skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do plants grow well in microgravity/low gravity is still not well understood. Growing stuff on the moon, especially more complex plants, is still quite valuable to our understanding of whether we can sustain life off world.

I'm less familiar with Lunar "dirt" (aka regolith) than Martian regolith, but it's very likely that Lunar regolith isn't capable of supporting life. Martian regolith is a highly toxic blend of perchlorates, oxides, and extremely dry jagged minerals. The lack of a water cycle means that weathering behaves very differently, and the resulting material is considerably sharper and finer than the stuff on Earth. It also, of course, lacks any of the organic content that you'd need to make healthy soil.
The term capitalism is meaningless now.

For example: the Japanese mode of lifetime employment, low salaries, high intangible benefits to employment, an almost exclusively age based hierarchical system is labeled the same thing as the American model, where every individual is a capitalist and a sole individual's brand determines their compensation and worth. The two models are called "capitalist", but they share almost nothing.

If everyone is a capitalist, why aren't all of the world's markets integrated? Why is it so hard to strike a trade deal? Why is trade still organized into ideological blocs? We have always had global trade, but we've never ever had a shared definition of what "a capitalist society" actually means. And then of course the term is used extensively as an ideological cudgel.

Saying things like "Capitalism is the only means of production in the world" or "Capitalism is inevitable" has no meaning at all.

Do a find and replace with "Human Nature" and this makes a lot more sense.
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Isn't that how literally any forum operates? Maybe the SO format has some merit that made it come out so far ahead of any kind of forum?
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Yeah - I don't like the "look" of any of the available GUI toolkits, and I was going for something very minimal in terms of UI, so I decided to build it from scratch.

I am considering using something like stretch[0] to handle layout concerns eventually.

[0]: https://github.com/vislyhq/stretch
Not true. LTCM had some of the most restrictive covenants among similar funds. Minimum lockup of at least 2 years, and redemption notice of 3 or 6 months (hey its been 20 years) - in other words, if you wanted to redeem, you had to give multiple month notice. The investors had no way of forcing LTCM to liquidate any holdings in a panic, in fact the covenants were to protect against that exact scenario, so the firm could ride out their positions.

Counterparties, on the other hand, very different story, if they didn't force LTCM'S hand, they would be stuck with an empty bag.

You're correct that many of LTCM trades did eventually work out positively. But when you're driving a car at 200 mph, a mundane pothole is deadly. When your hedge fund levered 30x, a temporary liquidity crisis is also fatal.
I guess this study gives credence to the relatively old idea that modern bad health (chronic inflammation, cardiovascular diseases, dental problems, etc.) is driven by the high levels of carbohydrate and linoleic acid (omega 6, found in large quantities in sunflower and other seed oils) in our diets and not the traditionally "bad" foodstuffs like red meat and foods containing high cholesterol and saturated fat.

I'm looking forward to the next few years in this field, because it seems like scientists are slowly working out what's wrong with our diets, and it seems like it's not (solely) the meat and dairy we're eating.
If you want to be fit, the best results I've had are to eat meat and vegetables, and not much else.

Going fully vegetarian is just too joyless.
I hope farmed fish has a low carbon cost because I'm not trying to poison myself with mercury.
> I think this is overly simplistic. There's plenty of corruption in many European countries as well, it's just in a different form.

Not denying corruption doesn't exist in other countries, including EU.

However, if you look at it closely from a 3rd person perspective, you'll see that the laws in US are designed to snatch rights away from citizens vs laws in most other countries are designed to give rights to its citizens.

One may ask where it comes from? It seems comes from a place of profit for a lobby.

No payment for student athletes? NCAA and others suck in value of labor of young kids by denying right to earn money for their labor

No universal healthcare or clean competition in healthcare? Private insurance and healthcare institutions suck in value of humans by denying right to get basic healthcare as a service.

No cheap education? Lenders racketing on student's worth by denying students access to low cost capitalistic education.

No rights for private prisoners? Immigrants? Civil forfeiture? Every thing is designed as a system to take away rights for the benefit of a few.

The US govt and private industry are a nexus of money making for large lobbying groups.

This won't fly in another non-corrupt democracy, let alone in EU.

> It seems also deeply cultural. What would count as greedy and offputting behavior here, is seen as laudable and ambitious in the US

Yep, there's another way of looking at the fundamental difference. The govt exists to make money for a few at the expense of others.
You wouldn't notice that feature using battery if every phone does it though.

I'd also really like to know why it goes to Switzerland. Are there also other countries that get photos like this and prosecute based on them?
Mask how? Yes, people are convincing, but that is in no way comparable to force.

The fact that many people are convinced to do things that suck for them in no way justifies a switch to deliberate, overt state imposition of what is supposed to be good for them.

