skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious as to how fast food being highly processed escaped you. It's fairly obvious just by the texture and taste of most food at those places that it's highly processed into some form far from what it originally was. If you take a bite into just about any chicken Burger, nugget, strip, boneless wing, whatever, from any fast food place and inside is just a formless, whitish pinkish mush. That's not what chicken's supposed to look like. It's also something that's been repeatedly said in media and other places since at least I was a kid in the 90's.

Most things in fast food places come premade and frozen from some factory somewhere and usually just fried up either in oil or on a 'grill'. Almost nothing is actually prepared in those places.

Though, if you're in Canada, A&W serves real eggs and Bacon and stuff for breakfast and their onion rings are actually cut and prepared in store(though the batter and breading aren't). Everything else though came preprepared.
what is the copyright status of all the user contributions on all the stack exchange platforms? I would love to see a decentralized p2p stack exchange platform with LaTeX support, i.e. a stand-alone client...
It's not just the patent. That whole company needs to be killed. They serve no useful purpose; the epitome of bullshit jobs.

Honestly I wish more countries would take New Zealand's approach and just outright ban all software patents. There is no reason any software patent should exist.
> Surprising considering it's from Unilever who make the UK's best seller: PG, which is OK but a bit weak.

Isn't PG generally considered to be one of the poorest quality teas available in the UK? (it sells well, but that's mostly because it's dirt cheap).
I run a marketplace website. Most (actually I think all) of my users who use protonmail are scammers trying to sell fake goods - therefore banned. I might even ban all with @protonmail.com.
Folgers instant is an adequate approximation of coffee. Accept it. :- )
> Do you plan to automate app repackaging with the needed changes, or is there a better method for apps to trust local certificates?

Eventually I'm aiming for the former, I'm fairly confident there is no better method. To start with, it'll be an Android app that configures your proxy settings (acting a VPN) and walks you through adding the certificate to the user store, and for your own apps I believe that's useful already: you just need to enable user stores in your app config (https://developer.android.com/training/articles/security-con...), and everything will Just Work.

For other apps though, on new-ish Android apps it's more difficult, as you say. My plan is to try and rewrite them, _probably_ as a Pro feature, but TBC. It should be a matter of:

- Get hold of the app APK (I think you can pull it with some adb tricks, slightly unclear)

- Edit the XML config to enable the user cert store, change the app id too (so it doesn't replace or have signature conflicts with the real app)

- Repackage & reinstall the resulting APK over adb

I haven't tested this yet though, so who knows!
>Amazon saw what the marginal costs could be, and had a specific roadmap to drive investment into bringing them down. WeWork fundamentally has no way to drive down the margin on real estate in any meaningful way. Especially as a lessee.

It absolutely has a way; hold landlords hostage. They've got another WeWork 4 blocks away. WeWork can walk, and leave landlords with a lot of space to lease and an expensive buildout to demo. It's quite likely that WeWork will use that as leverage to put pressure on landlords to negate rent bumps, add in a new concession, or just decrease their rent. Landlords will be in a tough spot because the option is to let the space go dark and collect nothing, or take a bit on the chin to have WeWork keep the lights on.

WeWork has a lot of long term leases, so it doesn't take many concessions for them to get their rent far below market in the years at the end of their lease. WeWork is playing a game of arbitrage on two sides; it's about risk with the landlords and about time with the rest of the market. That's how they hope to money.
I expect you might find these obscure papers of interest:

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Yoseph Imry and Richard A. Webb, "Quantum Interference and the Aharonov-Bohm Effect," Scientific American, vol. 260, no. 4, Apr. 1989.

Abstract: Can electrons be influenced by a nearby magnet so well shielded that its force field cannot be detected? The counter intuitive answer is yes:an energy emanation from the magnet known as the potential does indeed affect the electrons' wave function. This quantum-mechanical effect is being brought to bear on the development of new microelectronic devices.

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Capt. Robert M. Collins (TQTR), "Soviet Research On The A-Vector Potential and Scalar Waves (U)," Unknown.

