skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The more processing a food stuff undergoes the more opportunity there is for it to be adulterated and/or contaminated.

Oftentimes it's not even intentional. e.g. An ingredient supplier from China delivers whey tainted with Cadmium, this gets mixed into a protein shake powder. Nowhere on the ingredients is Cadmium and the company producing protein shake powder had no intention whatever of producing Cadmium-laced shakes.

This type of thing has occurred multiple times quite publicly in pet foods. Contaminated cat food made from contaminated Chinese ingredients killed an ex coworker's cats years ago, if memory serves the contaminant was Melamine.

An effective means of protecting ourselves from these industrial errors is to avoid eating industrially manufactured foods altogether.

There was a case back in I believe it was the 80s where a red food dye was being derived from Coal tar. When the process worked flawlessly, there was no problem. But the dye was found to be carcinogenic, because the process, as one would expect, had a non-zero error rate. The public reaction to this news is what led to red M&Ms being deprecated for years, even though they supposedly didn't use the red dye in question. Which is the only reason I even know the story. I presume there are many instances of this kind of thing occurring that manage to fly under the radar.

Soylent was in the news fairly early on with contaminated China-sourced ingredients as well.

An even more recent incident has been chopped romaine lettuce as supplied to fast-food chains like Chipotle. Some supplier had contaminated heads with e.coli, the processor then spread the contamination to a much larger scale as they consolidated supplies from multiple farms, chopped it all up, then shipped it out.

By simply avoiding consumption of chopped lettuce, a minimal amount of processing, one significantly reduced the probability they would be exposed to the e.coli.
Nice to see it mentioned here :) I am currently using it as a "helper application" to perform certain tasks such as health checks of my projects and automating several GitHub actions. I have wrote several blog posts about it:
- simple health check: https://dev.to/krusenas/creating-your-own-health-check-monit...
- regenerating brew formula hash on update: https://dev.to/krusenas/automating-github-tasks-with-node-re...

While these things are trivial to do in my preferred languages (Golang, Python or Javascript), doing it in Node-RED is kinda fun.. :) Very easy to experiment, extend and do pretty much anything you want. You can always use a "function" node to just write some custom javascript logic if you see that you can't find a suitable node out-of-the-box.

All in all, I think Node-RED really shines when it comes to home automation. Comparing it to alternatives such as Home Assistant, Homeseer or Domoticz, it's a lot easier to understand what is happening and why. Of course, there's less magic involved here and it might make things a bit more difficult for non-developers, but the end result is definitely more stable and better long-term.
> guarantees that the ETH blockchain will be longer than the ETC blockchain.

Chain length is number of blocks, which is controlled by miners, not "laity".

I think your system might prevent double spends; unfortunately it would do so by rendering the network unusable for any new users, who wouldn't have a way to know which is the good network to join. I suppose a central authority could be used to identify the good chain, but most coins prefer not to have one of those.

The advantage of the simple chain length rule is that it is simple, requires no central authority, is self-correcting and the only weakness is a 51% attack.
The NHS's trust structure is more about forcing a market into somewhere it has no place than about healthcare outcomes.

When we once elected to go private to queue jump we got to see an NHS consultant privately, in an NHS hospital, and all follow on treatment was on the NHS. So it was a simple case of a few hundred pounds for private scan and consultation.

Most hospitals and maternity units have private rooms as an option. As far as I know they're not restricted or limited in any way, unless it's changed since our experiences. We've not needed a hospital for a while.
Yeah It's super easy to install and setup when using hass.io.
Like the CIA lead coup against the shah?

My comment will never be seen.
Jeremy Corbyn with Yanis Varoufakis at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Or "Do not think about it. Tantamount to observation which will interfere with the calculations."
Where did you get soy is the primary food source for cattle?

This article recommends no more than 20% soy in cattle’s diet. The article is from last year. [1]

>Researchers have found that when the oil content of the ration exceeds 7 percent, it can be toxic to the microbes in the cattle’s rumen and decrease digestibility. Too much oil in cattle rations will lead to scours (diarrhea), cessation of rumen fermentation and, eventually, death.

“Because of these limitations, the recommended upper limit of feeding would be about 20 percent of the ration,” Hoppe says. “Practical feeding levels are probably more like 2 to 3 pounds per head per day. At this low rate of supplementation, soybeans provide an excellent source of protein and energy.”

[1]https://www.drovers.com/article/soybeans-may-be-viable-cattl...
But we already had a deal with Iran on weapons. A deal that they were honoring, which we reneged on.
TempleTiler: Window tiler hotkeys for TempleOS
What are people's thoughts about a franchise model co-working space where the core company develops all of the technology, infrastructure, etc and then they are all independently owned and operated paying a franchise fee? I see a lot of people that want to start a co-working space and spin their wheels trying to figure out how to do it right. If there was a blueprint and turnkey solution to manage users, website presence and you could open one in a strip mall, would people use it? One problem I see is that people compete to make it THE place to work as opposed to A place to work.

