skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of one of my favourite stories:

> A US nuclear laboratory is said to maintain a "heavy dog"--fed with heavy water and "heavy" food, and with the heavy isotope deuterium replacing normal hydrogen throughout the whole body.

-- New Scientist, 1976 [1]

And:

> [it] would be invisible to a MRI scanner. The dog would still be clearly visible to the naked eye so apart from confusing the staff operating the scanner I can see no advantage to this.

-- source [2]

[1] https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AhC9t3Q3YMcC&lpg=PA480&o...

[2] https://scicommstudios.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/hydrogen/
> A big part of the issue is the food stamp or SNAP culture. When you get your allotment for the monht it's easy to just go fill your cart with bad choices.

People make bad choices whether or not they're on SNAP. Our entire food culture revolves mostly around bad choices.
Yes. I seem to recall either Elon or more likely Gwynne Shotwell saying they're shooting for three or more satellites in view for the system to truly work the way it has been designed.
Thanks for the reply. If you have any ideas for potential use cases or want to see a short demo of what I have running so far let me know if you'd like to get in contact.
we must hold the government accountable.
How does software not leave room for human prejudice? Who decides what data is used to feed the thing?
I understand that the achievement in question was made in a high pressure environment; but if we get room temperature superconductors (at standard atm pressure), does that mean large scale hover cars/boards deployment will be viable as well [0]?

[0] https://youtu.be/PXHczjOg06w
> Google kinda pulled a "bait-and-switch" with Android.

> When they released it, it was pretty much 100% Open Source, then they moved more and more elements to their proprietary GApps suite, included the Play Services required to run even many 3rd party apps.

I thought the reason they did this was because third party phone makers were controlling when/whether users could update the OS on their device. So users were often several Android releases behind, even on a phone that was only a year old. By moving a lot of the core functionality into apps, users could update these apps and have access to newer features even on older OS versions.

Though, I guess that doesn't explain why the apps themselves aren't open source.
Yoshua Bengio: Unsupervised Learning of Influential Trajectories
Check out the book “Prime Obsession”

It was easy for me to follow along.
You can get low salt canned beans, or just rinse them. And it's not as if most people would avoid salting their cooking dry beans.

If cooking with salt makes a food "processed" and thereby to be avoided, there's pretty much nothing left but raw veggies.
>Fire is at least one example

/thread

To answer the big question in this thread. Yes, Huawei can simply fork Android. It will be a pain in the ass, expensive, and not as usable, but they certainly can.

Google's "iron grip" in this instance is only ostensible, not literal and complete. HN is not immune to clickbait.
Tested AV1 2160p and worked flawlessly, nice quality with YouTube using Firefox.
Actually, I have seen small companies do just as badly at things, but they don't stick around for long, because they die from these mistakes. The ones that CAN make mistakes like this again and again, must be huge, and also their mistakes are more visible because they're big.

Plus, small companies that make big mistakes that do survive, are scarred by the experience and tend not to repeat that particular kind of mistake again. Companies that can make a blunder of the sort described in this story, repeatedly, have to have been big in order to survive long enough to repeat it.
It's incredible to me how this stuff needs to be spelled out for people. It seems so normal to me. Yet, I've met enough people who waste their money on multiple media subscription services and who knows what else even tough they have a low income.
Our computers are a thousand times faster but our steel isn't a thousand times stronger and our rocket fuel doesn't have a thousand times the specific impulse. As far as cost and ultimate physical mission limitations go, we're very much still living in the same neighborhood as 1970.
I feel really shitty that we're watching our future generations get outright robbed of living a good life.
> Maybe it would be easier to properly run the government

One generation doesn't seem to be able to run government more properly than its preceding generation, so it's probably impossible to do better than we are doing.
When you're the only one in line for the tube of course its fast. What happens when there is a line of cars also wanting to use it? Still cool to see.
makes you wonder if it really ...
What about smoothies? Most homemade smoothies retain the fiber by blending the fruit whole. Are those just as good as eating the fruits themselves?

