skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kudos to them for being so open. However to avoid issues of this class would namespacing package names not help?
It's a controversial topic. Many of us "westerners" don't "get" some aspects of Muslim culture. It's hard to express the puzzlement in a way that doesn't offend. I do try to ask diplomatically, but my ability to articulate such sticky subject matter in a seamless way is apparently limited. Please have patience.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21119647
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>"Capital" in the sense we usually mean it - factory machinery and the financing to buy it - wasn't really a thing in agrarian capitalism or mercantile capitalism.

This issue of capitalism changing its form, and capital not being same in one period as another, is only caused by your own interpretation and definition of "capitalism" which doesn't seem to be accepted by anyone else. In political economy and political philosophy circles, capital is defined as a social relation, not a thing. The things it does refer to concretize the relation, but they are not the relation itself.

The idea that capital is "whatever gives one an advantage" seems so general that it cannot be sensibly used to talk about the concrete historical birth of capitalism and its expansion. A more accurate view, keeping with history, is that capital tends to subsume things, so now we talk about "human capital" or "information capital".
Out of interest, what would you use instead these days?
https://groups.google.com/a/tensorflow.org/forum/#!topic/dev...

Ah I guess it's on the way but not fully there yet
But how do you find large enough area to plant 100,000 trees?
Isn't x-ua-compatible not needed or not respected anymore? I think this for some reason... maybe I read it somewhere or concluded so; can't recall, lol.
This is (sort of) a forget everything you know about ______ scenario. But I think the short answer is multi-die interconnects.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14211/intels-interconnected-f...

https://semiengineering.com/using-silicon-bridges-in-package...
No, I'm not handwaving, I'm demonstrating that your claim that renewables only advantage is "nameplate capacity" (which is nonsensical on its face; nameplate capacity of either source can be as high as you want; did you mean cost per nameplate capacity?) was wrong, by giving three other metrics by which renewables are superior.

Intermittency has a cost, but the enormous levelized cost advantage of renewables is already dooming nuclear. There's a reason no merchant nuclear plants are being built -- it would be economically ludicrous to do so. I'll believe what the selfish investors who want to make money are doing before I believe what you think they should be doing.
Yeah, but other labels are going to make music that teens want, so you gotta deal with them. Exclusive content would help with customer retention and acquisition, but probably not much with margins.
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If you limit it to 1.0 by default across the board, in particular, you mean, right?
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<meta name="generator" content="program">

Is Dreamweaver still a thing? I haven't heard of it in years, many years.
This article popped up again on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21118689
Starts off like a diamond but gets progressively softer until the end is just pudding.
I wouldn’t say he “predicted” anything unless I’m missing something. He commented on the S-1 after it was released.

He also gave a glowing take on Smile Direct Club the day before the IPO, which has tanked 50% in a few weeks and had the biggest IPO flop in a decade, so YMMV.
Not the op but I take it to mean avoid concrete concepts in code around those edge cases.

For example in OO avoid making a derived class for a French tax calculation for your one French customer’s invoice. I’m assuming here that your product is not an accounting package and the tax issue is just for SaaS billing.

Instead make the design loose enough that this can be accommodated by data. Maybe even manually enter their tax amount in a free text field.

But tying up the code for that edge case (and doing so for every edge case) will lead to a complicated system.
It sounds like you're describing historical social differences between countries, rather than a different implementation of capitalism.

capitalism is the economic system that "lifetime employment, low salaries, high intangible benefits to employment" exist within. I.e. the concept of employment and salaries are part of capitalism, how they are used is up to the specific society.

Based on my experience I would would argue that capitalism influences the structure of society so that the world is getting more homogenous, and differences like the ones you describe are getting less and less. But that's a different issue from the ubiquitousness of capitalism.
This is the thing that limit the zoom-out with a pinch in safari/scroll beyond the page and see the "surface" underneath I'm assuming correctly hopefully
While funding and conflicts of interest are an issue, a much bigger problem with nutrition research is that it is extremely difficult/expensive/unethical to study the outcomes people actually care about (living longer, losing weight, preventing disease), because that would require being able to control a large number of people's diet for decades (which in turn would require either paying/motivating them enough to comply, or doing so against their will).

... so instead, you end with a bunch of observational studies (which cannot show causation), or studies of placeholders assuming it maps to something people actually care about (eg. "cholesterol levels in the blood stream after X hours" for "Y years of life lost to heart disease per hundred thousand"), or bench studies (some chemical component in broccoli can kill cancer cells in a petri dish becomes "broccoli fights cancer" ignoring the fact that eg. fire kills cancer cells in a petri dish... that doesn't mean you should eat it).

