skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prepared tomato products are not made from greenhouse tomatoes.

They are made from varieties that taste good and they are picked ripe instead of for shipping.

For cooking, canned tomatoes are usually better than fresh store tomatoes. The fresh ones are for salads or whatever.
I agree that this paper, at least the 'summary for policymakers', is trash and comes pretty close to denying. It scratches on the surface of some good points, but doesn't follow through. But even then, I rather have someone offer a (stupid) counter-argument than no counter-argument at all.
I cannot talk about Aliexpress because I never ordered there (seems absolutely chaotic for my taste), but rarely do I see better prices on ebay or other merchants. It happens, but it is very rare for my use case.

In contrast, Amazon's customer service is superb. Let me give you an example of many years ago. I bought an external hard drive in Rakuten, and instead of being 2 TB, I received a 1.5 TB one.

I called to complain, and they told me I was outside their complain window. The crazy thing was that for them, their claim window was since they shipped, and this purchase took 4 days to arrive. I was off by 2 days according to them, but totally fine if you count the time from when I received it.

This is the opposite experience I have had with Amazon. They are always trying to help and fix things. Now that I live in Germany, Amazon has auto translate so I can keep purchasing things easily. Another example of going the extra length.

That said, I try to purchase from other merchants, because a monopoly is never good, so I go to Saturn and MediaMarkt a lot.
First Measurement of Near-Threshold J/ψ Exclusive Photoproduction Off Proton
By political discussions, you mean openly supporting (and fundraising at Google for) white pride organizations?
Obama's prize was basically a collective sigh of relief of him not being Bush more than anything. The amount of celebration over Obama's win by non-Americans was at a level I've never seen before.

Expect a similar sigh of relief once Trump goes, though perhaps a bit more muted because we're more cynical about what will come next by now.
Is Waze available in HK or China?
My experience is that this China obsession is very much a HN thing. The vast majority of people couldn't care less as long as they carry on getting cheap technology.
Microsoft not only is still around, it has a 25% higher market cap than Google.
Open Ended Intelligence: The Individuation of Intelligent Agents (2015)
Uh, from the article: why is he using sudo to run a python script?

sudo twint -u bellanow1 –media -o papuabots1 –csv

Not good
There is no Linux usecase asking for it. We happen to be using bpf outside of the kernel.
Indeed. I believe the smallest — most hobbyist fusors — are about the size of a suitcase.
Law enforcement, district attorneys, and judges have a lot of latitude about how the law is applied. Not to mention the latitude that regulatory agencies have.
> For whatever it's worth, even though I am a white male nerd myself, I never really felt welcome in "hacker spaces" and such.

I never really felt welcome in my university sci-fi club, and only went a couple of times. Looking back, I realise it's because I was cripplingly shy rather than through any fault of the other people in the club. (In fact some of my good friends now were in the club at the time!)

I think this kind of thing is more common than usually acknowledged, especially in this kind of discussion. It's one thing to feel out of place or unwelcome, it's quite another to lay sole responsibility for your feelings on the people around you.
> I gather we call them "killer whales" because of a mistranslation of "whale killers".

I thought this was a stupid assumption so I set out to prove you wrong. I was wrong [0]. I could use practice humbly admitting that more often. Wiktionary, for what it's worth:
Calque or mistranslation of Spanish asesina-ballenas (whale killer), referring to their tendency to hunt whales.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/killer_whale
The reason this article was written was because Wired paid a journalist to peruse a bunch of academic journals looking for interesting stuff. If you cut Wired out from the profit loop, you’d have to read those academic journals yourself, or depend on other users on this website to do it. I don’t see either happening reliably enough to compete with a paid professional.
I propose a new law: any sufficiently outrageous scam is indistinguishable from a unicorn

This, Theranos
Seriously? Also, I think you mean Microsoft > Google > Bing (Microsoft) ?
n=27, testing several things at once, funded by Big Blueberry

Well below the threshold of common interest. Small effect size on what is effectively a significance fishing expedition.

>Acknowledgements

>We appreciate the support of the Wild Blueberry Association of North America for their provision of the wild blueberry powder used in this study. Further, we thank the South East Doctoral Training Centre and the Wild Blueberry Association for their financial support. This work is part of an ESRC Case funded studentship. We also thank the participants and school staff who accommodated this research.
Pretty funny how Javascript/Ecmascript has become the language Java aimed for. Purely by accident.

Of course it's not really "write once, run everywhere" but I think it is closer than any other technology. Today you need to use JS and most apps need to be on the web, so it makes sense for me at least to use javascript everywhere. If Google or Apple made their phones today, I think they would most likely have chosen Javascript as the language of choice on the platform.