Imagine if your town had almost as many co-working hubs as mattress firm stores. I know that's a lot but a guy can dream, right?

Edit: Not to mention, you could have a membership that could be regional, national, international and interplanetary.
Or, you know, you could just track the versioning of the library that you use for collation...
Inconsistent/ambigious C# 'default' operator behavior with value types
WSJ calling the iPhone XR a failure that 'can't sell' is ludicrously mistaken
Agree, I'll have a value point to balance as well. I don't expect it to have any net effect on my career at this point, hope there is some worthwhile learning though.
This is a double edged sword...in the EU it doesn't matter because they didn't have a internet economy to begin with but here in the US a lot is at stake.

So if you want better privacy laws in the US then they have to be much more clever than GDPR to not destroy the economy and global competitiveness!

BTW: Personally I think it is possible to do better than GDPR here in the US.
The press release says "So these results might not turn out to have practical importance."

As you state, that's a much weaker statement than the truth: "So these results almost certainly have no practical importance", and as expected, the stronger statement is nowhere in the original paper.

The press release, while being careful not to make false statement, commits a pragmatics sin of letting the reader think there is something going on (by saying "maybe" where they should say "almost certainly not", and by even publushing in the first place a pop-science summary of a highly technical result that has no meaning to a popular audience, and so necessarily the (abstract mathematical, unphysical) importance of the reuslt is completely destroyed in translation.
> I also didn't feel like my school treated me like a child

It depends on the subject in my experience.

At my school (major state university) undergraduate business school classes were run like high school. Attendance taken, assigned seats, pop quizes, etc.

Science and Math courses were most "adult" in their treatment of students.

Elective social sciences (100-level psych, sociology, history, political science, etc.) varied somewhere in between.

I completed all my English lit and writing requirements in high school so not sure how those classes worked things.
I've been following project flogo lately, which is a go based iot automation engine, and it seems it's more production ready than node-red
On macOS: install gnu-sed via Homebrew.
Traditionally, a secretary or administrative assistant does clerical work, not errands. A personal assistant might run personal errands, but that position is usually hired and paid by the individual being assisted, not by their employer.
A datacenter with no carbon footprint?
Kaggle: How to Place in the Top 10%
I was just going to mention this! The warranty is the real reason my father had quite a few craftsman tools. Well, at least the ones he used the most, anyway.
It seemed that Hell had a better chance at freezing over before I could cold-network a viable relationship with a prospective technical co-founder worth his/her salt, so rather than give up I chose to work towards my goal as best I could on my own. Many years have past since. It's been a humbling, very long journey.

I would love to personally connect with technical solo founders who can relate.
We absolutely have enough information to judge the deal effective: Has Iran detonated a bomb? No.

Before the deal (5 years ago), we were hearing that Iran was ~18 months away from a bomb. Yet, no bomb so far. Looks like the deal has been in the black for at least 3.5 years, to me.

The reason for pulling out of the deal had everything to do with domestic politics and, on a disorganized level, a bunch of yahoos' power fantasies. Nothing to do with Iran's behavior.
While taking away a food source for local fauna.
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Yes but those funds aren’t going to the trust as in the actual public pool.

Most hospitals have private wings, but the NHS doesn’t see any profit from that.
There's a chance that lottery tickets go up 1,000,000x. There's a chance that vintage NES controllers go up 100x. There is a chance that baseball cards go up 100x.

Literally all things have a an arbitrary growth ceiling.
>they just lure students to the school helping them fill out student aid and loans and then give them subpar educations with curriculum being taught like it has been for years but they don’t care to change or innovate because the school has already been paid by an entity — the US education department who has deep pockets.

Total tuition loans outstanding is around $1.5T. Total US Education Dept annual budget, 70B. Median length to pay off student loans is around 20 years. 30% of people graduate with no debt, and of the remaining, median debt is around $30k, the cost of a decent car, and a fraction of what the same people will pay for a house.

Adding the entire Ed budget for the past 20 years is no where near the amount of loans outstanding. And in fact they lend only a fraction of their budget to student tuition.

Thus your claim that the US Ed dept is paying at the end of the day is mathematically impossible. The debt is from private lenders, who do have incentive to ensure borrowers pay back.
Why don't animal eaters want to eat something that looks like an animal?
Meat does not get a monopoly on being a blob of brown stuff
Yes I understand that, that's why I said that it's not applicable to higher level systems. Btw to put my comment in context, also Redis has a similar feature to SQL DBs where it shows results in lexicographical sorting directly to the user, but it that case it just provides memcmp() byte-to-byte sorting. So what you do in order to index "Aèèé" is to apply a transformation to that string and store a transformed prefix and later the string itself, like "aeee:Aèéé" (ref: https://redis.io/commands/zrangebylex)
That really depends.

