skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plants depend crucially on timekeeping.

The Circadian Clock is essential for coordinating metabolism, growth, and reproduction, vernalization, etc. Most plants can be considered either short-day or long-day flowering, where highly-sensitive response to the delta in day-length is tracked to coordinate flowering. Nearly all plants anticipate events like sun-rise and sun-set with precision to coordinate (expensive!) photosynthetic expression, open/close stomata, alter xylem and phloem, etc.

Applying this to longer time-scales should not be terribly surprising for such sophisticated time-keepers.

Here's some information about in-vitro induction of flowering, induced with the sorts of chemicals you might expect (e.g. cytokinin promoting, auxin repressing):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5603696/

As for the particular regulatory network that accomplishes this, it's very difficult to study an event that occurs so seldom. Even annual breeding cycles can make detailed genetic investigations take decades.

What we can infer from homology is that there's likely some kind of feedback and balance of hormones that 'count' the time. There is nothing "in the DNA" that tracks time, but the genes that DNA encodes can provide this clock function.
CrossFit Shutters Facebook, Instagram Accounts Amid Data Privacy Concerns
So death sentence is publicly a possibility now right?
> I once wrote a replacement for the + operator in javascript because computers can't do proper addition (0.1+0.2!=0.3).

...this is a terrible, bad-faith way of making a complaint that isn't even valid. Computers do do proper addition. And they handle the exact example you give perfectly, if that's what you want. JavaScript might have difficulty with that problem, but that's because, unlike the computers it's implemented for, it has no integers.

What do you think "proper addition" would involve if I asked you to tell me 1/7 + 1/3, on paper?
For AppleScript, the analogy seemed apt, as both AppleScript and COBOL set out to design a syntax resembling conversational English more than a typical programming language would.
what? no EOS jobs?
> we make use of an existing source of data for supervision: YouTube videos in which people imitate mannequins by freezing in a wide variety of natural poses, while a hand-held camera tours the scene. Because the entire scene is stationary (only the camera is moving), triangulation-based methods--like multi-view-stereo (MVS)--work, and we can get accurate depth maps for the entire scene including the people in it

I suspect the reason for not using 3D rendering is the desire to cope with the noise and variability of real video.
Title has two typos. Should be “Is Woodstock 50 Cancelled?”.
I know. I thought the same when watching it the last time. What struck me is we are still yelling (on the keyboard) to our 21 inch screens...
Put it under your pillow rather than your feet. Your brain temperature needs to drop for sleep, and if you cool your extremities the blood will go to your core and make it even harder.
Err, are we on the same page here? I don't think so. Because I'm talking about copyright law. Comparing the morality of pirating a disney movie with opposing killing people is not a reasonable position. It cheapens the real struggle that people went through.
Nasa Awards Artemis Contract for Lunar Gateway Power, Propulsion
This is a dangerous business to be in, with questionable upside.

Daphne Caruana Galizia, one of the journalists involved in exposing the Panama Papers was recently murdered by a car bomb in Europe. [1]

Meanwhile, how many of the crooks she exposed went to jail? Not a one.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/07/22/630866527/mastermind-behind-m...
> That's what matters, right?

No. What matters is that your body doesn't overheat.

In the absence of devices like the watch, your feeling of being comfortable enough correlates well with your body not overheating. But if you are wearing a device like the watch that fools your body's perception of comfort, you can feel comfortable while your body is actually overheating. That's not good.

> I don't actually want to change my body temperature by 5 degrees, I'd die.

That's not what the patch does. What the patch does is keep your body from getting hotter in an environment where it otherwise would. And you can tell that it's doing that because you still feel comfortable, and the patch isn't fooling your body's perception of comfort, so if you feel comfortable, you're ok.

If you start feeling too cold, you just take the patch off. So you don't need to worry about your body temperature dropping.
> Planck time […] is the smallest time step that present-day physics makes predictions about

What are those predictions? Do you mean that

> we know that it must break down at Planck time

? If so, do you have a source for this prediction? (I'm not asking why present-day physics must break down at extremely small scales. That prediction is more or less well established. What I'm asking is: Why is it the Planck scale that's so significant?)

My impression was that most statements involving the Planck scale these days are rather numerology than actual, verifiable science [1].

[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/185939/is-the-pl...
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it's who you know ...
This... seems pessimistic and overly dramatized.
Nobody so far has tested an actual nuclear-armed ICBM. Sure, maybe North Korea is testing ICBMs unannounced, and it's a big problem, but we "know" they aren't nuclear-armed. If the technology existed, these should be shot down, no matter the payload.

> I think that what you say comes down to that you’re willing to risk war to deny countries of doing any ICBM missile test.