Genuine question, trying to cut out non-fruit based sugars.
It is also possible it will enable some setups that aren't currently possible. Part of why transmission loss in power lines is as low as it is is that we build plants near to where the electricity is going to be used, so it's not some sort of physics law that the loss is that low, it's engineering. Right now, the "plate the Sahara in solar to power Europe" solution is not technically feasible due to the transmission loss across that distance. Obviously that's a special case of the general problem of natural power sources not being where people live. If we can transmit power without loss, we get some more options than we have now.

I'd still guess the bulk of the value would be in more local uses, but there are some interesting large-scale possibilities, including power transmission.
Haven't tried the salt gun yet, but some of the most effective/enjoyable methods I know are:

(1) draw the curtains and leave a door open,
(2) detergent spray to immobilise then dispose of with paper towel,
(3) cling flim/saran wrap/adhesive tape. approach slowly to avoid triggering the fly ('the slow blade penetrates the shield'). also works with a vacuum cleaner nozzle.
Software engineers are useless after 40
For our family, time is the problem. I do almost all of the cooking, and -- much like when estimating software development -- often tend to underestimate how long even a fairly simple recipe will take. As I become a more experienced cook I become more efficient, but some nights we still end up eating quite late. Add to that non-trivial time for dishes/cleanup, and indeed, this rings true:

The middle-class families in our study had more resources and more options but felt completely overwhelmed by hectic schedules and competing demands that left little time to cook.

One strategy is batch cooking in advance on weekends and freezing meals, but for various reasons, we've been fairly poor at that.

Incidentally, if you want to get better at cooking, I highly recommend Cook's Illustrated / America's Test Kitchen, in particular, their special edition magazines. They provide recipes but also techniques and the science behind the recipes.

This one in particular is a gold mine and is almost falling apart from heavy use:

https://shop.americastestkitchen.com/special-issues/cook-s-i...
> And if everything is dogma, then we must simply fight to the death.

Only if everyone feels they have to "win".

It is possible to force a draw or stalemate, in perpetuity. That's what I'm arguing for. The only alternative is to force your opponents to comply, globally, through overwhelming oppression.
> I have terabytes of pirated music

That’s funny. I have much less music locally and that’s why I like listening to it over streaming services.

The cloud may have terabytes and terabytes of all kinds of music, but 99.99% of that does nothing for me.

The music I have purchased and curated locally is my collection and I know I like everything there. It’s a guaranteed 100% match.

I use cloud streaming only to discover new acts and albums, and then it’s right back to Plex.
[Hi from Argentina!]

This looks on-topic, but this is a English speaking forum, so the submission will probably get ignored of flagged, unless it has some very interesting material that is not available in English.

At least translate the title and add [in Spanish]. But videos are difficult to follow in other languages, specially if they don't have subtitles in English. Also, the sound is not loud enough, and I had to increase the volume to the maximum to heard this.
But not enough to compete against efficiently deployed fiber in rural areas where you’re not ripping urban streets apart.

It’ll be amazing for mobile users and developing countries though.
> In his experience, van Rossum sees incompetent men’s ideas gaining acceptance more often than merited because they are more forceful in how they present them.

That's not only a problem between genders, but also between introverts and extroverts. I often find that the people who seem most confident have the least reason to be confident. Does anyone have thoughts on combating this?
The rationale for cutting off Huawei seems to be "No matter how much you claim to not spy, you are forced to comply when the Chinese government tells you to do so" - which so far appears to be the hypothetical worst case scenario. Considering that, it's kinda ironic that Google/Amazon/ARM et al are all _actually_ carrying out Huawei's own (formerly)hypothetical worst-case scenario because the US government told them to do so.
> Diet sodas aren't better for your health though, in fact they may be worse.