... which are subject to all the usual difficulties for associated with subjects that are hard to study: small samples, inadequate surveys, bad statistics, HARKing, p-hacking.

... the resulting papers are then reported on uncritically, often generalizing the claims well beyond what the underlying science would support... because people read articles about things they actually do (eat meat) and outcomes they care about (live longer/avoid heart disease)... not about bench results.
I'm not sure what comment you're referring to, but you said "Refined sugar is nothing but sucrose, a natural compound found in plants and fruits"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21119863

You're the one who mentioned refined sugar. Nowhere have I said that any amount of sugar is bad. On the other hand, the parts of fruit that are beneficial are not the fructose (which is even worse for you than sucrose, which I assume is what you're talking about) but the vitamins, flavonoids and other compounds.

We can agree that sugar is not de facto bad. Where we apparently disagree is that refined sugar is not bad. I still eat it - doesn't make it good.

I would argue that coca leaves are not de facto bad, but refined cocaine is much closer to bad (though I hear it's really the impurities in street stuff that are bad.)
>...there just aren't enough people to do all of them.

which factors into the economics of prices negotiated between providers and insurance companies.
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Having looked at all three, I've so far settled on Zig for a couple reasons:

- Cross-compilation is trivial (I haven't dug too deeply into the cross-compilation story on Nim and Crystal, but Zig's is front-and-center)

- Allocations are explicit (functions that require allocating memory do so by accepting an allocator as an argument)

- Windows support seems to be better than with Crystal (which means I can use Zig for desktop programming for my dayjob, since at work most of the PCs here run Windows 10; not that I would at the moment, given that it's very much not production ready yet, but still)

- I strongly dislike Python's syntax, and therefore strongly dislike Nim's syntax (I also somewhat dislike C's syntax - and therefore Zig's - but not nearly as strongly)

- Zig's build system is pretty great (albeit not exactly intelligent when it comes to finding system header and library paths, I've noticed)

That said, there are some downsides to Zig that I'm hoping can be resolved (whether by someone else or - if I get comfortable enough with it - myself):

- Profound lack of standard library documentation

- I like Crystal's syntax better

- C++ interoperability is practically nonexistent (though it might be possible to write small C++ shims that link against Zig-outputted headers; not sure if Zig's included C compiler can compile those, but if it can, then this would be easy to integrate into the build process)
Install jupyter notebook and play around with numpy/scipy. Neural networks are not really for outright beginners, and tensorflow is doubly not.
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The high temperatures used to fry foods accelerates oxidation. Repeatedly using the same oil to fry foods at high temperatures (such as in factories and restaurants) leads to greater oxidation. Long shelf life food often has oil or was fried in oil that was heated to high temperatures. However, just leaving oil long enough exposed to air will also lead to oxidation, just at a slower rate (though I think highly refined oils, like those used not for cooking, have a slower or negligible oxidation rate "in air" but are usually not edible).
Extensive discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21078068
Right you are. We missed that one. Thanks!
Accelerometers: An underappreciated hero of the mobile revolution
Last I checked there was basically zero serving story for pytorch. The trade off seems all to common, tensorflow optimizes for enormous production applications first while pytorch optimizes for developer ease first.

If you are trying to apply one of these libraries to a production system that doesn’t get a lot of throughput you probably shouldn’t be using them (try a linear model first). If you have a high throughput application you probably want tensorflow and just deal with the shittyness.
Seems to be fine on Firefox (both with the mousewheel and arrow keys).
Lobsters uses an invitation tree, you can read a bit more about it here: https://lobste.rs/about
Is mdn not satisfactory for that? searching 'mdn array.from' brings up a nice one-pager on that and it works for almost any web/js documentation.
I bet with the right commands (ex:SQL Injection Commands), you could make this settlement fund print out it's records. Look at how unnecessarily verbose and pretty the error message output is:
https://yahoodatabreachsettlement.com/x

I haven't tried it but it looks ripe for attack. A security noob could try using SQLMap and Nikto. If that were to happen though, would there be a class action lawsuit against the class action settlement team?
They have always had ads, and they have started serving, um, new varieties of ads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21051472
Cribbed from a WSJ article which was discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21048093.
It takes longer than 5 to pay back the investment, and many are planned in anticipation of future growth.
You can't just look at segmentation tasks, but the availability of good labeling and sufficient training data. Given enough data of sufficient quality capturing the variability of your domain, and good quality labeling on it, you can probably make a deep model perform quite well. Failing to have these inputs, you will often do better with other techniques (there are many).

Furthermore, if you have a decent physical model and/or some constraints (e.g. lots of industrial QA, cell counting, etc.) with a fixed FOV etc., you can do quite well with classic approaches and that can be quite robust. Some of the deep models you see performing well on e.g. small curated sets for conferences just don't generalize well at all, which isn't surprising given the setup.
Dr. Allison has received research funding from the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, a lobbying group for meat producers.