I have zero experience in React Native tho, but I am for sure gonna learn it now that you can use it on so many platforms to create really nice apps.
Dyson gives up multi-billion-dollar electric car project, says it’s not viable
I'm sure https://xkcd.com/1138/ is relevant.
Lessons Learned from Building an AI (GPT2) App
Not really on topic, but I'm trying to find some way to get EMG (muscle) readings preferably without using glue (which I suspect can become messy) or disposable electrodes (which can become costly). What is the best way to do this?
Lead(Pb) in the air maybe?
A friend of mine is a police officer and regularly posts on Facebook about the events he's policing. By your logic, if someone used that information to track him down and attack him he's the one breaking the law?

Incidentally if he posted about a riot in our city (thankfully pretty much unheard of) he'd be carrying out exactly the same function as this app!
Is Google Unstoppable?

At this point Amazon is probably the less evil corporation compared to Google.
I find their product ratings and reviews very valuable, although they have suffered a lot recently especially for Chinese products, which usually have a ton of fake reviews.

As opposed to this, Ebay's seller ratings never had any value to me, because I am not really interested in who is selling the item. Maybe it was useful fifteen years ago, but nowadays I simply expect an item to be delivered on time if I order through a large retail website.
Pride. "I'm the boss, so I know best". A proud person doesn't listen.
As an Amazon seller I have a growing belief that Amazon size and support approach via AI will be their compromise.

AI can't offer good customer support, and won't offer good customer support for the foreseeable future (at least in my eyes).

As an Amazon customer (in the EU), it still lacks a lot of choice, but prices are good for some items. Yet anything that would require a bit of customer support I wouldn't buy it on Amazon.

And by customer support I don't mean: "give me a refund".

A refund is the last thing I want when I buy a product - it means what I got didn't help me at all. It wasted my time, and I still have a problem.

With this said, ecommerce wise, I think Amazon is a giant with a lot of flaws bound to their size, that can be tackled by other players.
> This exact sentence was published by many of the other bots in their own individual tweets using the hashtags #westpapuagenocide and #freewestpapua.

A clickbaity video "what the government is trying to hide" that contains pro-gov messages ("they've developed an app for personal finance management and are giving villages more opportunities", "they are helping the food industry") posted under those hashtags. Is that attempting to influence people that are looking up those hashtags (presumably expecting to find info on "the genocide"), or is that just to add noise to the hashtag?

It looks too high quality for just noise (so it's probably too expensive to produce a lot of that content), but on the other hand, I can't imagine someone saying "woah, there's a genocide going on in west papua? I better check twitter. Ah, here's a video ... mhh, they are deploying an app to help people with finances and there's something about the food industry? I'm now convinced there is no genocide". Like, is that some "if only people knew about our app, they wouldn't mind the crimes" thinking? Does that work?
No, but the US can make it hard for certain companies by imposing tariffs that hurt certain industries and “investigating” companies that get on the wrong side. Do you think a Democratic administration would target companies run by the “liberal elite” or that a Republican administration would go after churches that are supporting political candidates?
We should be doing both.

Exploration of the solar system could be the greatest human endeavour of the next hundred or thousand years. Both manned and unmanned missions will be needed.
For USB-A, that's explicitly not allowed. From the standard:

USB Type-C receptacle to USB legacy adapters are explicitly not defined or allowed. Such
adapters would allow many invalid and potentially unsafe cable connections to be
constructed by users.

For DP and HDMI, I haven't seen the standard so I don't know if they are allowed, but they probably aren't, because they would be confusing for users. Such an adapter would be a USB-C "sink", and when you connect two USB-C "sinks" together, nothing happens (it would be like connecting together two devices which only have the classic USB-B port). So if a user tried to use a pair of these dongles together with a USB-C cable to replace a "native" DP or HDMI cable, it wouldn't work.
Yes, less of a show.

Ask around at NASA labs how people got into the industry. Among those who were born up until 1970ish, almost every single one will tell you that he was inspired by the moon landings. The trend goes on even outside NASA, when asking people in STEM industries.

Furthermore, I would argue - though I have not seen a study on it - that these are the most enthusiastic people, those who love their work.
There is sadly no reflection nore code generation yet in C++ so that cannot work without lots of ugly macros.
Especially seeing the app doesn’t do anything that the website can’t do.
That may well be true.

In this case, the link was to an article, not a study. The article clearly implies causation.
This whataboutism doesn't disprove any of the GP's claims.
Who's John Galt?
Alternative source of pretty much the same news: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-boeing-airplane-faa/f...
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The authors wrote that they gave 240 g fresh blueberries containing 253 mg anthocyanins. That would be 105mg anthocyanins per 100g (provided that the authors didn't actually mean 253mg/100g).

According to this table, that's too low for the European Blueberry:

https://www.intechopen.com/books/superfood-and-functional-fo...

