skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are the reasons to prefer Bazel to Maven or Gradle foe Java? I know it is supposed to be faster but on the other side last time i checked it it was much more complex and time consuming (expecially compared to Maven). Are there other good reasons?
> In terms of practical freedom of speech and political/social action, being rich outside the protection of the state is probably the least powerful position you can be in.

The wealthy can hire armies of lobbyists, lawyers, and in some countries mercenaries. A regular old Joe can say anything, sure, but if they're in the wrong country when they do they might end up in prison or just disappear. If you're rich and "economically dependent" the worst that generally happens is your ROI goes down. The horror!
The issue is not about an ingredient, but indeed general food.

You can eat junk food filled with carbs (Standard white bread, pure pasta, white rice), likewise junk food full of fats. (Most milk products, highly processed meat.)

The main problem is when the diet is either lacking in things we do not completely understand (vitamins, micronutrients, perhaps phytonutrients) or is effective caloric surplus - that is, you gain weight.

Considering food x as carbs or y as fats or z as protein is reductive to the extreme not warranted by current state of knowledge and leads to milk powder and mashed potato diet. ;)

The basic nutrients do not have a quality other than perhaps the ease with which they're absorbed, which early matters for even somewhat unhealthy person, only perhaps for really sick people.
How do you want to deploy your model?
Sony's Clie PDAs back in early–mid-2000s came with a CD in a paper tray-package. It was a thin box of sturdy paper, the size of a ‘jewel’ case, but from a side of it slid out a tray, also of paper, with the disc on it. And it didn't come out all the way but was held by something inside. I realized then that Japan treats its papercraft seriously.
I feel more like electric scooters or motorcycles would be a better bet. 40 mph+ cruising speed would be a lot better, and enable them to use the main lanes instead of needing dedicated bike paths or using hazardous shoulders.
Device Generates Energy from the Cold Night Sky, When Solar Doesn’t Work
A man who changed cultural anthropology
Try:

https://www.pelco.com/ndaa

https://www.securitysales.com/surveillance/honeywell-30-seri...

Careful with the Honeywell stuff. They are a "rebrander". However, the 30 series cameras claim to be compliant.

Here's an interesting article about the Army getting caught up in that trap:

https://ipvm.com/reports/gordon-honeywell

Look for NDAA Section 889 compliance when searching.
Cool stuff. I wonder if and when it will target webassembly
Hence this country being founded on a core of individual rights: everybody just let others be, quit bossing each other.
I sort of give a shit. But I'm not ready to agree to a huge drop off in my standard of living, especially when there is no guarantee the developing world won't just accelerate their usage to counterbalance our cuts.

And a lot of the scare stories aren't that scary. Oh in a 100 years, half of Miami will be underwater. Okay not good. But 100 years ago Miami barely existed.
While I'm sure this is true and there are real reasons why performing such experiments on yourself may be a very bad idea, there are few caveats.

First (which I don't really want to concentrate on) is that's why this is an experiment. People did stupid things (and sometimes died because of them) for entire human history and some hundreds of years later are remembered as "great scientists". Trying to monopolize research and experimentation around academia and "certified professionals" (certified by academia, that is) is a most despicable thing I can imagine. I see that this opinion is basically a point of conflict of two different political views, so there isn't much that can be said to (quickly) persuade someone, who does not feel like this in the first place, but I strongly feel that if people can be "free" in any sense at all, they really should be free to do whatever the fuck they want to themselves. If they wanna die, let them die. If they wanna do drugs, let them do drugs. If they wanna perform stupidly dangerous experiments over themselves, let them do that. If they wanna give somebody else a consent to perform a stupidly dangerous experiment over them — it's their prerogative.

