) will build a $100B company. That's how bad the odds are and how pointless this video is.
You should just have mentioned that this tool is built on top of rclone. It's not a bad thing to give credit.
I've found Bankwest to be pretty solid from a tech standpoint.

Lots of their app functionality is now handled through AWS from what i've heard.
> CSS is inspired by the style sheets of yore

Which is in my opinion the reason why it sucks for most of its current use cases. Layout of a paper document and layout of a web page are very different. The web "page" often isn't even a page but rather a GUI for a computer program.
That’s an interesting argument having it hot-key triggered. The shell in its current form already supports hit-keys so I could plug right into your tool verbatim that way. The only issue is you call fork shell so any $SHELL specific behaviours of my shell would be lost.

I appreciate this is a personal project and sometimes there is nothing more annoying than having feature requests; but if you did ever decide to add a flag for choosing alternative shells then drop me a message ( raise it as an issue on github.com/lmorg/murex ) and I’ll add ‘up’ as an optional 3rd party plug in.
To me Arabic seems to have two dialects mainly. Egyptian and the rest. Egyptian being so different as to sound like a separate language.

And as for Iraqi, Syrian, Gulf, Arab or rest of North African Arabic -- those are more or less the same. And if you learn MSN you can cover those.
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The Intel OpenCL driver vectorized work items really well, better than the same code provided to ICC as C. It was still more fragile than CUDA.

The other points are spot on and I would add that debugging code in OpenCL is a bad experience.
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We've banned this account for posting unsubstantive comments and repeatedly breaking the guidelines. Would you please stop creating accounts to do that with?

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I believe the traditional usage is something like this: Helvetica is a typeface, Helvetica Bold Italic is a font.
Perhaps it'd be possible to have a 24/7 washing cycle, with just-in-time drying when anyone reaches into get dishes.

Econo european models for washing/drying clothes take 6+ hours for a reason.
What comes after the Roomba?

Electric cooktops with built in timers.

Why, oh why! does nobody build electric cooktops with built in timers?!

At least, I haven't been able to find one here in Australia at a reasonable price. I think I saw some huge six zone one with touch controls that had it, but it was $6,9999.
I'm going to throw out a plug for that mindset going beyond tutorials.

It is a suspect proposition that anything is gained by turning 3 lines of code into one line of code. Unless it is javascript for the Google homepage or somesuch where the bytes matter. Moving code from a bad data model to a good one usually correlates with a big reduction in line count, but the gain is in choosing more appropriate data structures and not in the number of lines removed.

Every reader of code, including the author after 3 months, is going to have to read and understand the code from scratch. One line doing a multidimensional transform of the data is going to scan for a small fraction of people. That one liner would take about 3 times as long to understand as any one line of the tutorial code. The data model hasn't changed either. If anything, I'd argue that the nature of the transform being done is clearer in 3 lines.
If Netscape had used Haskell the WWW might never has taken off. Or att least scripting it might not.
I bet you're a hit at Children's birthday parties
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...being physically in the EU, but building stuff that has the potential to have 80% of the customers in US, as long as traffic to end-users in US is good (it usually is unless you care about low latency for gaming, or real-time-video bandwith for video chat), I'd be in the opposite camp and see no reason to pick US-only hosts (DO has Amsterdam datacenters though, and AWS or Azure also have).

For everyone EXCEPT the US-based businesses, being multi-juristiction by default form the get-go is the default, you know. And for any small or freshly created projects GDPR compliance is pretty easy though. EU's new copyright laws though... those are an abomination, hope it changes before they start being enforced. Nowadays EU and US are probably equally horrible and competing at being the most horrible with respect to restricting internet freedoms.

What I'm actually looking for is hosting services that are outside of BOTH US and EU for some more side project ideas that risk falling on the wrong side of IP laws (US's DMCA and all are horrible too btw...). Something that would be both run by a non-US and non-EU company and with datacenters physically outside this space. Something in Middle-East, SE-Asia or Russia could have decent bandwith tot he rest of the civilized world and at the same time be blessed with the capability to delay/ignore/missfile etc. requests from US and EU authorities, giving you a time buffer to damage control if s really hits the fan, while serving end users in those regions. Maybe after Brexit even the UK could become a nice place with more freedom too.
They aren't supposed to be used that way so it would also make sense (and be safer from spear fishing) to request them with no cookie state and call it a day.
“IP warmup.” Is this an algorithm to send broadcast emails at the maximum rate that avoids ISP spam detection? I find this concept disturbing. Morals of spam aside, we have two systems clearly working at odds rather than doing productive work.
> The RoC also promotes Mandarin

Until around 1990, they promoted it brutally, fitting the description of the GP. IIRC the history, in the first free elections in Taiwan in the early 1990s, one appeal of the winner is that he spoke the local dialect.
Geologist here. This is super-important for hypothesis science.

At the same time, I think one of the biggest inaccuracies in the public perception of science (and one of my pet peeves) is the idea that all science is hypothesis science. It turns out there's also still plenty of discovery science to be done -- and while it's less common than it was 100 or 200 years ago, it's quite important!

In geology, this often quite literally takes the form of a blank space on the map -- there are plenty of unmapped quadrangles on the geologic map of the world at 1:24,000 and finer scales, and the USGS will pay you just to learn how to fill them in [1].

This is one of the few subjects on which the misinformation is so pervasive that even the wikipedia article [2] is substantially inaccurate (I blame the overly-simplified formulation of the scientific method that most of us are first exposed to in elementary school). The one part that you can correctly infer from the wp article though, is that discovery science is having a bit of a resurgence recently thanks to the proliferation and reuse of large datasets.

[1] https://ncgmp.usgs.gov/about/edmap.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_science

One of the simplest distinguishing characteristics is that there's no such thing as a negative result in discovery science: if you're mapping a blank area, whatever you find will be something we didn't know before.
Nice project. I considered doing something similar but in Android at least some apps use certificate pinning and thus mitmproxy would break them. How does this work in ios?
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