skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mechanism is mostly understood, but not perfectly. Most people know that a cow has multiple stomachs. The second stomach is called a rumen. A cow chews it's cud (essentially big mashes of grass and grain, which a stomach cannot digest). This cud is passed through the first stomach and into the rumen, which contains beneficial, digestive bacteria. The bacteria in the rumen essentially ferment the cud and make compounds which can be digested in the subsequent stomaches. Unfortunately, methane is a natural byproduct of this process.

AT and a number of other algae contain very low amounts of a compound called bromoform. Bromoform in high amounts is toxic, but it's believed that bromoform in these trace amounts changes the chemical reaction being undertaken within the rumen such that methane is no longer a product. The result is a more efficient digestive process, essentially lending energy back to the cow. Easier digestion for cows seems to equal better health and immunity, increased length of heat, increased food conversion ratios and perhaps just happier cows. There is a possibility of interaction with additional trace nutrients and compounds in the algae as well, and this is being researched.

Something to note is that AT is not the only algae that reduces methane production in cattle. It is just, by far, the most efficient. And algae is not the only product which decreases methane in cattle, as well. Companies are marketing probiotics and small molecule methane inhibitors which do similar jobs, but again, AT is nearly twice as effective.
Most basic science is funded by the government, at least in the US, whose money in turn comes from taxes.
Because those forums reach a wider audience? Because not every forum espouses or encourages well researched and reasoned arguments?

I like both twitter and hacker news, for expressing myself in different ways. Each have their place. One place isn't better than the other. Humans are diverse and so are their needs.
Ebikes are popular and this could be for the same reasons, i.e. unfit but still enjoy getting outside and having fun.
Well, good luck.

I'd recommend you go and buy some real food. Regardless of macros, McDonalds is full of garbage, especially in the US.
#6 was written by Udo Dirkschneider.
I really like the way Conflux combines POW and a DAG. With that said, I still do wonder how the economics are supposed to work out.

Once multiple blocks are produced at the same time, what is stopping the miner with the greater hash power from just stealing the transactions (and their associated fees) from the side-blocks and moving them onto the larger chain. This sort of economic substructure feels like a leap of faith. Maybe it will work, but Bitcoin does have a single thread of miners and blocks for a reason.
> as a hedge to his burgeoning career in the security industry.

Other people at that age want to be astronauts, do you yell at them if they look at the sky?

> He put people's jobs on the line

Incompetence put those people's job on the line. But given the state of that industry I find that statement unlikely.

> and caused grave embarrassment to the school district for his own selfish motives.

The kid was curious, end of story. It's not their fault that a particular industry is both used by people at a curious age and prone to be crapware insecure.

You seem to attribute some criminal motivation to this behaviour, I highly suggest you read through other threads here and hopefully come to the realization that this is normal behaviour for tech-savvy kids. Villanizing this not only leads to absolutely unnecessary problems for kids like that in school, it's a token of unproductive reactions to disclosures we see everywhere these days. These people do you a favor, a responsible disclosure by a curious party is far preferrable than real criminals exploiting them.
React DevTools are very valuable.

But only because React, with transpiling and the shadow DOM and all that is so inscrutable.

There’s no hope of understanding the DOM with React, no hope of understanding styles with styled-components.
There’s no hope of placing a breakpoint in your code and tracing forward through events. No hope of understanding stack traces.

The DevTools begin to address some of those deficiencies. It does help, but still leaves me thinking the tradeoffs weren’t worth it. You can never reach simplicity, only manageable complexity. In the long run it leaves an opportunity for a new generation of tools that respect JavaScript and the DOM.
Perfect is the enemy of good. Should we try to eat local? Absolutely. Eating seasonally is one simple way to do reduce the carbon footprint of your diet [0]. But getting momentum for the right direction -- which is decreased animal protein consumption, is absolutely the right step. It takes much more energy to raise livestock than it is to feed directly from the land.

Also, shipping doesn't have to be so carbon intensive. Renewable energy has a lot way to go with plenty of options: wind, solar, hydro, geo, nuclear.

[0]: https://www.seasonalfoodguide.org/why-eat-seasonally
You broke the site guidelines badly and more than once in this thread. That's not ok. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here? And please do not do nationalistic flamewar, or any flamewar, on HN. It is not the way to counter wrongness—it just excites rage and intensifies opposition.
I also would much rather write code that doesn't quite do what it's supposed to if it's easier to do and I can take an extra day off. However, that's not my job.
Hello! I'm the author of this project. The website contains a full step by step tutorial https://awot.net/en/guide/tutorial.html for deploying a standalone react app on ESP32.
Nice that you showed up to respond to this stuff. Instead of a blob of text, I suggest an edit to your comment to put each numbered point in its own paragraph. It will make it more readable. Lots of folks here sort of mix skimming and focused reading with the opening sentences helping them determine what they should invest time in.
Show HN: "Zeus Living” for short getaways from urban cities in India
Hi HN,

I'm Arjun and one of the co-founders of Kipstay (https://www.kipstay.com/).We design and rent homestays for short getaways that are 2-5hrs away from urban cities in India.