Second is much less philosophical and much more grim. This probably depends on your environment quite a lot (country/place, level of income, connections), so take this as my subjective experience. The problem is that dealing with certified medical professionals performing FDA (or whatever) approved procedures over yourself sometimes feels pretty much as dangerous, if not more. You often have no idea what they are really doing to you, and it's sometimes blatantly obvious they don't really understand it either. Often it is not clear if the treatment (which might be totally safe and correct in some cases!) is adequate to your case, not much of analysis is performed and every little bit you have to do along the way costs quite a lot of money and/or prevents you from living normal life, leaving you quite miserable overall. And the more minor the thing you are trying to fix is, the worse it is. And the worst of it, it is pretty clear that your doctors don't really care. They are relatively safe (legally) if they are working by the book, so they are working by the book. And "the book" often happens to be a result of bureaucratic machine, not common sense. And, after all, they have seen (maybe just 30 minutes ago) people in much worse condition than yourself, so unless you are really dying, what's even the trouble? And all of it even when we ignore the fact, that "the book" and the status quo of the field changes all the time, much of recognized medical research lacks the quality you wish it'd had and accepted views today sometimes are vastly different than 20 years ago. And let's be honest: 20 years of "experience" is nothing, when we are talking about high-stake decision making on the frontiers of the scientific research (and whatever affects your health and well-being always feels like "high-stake").
Ask HN: Fellow Devs with Speech Impediments
...how do you navigate the interview process? Is a speech impediment an acceptable disability to take advantage of 'interview accommodations' (if any)? If so, what are some interview accommodations you have found to be helpful?

tl;dr, I have lived with a pretty profound stutter for the better part of my life and it has really impacted my ability to communicate during interviews. I am about two years into my professional dev career and my speech impediment has become such a serious hinderance during interviews that I am seeking any and all help. Thank you so much in advance!
On of my favorite aspects of this story is that in order to invent the propeller (one of Wright's true innovations) they had to invent and build the Lift Balance. They built the Lift Balance[1]... out of bicycle spokes and hack saw blades[2]!

[1]: https://wright.nasa.gov/airplane/balance.html
[2]: http://aerologic.com/aiaa/AIAA-02-11-2006.pdf
You mean B12? This is produced by bacteria in the dust. It gets injected to animals in factory farms, that's why they have it in that environment. We can also take the supplement directly.
Speak for yourself mate.

Why I use tensorflow:

- keras

- I used tensorflow yesterday
What the lady frustrated was not about the road being blocked, it's about he livelihood of many families in HK were disrupted. The protesters have the right to fight for the freedom that they think they don't have, but they don't have the right to disrupt others livelihood with the cost of other peoples' freedom.
it depends on the details. if you collect cells from a patient, filter them very carefully so only a particular type of cell is there, treat that in vitro, then reinject.... it should (with some caveats) only affect the cells you treated.

if you inject a therapy into the body (muscle, blood, liver, etc), there is a non-zero chance that some germ cells can be modified. It depends on the vector, the methodology, random chance, etc, etc.
The definition of acceptable use (and expectations of privacy) differs a lot between different countries. For example, in the EU, I believe that any personal email received on a work account is actually considered "beyond reach" of your employer.

I don't know, but I imagine that such considerations could easily extend to your password.

Btw, how did the sysop know that what he recovered was the actual password? I mean, it's unlikely, but at least theoretically possible that it was a false positive. The password hashes in those days were pretty weak... Just a thought; I don't think it realistically was a false positive.
You beat me to it. (I linked to the same talk in a sib comment.) This is probably one of the most important lines of research today.

One thing I'd like to point out: He keeps saying "it would be cool to have technology like this", I think it's really important to remember that we are "technology like this". For example, rather than grow organs in labs and transplant them, maybe we can learn to (re)grow our own organs in situ.
Worth noting it really doesn't automate paging through results, and they go out of their way to make the behavior seem organic, and explicitly say they won't change that approach.

"Automating things in this way could put load on servers in a way that a manual user couldn’t, and we don’t want to enable that behavior."
origami paper... and microplastics?
Good info, but bad formatting. Same quote, more mobile friendly:

- He just possibly infected his whole digestive system. Not just small intestine, but stomach
as well. Furthermore, AAV can potentially exhibit transcytosis through epithelial layers,
suggesting that it's possible the virus infected more than just his digestive system.