"Accidentally" shooting down an unannounced ICBM out of precaution is not necessarily an act of war, nor will it necessarily lead to war.
specially when you are already paying a fixed monthly fee for the transfer cost of the near-zero-cost-to-them crappy non-premium media content, which is the same bandwidth cost to provide you with reruns of what you "rented" before.
It's shocking how far up you can make it in enterprise environments on pure bluster alone.

Perhaps a contributing factor to the Peter Principle?
Having a very large distributed surface area could be key to drive the peltier cells at low current and get back some efficiency. The thermal contact with the body also helps by reducing the temperature gradient against the charges flow.
How so? JPEG compression is orthogonal to resolution. At the macroblock (or per pixel) level, a 100MP image is not degraded more than a 0.3MP image. So if softness can be seen in a 24MP jpg, it should also be discernible in a 100MP jpg.
This guy appears to be using the break in the driver cabs (the unused one meant for when the train is moving in the opposite direction), so unless we got rid of those too it wouldn't matter.
EU Citizens Denied Vote in the UK European Elections
Piracy is good but fascism is bad. What's the problem here?
No it didn’t. There was only one address space. So yeah, it did literally turn off virtual memory.

I went down a rabbit hole trying to remember the technical details of VM back in the day:

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/2804/why-...

[old man rant]
I remember having at the time an obscene 10MB of RAM in 1992 for my Mac LCII to avoid using VM and to run Soft PC acceptably.

Then I had a whopping 24MB of RAM two years later for the PowerMac 6100/60 because it shared RAM with the DX2/66 DOS Card.

Then two years later I bought 32MB of RAM to attach directly to the DOS Card...
[/old_man_rant]
But it's okay because China and Russia do it.
The person you’re responding to isn’t saying we should dismiss wealth taxes out of hand. They are saying that 100% of the evidence so far is that they do not work. So the burden of proof is on the person in favor of them.
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Or a tight border for some years and than a reunion like in my country, germany?

(even though there were mines on that border, too, but in a limited way that there are no more traces of them today)

Anyway, I am still highly sceptical to the claim, that mines prevented a total communist korea. Debating about that is not really constructive. Do you have studies for your claim?
Here's a link to the indictment: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jqe9dXY6AT8NY2Cg_SWavj5RIzA...
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I said it before if the US gets their hands on him, he's going away for life. Each charge is about 10 years x 18 charges.
Thanks! So happy to have given you my measly $2.99. Keep up the good work!
> If maintainers can see who donated, do they prioritize issues / pull requests? (I think that could be a good thing actually).

This actually seems like it would be terrible. Contributions should be evaluated on merit, not on bribes.

The overall concept seemed good at first but you raised some real concerns.
Perhaps I’m not following you, but all income produced in the US is subject to federal taxes, regardless of the citizenship of the parties involved.
Joomla servers hacked, crypto miner installed
You can detect single photons. There are off the shelf detectors for available for experimenting with photon entanglement and parametric down conversion. We had one at my university.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_counting
Charges like these, which such heavy minimum sentences should he be convicted, are exactly what he claimed were waiting for him if he left the Embassy. Over the years, many observers claimed he was delusional in this regard. It appears he wasn’t.
Thanks, that makes some sense. If clothing would play a role, I'd hope they'd account for that (at the very least in further studies) before it has too big an impact (judging from the articles that are written, it has: the patriarchy strikes again) if that turns out to be a key factor.

It's strange that an innocent question for clarification will get downvoted immediately. Such a strange crowd here.
If the US government loses (it should based on the Pentagon Papers precedent, but who really knows how the conservative-stacked Supreme Court will rule), then it should settle hopefully once and for all that these sort of cases can't be prosecuted under the Espionage Act.

The US government has kept threatening all national security whistleblowers with the Espionage Act so they take the 5-10 years in prison plea deals for the past couple of decades. Considering it's very unlikely Assange will take a plea deal on this one, I hope he gets to win, for all future national security whistleblowers' sake.
Google researchers use mannequin challenge YT videos to improve depth prediction
Steps 1-3 generate quite a paper trail for you and step 3 generates a paper trail for Dewy Cheetum & Howe.

Without an EV Certificate, you can just buy a domain name and use LetsEncrypt to generate a DV certificate which is a much smaller paper trail.
So, just as an hypothetical.. If it were impossible to pirate Windows, would all of those users switch to Linux or BSD or other free OSs?

If even a single user goes out and buys a license to Windows, then there is a definite argument to be made that piracy resulted in the loss of at-least one sale.
Yep that’s me. I use private trackers to watch cable shows without commercials but still pay for an HBO Now subscription for GoT because it was just easier and $15/month for two months is really not a big deal.
Yup.

Some of us have taken note of "those observers" for the future.
> need tax money or coercive measures to get things done.