If you're just trying to get trained for a vocation, then yeah, you don't need 4 years. However, I do think a 4-year degree is a unique opportunity, and it shouldn't be seen as a screen for people who can slog so much as a fit question of "do you need the other things that come with a 4-year degree?"

I'd guess that a bit less than half of my 4 years was spent on academics, of which it was 2/3 CS degree and 1/3 liberal arts. The rest was summer internships, hobbies, personal projects, engineering teams, research, and just playing around as an 18-22 year old.

I agree with the parent poster's advice though. Outside of my academics, I learned skills like writing, speaking, organizing, diplomacy, etc. which you often learn anyway through work experience. People returning to school need that much less than people who never worked do, so there's no need for them to pay the time tax on extracurriculars.
>The other method of deriving and actually understanding is generally harder

It's fallacious to think that one type of action can be harder than another type of action, when within each class of actions there is a wide variation in difficulty. Thinking from first principles is not harder than memorization when the first principle is Newton's first law and the memorization is every chemical component of cellular metabolism. Another example of the fallacy would be thinking that the humanities are innately easier than physics: sure, a two-page essay is easier to write than a two-page solution, but you can go in and crank up the number of pages per day a humanities professor is expected to write until it is as hard as you want (it turns out that to some extent this has already happened, you would be surprised if you found out exactly how much output they are expected to have).

In physics, the memorization is easy and the first principles are hard. In biology, the memorization is hard but the first principles are few. That's the origin of why people with biased strengths are better suited to one or the other.
I think you might be underestimating the problem. Airports are generally spread across huge areas (square miles/km i.e. one or more football fields) and birdshot from shotguns has an effective maximum range of about 250 meters (according to various websites and charts), therefore you'd need a ton (hundreds?) of these micro-CIWS devices scattered around the perimeter to have any fighting chance. Also you want to make sure you don't hit any airplanes or helicopters already in the air. I can imagine certification from various government agencies in any country would take several years at best.

Furthermore, imagine you have your dream-drone-killer... how do you even find them? Neither of these recent sightings were even verified to be drones, they just received reports of sightings, therefore initially they would need to deploy devices to find/verify them. Once spotted, it wouldn't be hard to send a couple trained shooters with shotguns loaded with birdshot, assuming knowing their location isn't already enough to find the pilots...
The binary on the paper tape seems to be ascii (with a parity bit) reading "pdp-7emu.s".
GDPR is unfortunately a paper tiger I have come to realize. The only thing that impresses Americans is a bit of good old violence. And the EU simply doesn't have the balls to drag executives off their private jets and drop them in a secret prison.
It's wrong to claim indexes are "for" numbers and ASCII. They're for names of things, and names fill in the propositions the relational model is built on.

If you're using surrogate keys for everything, it means your tools are broken or you don't trust them. It may be the least worst available option to plaster over them, but you shouldn't accept that as a best practice.

> For strings that have encodings and locales, you likely need a full-text index, provided by your DB or by something like Solr / ElasticSearch.

Really, a reverse index, which, as its name implies, does the opposite of what you want if you're trying to index something.

Those products "work" by doing text preprocessing (stemming and such), which anyone can do, and then they toss a bunch of garbage back and let the user sort through it.

That doesn't solve the problem a database index is trying to address.
Developing event-driven systems at scale
how would the UN use violence? it's not what the UN is for?
the UN is basically a meeting room for world leaders to do diplomacy, otherwise we would end up with far more not needed conflict thanks to the severing of diplomatic relations. (just look at how world war 1 originally started for example).
Ordering something on Amazon, while it can be fast, can take two months or more to arrive from China, and everything in between.

Amazon started as purely a book store in 1994 and stayed that way for a good while; it was not immediately obvious to sell every damn thing imaginable. Bezos was cautious about what to try selling online. In 1998 they announced they would move beyond books, but without specific.

Amazon did not turn a profit until 2001; they really took it on the nose in the beginning, and had to weather the dot com bust.

Before Amazon expanded into things other than books, the site most known for that was eBay. In popular culture, every meme and joke about anyone buying or selling anything online was about eBay for the longest time.
Could this be good for converting Python 3 code back to Python 2 (to target CentOS 7 specifically)? The final code doesn't need to look nice, it just needs to run.
It still does, while someone might point out that a few percent of Google's code is not in the monorepo, most of it is in the same repo.
Why not?