- He did not determine an appropriate dose, and so he likely infected with a HUGE genetic
payload. Overexpression with AAV can kill infected cells, which means this man is risking
his digestive lining.

- Neither the promoter nor the encoded protein itself are human, potentially risking
(possibly severe) autoimmune reaction.

- There are few/no long-term studies on effects of AAV integration and expression in humans.
There is indeed evidence that AAV increases risk of cancer, almost certainly in a dose-
dependent manner.

- AAVs could integrate randomly into your genome in low frequencies (0.1% to 1%), meaning that they could just by
chance disrupt a gene you really need to not get cancer.
>there isn't even a usb wifi dongle that has an open source wifi driver

Qualcomm atheros?
I remember when Google's motto was "Don't be evil".

Sad to see these companies teaming up with authoritarian dictatorships actively involved in keeping ethnic groups in concentration camps and harvesting the organs of political prisoners.
Is Amazon Unstoppable?
That’s awesome—for me it was pretty much the opposite. I spent middle school hanging out with the ‘popular kids’ despite really having nothing in common with them. While I was more or less accepted, I pretended to be someone I wasn’t and it was miserable. All my energy went into trying to fit in and improve my status instead of anything fulfilling or useful. Thankfully by high school I realized I was way happier being my real self with other nerds. Looking back, I admire the kids like you that knew who they were and never succumbed to that pressure.
Sold His Business for $200M and Raised $100M to Address Concerns with Data
I've found in my personal life (so maybe this doesn't hold true on the internet, but maybe it does when there is something at stake, like karma points) that moderates who advocate for lesser actions, but 'agree' with me are really just people who don't agree with me at all but don't want to take an action (disagreement) they perceive as possibly being damaging to a relationship.

One Person's Source: All of the people who say 'I'm fiscally conservative but socially liberal' in my life have turned out to be veeerrrryyyy socially conservative.
Why do you imagine that normal hands dryers are wet? The original Dyson airblades? Sure. Those are gross. Normal air dryers don’t have anywhere to store water, and if somehow you got water inside, it would rapidly dry itself out from normal use.
Or, how many Nobel Prize papers required no revisions after the first submission.
Largely PR, on the ground things are different, Rwanda is like china
For the majority of production use cases (which tend to get all the AI/ML hype), TensorFlow/Keras is more than powerful enough and accessible enough. If you need to dive down to custom layers/optimizers, PyTorch has value there, but for people looking to get their start in AI/ML, the meme that "TensorFlow sucks" is highly misleading.
A big difference is that has not usually happened at such a high rate of change.

"Geological" warming normally happens over tens of millions of years, not tens of decades (e.g. Cambrian's 55MA was a warming period from current-ish to early ordovician greenhouse).

More rapid changes have been massive extinction events (e.g. O-S).
It's super tiny group anyway - the experiment is highly underpowered even if they did check control group.

Most importantly it is not a cross design, and even that would need in excess of hundred patients to be meaningful. As is they can be measuring the effect of attention and any kind of change on depression, given some genetic, phenotypical or environmental susceptibilities incidentally found in their treatment group.

Meaning the conclusion is not possible to generalize.

These tiny studies, especially of low quality and poor design are an annoying waste of time and money.
I'm not sure how realistic eating 3kg of peas per day is. People would just get bored real fast, if they even manage to ingest that volume of food.
> Ubuntu fought a sea of distros and came out as what's very nearly an industry standard, if not an official one.

I think you may be living in a bubble. I've been running devops for various shops for half a decade and I've only once used Ubuntu, because it was already being used by an acquisition.

I won't deny that Ubuntu is popular. It's certainly got the lions share of the desktop market. But there is no such consensus in the server market.
I've never understood the whole cloud hype.