In India, booking homestays as an alternative to hotels is frustrating on many levels - the experience is unpredictable, no transparency in pricing, inaccurate listing information and photos and trust issues.

We simplify the process for homeowners to upgrade their homestays to a higher standard and rent them out by the night on our website. City dwellers/travellers get getaway homes that are affordable ($50 per night), accessible (2-3 hrs or fewer from the city), and at ease (secluded and serene).
Can you sustainably feed all of humanity by feeding cattle from all the world's grasses? I don't understand your position. What's the better alternative to a more plant-focused diet?
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It’s great to talk about lessons in critical thinking for sophisticated first-world countries, but in third-world, poorly educated countries, people with poor literacy are being exposed to a firehose of propaganda.

The critical thinking lessons you mention are likely to come at the price of a massive loss of human life.
Does whatever you build go into production or do you need someone else / team “take care of that part”. That is where the “data science is just Statistics” people’s wheels come off when they realise production ML needs senior software engineering background.
Why would you doubt that? Of course they would. And we're talking about it.

They've been trying to shovel their stupid smart fridges forever. Lots of people probably don't know they exist, and after this astroturfing, now they do.

I can't think of a place that I want internet less than standing in the kitchen.

I bet it has a camera/mic, and sells my fridge usage data to the highest bidder also. And to top it all off, it's just another attackable device when it stops getting updates in a couple of years.

https://twitter.com/internetofshit?lang=en
That's only because people insist on eating the same food all year. There are plenty of vegetables that grow and harvest in the colder months. If we ate summer vegetables in the summer and winter vegetables in the winter we wouldn't need to ship food around so much.
Great work! Out of interest why does an Aussie company charge in GBP?
Exactly. And it is way easier to fake a resume than fake public reputation. For example, looking at a stackoverflow profile I can tell if someone knows how to ask and how to answer (a good question is 90% of the answer).

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/users/444036/paulo-scardine
Did you mean to suggest that I have a problem with YouTube demonetizing? If it bothered me enough so as to make the content I like inaccessible, leaving the site is exactly what I would do. That doesn't mean I think they shouldn't exist, or be able to do what they'd like.
I have no idea why this is getting downvoted so much. This is a great, well articulated comment that raises significant points by situating science as a human activity, and thereby subject to situated experienced.

The often-overlooked fields of Science and Technology Studies and Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, which have been around for decades (and which, contrary to what many believe, treat Latour as an initiator of further discussion that has spun into much more robust work, rather than as a decisive figure). I wholeheartedly recommend any interested readers to look into it, particularly Andrew Pickering’s 1992 edited volume Science as Cultural Practice as an introductory jumping off point. My second recommendation is always Karin Knorr-Cetina’s 2001 book titled Epistemic Cultures (anything else by her is also superb!).
If you mean legally, I disagree. If you mean that you boycott it, then that's obviously fine.
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Supposedly it's normal warehouse employees that can opt to spend a portion of their shift responding to tweets. They're still getting paid their normal wage while they do this, and supposedly they're not provided with taking points, but their responses are universally positive. My guess is that it they were critical of Amazon while they're doing it then they probably won't be doing it much longer.
Quinoa, a plant, produces all essential proteins to humans. It is known as a "complete protein" food source [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_protein
In fact, that is a truly massive amount of emissions for something which could be completely eliminated through a change to 2% of the cows diet.

This is about as big of a win, with about the highest ROI, you could possibly hope for.

If ever there were a CO2 cap and trade, this seaweed, if it works as claimed, would be tremendously profitable.

And you think transporting the seaweed is a problem? The total CO2 saved by Tesla vehicles so far is 3.5 million tons. Eliminating cows emissions would be equivalent to 800x that... How do you think shipping cars around the world compares to shipping seaweed from the coast?
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It's not sorted, but ordered:
The order emitted is the order entered.
That's like a god damned parody. A new response every time from a happy smiling human face. It's ok, Diana, we just want the truth to be heard, Diana, why don't you believe us Diana, I am treated well at work Diana, I am not beaten when I misbehave.

Join us Diana. Join us and be free.

Edit: oh my God. I made up the beatings comment on the spot. But one of the borg actually said something like this https://twitter.com/antipoetry/status/1162028572929855488?s=...