"May be worse" is hard to argue when one has direct, obvious negative effects and the other has a series of much more weakly linked possible results.
You're leaving out the cost of time, the more valuable resource for poor people who likely live in a food desert and would have to spend a significant amount of time traveling to purchase those ingredients.
Satellite internet is already available in rural areas and it doesn't seem to make that big of a difference. Most people care more about the culture that populated areas provide more than internet speeds.

Personally I pay $30 a month for 15 Mbps. I remember EarthLink or Prodigy being like $15-20 a month for 56Kbps. I remember leaving the modem on all night to download a 30MB demo of Monster Truck Madness in Elementary School. Now speeds are ~250 times what they were and the price has only doubled in the past 20 years? That's f-ing amazing. Prices are not getting out of control if you stick to the bottom end. I'm not even sure what I'd do with gig internet.

For areas going from no internet to satellite internet it's probably going to be amazing, but going from high latency satellite internet to low latency satellite internet will not be a huge game changer.

Adoption of http2 would probably help the quality of existing satellite internet more and be cheaper than this endeavor. As everyone started moving to HTTPS, the handshakes take much longer on a high latency connection and multiplexing would help alleviate that issue.
I’ve never streamed my coding, but I have enjoyed watching people on Twitch or Youtube do it. It’s different than typical programming tutorials I’ve seen on Youtube - I dislike those as I’d rather read a blog post because it’s easier to skim and go back and re-read things to make sure you understand them. Watching someone build a thing live is different though. It’s unedited, you can see how they work and how they approach a problem, how they handle troubleshooting, what their development environment looks like. I don’t watch them in order to learn how to do a thing (although I almost always learn something), but it’s more like watching over the shoulder of a developer as they build something.
https://www.menshealth.com/health/a19542947/energy-drink-hea...

> After reviewing the current studies surrounding the risks tied to energy drinks, researchers concluded that they might be associated with a wide-ranging slew of health problem. You might already know that energy drinks can screw with your sleep, make you gain weight, or even spike your blood pressure. But overarching evidence suggests they may lead to substance abuse, mental health problems, a higher diabetes risk, tooth decay, and kidney damage, too.

(Note that artificial sweeteners are probably worse for weight gain than sugar, not sure what you mean by 0 sugar...)
Even better, we need to build a wall on the moon.
The right progression is breaking the muscle up into its separate components and getting strong at each one individually until you can combine them into one movement and do your first muscle up.

You have to accept that it will be a long time before you can do even one proper muscle up, and most people just aren’t willing to so they kip and tell themselves they can do “muscle ups”.
The same fundamentals used in facial recognition can be applied to 3D pose estimation for gait recognition. This allows identification of a person without biometric features like a face or iris [1].

Facial recognition is used as a catch-all term because it's easily understood, but the deep-learning behind it is much more widely applicable.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.06512
> shown to cause more weight gain than equivalent sugar

The article you link doesn't say that. First, almost nothing in it even talks about real sugar. Second, it specifically starts with in the first paragraph "doesn’t prove that diet drinks and artificial sweeteners cause weight gain" and then goes on to have more paragraphs of speculation on correlation. But nothing mentioned in that article demonstrates a causal effect, and definitely not more than equivalent sugar. There's a lot of "may be" and "may cause" in there. Emphasis on may.
For what it's worth I've traveled on them about 15 times over the last few years, mostly to or from Shanghai and while it's comparable I'd say it's still way easier than an airport. At a glance though it definitely looks very crowded though because there is only one very large departure lounge (at least in Shanghai). In the smaller cities though you don't have the same crowds and the whole process is very quick and easy.

Security involves putting your bags on a conveyor that goes through an x-ray machine but no one actually has their bags opened so it moves quickly. Boarding is much quicker because a train has a lot more doors than an airplane.

However the queues to get to the metro/subway/underground system can indeed be horrifically long.
The idea for the paper was sparked two years ago by a "toy problem" that Ono presented as a "gift" to entertain Zagier during the lead-up to a math conference celebrating his 65th birthday. A toy problem is a scaled-down version of a bigger, more complicated problem that mathematicians are trying to solve.