Plenty of commercial systems are bolted-together, commercial-off-the-shelf components or whole products. How many small shops have you swiped a credit card at, and their "register" was an iPad in a stand? Doing so lets you focus on the actual core competency of your business or product. If you're worrying about what some unknown customer might think about the appearance of your product at this stage, you're not focusing on the product itself.
Apple's Worst Nightmare
My experience is that Impossible is better "medium rare" than most of the other ways of cooking it. A place near me serves it by default as a "steak burger", medium rare with fried onions and A1, and that does seem to play well to the strengths of the Impossible.

(On the flipside it does feel like the Beyond Burger is best a greasy "medium" or "medium well". The best I've had that served is in a vegan variation of a Big Mac. It's easy to get Impossible and Beyond confused, so maybe that's what you experienced?)
How'd you manage that?

UPS/USPS do great in my area, while if it's Amazon or FedEx I'll get it a week from never.
I think one thing to also consider was the flexibility of the clones from that period. Upgradability was a bigger selling point back then: A computer was a major financial investment, and the idea that you'd need to buy another one in a few years because it wouldn't run the latest software gave consumers anxiety. So if you could say "Look at all the slots and free drive bays!" you could convince people that, sure, this is $2000 today but I won't be stuck spending another $2000 a year later.
It's novel because no one had bothered to prove the result before.

It's not an earth-shattering paper, it's a technical curiosity.

the OP is a light article about a light paper, to promote a new lightweight journal that launched this week.

https://www.nature.com/natmachintell/
I strongly disagree. I have had many Uber rides where I wished it took longer to get to my destination. The driver engaged in fantastic conversation. I learned from them, I got insight into the area and recommendations. Self driving seems sterile.
Exactly. Quite a few of the "problems" with Linux development ultimately stem from trying to shoehorn Windows-oriented expectations into Linux development/deployment. Very few applications in the Linux world target specific distros themselves; instead they publish their source code and leave the actual distro-specific finagling to distro/package maintainers (sometimes those maintainers are also developers, but they're regardless treated as separate concerns).

Of course, quite a few game developers are curiously averse to publishing any kind of source code, which tends to thus require compatibility efforts to happen on the developer side instead of the package maintainer side. This can still be worked around by targeting a specific distro (say, Ubuntu or SteamOS) and letting package maintainers for other distros apply whatever workarounds they deem necessary to get the app running outside of a "supported" environment (see also: Steam, Spotify, Slack, etc.).
>Aside: How come airlines give you a bereavement discount while a caterer doesn't?

I believe they mostly don't any longer. https://traveltips.usatoday.com/airlines-offer-bereavement-f...

The argument (besides $$ of course) is that airfares, even last minute ones, are mostly not the huge expense for even middle class people that they once were.
unfortunately most staff are incentivized enough by a continued salary. the managers could just flee and the lowly laborers would have no idea how to do what needs to be done.
psword sharing is amatuer, and detecting such is prone to lots of false positives.
Real Pros expoit the analogue hole.
that means log on locally to the stream, play it in something like VLC, restream it locally to the LAN, access your lan remotely and partake of the stream. a UI to select what you want to watch is as easy as making icing. VLC and others even have remote plugins to controll an instance from afar.
So you're upset because GitHub won't assume liability for your potentially illegal activity? Why not ask the EFF to setup a free service to host these sorts of files? They seem like the most qualified Org to do it.
> There are also customized Python interpreters, notably Dropbox, which use their own magic and encrypt bytcode. With the exception of the Dropbox's old Python 2.5 interpreter this kind of thing is not handled.
But as a counterpoint, why would anyone build this business? Compare Amazon's profits [0] to Walmart's [1]. Assuming I've got the right chart, and recalling that the profits are coming from AWS (ie, unrelated to the catalog business), is it obvious that a sane management team would want to replicate Amazon?

We're talking two decade of basically no profits. Risk free rate of profit (ie, bonds) was something like 5% for a lot of that period, although there is obviously a lot more to consider. This is longer than long term from an investment standpoint - compare it to jobs who took Apple from "return the money to shareholders" to "most profitable company in the world" in a bit more than a decade.

[0] https://ycharts.com/companies/AMZN/profit_margin
[1] https://ycharts.com/companies/WMT/profit_margin
Yes, exactly. Thanks for chiming in.
The Approximation Power of Neural Networks
I think OP means that idealizing ML experiments using contrived data can distort the picture. Real world, ecologically valid results can only be discovered as they emerge when the algorithms are deployed in production. ML algorithms sometimes cook up solutions that can surprise or even disturb their creators.

I'm not sure I exactly agree with this premise. If you read about the principles of chaos engineering, (https://principlesofchaos.org/) it's possible to simulate real world events in testing. And if there's a rigorous mathematical backbone to ML as there clearly is, some determinations about its limitations should be universal for all cases, even if the emergent results in production are unpredictable and could range over intractably many possible outcomes.
iron is far more abundant though.