skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people are really not that far away. Much closer then at the Florida launch sites.
The U.S. has enough vaccine doses to end the pandemic in 45 days
Grains are staples because they provide a lot of calories.

More calories means more photosynthesis, so more incident light. The marginal energy cost would thus be a lot higher. The cost for lettuce, however, is probably dominated by refrigeration/shipping/logistics. So, from a fundamental cost standpoint (unless you have very low cost energy), that's likely going to be a while.
Two thoughts:

1) Vitamin D levles is strongly correlated with physical activity levels, so a mere observational study can be strongly confounded - which may be part of why this study finds disagrees with some the merely correlational studies in the past.

2) This study is a Mendelian Randomization study, where since you haven't randomized individuals' Vitamin D levels, you instead assume that their genetics are random (you either get a variant from your parent or not, by chance) and that genetics may cause Vitamin D levels. So if those genetic variants are correlated with COVID outcomes, then we say it's because of Vitamin D. Notice the problem? You need to assume that the genetics do not affect anything else except via Vitamin D. Now I think that's where this is very tricky: they're identified variants that predispose someone to high/low Vitamin D via a genome-wide study, i.e. just check everything for correlation with Vitamin D. The obvious problem is that correlation isn't causation so some or most or all of those variants will influence other factors too, and it becomes harder to say that Vitamin D is the reason COVID was severe or not. Ideally you have instead hand-picked variants with obvious known mechanisms as to how they affect Vitamin D metabolism, say. In lieu of that, you have to do various tests that try to spot how problematic this problem is. (Look for "pleiotropy" in the paper. Back-causation is the other problem you need to consider generally, but it's not really a concern here.)

Personally I don't trust those tests further than I can throw them as they make some questionable assumptions. The main method this paper uses is MR-Egger, which (IIRC) assumes that the non-Vitamin D ways the variants affect the outcome are inconsistent across different variants. Like, this variant might act on Vitamin D and immune system but this other one acts on Vitamin D and your cardiac system so we don't expect the non-Vitamin D portion to be consistent. That seems highly questionable, even I would expect the typical state to not be that, where variants that affect Vitamin D are likely in pathways that also affect specific, consistent other attributes. The authors are aware of these difficulties. I can't assess whether they've succeeded in addressing them or not, but I believe the problem is extremely difficult and they have an up-hill battle.
Canon Powershot A20 here

It is really old. It needs a CF card not an SD card. A phone would probably be better, but I do not have a modern phone
Yes I'm over 30 and it is time to get married, although didn't find the right person yet. But what you wrote doesn't work in my country so easily. According to the foreign tax law, even in such case you would be taxed. Even worse you could be sued for tax avoidance. So it is possible but more tricky, like you should rent a hotel each time you come for a visit.Something like this is what I had in mind.

Anyway the question would be how that kind of life style effects happiness, mental health and so on. Really difficult to tell.
I'm into PL(T) stuff and I've gotten tired about hearing about Jai. One thing I like is Jai adopting the SPAD X-form (Chi-form); he (mis)attributes it to Sean Barret:

The syntax name: type = value; specifies that a variable named name is of the type type and is to receive the value value

Where the inferred/imperative-assignment form is a visual reduction:

name : type = expr
name := expr

It has the lovely property that if you elide the type expression the variable gets an inferred type. If you keep the type expression, then the language has both a type-expression for type-checking and type of the value-expression for type-inference; then, the PL can be designed in one of a few ways:

1. If the type expression mismatches the type of the value-expression, fail;

2. If the type expression can be unified with the type of value-expression, keep the unified; or,

3. If the value expression can be coerced to the type expression, keep the type expression.

SPAD used the second behavior and it was the bees-knees. This was especially true since SPAD supported refinement (quotient) types, so you could do things like this:

name : int(-2 < n and n <= 10) = ... complex expression that we can't prove is in the range (-2, 10] ...;

... and this would fail to compile.
It's definitely 'real lettuce' this is not a 'lettuce substitute' so I'm doubtful that the skepticism is around 'taste', and I seriously doubt anyone would be able to tell the difference by tasting anyhow.

I think the 'doubt' is around economics, and possibly the nutritional value.

I can see a lot of people putting these things in their basements.

I mean, we call could just put actual gardens in our backyards, but that might not be 'trendy' enough ...
The Qt project didn't write the origins of Google's browser engine.

Blink forked from Webkit, which started as a fork of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE. Many KDE-projects are built upon Qt, but Qt is an independent project.
Raptor has a combustion efficiency of close to 98.5%, there is no smog from them.