This is just meat industry damage control. The Harvard rebuttal lays out the issues pretty well. Just like big tobacco and big oil, they just need to sow enough confusion around the facts to make people give up and stop paying attention.
Interestingly enough, dangerous technology has a negative bias towards morality, meaning that an actor less concerned with moral aspects of advancing such technology incurs less resistance in doing so.

If US military succumbs to public pressure and stops developing autonomous weapons (purely hypothetical, never gonna happen), Russia or China will not, and we end up in a situation where the least moral actor has the most powerful and advanced drones.

There's a similar situation in eugenics/genetics and other morally dubious research areas.
I last touched it in 2012 - but apparently, yes, yes it is:

https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/using/whats-new.html

Although, it looks like their cumulative 2019 updates are limited to the following headlines between the two:

1) added support for HTML tag highlighting inside PHP code

2) bootstrap CSS support.

... I was surprised to see it was still alive.
Righto - that's the exact point I was trying to make.

The article seems to extrapolate that because Python's syntax requires that it not ignore whitespace characters, that this distinction represents context.
> Since the fading of the New Left, progressivism in general has increasingly turned away from their traditional causes which were rooted in economic concerns and more towards different kinds of social causes.

I don't think that's really true, I think progressivism just faded itself for a while (it's starting to come back again).

> Identity politics isn't the only thing, but it is a primary focus of the left today.

Identity politics has always been a primary focus of the Left; class consciousness is identity politics. OTOH, class consciousness has spread beyond the left; Neoliberal identity politics is a (deliberate) bourgeois distraction from proletarian class consciousness, and is a tool primarily of the center-right. Progressive identity politics is intersectional, integrates other identity axes with the economic, remains deeply concerned with systems of oppression (economic, patriarchical, racial, and other). Both exist, as do farther-right identity politics.

There's perhaps some confusion in American politics because both the neoliberal center-right and progressives are found as wings of the Democratic Party, the former dominant since the early 1990s but decreasingly so in the last few years.

> the personalization of sexism, racism, turning them from being systems of oppression to being mere personal attitudes.

Sexism, racism, etc., have always been personal attitudes (but not “mere” personal attitudes) that were of particular concern because of their capacity (and reality) of grounding oppressive insitutions and systems. It's true that as a misguided (easy, but ultimately self-limiting in many respects, including where credibility is involved) attempt to deal with certain deflections, some in the racial civil rights community attempted to depersonalize racism and claim that the term only could be applied with a dominant social system of oppression, but that was a reaction, not the original understanding, progressive or otherwise.
If you found this article interesting, you might find interesting Guido's blog post series about PEG parsers: https://medium.com/@gvanrossum_83706/peg-parsing-series-de5d...
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Researcher uses Checkm8 vulnerability to jailbreak iPhone X running iOS 13.1.1
I think it's deliberate, he never gives a 'maybe this, maybe that' answer. He does the analysis, but then does an intuitive glance at the end and takes a side one way or the other

Sure he's wrong a lot, but at least he's never half-right half-wrong
The first three grey Q&A boxes on the Harvard response are a pretty devastating rebuttal to the paper.

To summarize:

- 3 of the 5 meta-analyses reviewed support the consensus on red meat's health dangers

- The other 2 are irrelevant and shouldn't have been considered at all

- The paper handwaves away the conclusions of the 3 by raising reliability issues that could be applied to any meta-analysis of nutrition, since it's impossible to perform nutritional research as rigorously as drug research
I'm a Syncthing user - is there any reason for me to use this instead?
Oh, usually <base> is still bound to the server root name, but in most cases an SPA or what-have-ye will be served off the base subdomain with client side routing hints - then everything can just be referenced using stripped down relative URLs.

Actually though, for the server-side processed stuff we are still using <base> to make sure that /fancy/bespoke/url/style URLs doesn't try to grab assets from /fancy/bespoke/url/style/styles/main.css - I guess it's less that I don't use it and more that now-a-days I rarely set it to anything other than domainname since I'll just materialize a new subdomain if I need to do something fancy.
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Wow, that’s fascinating. Thanks for thinking of using google’s ngram tool. I have played around with it a few times but it completely slipped my mind.
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Sure, possible. But the timescales involved are daunting, as is the energy/tech required to shield a blackhole with sometime so efficient that the temperature gets down below 1 kelvin.

It's not all that much energy for the timescales involved, you'd be better off just putting say an acre of solar panels in orbit around the sun.