If people are being convinced of unwise or unreasonable things, you have an obligation to do your own convincing.
Well, you probably can somehow power it up without a server connected to it?

Active PFC tends to be simply a boost converter at the input stage that boosts the (rectified but still unfiltered) input voltage to (DC) 350 V or more, modulating the current to follow the mains voltage and should generally have no problem with DC input, especially so with wide-range inputs that have to be able to deal with different voltage levels anyway.
Because you haven’t submitted a PR yet.
> At first glance, it seems to be a GPU/TPU based NumPy?

Yes, with a compiler to make this fast.

> The thing is, TF has more than tensor ops. It has pre-defined NN layers, data loading/serialization, distributed training, metrics, and model serving.

Yes, it is a simpler and smaller API.

For things like data loading, you can use the tool of your choice -- TF, pytorch, whatever. For pre-defined NN layers, there are libraries that build this as a very thin wrapper around JAX's low-level API, see e.g. lax, which is include in JAX.
Diet science is the most pathetically politicized "science" next to economics. On one side you've got the industry groups promoting their food and giving out grants to scientists to get the right results. On another side you've got the rich radical environmental and animal rights activists wanting everyone to go Vegan and giving out grants to scientists to get their results. It's just a clusterfk of politics going back and forth. Eggs are bad, no they're good. Meat is bad, no it's good. Carbs are bad, no it's good. Fat is bad, no it's good. Protein is bad, no it's good. Or in the words of Bugs and Daffy: Duck Season! Rabbit Season!, etc.
A cruise missile that hits the bridge the first time every time might still be more cost effective than saturation bombing the square mile surrounding the bridge until you get that one lucky bomb to connect, though. And that's what a lot of those bombing missions in Vietnam were - dumping bombs in the general vicinity of a target until you finally had one connect.

With precision guided weapons, you don't need half a million bombing missions.
Sure, Hubble images are seldom seen raw, but the resulting images are based on actual photos. This however seems to have been an outright illustration, and should have be labelled as such.
Nah, sadly... sugar is crap all the way down - but it tastes delicious.

I just wish we could get some regulations banning it and salt as a flavour enhancer in partially prepared food products like frozen stuff and the pre-made components.
Congrats on what you’ve made!

What sort of noise are you running in to? (Curious)

In an old project we actually did something a bit more based on visual changes. Basically detected visual diffs and got coordinates of offsets to the change. We then found the smallest html container that encompassed the diff and highlighted it.

Using visual diff you can fuzz things a bit to handle artifact and small movements.

A good lib we have some miles on https://github.com/mapbox/pixelmatch

And this write up on niffy is pretty good

https://segment.com/blog/perceptual-diffing-with-niffy/
From the update I just pushed to the site:

It turns out I did not make it clear that this is a satirical website and not to be taken too seriously. I apologize for any confusion, and will be publishing something shortly about what I learned from the process. If for some reason I do find out about an offer that fits the published criteria, I will pass it along as promised, and other than distributing the aforementioned writeup will not use any of the contact information collected through the site.
Veggies, not grains.
I had a similar situation and did notice a positive improvement after getting a super bright (5000 lumen) light. Could have been coincidence but I was pleasantly surprised when my prescription decreased in strength.

I assumed using it at night would mess up my sleep, but it didn't.
I get that there's too much back-and-forth on diet advice -- but I also don't see why we should throw out the scientific method and go all-in on a journalist's non-scitentific advice.

Besides, bread and sugar are made from plants and they'll make you fat. A lot of people would lose weight eating more animal products including eggs, milk, butter, cheese, and meat.
Reader mode just works for me in Safari.
I remember reading this a decade or two ago, but I never could find such a plot to confirm this. Fortunately, someone generated one here back in 2016: https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/264/timeline-of-meas...
No sorry, you're thinking of the great American vegetable of ketchup.
RTHK is the government funded state broadcaster in HK, who dropped their World Service feed and replaced it with Chinese State Radio only a year or two back.

Make your own mind up as to whether they are an impartial or balanced source any more.
If they're on "our" side, we call them PR reps, yes.
“Complain” or “gripe” works just like “bitch” with none of the misogyny.
Odd that we feel differently about hash tables then.
Do you think the same will happen in the west if trends like this continue? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19601600
If I remember correctly there are at least two Big Bad Threats still out in the universe.
Immediately found a bunch of elements I had never heard of. This is really neat.
I've known this for years, and own a restaurant that serves all of our fried food cooked in beef tallow rather than seed oils.

Everyone loves the taste of the food, I guess our fries ruin other chains for people.
Probably also the (former) CEO that won't back off until he actually touches the stove.