Edit2: oh whew obvious parody. Hilarious, nearly fell for it!
And at the end they would offer you 20 or maybe just maybe 30 USD/hour maximum. And with hour they do mean billable hour.
There are articles about boys as well. Please don't turn a thread like this into yet another gender war. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
If you read through the chain of tweets. There is one account that says "I'm Michelle", from a non-Michelle account.
It's not sorted, but ordered: The order emitted is the order entered.
You may want to read this paper. https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01557
Try going up to 2x for a minute then down to 1.5 again and it will sound fine.
I read an article recently talking about how e-bike users get the same amount of exercise as normal bikers because they tend to ride farther and more frequently. Same thing would likely happen with this.
Sorry, that was intended to be a reply to the prev. comment.
>That's the equivalent of shedding 16 pounds of weight while walking, or 12 pounds while running.

Article doesn't really make it clear whether the weight of the device itself is included in the savings calculation. If it isn't, it doesn't seem very significant at all, only shaving a single pound off the burden of a running person and only five pounds off a walking person. That while adding a significant maintenance and preparation task.
Simple, narrow stuff that requires expensive experts in AI to keep updating along with good hardware. Alternatively, you can pay a cheaper human to more jobs even better with modern tools that make most of them easy. It's what almost all successful and almost-successful companies do.
It's hard to know what's real and fake. Some of the FC Ambassadors are definitely satire accounts.
It is somewhat more likely that the employees are doing it for the gift card and paid day(s?) off instead of any particular exemplary loyalty and love for their employer.
> Surely you're not using a one time event to argue against the scientific consensus of climate change?

"But it's cold in my office, global warming debunked!"
"I'm not a robot, I like carbohydrates, oxygen and Amazon just like you," strikes me as at least suspicious ...
Apologies! Looks like the site was mid-update when you noted the 404s. It's back live now :)
There is more actionable than you are likely to realize.
The overall amount of water on the planet and the annual rainfall isn't the same thing as water availability.
Climate change effects were always primarily about local disruptions: i.e. stuff like certain countries agriculture being hit hard by dry seasons while others would see tons of rain and floods when they didn't before. You don't think there is significant regional impact if say the Nile dries up but most of that water then shows up say in Greece?

It almost doesn't matter that "on balance" the water quantity is the same globally. Think of it through this more extreme analogy - what if the US became the new ice covered Greenland while Siberia became a tropical jungle?
The more 'real' looking ones seem to be through some application called Sprinklr.
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No, they are terrible experiences. The most frustrating part is that I’m not in control of what I read.

I use feedbin to aggregate RSS feeds. I control what I read. If someone I follow publishes something, it’s in my feed, in fucking chronological order.

There are no ads, no algorithms, no NLP, no comments, and no pop-ups demanding my email to continue reading.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexler%E2%80%93Smalley_debate...
Seems like another Dice or Hall Kinion or Robert Half? Am I missing something special here?
> The whole point to going to a store for an item is that you know they'll stock it in an easily accessible form and quantity that you would have a hard time sourcing from an original manufacturer. And we've always been willing to pay for that service with a markup.

That's the expected cut. It's not extra at all.

The extra cut here is giving someone else a kickback and you get exactly zero value for those extra dollars.
"Over the past 18 months, we have conducted interviews and focus groups with around 100 American girls aged 12 to 19 and their mothers, most of them Midwestern and middle class."

I, too, would like to read about how young boys deal with modern life. But I would not expect to find such information in research with the stated goal of investigating how girls do the same.

Saying "group A experiences these problems" does not imply exclusivity or that group B experiences the opposite. It is merely a statement about group A.
I was responding to buildzr who wrote:

> I'm sure it's just in my head, but it feels like the first tech IPO in several years where there actually seems to be a viable business model.

The companies listed above have what appear to be viable business models. I didn't intend to comment on technical merits, but I think you may be underestimating the technical depth of what some of these companies are doing.
How does survivorship bias apply here? He’s practically laying out a tautology: if you are willing to sacrifice everything for a goal, you’ll beat out everyone else purely due to attrition.

You’re saying that only seems true because people who succeed repeat it?

I feel like survivorship bias is more about obscure tricks that happen to work well for a random group of people who happened to succeed. No?
>> you'll give them 2 grand a year to stop eating beef

I think the vast majority of people would turn down your offer. There's too little enjoyment in life as it is. Life without steaks and beer is not worth living for most people.
I love the stuff Steven Wittens' puts up on his site. 'The Pixel Factory' - http://acko.net/files/gltalks/pixelfactory/online.html and 'How to Fold a Julia Fractal' - https://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/ are superb.