But those are pretty much all the remaining hard problems! If it was self-funding and didn't have any opposition, someone would be able to solve it.
> many observers claimed he was delusional in this regard

Did they? I thought it was commonly held he would face such charges. The allegations around delusion were in respect of his ability to evade them for the rest of his life.
The UK won’t extradite Assange if he faces execution. The US will have to make a binding promise not to sentence him to death if it wants to actually get custody.

I’m not surprised to see new charges filed. But these charges seem very likely to backfire. By overcharging, the US may well cause the UK to balk. I have to assume that someone expects to negotiate a shorter list of charges, so they started with a crazy opening offer.
The benefit of a website like Patreon is reducing friction for small transactions like this. If you're going to put in lots of time and effort to convince one person to give you a million dollars, you can probably get them to write you a check more easily than you could get them to pay through Patreon But For Whales.
I recall this as well, plenty of posters on HN saying how it wasn't possible.
As long as you know which items are random, and you can compute the probability of each item (regardless of whether it's uniform random or through your algorithm) for each user, the method still applies.

While it does seem more palatable to just show a maximum of X% uniformly random items to all users, the computation of p(y|x) can get a bit hairy for any item y, because now it is a product of a uniform distribution and your stochastic ranking algorithm. If you _can_ compute that, you'd be fine.
Indeed. I remember many of his critics saying "but what does he have to lose if he's actually innocent of the Swedish sexual assault charges?!"

This is exactly what he said would happen if he would give in to the Swedish/UK authorities.

Many may not remember, but Assange also said that the Swedish charges were manufactured precisely so he can be 1) discredited and 2) eventually extradited to U.S. once in custody.
Julian Assange: US files 17 new charges against Wikileaks co-founder
Sure, but having it fully tagged in a data center across from you helps.
Top 100 Corporate and National economies, by revenue - https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/r...

edit - there was a World Bank blog post about this, but it has mysteriously disappeared.

https://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/miga/world-s-top-10...

here's google's cached version -

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Qt-r1E...
Is your claim that there is no way to live under a minimum wage in America right now?
We had contacted the DRAC (governing body for patrimony and culture), but things were on lockdown because someone had leaked photos to the press, which had caused all sorts of chaos.

One of the managers of the consolidation companies is a close friend, so we were able to head up under their jurisdiction.

Again, the south and north towers are spotless inside, as is the nave (apart from the obvious 3 holes in the roof..).

The stained glass, even directly under the collapsed sections were intact (and being meticulously removed)

The wall sections on the shorter arms of the roof section were the most unstable parts, as the roof and beams are obviously gone. The North wall was already reinforced, and they were in the process of doing the same on the south wall.

One of the biggest challenges will be removing the scaffolding, which is melted, twisted and a general mess.

It was also incredible to see cooled lead flows from the mouths of the gargoyles.

Again, the resounding feeling from the visit and the workers was one of hope and relief.
> benefiting from the level of unprecedented wealth and prosperity we live in, which came from humanity spreading around the globe and ingeniously utilizing its resources, and now wanting to pull the ladder of life itself up away from the next generation.

Uh, where else on the globe do we have to spread? What new resources are there for us to discover?

The time period where a growing human population could grow their standard of living by moving into pristine lands and exploiting their natural resources is basically over. Lands are either already being exploited, or are intentionally protected. And the side effects of exploitation are starting to balance against the benefits.

We can't think about burning the next 1,000 tons of coal, the same way we thought about the first 1,000 tons of coal humanity burned.

I think you've got the idea that a growing human population was a major factor in building wealth and prosperity, which is not really true. Our ability to adapt to and exploit new areas of the Earth allowed us to grow wealth and prosperity despite steep population growth.

I'm not advocating for forced sterilization. But it is absolutely true that humanity cannot continue to grow its standard of living by just keeping on with what worked 100 years ago.
Thanks for your question!

As long as you can compute the probability of each item being shown (regardless of whether it's uniform random or through your algorithm) to each user, the method still applies. While it does seem more palatable to just show a maximum of X% uniformly random items to all users, the computation of p(y|x) can get a bit hairy for any item y, because now it is a product of a uniform distribution and your stochastic ranking algorithm. If you _can_ compute that, you'd be fine.
Ask HN: Future of the web / cool open source projects
Hello All,

I'm a student who has the summer off and would like to work on some open source projects.

I've been building web apps ever since I got my first computer, and would like to continue down this path. Some projects I love are Web Assembly, the many lightweight web frameworks, GraphQL, and d3.js.

Does anyone know of any really cool new web frameworks (or revolutionary ones) that I could contribute?