Abstract: Active in the areas of the Aharonov-Bohm effect as applied to the A-vector potential and scalar fields as applied to solving force related problems.

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Capt. Robert M. Collins (TQTR), "Soviet Research On Unified Field Theories, False Vacuum States, and Antigravity (U)," Unknown.

Abstract: Theoretical progress in dealing with unified field theories...new concepts in weapons, transportation, propulsion.

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Dr. Jack Dea, "Fundamental Fields and Phase Information," vol. 4, no. 3 Unknown.

Add to those the list of patents by Raymond C. Gelinas assigned to Honeywell from the 1980's and what today is being called Extended Electrodynamics as well:

L.M. Hively & G.C Giakos, “Toward a more complete electromagnetic theory”, Int. J. Signals & Imaging Syst. Engr., 5, 3-10(2012).

L.M.Hively, “Methods and Apparatus for Generating and/or Utilizing Scalar-Longitudinal Waves”, US Patent #9,306,527, (Apr. 6,2016).

L.M.Hively & O.Keller, “Electrodynamics in curved space-time: Free space longitudinal wave propagation”, Phys. Essays, 32 (3), Sept 2019.

Can't really get more up to date than a paper published this month. Sad that people will still be quick to down vote things without knowing what is going on in the world today. :-(
New Zealand banned software patents a couple of years ago.
And describing Jamie Dimon as a mediocrity is simply ignorant. JPMorgan has outperformed all the big banks for the past 10 years, and it's not close.

JPM is tied up in billions of dollars of loans to WeWork, but those loans are commercial mortgages. Typically those loans are largely underwritten based on the building and real estate rather than focusing the borrower. Presumably the loans were made on the same terms they would be made to a REIT, based on what revenue the building can support. If WeWork fails, well then JPM owns the building.
Unfortunately, there's no clear definition of ultraprocessed. Like is factory-made whole wheat break ultraprocessed? Canned pinto beans? Artisan cheese? Factory cheese?
I'm confused, because I've already presented my argument. Here it is again:

Hiding your DNS requests from the ISP is pointless. The ISP sees where your traffic is going. This the result of those DNS requests. It doesn't matter that they didn't see the actual DNS request; they see what the answer was. They know what sites (DNS addresses) you are visiting.

So sending your DNS requests to a 3rd party (multiple ones in the recent RR version proposed!) simply spreads wider the folks that can profile your traffic. As unrelated 3rd parties, those people would otherwise have had no idea where you, private citizen, were sending traffic. Now you have explicitly told them. You have given up privacy, not enhanced it.

Please keep in mind, I'm not arguing against DoH wholesale. Just that it is worse for privacy. The primary consensus argument in favor of DoH is about privacy, which is flat out wrong.
Exactly! “I’m still not in so bad shape!”

And this is the best aspect of the systems that aren’t explicitly “for sick and old.”
FTC Sues Match for Allegedly Tricking Users with Fake Ads
Reminds me of this story

https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-11-10/he-documented-his-own...
If he’s eating vegetables he’s likely eating all the healthy carbs there are.
Part of the reason I don't use sea salt at home. Here in Canada we can pump salt out of the ground and it's largely free of microplastics.
Plugging a SSD to a new server and restoring a file should take few minutes, since the filesystem table is accessible instantly. With tapes you either have the catalog saved outside the media or you need to read it from the media. Depends on the type of the backups taken and the amount of data, this process can take much longer than expected naively.
Any company big enough to be operating at scale has some software needs and not everyone is fulfilled by SaaS solutions.
They could start some sort of anti-patent troll foundation / joint effort with Cloudflare, Newegg, the EFF, etc.