Am I the only one who uses a (bridging) VPN to provide me with LAN-level access to an office-server, running Samba and locally hosting the office documents?

With Linux, OpenVPN and LibreOffice, my running costs are zero, and if you can install this yourself, so are your installation costs.

Wasn't this the standard before the cloud hype began? Was it too expensive/complicated/no experts available for SMOs?
One thing the AI/data scene gets the best of is data on their own industry. Reminds me of how Ruby used to have the best designed websites for their various tools.
1 country, 2 systems.

It's more like boycotting dictatorship
Brit here. I must confess, I don't know where the Isle of Man is!
> yes, but it usually changes over the course of thousands of years

The scale we're observing right now is the stuff of millions of years of change, or massive extinction events.
I was bullied badly as a child and am permanently suicidal, with no trusting relationships and failed life: homeless, mentally ruined, no career, assets, accomplishment, etc. It’s to the point where, decades after having said to self “people are shit and I don’t want to be alive anymore” as a child, I turned down a million dollar inheritance to keep close to a permanently suicidal self-imposed destiny. It’s difficult to say how much was due to the bullying, but I do think of these horrible memories daily and have done so for a long time.

Perhaps my life would have turned out similarly even without such traumatic childhood events. Then again, I’m a pretty cynical person who simply doesn’t give a shit about being alive, due to believing people are consistently low quality in seemingly all walks of life. The bullies from my childhood, on the other hand, have successful, normal lives. As I recall, the bullying occurred at school as a child, at university, at work, and in public by strangers has occurred consistently in any walk of life

Bullying seems to be a valid filtering process, as I was the weaker genetic offspring who correspondingly didn’t procreate. Meanwhile, I’ve spent decades immersed in disdain for my own species and self.
I'm not either, but I think it depends on which system you're working from within. There's the ugly, beautiful thing from Godel's second incompleteness theorem saying a formal system cannot prove its own consistency from within.

With set theory, it looks like there was some reformulating of the fundamental terms to prevent paradox, but I'm not quite clear on whether that leaves us with a consistent formal system in the end:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo%E2%80%93Fraenkel_set_t...
This isn't a modern problem. If you read Thucydides you'll find that cities were often betrayed by a small, radicalized percentage of the civilian population hiding in plain sight. Their solution was sometimes to kill all of the men and enslave the women and children. Obviously this wouldn't fly today, but I imagine that a nation like China might simply surveil everyone, sending anyone suspicious to concentration camps. That seems like effectively the same win condition; making it effectively impossible to resist.
Are you suggesting that scientific evidence for product shrinkage or for an increase in the money supply can't be found, and so my arguments have to be anecdotal?
"In June 2019, scientists reported that all 16 GB of Wikipedia have been encoded into synthetic DNA.[4]"
Depressing topic. I am sure scientists will argue that adversity is a required ingredient for evolution etc. I just hoped that we/humans can come together and decide that _this_ particular type of adversity (ie war) is no longer required. Heck, maybe, I'd settle for Star Trek style simulated war[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon
The logo is just cool. While I probably wouldn't seek it out, I wouldn't mind having this stitched on my bag.
Also valid safety reasons to prohibit walking out your front door.
Comment threads like this always amaze me by the number of socialist/communist advocates on a site devoted to full-on capitalism.
Wow, that 1k game is insane. Not only you got a lot of details in the visuals (cloud, rainbow, trees), you also have multiple mechanics such as coins, falling terrain and flower obstacles. Amazing.
https://hkmap.live
I never thought that C# would become Perl.
Book Review: Mechanizing Proof
The app does not have root. It just requests a lot of permissions.
I think it's about the speed of adaptation or even migration, for that matter. If they had thousands or tens of thousands of years to adapt, sure. But it's more in the 50-100 year range.
Well 1) everyone does not have equal access in practice and 2) they should have to pay more specifically to help provide more equal opportunities to everyone in the future instead of resigning ourselves to dynastic feudalism. And also because ultimately that is the explicit agreement that one enters into by choosing to participate in this society.
This is something I have long suspected. I have definitely heard of instances where friends subsequent MRIs have shown regrown cartilage in the knee, but years later. And it doesn't happen for everyone. The friends that regrew, they were runners, they took their injury seriously, they kept moving but were very serious about maintaining flexibility, diet, hydration, etc. I think if you wear down your cartilage, but do nothing to address the tightness that caused the wear in the first place, then you will not see regrowth. The fact that this is an interesting research finding is reflective of somewhat a sad fact in my eyes: people generally do not take care of themselves, instead hoping for surgery or a pill or procedure. Few will add an hour of rehabilitative work to their daily routine and instead just live with the issue forever and complain. I have herniated discs, torn bicep tendons, had tendonitis nearly everywhere at one point or another, sublexed my knees, but nearing 40 I still am active as ever with no daily pain. Some of these injuries took me years to recover from, but recover I did.
> They made it perfectly clear that they wanted a deal with the customs union and single market.