Zagier described the one that Ono gave him as "a cute problem about the asymptotic behavior of certain polynomials involving Euler's partition function, which is an old love of mine and of Ken's—and of about pretty much any classical number theorist."

"I found the problem intractable and I didn't really expect Don to get anywhere with it," Ono recalls. "But he thought the challenge was super fun and soon he had crafted a solution."

That sounds like a potentially useful problem-solving trick - pull a small but key problem out of your bigger problem, and then nerd-snipe your friends into solving it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

Please don't submit so many links at once that the new page is dominated by your submissions.

Maybe five out of thirty isn't dominating, but it stood out to me. I would much rather have seen a neat blog post that shared your findings and had the references.

But my comment has been downvoted, I guess I'm in a minority, and it shows yet again how much I'm out-of-step with the HN "community".

I'll go away again.
Our customers are never malicious actors, we can worry about security later...
Are you aware of the microG project? It is entirely possible to run Android apps without Play Services. Is it perfect? Far from it but it's disingenuous to say "Android is barely more Open Source than iOS".

If you want to add in the Play Store into the mix, things change slightly.
This is not what happened. From 2007-2009 HW manufacturers had no answer to the iPhones Software.

Sure you could build a phone on top of Windows Mobile, Sonys Xperia X1 is my favorite entry from this time period, but you had no consolidated Software Vision for a mobile OS. Customers were craving phones that were as accessible as iPhones were, with a good example being the datepickers in mobile safari. You couldn't fix this with a Custom Windows Mobile Homescreen. Neither Nokia, nor anyone else in Mobile Phones at the time had thought about the software part as much as about the hardware. Even Andy Rubin got smacked in the face by the iPhone Keynote, but his advantage was the lack of organizational and technological debt that anyone else watching this keynote in a position to act plagued.

Apple was highly regarded inside Google when it comes to design decisions and is so until this very day (Why again does my Pixel 2 lack an 3.5mm socket?) so for Rubin simply adopting the design and ui vision while following different engineering principles was a path that had less hurdles for him than for everyone else in the position to do something about it in 2007.

That's why Android is where it is, not because Google decided to go the OpenSource way with it. Customers decided this was the only viable alternative, they brought money to the platform and developers followed.

Sure it was a lot fun stuff happening on the platform aswell that gave it the positive look, but this didn't affect the relevant apps to stay iOS only until they couldn't afford to anymore, simple market share decided that.

Device Manufacturers were desperate for anything, if they had to pay license fees for closed source software or not wouldn't have mattered if there had been a viable answer to iOS in 2007.
In the UK it's easy to find unsalted canned beans. E.g., from the biggest supermarket chain:

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=beans%20i...
A lot of things influence your decisions but it is you that makes those decisions. The media, as an entity, cannot and does not vote.
In the USA real food is extremely inexpensive. That 1 Euro will buy you 2-3 dozen eggs or at least half a kilo of beef or chicken. Potatoes are 1.50 USD for a 5 lb bag (2.26kg).

Processed food in the USA is very expensive. Frozen pizza, chips, cookies, frozen dinners, cereals, etc can cost more than Grass Fed Organic beef per lb. We have a Grocer called Sprouts that has Grass Fed Ground Beef for $2.99lb USD. A frozen pizza at Walmart is 4.99 USD. A bag of Potato Chips is $2.99 at Walmart.

If you get a chance check out any USA Grocery flier and you will be shocked at how little real food costs.
Look at the news cycle. Most stories are about how crime is everywhere and your family is in danger (nevermind that the local news channel in Northwest Iowa had to report from Alabama to find some blood and gore), meanwhile, the government is fighting a noble war against terrorism in some far-off country.