Some people are experiential learners.
Capital becomes "whatever gives you an advantage". I think it's a pretty good bet that people will continue to seek out advantages even if all material scarcity is eliminated. (Arguably, we're there already: there's been enough material goods to feed and shelter the whole world since the 1950s, and it's only the continued game-playing of elites that creates scarcity.) If you've ever observed, say, fandom, or PTA meetings, or programming language debates, or HN comment threads, or any other situation where the stakes are incredibly low but passions are incredibly high, you'll see evidence of humanity's ability to create status games where none existed before.

"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. And we're witnessing this redefinition in real-time as "data" becomes a form of capital despite not really being worth anything before the age of computers.
This gets repeated again and again with nutrition.

Eat less fat, oops.

Eat less meat, oops.

Eat less sugar, oops?
Can you provide link to any such research? Even ones funded by the sugar industry?
I don't think you can have it that way - the point of a critique is that it is some positive development, a hint or suggestion at a possible world without those things. If Marx criticised capital, abstract labour, etc. then we take it to mean that socialism would not have them. If they were fixed parts of all human society, then Marx's critique would be nothing more than an empty complaint, no different to arguing with gravity over a broken vase.

But as the Schweickart quote shows, there's no immediately obvious way to go about fixing it, once we admit that (1) there is a problem, (2) the problem can be fixed. It's a mistake to think that Marx thought revolution is the only way to abolish capital. But it's also a mistake to characterize him as a reformist.
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It’s better but still not great. Some lines still cut off, and one third of the screen is blank. Why doesn’t the code know how wide my screen is?
It can work for more than a bare bones classifier. It's certainly not painless and sometimes you need some manual work to translate your model but work it does ...
Yea it is quite interesting how the 'invisible hand' seems to have branded sugar as a 'drug, akin to cocaine' since it signals dopamine in the brain. Refined sugar is nothing but sucrose, a natural compound found in plants and fruits. Surely not all dopamine signalling is bad, just bad/prolonged signalling.

Sure, it does cause an insulin spike that causes insulin resistance in the long term but in selective use of blood sugar spiking lies its utility.
With his definition, things like bread and sugar wouldn't count as food so they would fail the first rule.
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I'm unclear why these players are students at all. if your playing well enough to make millions for the university, surely you're good enough to make millions for a professional team?
I created a browser extension that fixes that:

https://github.com/corollari/fixedHackerNews

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fixedhackerne...
If there was perfect price discrimination in elite universities, in other words, if schools were able to charge everyone the exact maximum they are willing to pay, then only the rich would go to elite universities. There is far more demand than open seats.
Alternative to StimulusJS
> For all the downsides of a touchscreen phone, people are able to use them one handed for hours on end.

You actually picked an example that doesn't support your argument very well: back in the day, people were able to manipulate dumbphones one-handed very dexterously and even without looking (famously, teens could text their friends while their phones were hidden in their pockets) whereas the modern smartphone demands the use of eyes and often both hands. One-handed use with most modern phones is much more difficult and error prone than with the dumbphones of yore.
It only requires one jailbroken device on iOS. Or, if you're using the right tools, none.
I remember from the original serie Cosmo that the Milky way "had" no bars. I found it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-OdJmAefOY&t=13m51s I was very surprised to know the "change" a few years ago.

I understand that they were using the best models available at that time, and with better equipment it was posible to get a better model so the image got outdated.
It has to be choosy so that we are not distracted by noise, weather, and trolls.
I'd like people to stop pitching diets as a way to fix climate change. It makes people take global warming less seriously and it won't help enough to matter.
It's complicated. Telling people who have been abstaining from eating red meat that it's ok to eat it might also be a bad idea.

Humans lost the enzyme that converts Neu5Ac to Neu5Gc. Other animals have Neu5Gc, which can be incorporated into your own tissues and potentially be recognized as foreign. So if you haven't been exposed to animal products and you suddenly are, that could trigger auto-immunity. Oh and of course, the gut microbiota has a role in regulating all of this. (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-019-0564-9)
Ruminant grass-fed meat is the best thing for the environment. It requires no pesticides, no herbicides, and the manure their bodies produce act as fertilizer and cause grasslands to expand and sequester carbon. Meanwhile, wildlife can actually live on a pasture. Rabbits, squirrels, birds, tons of insects, snakes, even coyotes. Wheat, corn and soy fields by contrast require artificial fertilization, insecticide application, rodent poison to protect crops, and harvesters also kill small mammals.
Does this work only for public forms? Can I use it for internal forms that require sign in?
How about "eat no meat regardless of nutritional value (unless absolutely necessary) because it's unethical to do so"?
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Good thing I don't have to listen to you.
I feel my Nokia 3210 in highschool had a much more intuitive UI than the latest iPhone... and it was trivial to use without looking at it, since your hands could navigate the keys...