Sound pollution is the real issue, and the shockwave.
The problem is not the client at all. Look at the history of libpurple/gaim. My chat setup used to be an irc client connected to bitlbee (which uses libpurple), and (way back when) the various chat system owners would either intentionally or unintentionally break the integrations fairly regularly.

They have no incentive to keep their API stable since they control their official client.

On top of this, when you try to bridge disparate comms platforms together, you end up with the client having only the common subset of functionality, or with the client emulating functionality clumsily.

The example I'm thinking of is in iMessage, if you're on a group text thread with people who are on SMS instead of iMessage, "tapback" reactions (the thumbs-up, exclamation, haha, etc ones) show up as "<name> emphasized '<the full text of the message they !!ed>'".
I would tell you a joke about UDP, but you might not get it
https://archive.is/AyFjv
"At the speed of light" isn't the problem. We also used to communicate at the speed of light through MySpace, text messages, and so on without these specific problems.
The reason why /r/DIWhy exists at all is because people find weird objects interesting.

I could totally see the top post in the subreddit with the carpet-pedal bike as part of a season exhibition in the Tate Modern.
>The only problem with this, is that its fairly well-known by industry insiders that Apple has TSMC's entire 5nm production locked up for a significant portion of this year, maybe even the entire year. M1 is just the beginning. New Axx chips are going 5nm too.

Maybe I'm not following you, but if this is true, doesn't that just confirm parent's comment that Intel is likely not outsourcing to TSMC's 5nm process? Because TSMC has no 5nm process availability to outsource to?
Yes, it’s not a clean mapping
For posterity, Expunge Both fixed my issues. I also had issues with accounts other than Gmail auto-expunging messages marked with the Trash flag, so I had to tweak mu4e a bit to only move deleted messages to the Trash folder without also flagging them.
I can't say I like the f" syntax much. I think JS's backtick is better.

Other than that, I agree, much better than % and less verbose than .format.

It's just the f" or f' that doesn't sit right with me
Malwarebytes says its Office 365, Azure tenancies have been breached, insists it
Productivity feature: in Chrome 88, you can name your windows
Voting for trump doesn't mean you endorse the capitol insurrectionists. The world is more nuanced than right vs. left. Wide brushes go both ways. If you decide otherwise, then yeah, you're tacitly aligning yourself with the nazis.
its the same in English:

late 14c., from Old English byrddæg, "anniversary or celebration of one's birth" (at first usually a king or saint); see birth (n.) + day. Meaning "day on which one is born" is from 1570s. Birthnight is attested from 1620s.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/birthday#etymonline_v_27158
I don’t login. I just skip the article.
> Also lookup salmonella outbreaks. How, you might ask, does salmonella get into lettuce? You will probably be grossed out to hear the answer.

Spoiler: field workers who don't get bathroom breaks.

I think a lot of people don't understand that farming is messy work. After highschool I worked at a bean processing plant where my job was to pick dead small animals (usually rodents, snakes, and frogs) out of the beans as they sped by on a conveyor belt. The machines needed to harvest the massive quantities of food our civilization requires do not discriminate between beans and the animals living in bean fields. But here is the thing; almost nobody gets sick from this. Wash your produce. Raccoons do it, and so should you. If you do, you'll almost certainly be fine just like nearly everybody else. It's gross, but it's not really a problem.
There are so many greens to grow other than letttce. Vertical farms are only good for greens and soft herbs. And it’s possible to pack it with nutrient dense herbs.
Yeah your premium product in a greenhouse is missing the thing that makes veggies premium...which is terroir. Trust me you can grow great food, it'll just have the same terroir/character as anybody else on the same nute regime as you. Premium comes from the ground and it's also cheaper and easier to produce.
You're telling me that produce grown in its optimal environmental conditions and flash-frozen at harvest is going to taste worse than something grown in a truck in a parkinglot in Brooklyn?

I call bullshit. It's pretty much universally agreed that frozen fruit is fresher and often tastes better, for example.

Flavor is more about varieties being selected for mass production rather than their growing method and transportation. You can transport heirloom tomatoes. Nothing stopping you.
>Growing in warehouses or vertically forces you to substitute the sun with artificial lights

Couldn't one construct pylons outdoors for planting? I don't see why it wouldn't work if you constructed it narrower at each successive plant height.