I see. How does this square with whipping against the SM and CU in 2017? How is declaring an intention to "keep the benefits" of SM and CU without being in them anything but unicorns in light of Barnier's very clear explanations on the matter?

I am trying to find a clear timeline of Labour's ever-changing positions on these matters. [1] is the best I've found so far. What I can say is that after watching PMQs almost every week I found his position anything but clear.

But possibly I can agree with you so far as to say that it is not so much that Labour has had NO position whatsoever, as that their position has changed every 3-6 months and none of those positions were ever very fleshed out with detail.

> What Barnier has been less clear about is whether they are prepared to negotiate a new deal at all after May's deal. The EU actually has flip flopped on that issue and its mind probably still isn't made up even now.

I agree with this. In my reading, Barnier wants the WA to be accepted as is if possible, but would probably reopen negotiations if Labour took power. But it is indeed unclear.

> I suppose you have seen an indication that he doesn't?

Yes, for the longest time he was talking about a CU (THE CU? or something else, unclear...) and not mentioning the SM. Numerous public statements which I can find if requested. As in, for example, Clarke's proposal during indicative votes. This is nonsensical because a CU without the SM does virtually nothing.

[1] https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-corbyns-ch...
Apple pulls map app used in HK protests
One of the first rules you learn when working for the US military is, if your kick doesn't go between the goalposts... find a way to move the goalposts.

Every military contract/mission officer wants one thing: to claim success for their project at the end of the year. They quickly learn the best way to do this is to reshape the metrics for success so that, whatever the outcome was for that year, you can claim that was the real objective all along. In the space of R&D contracting, it turns out that "blind the generals with flashy demos" does that rather well.

Of course, that also requires that the original mission objective be phrased in ambiguous terms so "goalpost" and "kick" remain freely fungible concepts. To that end, in 1964, "Defeating Communism" fit the bill nicely. Today it's "Defeating Terrorism".
Eh why would you use Ubuntu in a Virtualbox on a MAC for Webdev? Considering browser support, wouldn’t Mac be the safer choice to match potential user systems and browsers, and Windows in a VM or browser stack if you really need it? Are you really using an editor that isn’t supported well on Mac?
Privacy aside, I would never switch to Linux for my desktop GUI, and I’m a command line *nix hacker at heart. Aside from hundreds of unsupported apps, I just don’t like the way other operating systems look. I heard it has to do with font licensing..
My dad worked at the Skunk Works for 20 years, and Northrop Grumman for almost as long. He has a billion of these mission patches in boxes and/or framed in his home office. I love them. Wish there was a big online repo of them to browse.
The strategy should differ based on the role and company, as well as your years of experience and accomplishments. I doubt there's a one size fits all approach.
They measured a bunch of markers of inflammation. That relies on hypothesis that "chronic inflammatory response" is a cause of at least some negative outcomes related to our diet to be meaningful.
That causation is not quite proven.
List of companies who kowtow to Chinese censorship requests