I might be reading through this a few times. Am currently learning Haskell and open GL programming and I'd be interested to work out what the equivalent of React.render() would be in Haskell.
> Of course she then dropped it in the toilet.

Lol, clearly now there needs to be a rule of no phones taken in the bathroom.
Amazon's "workers in a cage" patent

You do realize that the cage is there to protect the worker, right?

If you think "worker in a cage, on top of a robot" is terrible, have you ever seen a construction crane? It is literally a robot with a cage in which a worker sits -- and just like the (never implemented!) patent from Amazon, the point of the cage is to protect the worker.
It's good to be wary of hype, but this comment seems overly down on where we are by focusing on AI today doing 'curve fitting' ; sure, supervised learning is at it's core that, but when it achieves things like image captioning or super accurate translation calling it just curve fitting is reductionist and downplays how powerful these techniques are.

Furthermore, the notion that neural networks can only be used as part of supervised learning (and in particular with backpropagation) is totally off. Just to cite a few examples:
http://proceedings.mlr.press/v48/taylor16.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.01580v1.pdf

And, well, all of deep RL and unsupervised learning is not 'curve fitting'. So yes, even if your 'model' (and really this should be 'objective' or 'loss', the neural net is the model, but whatever) neural nets can indeed help you. Though it's true they can't magically start doing super complicated things like app development yet ; the whole point is to understand how to use them and build hybrid systems that play to neural nets' strengths (as with eg self driving systems).
Manufacturing Consent
> It allows me to sue a large corporation without the fear that I'm going to run up a million dollar bill because they insist on the best lawyers.

That does not follow. In Germany, for example, the winner is entitled to costs up to the statutory hourly rate. Which is the minimum rate lawyers may bill. If you choose a lawyer that bills twenty times as much, your opponent pays only a twentieth.
It reminds me of a favorite quote: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” -- Upton Sinclair

A genre I used to read a lot of is the cult escapee autobiography. Humans are incredibly good at believing whatever they need to believe to get by. And, presumably as with Amazon, there's a strong selection bias. The people who won't blame themselves like this don't work at Amazon for long, and if they do, they don't get selected to be "ambassadors". The first step for which is surely a "thank you sir may I have another" relationship [1] with their boss.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdFLPn30dvQ
It's an interesting problem. So if all the parser does it put them into a variant like structure, sure whatever. But when you go to put them into the reified data types you would be wasting a lot of resources to parse JSON to an intermediary data structure and then request the members. I parse them directly to their final classes. So I was left with a choice and both have a cost. Parse the json in-order of the file and store the concrete type to grab it later, or store the position/size of that part and move to the next constructing them in the order needed. This was cheaper. It will parse the JSON in whatever order, just the performance can be impacted by the data ordering as many parsers are.
I don't see why? I say that because it sounds like the kind of thing that's hard to do, but actually isn't.
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How is this different from AirBnB?
As long as its actually designed for Developers that know how to code it's probably somewhat useful... I.E. don't build it for the general public or the marketing crowd ;)
Last day I signed up for your product and I loved it. I agree that managing the cap table and shares of a company are always a hectic task for entrepreneurs like us. Earlier I used excel sheets for recording and managing all my company equity tasks. But, it is not that easy to maintain the transactions manually. When I tried Eqvista I felt the easiness of creating and managing my cap table, because every equity transactions are updated real-time. Also, I tried the financial modeling (Waterfall Analysis and Roundmodeling), really a cool feature.
Referencing that paper is a red herring. It's a flaw in one specific dataset, not with BERT or any model. Everything GP posted about about BERT models answering questions, performing coreference resolution, etc, is still true and is not at all affected by the flaw in this one dataset (out of many that these models have been tested on). Heck, you can just try out any of these models yourself on completely novel questions you come up with, and see that they work.
There's not a direct multiple to get the CO2 equivalent. Methane is 100 times worse, but is slowly removed from the atmosphere by natural processes.

The 20 year multiple is commonly stated as 75, which is the average value of the curve that starts out at 100 and decays away with time. So it's 30% of our impact on that timeline.
So you really imagine a bunch of lowest paid blue collar workers came together, out of the goodness of their hearts, to help the richest man alive improve his company's public image?
I am, I was not writing about cognition here.

All I'm saying is that even with stereo inputs, we're doing more than computing depth from the baseline between left/right images. Close one eye and you can still estimate relative objects positions, because you learned that roads are mostly planar and cars don't float but stand on the road. You know what the expected size of a car is compared to, say, a human, and if the car is visually smaller than the human, it must be more far away.

Lidar _also_ doesn't know what the glass feels like.

Yes I agree with you, lidar and most current vision sensors also suffer from this.