I would personally donate hundreds each year if such organization existed, patent trolls are my worst software nightmare.
> Realistically, vegan food prep takes a long time,

I don't think vegan food prep takes significantly more time than other food prep from raw sources, at least on average over a varied diet, though I guess "becoming vegan" might be the impetus for a lot of people to start making their own food for the first time.
For me, this whole WeWork fiasco has shown just how valuable the SEC and the S-1 filing process is. Let's be clear -- Neumann was fired because any investor who read the S-1 was mortified and wouldn't touch the company with a 10 foot pole. If anything, this shows how lawless the private markets are and the lack of guardrails that are present to protect private investors -- perhaps this will lead to some reform in the private market and more transparency, but either way I'm glad that the SEC provides such a breath of fresh air when evaluating companies with large valuations.
We live on a spaceship.
What sort of mechanism is being used for the learning step? To my eyes, it isn't gradient descent, or, if it is, it wasn't immediately visually obvious to me what gradient is being descended.

I also ask this because, again at least visually, it is definitely the case that quantum perceptrons have a different classification shape than conventional perceptrons, but the first question I'd ask is if that different requires the "full" quantum formulation, or if you could get that different shape from something less than exponentially complicated, and perhaps amenable to some other mathematical analysis possible in the classical regime. (See also the previous work done in challenging D-Wave on some of their work a couple of years ago where they "beat" classical algorithms, and within a week, the classical algorithms had been improved to parity, simply because nobody had ever really looked at them with an eye to optimization before.)
> Part of what’s going on with WeWork is that monopolies and private equity have eliminated profitable opportunities for investment, which is why the Federal Reserve is increasingly powerless.

No, you are confusing "monopolies and private equity" with the natural result of Sarbanes-Oxley. If you make going public too costly... companies are less likely to go public.
Docker is on the list: https://github.com/httptoolkit/feedback/issues/1 (you can subscribe to that for updates). Would that work for your setup?
I agree a lot with you. But something about the definition of assertiveness you gave...

I think it's better to approach it as a means of making sure you are taking care of yourself, so you have the ability to take care of others.

Like, let's put it in terms of being forced to work late. Why should you do it? For the same reason you work that job anyways. To provide for yourself and/or for your family. Either you are spending time on your family(or yourself) or you're making sure they(or just you) have a roof/food/etc. Thus, if you have to work late, you don't do it for free. You already miss out on family/me time. Thus, you get financially compensated. When you go with that mindset, the conversation naturally functions differently. This is how I negotiate contracts too. I don't discount. I never do. I always get something of equal value in return. If you just willy nilly throw out 10% of your quote, obviously you lack personal value. Whether it's money now, money later or bartering, I hold to my value. I dont think anyone should throw out personal value for the needs of others without truly good reason.
Was any of these concerns allayed?
In addition to the paycheck, some people like to be rewarded with the knowledge (or at least hope) that their work is somehow making the world a slightly better place, or at least not making things worse for somebody.
> Patent was filed in 2008 and is about wirelessly (wifi/bluetooth/etc) connecting an "image capturing device" (webcam/phone) with a "receiving device" (computer) and selectively (date, location, image recognition...) transmitting them.

Funny. Can I patent whatever I can imagine (without actually building a working prototype) and sue everybody once the technology emerges making this possible and practical? Can science fiction writings be used as "prior art" to disqualify patents?
Tesla doesn't seem to keep engineering of new factory processes out of china [0]. The batteries for GF3 seem to be bought from LG Chem [1]. So yeah, I don't see Tesla being that worried about their IP or something like that.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/d8un7f/tesla_i...
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/d7i0vk/lg_chem...
This is an aspect of climate change I had never even considered. Thanks for the link!
A lot of your early paragraphs point to an Abundance mindset, rather than one of Scarcity. It really changes your world-view (and the actions one takes) to realize there's plenty of resources, and one doesn't need to hoard and blame others for personal perceived lack.
But don't forget about the "golden hour" and the difference between being, say, lost or slightly injured and being seriously injured and in shock or unconscious.
I find it very strange that this comes up from time to time with windmills, but not say, New York City. I'm sure it does something but it feels like "an extremely fluid material being redirected in a relatively small way in an extremely localized area" isn't really super important?