Tiny blackholes are amazing efficient engines for turning mass into energy, once small enough they could be quite a power plant and not picky about what you feed them.
Is this an 'old' idea? In this context isn't the 'old' idea that saturated fat and cholesterol are bad for you?

How does this hypothesis deal with the fact that vegans and vegetarians have lower levels of cardiovascular disease, lower blood cholesterol, and lower risk of diabetes (honest question, I'd assume that vegans and vegetarians generally eat much more carbs)?
It's my understanding that Neu5Gc can trigger a low-level inflammatory response, but generally not auto-immune disease as it is typically defined. It may be that the resulting inflammation is less damaging than inflammation caused by things like increased carbohydrate or omega-6 oil intake.
In our team, We serve PyTorch models in production using libtorch. A C++ library for loading models. You can easily call the C++ code in Go if you wrap it in a C interface.
Mostly HTML5 in my experience.

Less seriously, sometimes it's referred to as "Oh, whatever happened to XHTML 2.0, I was so looking forward to that, oh well guess we're using HTML5" but this is usually at conferences.
This is such a good idea. When shell scripts are all written in Rust, Unix will be a safe and secure operating system.
I don't know why that site thinks it happened in 1983, but McDonalds stopped using beef tallow for fries in 1990 (in the US) because a really rich guy decided they should and was willing to put millions of dollars into making that happen.
Phil Sokolof obituary - https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-apr-16-me-sokol...
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More importantly, once a company exits the product/business model fit phase, it should have better understanding of how it can become self-reliant either through having positive cash flow or a means to it. I would say the recent events have shown why public markets offer transparency and scrutiny that prevents crap being offloaded to smaller investors.
Arguably the car industry gets away with a lot in Germany. But that lobbying isn't as open and overt as in the US for sure.
The @ indicates that the function's built into the compiler itself. Yeah, it looks ugly, but it's nice to be able to visually identify "okay, yeah, this didn't come from any of my imports", and also (I'd assume) avoids cases where one might inadvertently shadow them with their own function definitions.

Re: fn v. function (v. fun v. def v. defun v. defn v. define v. proc v. sub v. label v. the cornucopia of other options here): I don't think it's all that big of a deal. fn does happen to be short, which means more actually-useful information can fit into the same line, so I guess that's nice. The choice of keyword for function definition feels like a really weird criticism.
There's no reason to ever defeat the pinch-in behavior, it's what lets the user know the page is fully zoomed out.

maximum-scale=1.0 causes the page to be unscalable on mobile and is almost never what you want.
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Very few soybeans are used for cattle. The meal from soybeans is used on chickens and pigs. Cattle cannot stomach very much soy at all. They are more likely to be fed some grain, but their diet is 90+% hay and grass even on feed lot cattle. Soy meal is the leftover part of the soy bean. About 20% of a soy bean is used to produce soy oil, which is the primary source of human nutrition in soy. That's what's used to make soy milk, soy protein, etc. The meal component of the bean is not useful for all these other byproducts that soy acts as an ingredient of. So it would be a waste of perfectly good food not to feed that to chickens and pigs.

Land use management in Brazil sounds like an incredibly nuanced topic that I know next to nothing about. I'm much more familiar with American agriculture. And we make most of our own food here, including our own beef.

Source: https://ncsoy.org/media-resources/uses-of-soybeans/
> (though this is usually police helicopters)

I was astounded at the frequency, low altitude, and cacophony of police helicopter missions in Fresno when I spent about 6 weeks at @dmpayton's house. Like, WTF. It feels like they just want to remind you that they exist every couple hours.

They were frequently low enough to be deafening or painful to the ears. On several occasions, I was able to feel the ground effect.

One of them was so low (I estimate, based on my fairly humble amount of experience at drone flights, that it was around 80-100ft, perhaps briefly even lower than that) that it blew all of the leaves off of a tree (this was in November, when they had already turned). The next morning a bunch of neighborhood kids had a ball playing in the enormous pile of fresh crunchy leaves.

I'm confident that the number of helicopter missions in Fresno can be reduced by 95% with no noticeable impact on public safety.
Apple rolled out iOS 13.1.2 and iPadOS 13.1.2 update with several bug fixes
Or that's a half-understood idea some push [1], mostly looking into first order effects, and unaware of the bigger picture (except from cherry-picking this or that pro-keto study, which are themselves a dime a dozen, like most nutrition studies are).

[1] Nutrition in general, is at this point scientifically half-understood. Science has tons of things it still tries to understand and needs to explain on nutrition...
Miracle battery breakthrough du jour.

I've been watching this soap opera for years. These announcements keep coming, but nothing I can pop down to Fry's and pick some up.

Let me know when they're on the shelf at Fry's or Best Buy, or I can order them from Amazon.