(What I am doing with my life? I don't even know what an anthocyanin is)
Scientists are decoding the genetic mechanisms of aging
Yeah, in fact many folks have created DIY fusors in their garages. Just hook any sort of energy harnessing device onto that and you can claim you've got a fusion reactor too!

https://makezine.com/projects/make-36-boards/nuclear-fusor/
If someone is interested in seeing what this would look like in code, I recently made a Rust implementation of this algorithm :

https://github.com/lovasoa/seamcarving/
They (very quietly) created a special version of iCloud which is entirely run by a Chinese state-owned company. I don't see how that's any different to "a special version of the OS with a backdoor".
See, now, this is proper scary. A US pre-emptive nuclear first strike that could happen at any moment is something that really worries me.

The fact that the US appears to be optimising its nuclear arsenal to do this is frightening. And giving the Russians/Chinese less and less room to do the same is frightening. And then the US giving the keys to this decision to someone as egotistical, narcissistic and unstable as Trump, is really frightening. I can totally see him deciding to launch as a hissy-fit reaction to being impeached.

I think I'm going to rejoin the CND, if it's still a thing...
Those are my exact conclusions too after doing a lot of research and experimenting. I may add that high intensity exercise seems to work best for the brain. I'd also add stress to this list - people underestimate how big it's impact can be nowadays.
Russia and China are developing missiles that are a major improvement on what they had? How does this not threaten stability? Is the bulletin afraid of President Xi?
Ah, the beauty of dogfooding, a.k.a. bootstrapping, as Douglas Engelbart called it¹.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agdPQuFr0yg
The paper doesn't seem to be freely available; there's just the abstract. The first sentence of the abstract mentions "short-term". So I think what they've detected is that in a given locality people get violent when the air is dirty, which is not surprising, of course, but it's interesting to have an estimate of the magnitude of that effect.

One would like to know for comparison what the magnitude of the effect of humidity and temperature is on violent crime. Those numbers are probably in the paper somewhere because the abstract mentions how they had to "address confounding variation between temperature and air pollution". It not being mentioned in the abstract makes me suspect that the effect of pollution on violent crime is probably rather small compared to the effect of weather on violent crime.

(Is there a positive correlation between people stating stupid banalities and violent crime? Probably there is, because people who parrot things like "Correlation does not imply causation" tend to get punched in the face. For the avoidance of doubt, that was a joke, not a veiled threat.)

EDIT: The last sentence of the abstract strikes me as highly questionable (though perhaps there's something in the paper to justify it). Just because there's a short-term correlation between pollution and violent crime doesn't mean that there will be a long-term correlation with a similar magnitude. In other words: if you reduce pollution globally over the next ten years people might just raise their expectations and be just as violent on the days on which pollution is relatively high as they were ten years previously.
It correlates.
>The first priority is always profits or growth.

When Apple split with Google, they did so over access to customer data. At the time wall street was salivating over the huge profits to be gained from mining customer data, and Google was dangling billions of dollars in front of Steve Jobs' face to get him to fold. He didn't, and also turned down lucrative deals offered by Facebook.

That was all at a time when user privacy was widely seen as a marginal issue, and long before big privacy breaches regularly got into the mainstream press. Apple could have made huge amounts of money, but instead they turned those deals down and instead spent billions of dollars building their own maps and engineering iMessage with end-to-end encryption. No other tech company has come even close to Apple's record on user privacy and security. I can't even think of another one that's even tried.

That's what's so upsetting for me over this HK Maps issue. I know they have a lot at stake, including the livelihoods and safety and security of thousands of employees in China, but I still think they made the wrong call on this.

iMessage is pretty secure, but there are practical limits to how secure it can be, while also enabling cloud backups and data recovery options. Here's a somewhat sensationalised take, which does go into the practical reasons for the limitations. What it doesn't point out is that if you don't enable iCloud backup (maybe just backing up to iTunes), your secure keys never go to the iCloud servers so there is actually a way to stay secure even in China.

https://medium.com/bob-kfir-tech/how-secure-is-imessage-8cc7...
Linux Security Summit 2019: Kernel Self-Protection Project Update
When I used TensorFlow (briefly), it seemed there were tons of hidden assumptions my stuff had to follow or it wouldn’t work. PyTorch has a few I’ve run into, but mostly seems to “just work”. That’s why I think it’s much better for building anything novel (at least for the first time).
This algorithm is relatively old, but there is an interesting question about it: given how well it works (eg on landscape images), one wonders if and how it could be recast in a deep learning / differentiable programming setting.

The problem is, the dynamic programming and/or median extraction techniques that the algorithm uses (IIRC) are not very differentiable.
> No. Instead it means you are a project manager, and that often implies that your technical skills are on the same level as that aunt, maybe slightly better, but not by much.