I could be entirely wrong and maybe changing the wind pattern will be the "pulling hydrocarbon liquids out of the ground and burning them" of 2119.
I really wish the author had sensed the limits of his argument, because I think the point he's trying to make is basically correct. He's just stretching it to the breaking point by invoking Amazon and the subprime crisis.

If he'd left the stretch goals out of it, it would have stood as a perfect foil to the avalanche of "meta-meta-meta analysis of everything except where the money's gonna come from" in the Stratechery article [0] also up on HN now.

[0] https://stratechery.com/2019/neither-and-new-lessons-from-ub...
> got eaten up by the hills

Maybe the busses sucked, but this doesn’t make sense as a general point against electric: hills are where EVs shine most. Through regen you can get back most of the energy you spent getting up the hill.

You probably need a big capacitor though, or a very big battery with good cooling. So I can imagine cheap-o electric buses would have issues.

I would love to see the math on what kind of capacitor/battery you would need to capture 1000 ft of elevation loss by a city bus.
This reminds me of this good article as well. Confusing kindness with being polite/nice.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2241096/how-teach-girls-they-d...
i like the part where he targets billionaires because hes exempt as a millionaire

from my fav bernie bro "tfw he's like 90 and has written successful books and had a government salary for like 40 years with a pension so if he wasn't a millionaire there'd be a problem no?"
> Solution:

> 1 - send us your data (probably a spreadsheet/CSV/Excel file)

> 2 - we analyze the data, and send you a list of questions that we can answer/insights that we can derive

> 3 - you select which of the questions you want answered

> 4 - we run our analyses and send you the results, including an explanation of the algorithms that were used to derive the results

This order of points isn't quite right. The overwhelming majority of companies will already have a question that needs answering or a problem that needs solving. They will then want to know which parts of which datasets are relevant. If the existing datasets aren't enough, they consider collecting and/or purchasing more. Knowing what to collect and/or buy is another problem. Then you need to set up systems for extracting any 'insight' from what they have and continuously managing and processing data from multiple sources, and so on and so on.

No one is really sitting with a single csv file open in front of them, thinking "Hmm if only someone would tell me what I can do with this".
> than this ignorant American

I can't see rayiner giving any indication that they were American, though.
He's simply wrong about that. Describing Jamie Dimon as a mediocrity is ignorant.
"Do you know why" sounds pretty good. It's not only less demanding, it's less likely to attract a guess from someone who feels obliged to answer.

Emergency Medical Dispatch is a fascinating case study of technical communication in general. Lots of jobs train people to communicate urgent information clearly, but EMD has exceptionally specific limitations. Only one side of the call is trained, so you can't rely on rehearsed protocols like EMTs or police officers would. And the priority of information is completely unintuitive to most of us because it's not just importance, but sequencing: info needed to dispatch an ambulance comes first, then info to help the caller do first aid, and only after that the seemingly crucial stuff like "what's actually making them sick".
Keto also means no Insulin spikes. Easy to skip a meal and not go insane.
Doesn't matter what is expected to happen. Some time in the future someone needs to recover data from some old medium, proprietary format hinders that effort significantly and unnecessarily.

Not to mention the closed format causes reduced competition in making better or cheaper devices, which is another downside.
AFAIK They acted same with nginx.
That is a brilliant demo. I get the impression we could scale that out to many dimensions and the quantum computing would be really fast. Could you give some indication of the time to run and cost to run on a quantum computer as of now and the rate of change on those? I would like to have a feel of when this would be both possible and economic. I.E. How big is my problem to give Entropica Labs a call?
In what particular way is it misleading in this case, and in which direction?
Here in Denmark there's a volunteer "heart runner" programme. If someone calls 911 and has a cardiac arrest, people in the programme that nearby can be notified to fetch an available public AED and run to the patient (or attempt manual resuscitation).

According to their material, the 30-day survival rate in Denmark has gone from 3.8% (2001) to 10.4% in 2016, with 67.5% bystander assistance: https://hjertestarter.dk/english/you-can-save-lives though it's not clear how much the programme itself can claim.