I don't generally subscribe to conspiracy theories, but I do genuinely believe we're (in the US at least) being groomed for some sort of repressive state apparatus using this type of software to 'keep us safe' in the next decade or two.
Serverless Machine Learning on AWS Lambda with TensorFlow
This just underscores the lack of understanding between "we need to measure this value" and "we need to understand how this value is calculated" these days. :(
> "Flat" UI is both lazy and an overreaction to the ridiculous skeuomorphism that plagued us years ago.

I like to think that by trial and error we will eventually get back there. Microsoft is already moving away from the flat aesthetic to a more "materialish" design.
Specific impulse. It is a convoluted method of measuring the exhaust velocity, and thus the efficiency, of a reaction engine.
"What the US govt is doing is completely legal"

All based on a presidential order, without providing evidence.

Congratulations to US legal system then and feeling superior to authorian china.
I find using <OLD TECHNOLOGY> in <MODERN_ERA> endlessly fascinating. I love stuff like this!
> Ecuador tried to instate Assange as a Ecuadorian Ambassador, but the UK refused their request for diplomatic immunity

No, they tried to appoint him to a subordinate (not “Ambassador”) diplomatic position to Russia. Which does not give him diplomatic immunity in the UK by right. The UK declined to extend such status as a courtesy as it might otherwise do.

> However my point is that there is a case in 1984 where a suspected criminal for a crime committed in the UK (who might not have been embassy personnel) was allowed safe passage with embassy personnel.

Everyone leaving the embassy had their diplomatic status verified when they were stopped, questioned, and frisked on the way out, but it's quite possible the perpetrators were one of those who left before the cordon was thrown up, and if not they were embassy personnel. The act was clearly.a state act of reprisal, so there would be no reason to have it done by unprotected persons.
Not really, the rocket and the payload would have the same momentum unless an additional force is applied between them.
Well actually potatoes provide almost all the nutrients one needs, including fibre if you eat the skin.
It's things like this that always make me think twice about banning things. Many people look at something as useless, wasteful, or bad, but to other people, it really does help people with certain conditions. So when you outright declare something is dumb or should be banned, I generally find these people to generally be ignorant about all the technology does, and it's just a knee-jerk reaction.

This is not to say they don't have good reasons for not liking a technology. Rather, that tend to not know all sides for something.
Or, could they get Lockheed-Martin to build a moon-based F-35?
Yea, I was surprised to learn this. I love orange juice like a pirate loves rum. Alas, it's better to eat fruit and avoid juices.

Fruit has sucrose. Sucrose splits into glucose and fructose. Calories and glycemic index aside: glucose good, fructose bad. The fiber in fruit helps block the metabolism of fructose, protecting the liver.

Dr Lustig's video was my intro to this stuff. It's hard to watch, but I haven't read anything yet that contradicts any of it.

Sugar: The Bitter Truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Update: Downvoted for science. Yay! I need something to kick my HN addiction. Stop doing this to myself.
Heavy Rain PC Demo Trailer Now Available to Watch Ahead of June 24 Launch
Haha - that strip is perfect. but yes, fixed!
> has crazy drug interactions, and some people have adverse health reactions to some of the sweeteners (which are not always prominently labeled).

I haven't heard anything about this. Do you have a source? The second item strikes me as the same health reactions non-celiac "gluten sensitives" get.
The lost genius of the Post Office (2017)
The Apollo program was also much better funded and they had attracted the intellectual elite of a generation. In our generation, that elite is figuring out how to make people click on ads.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/NASA-Bud...
Thanks for sending that over - fixed now!
All of the recipes I mentioned above (and countless others) can be cooked in under 30 minutes, if you go shopping once a week. Eating out, you also have the overhead of driving / walking to the place to eat. With processed food, you also have to go to the supermarket.
True, but if I am watching videos I'm feeling lazy and I shouldn't have to turn down resolution just for his videos because they're in 60fps instead of 30 when in Chrome it works fine (I'm using tampermonkey script which switches all videos to the highest resolution with 4k as a limit).
Sounds like a Cave Johnson initiative.