I am not a PM so I couldn't care less, but I think this is really condescending to people who work in that role. If you're a knowledge worker, it's your responsibility to make yourself familiar/efficient with the tools you use daily.
OP's account is 16 days old and has literally no activity, besides spamming the same couple repos.
People willing to breed and die during the trip would work too. At which point it's a pure engineering challenge, albeit a hard one...

Sending humans to outside the solar system doesn't mean they have to be the same humans that departed.
vegans don't eat honey, I don't think you will see them eating bees either.
The irony of crime is that its how politicians justify there existence. So, expect more polution.
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They're both points of equilibrium; Lagrange points are both stable (like a ball rolling in a half-pipe) and unstable (like a pencil standing on its tip) equilibriums. A stable equilibrium means that when an object in that point is displaced, it starts oscillating around that point, and unstable means that an object at that point, when displaced, will uncontrollably move away from it, unless you push it back onto that point.

Well, the Newtonian gravitational potential is far more simple to deal with than something like super hot plasma confined by a strong magnetic field. But yeah, you typically do not want that moving around the place, so I presume it's a stable equilibrium.
This is exactly what authoritarian governments do. They muddy the truth and make official and important sounding institutions make official statements that paint a situation in exactly they need it to be to further their own goals.

And how is this different than the current American administration?
Fun fact aside: Arno Schmidt's grandnephew is Dave Winer. We know Winer today more as the chief populariser of RSS but his life's idea is more in Outlining, organising your thoughts in nested lists and, since he's a programmer, coding in and on outline structures.

If I remember correctly from his blog Winer and Schmidt never had much contact, language barrier and such, so it's more of a coincidence.
> it’s the instruments you’re sending that collect data

When you know what data you want to collect (temperature, pressure, chemical composition) then I agree that robots are far more efficient. However, humans will measure the things that you didn't know were there. Discovery.

There were countless examples from the Lunar missions. Just as an example that comes to mind, we sent no colour cameras to the lunar surface as "there was nothing of colour to photograph". Despite that, I believe on the last lunar landing Schmidt (or Cernan?) noticed that the regolith was actually orange in some places.

You could argue that instead of a black and white camera, a colour camera could have been sent. But that is a different instrument package, and just as likely a million other sensor packages could have been sent. That is one human advantage - we have an extremely extensive array of sensors that come with us. In addition to those sensors, humans have processing and reasoning skills, dexterous hands, mobile legs, random-access memory, and are preprogrammed to solve problems, take interest in anomilies, and make connections between seemingly-disparate events.
I agree with you, with small adjustments here and there and some research, linux works decently enough.

Just in this context, we started from a post complaining about having to click into a lot of dialog box every first time something is done, and some stuff that doesn’t synch correctly forcing debugging and some setting reset/resynching. That’s such small potatoes in comparison.
what about seawater?

i know that san onofre used to be cooled that way... or do they require basically non saline water for this...
As early Java adopter, I find it ironic that Java is already considered a PhD language from Go users point of view.
I'm not sure where you have heard about this? Their DCTCP extensions have never been posted in the first place to a public list as of today. Pretty much all of the core TCP developers for the (upstream) kernel's networking subsystem are employed by Google and doing an excellent job. That said, I would love to see their extensions integrated into the upstream tcp_dctcp module.
The mindset of people expecting Apple to do certain symbolic acts, but finding it perfectly fine to continue pushing billions into China is somewhat baffling.
Greta was the subject of the OP I originally responded to. I think she is relevant, since she is the #1 figurehead for climate change responsibility at the moment.

Anyway, I hear your point about Germany, but .. so? We can't go back and fix this. We must look forward to our own futures and do something effective about it NOW.

Myself, I'm divesting myself of all oil-based energy sources. I get my electricity from renewable (wind) sources, and live in Austria where we have been managing renewable energy projects for centuries.
The patent in question: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190295733A1/

It doesn't seem to have been examined yet.

Only a single inventor is listed, Salvatore Pais[0]. He's also listed as inventor for a "Laser augmented turbojet propulsion system", "Craft using an inertial mass reduction device", "high frequency gravitational wave generator" (which was granted) and "piezoelectricity-induced room temperature superconductor".

All of which would be massive technological breakthroughs. Meaning he's either the 21st century's most brilliant physicist or a crank.

[0] https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Salvatore+Pais
It's the patent by Salvatore Cezar Pais. The same guy who patented gravitational wave generators, room temperature superconductor and "craft using an inertial mass reduction device".
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21208051

Seems like the HN community expressed scepticism/doubt about the science behind patents filed by this guy? (Also commented in the posts regarding the ufo sightings by us navy pilots).
That's not really a truthful reading of what she is communicating.
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Google pulled out of China because their market share and profits were non existent.
I didn't see any mention of Android in GP's comment. Can't miss any opportunity we can to have a dig though, can we?
These posts must be causing the statistical studies!
I’m sharing my (successful) Harvard LLM application