According to various papers, rapid CPR/AED after a heart attack can triple survival rates.

It's still pretty bleak outcome, but better than e.g. in 2002 Detroit, where 1 out of 471 out of hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) survived to hospital discharge. In USA, all those stats are apparently being tracked by a programmed called CARES.
> with the idea of profiting later on via the surviving monopoly

I don't understand...if you undercut your competitors so you're the sole survivor, I don't see how profiting is a obvious end result.

When you return prices to market value wouldn't competitors just appear again. Is predatory pricing really such a bad thing, I'd assume the market would just corrects itself later?
Counting calories/meal tracking has been the best thing to ever happen to me. When you just "try to eat better" or "don't drink this month", or whatever, there's a disconnect between the input and the result.

When I was able to see, in realtime, for example, I had a 500 calorie deficit today, and should hence lose 1lb in 1 week at this rate, and see it actually HAPPEN, it created a positive feedback loop. For the first time in my life, over many types of eating, some vague diet attempts, some periods working out more, some periods working out less, I could FINALLY see a direct result from my activities.

I had avoided it for a long time because I thought it would be miserable and tedious to track what I eat, but it's actually made it much easier to be disciplined, and see which foods are 'worth it' and which aren't.
I don't know about the rest of the EU but where I live... yes, cameras are also subjected under: privacy laws, the right to be forgotten, etc.

If your camera caught someone doing something illegal, turn it over to the police and let them handle it. If you publish the footage, you're likely to get prosecuted and fined. You don't have to agree because it's a cultural thing. Where I live privacy actually matters.
Except my "threat model" also includes trying to minimize the data I send to the GAFAM (and others unscrupulous private companies that could potentially profit from my personal data...)
So, I'm confused. Does this work on a set of programs where you know eg the right command line parameters to give them or on all programs?

For example, let's say I have a program which uses the openssl API to set a custom trust store. Do you mess with openssl to make sure your cert is in there, or will this break?
I learned of a theory that sacred geometry—often seen after ingesting psychedelics—is simply the ‘signal noise’ within our own brain.

The removal of filters allows us to see this noise and would explain why these patterns are so commonly seen during psychedelic trips.
Moving the oil below the surface was the whole point, in order to shape the news coverage. Nevermind that doing so massively increases chemical toxicity and makes full cleanup much more difficult (but cheaper for them because they are able to avoid clean up).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corexit
Match.com connected daters to fake accounts to boost subscriptions
>It also takes time to teach developers not to game this.

That's a massive ask unless management stops using their old style of management immediately while learning instead of slowly transitioning. There is zero reason for employees to stop protecting themselves from their incompetent managers. This is especially true in software where the average job length is much shorter, so you get less of a benefit from investing time into helping train a boss
I have yet to hear a compelling argument that DNS poses much of privacy risk compared to:

- Your ISP analyzing your IP addresses

- Your ISP analyzing the names in your TLS certificates

- The website you're visiting selling your information. (ie, this identify belongs to this IP and browser cookie. See where else you find him)

- The advertising iframes doing the same as the website above. Tracking you everywhere, primarily by using cookies, canvas, etc.
Applying AI and ML to Retail and E-Commerce
Anecdotally, the "Waste Wizard" app in Toronto specifies that normal tea bags should be composted, nylon and silk tea bags go in the garbage. I've always assumed they know what they're talking about, so I expect the recycling/compost system here can handle the staples.
This isn't an article; it's a no-substance ad for a BBC documentary. Save the couple of minutes of your life I lost, and skip this one.
I thought of this too.

One way to approach it, is what % of the total wind in the world would it take to power 100% of our energy needs? If it is something like 50%, it seems like it would be very possible for large scale wind to eventually do something to our wind patterns. If it is something like 1% or .01%, it seems pretty unlikely to do much. (part of this assumes you would never power 100% of your energy needs with wind due to variability).