This isn't possible anymore with sliding pictures under glass...
We have only seen competitive capitalism because econ doctrine states: "perfect competition is the ideal for market condition" due to vulnerability to cartel, conspiracy, and fraud. However, with the unprecedented ability we now have of enabling transparency using tech, experiments are underway to test cooperative markets in a new organizational structure called a holation.
Meat is also very calorically dense. And I think the advice to eat plants means when they're still unprocessed. Vegetables in their unprocessed form have a good amount of nutrients with relatively few calories.
You get $1000. You pay back $950. The monetary supply increased by $50.
Embodied cognition is definitely a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition

And in software development, the primary bottleneck is thinking. Anything you can do to enable greater clarity of thought is going to have huge leverage. So I think this is a super promising angle.

Bret's actively developing his ideas at DynamicLand: http://dynamicland.org But clearly it will be quite some time before that tech becomes viable in the real world.

Now I'm wondering if there are simpler ways to use the rest of my body to facilitate thinking. Like, I can't mount lasers and network connected cameras on the ceiling... but maybe there's some software that can use a webcam to do simple gesture recognition mapped to bash scripts or something like that.
> Ruminant grass-fed meat is the best thing for the environment.

It's really not.
You need to eat animal corpses to feel happy? Could be worse, I guess.

It's perfectly possible to cook great food with and without meat and dairy.

But change is difficult, especially after clinging to this kind of BS for a while.
Cocaine is also a natural compound. So's cyanide. Pretty sure the 'invisible hand' demonized animal fats and promoted sugar, and now people are are starting to come to their senses.
http://archive.is/zg4hE
Python, really? Maybe start using a compiled lang
yeah, so why wouldn't you try joining the NBA first, then go to college to actually study when you don't get in?
Companies, businesses, and people in general tend to use the right tool for the right job.

In author's case, it was rather simple I would say: they have acquired an extensive experience in D language and saw its potential by switching from PHP for good.

Could they have used swoole and go fully concurrent and asynchronous with PHP, while maintaining their legacy system? Yes.

Could it perform? With swoole, they could outperform Golang under specific use-cases and circumstances.

But that's not author's point.

Their point is, they have used a language and have saved a lot of money for their business.

Could they have done the same with PHP? I cannot say, I do not know; what I do know though is that a static typed programming language is ideal for writing performant code, especially for businesses that deal with ads, marketing, FinTech, Banking, and Medical systems to say the least.
> perhaps that's due to the amount of time they have invested in somebody else's commercial enterprise ("our community") while believing it's something more.

> Perhaps what they are trying to say is the "something more" (presumably the voluntary contributions) is being undermined by paid staff. It's not clear.

You have it right, this matches sentiments I've read by long-term contributors. For many of them, contributing to "our community" and improving SO as a knowledge base are sufficient motivation to donate vast amounts of free time. If SO no longer cares to at least pretend they are more than a corporate entity that extracts money from voluntary unpaid labor, those contributions will likely dwindle.
Yes. That's how time and tense works.
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I decided a few weeks ago to transition to PyTorch (was using Keras before) and I must say that I really love it! How PyTorch is structured gives me the right balance between ease of use and the ability to make customisations. Further, using DistributedDataParallel, dividing the work over multiple processes, where each process uses one GPU, is very fast and GPU memory efficient.

Before my switch I tried out Keras for Tensorflow, and even got a lot of support from Google in my endeavours to resolve the issues I encountered (kudos to Google for that!). In the end I felt it was still not mature enough. Further, although I do believe TF and Keras are moving in the right direction, I still felt that in some cases the way the software was set up just didn't sit well with me.

Maybe it is worth to try again in a year or so, or by then I will tryout Swift for Tensorflow, which I think has a great future ahead.
he encourages people to write to him -- has anyone?

I wanna write to him about a Startup idea I have, to see if i can ask him some questions and see what he says about the potential of it. That be ok right?
It's also possible to force reader mode, for sites where Firefox doesn't want to display the icon. Append this to the beginning of the url:

about:reader?url=
Massive discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21078068 (344 comments)

But it's popular ... here are some of the other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21116027 (2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21099778 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21113285 (0 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21098129 (0 comments)
Should we ignore the massive scale deforestation?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/02/revealed...
Do you have a source showing that Cocaine is a natural compound?

Perhaps the invisible hand did demonize animal fats and promote sugar but how is that in any way related to my argument?
The thing that really irks me about seed oils is that humans find it difficult to taste when it's rancid. I wonder how many of the long shelf life products filled with sunflower oil are actually rancid, or how many fast food restaurants use oil long past its normal life without anyone being able to tell.
In theory. In reality low income people do not have access to loans and therefore no access to low interest rates.
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/389906/im-resigning...

tone-deaf outrage-inducing corporate response award goes to...