I just want to learn some cool stuff this summer!
> Fn* closure traits implemented for Box<dyn Fn* >

This threw me for a minute. Function pointers not using * is confusing enough without using glob syntax to talk about function types!
You're confusing with Architecte des bâtiments de France. ACMH is a competitive exam and the Wikipedia page [1] can clear that up. I know several people who took it. It's just become very rare, like one every four years. It's definitely not a promotion, and unrelated to the ABF position (which is a part of AUE). But it is equivalent to being a civil servant, except you can have an architecture business of your own.

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecte_en_chef_des_monumen...
They do not need donation cut because they already sell Windows etc.
How so? If anything, it would be cool to have issue bounties to put your money to get the stuff you want solved.
The act of pirating the movie itself signals that there is some notional value to the downloaded content. Otherwise, you would just pipe 1GB of bits from /dev/random in to a file and play that.
No, observers claimed he was delusional to think he would be charged with a capital crime (meaning he could be executed if convicted), because that would violate the terms of any extradition.

Everyone thought he would be charged with a number of crimes if he ever left the embassy.
I guess that's what happens when you leak classified information and then work with foreign adversaries.

Kind of interesting how people think this isn't espionage related. I would like to hear the argument that this is purely a first amendment case. Free speech doesn't cover the theft of dangerous, classified information and potentially treasonous activities.
This is troubling since the courts have also argued lawsuits over illegal wiretapping and other misconduct cannot move forward as they would... expose classified information:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/judge-dodges-legality-...

Without the ability for the press to publicize illegal actions so that voters can remove officials who allow it, the US government can engage in unconstitutional conduct with almost zero oversight by making the illegal conduct classified.
Maybe more "by nature"? If it were not measurable, there would be no point in discussing it.
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The trend now is to offer a monthly subscription which ends up being more after 12 months then the one time fee.
How do you propose people get paid for their work?
This is a nice start for allowing sending "coffee money" between persons. If however you want to drive Serious Money into actually funding OSS projects please remember this: While virtually no company has a donations budget, almost every company has a $$$ marketing budget.

Please let me give you some of that money that would otherwise be spent on blue pens with logos and endless display ads to GitHub projects. I'd be happy to drive $xxK/mo to open source projects my company depends on or that are simply being used by an audience that aligns with our own. To sell that internally, I need (as in, I would be laughed out of the room to propose it without):

- My sponsoring company logo on the GitHub project page

- UTM links and all that jazz to attribute traffic and campaigns to the specific projects that we sponsor

See https://webpack.js.org/ for a good example of a successful sponsorship program. Literally the biggest hurdle remaining for BigCorp to sponsor something like Webpack today is selling your boss on "Patreon" and "OpenCollective". But if you just increase our GitHub budget by a few K/month, AND the marketers get attributable traffic to boot that we can point to, well that's an easy sell!
Honestly seemed a bit low for current Toronto real estate conditions. Still, good move all things considered as long as they can properly manage the challenges for a fully remote team.
Not saying he's wrong, but this guy just basically rewrote the Adobe sales pitch with extra salt
Well. Far be it from me to impose colonial articling on how the motherland of the language is accustomed to refer to her sporting clubs.
Equifax: where you’re a customer whether you wanted to be or not.
At least some jurisdictions have research exemptions in their copyright laws, so at least I don't need the copyright owner's permission to use any data for research purposes.

I'd still prefer to use explicitly open datasets because it allows for simpler data sharing and easier reproducibility, however in cases where that's not possible whatever is available will do even if I'm restricted in how I can redistribute that data.
I see I’ve struck a nerve of some kind so I’d just like to clarify that I am not sorry.
Either way, it's $20 on some vague software expense. Nobody will care. Worst case, the boss somehow says, "What's this $20 charge" and I explain why I though there was a good business reason for us to support that project.
I had the same experience LAST year when I used them as well. It is no accident that the normal fee is the same as this surprise additional fee to pay them out of the refund. Deliberately meant to go under the customer's radar.
Sounds like it. I avoid runners, as the risk is just too high to recover them if they get away. Also in Australia most boo suppliers eschew running varieties, as suburbian horror stories abound.

As noted by dbcurtis, you need to have a physical barrier -- either metal (but that'll eventually corrode) or some very thick rubber (ditto), or concrete - to about 60cm depth, depending on variety. Alternatively they are typically stopped by roads and permanently running creek beds.

My clumpers (Bambusa oldhamii, B.multiplex, B. ventricosa, and B. gracilis) vary in height, but after 15 years the largest is, albeit a very dense, 1.5m diameter clump.
> 2) they would have be murdered by the other commuters

In the spirt of HN's policy of not being snarky I will attempt to temper my reply. As a native NYer: I find it Laughable that a Nation which, in effect, gave up its Sovereign Government to the EU and, outlawed Free Speech by banning "hate speech" (which is in fact--Anything that your Overlords say it is), would attemp to draw the line at someone pulling the EBrake on a train.

Sorry, but that is as Non-Snarky as I could make my reply.