Some indoor vertical farming I've seen rotates the entire vertical structure, necessitating only one light facing a section of the column. I would expect this kind of rotation might help outdoors as well.
and they say, "monkey testing" is underrated
> interesting social experiment

A social experiment where people from the variable group randomly and freely wander into the control group?

I don't think so.
> Nice for Google to block the project that wrote the origins of their browser engine.

In this case it's blocking the embedded Blink, which is their browser engine, so at least they're consistent?
Doesn't work or very difficult to do. CFC rules.
Messaging underwent an earth-shattering paradigm shift in the past 20 years, so numerous features considered optional back in 2000 are now mandatory when you want any mass market appeal (which is the whole point when messaging is dominated by network effects).

A rework of the FOSS messaging ecosystem was much needed, and Matrix was the one to deliver it and not XMPP. I say the winner takes the crown, especially when the end result is more coherent for users.

The fact is that sometimes the kind of tool you need is a solid monolith built from the ground up with specific objectives in mind, and not a loose accretion of small utilities and extensions.
Mechanical memory written and read remotely
It's consistent with other strings in Python like r-strings and the older u-strings.
Transistor count != complexity. A GPU is hundreds of simple ALUs stacked together. Minimal branch handling, no real speculative execution, no reordering buffers, etc... Very simple, very slow "cores", and just a whole shitload of them "copy/pasted" together. Some moderately complex management blocks then distribute work to all those ALUs, sure, but still nothing close to the complexity of a modern CPU core.

Which is also why GPUs can be built so large. It's much easier for them to handle defects than for CPUs. The loss of a single core cluster on a GPU isn't nearly as significant to the product's overall performance as the loss of a single core on a CPU, and the amount of transistors you need to turn off to handle that defect is much less.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25846391.
It's true that the direct decision was his but this doesn't happen in a vacuum. People talk beforehand — this is reportedly why he didn't pardon himself or his children – and especially now there's no reason why a member of Congress or other national leader couldn't speak against something like this. It practically writes itself — “Republicans support private property rights, thievery isn't something we condone” – so if they want an easy way to show that Trump isn't the party, all they have to do is start.

> While he was in power, sure, Republicans politicians were politically savvy enough to side with him, knowing that the alternative was suicide.

It's not that easy: some people were making a cold political calculation but we're far enough down the Tea Party rabbit hole that there are members who earnestly believe what used to be fringe beliefs. I mean, think about how many right now are willing to unequivocally say that Biden legitimately won the election, which is almost the weakest sop to objective reality possible. That's not going to reverse itself quickly, especially without a hard fight from everyone else still in the party. I know some people who are trying to pull the party back from the edge and I wish them success but the odds aren't looking great.
> On the other hand, Germany's chansellorship does not [...] habe term limits

In fact, there is a limit: A German citizen might hold the office of Chancellor ("Kanzler", or "Kanzlerin" for female form) four times, or sixteen years in total.
Buildings, tunnels and bridges repairing themselves
Watchy Pebble-like Smartwatch with E-paper display, ESP32 processor launched fo
Unity/Unreal visual scripting still carries all the baggage of understanding a bunch of concepts inherent to those engines that visual scripting will not handwave.

This is not true of Construct, GDevelop, et al which have spent a ton of engineering time to abstract all of the engine's underpinnings to make it all very easy to understand for the newcomer to make working behaviors with visual scripting. There isn't any silver bullet to this for Unity and Unreal and for that reason there will always be at least a small market for editors that have significantly less learning curve.

These visual scripting engines are probably eating GameMaker's lunch since GML predates a lot of modern alternatives such as aforementioned scripting and JavaScript support in modern engines with more power available to savvy users.
I've been using Linear (https://linear.app) a little recently (no affiliation), and it has settings to automatically close and/or archive issues that haven't been completed in the configured time period. It seems it would help with the neverending backlog.
Technically, the state legislatures are entirely in control of which electors are sent for the Presidency. It's just that all of them use the popular vote to determine that. They could pass a law that the governor decides who goes, or that the state legislature chooses exactly who. But they don't at this time.

And prior to the 17th, Senator were chosen by the state governments as well.
The way I got used to hjkl home row was by completely disabling the arrow keys in my vimrc file (in normal and insert modes). I was struggling before that though.
Companies are already selling LED growing units for inside the home for food (like aero-garden). The interest is there, what's missing is for it to make significant inroads into the grocery/restaurant food chain.
"I _really_ don't agree that if one of those things happen I will no longer care about accessing my digital possessions/accounts. If anything I need that access more than I did before it happened."

You might care, but most people would have bigger problems at that point.

> I, for one, frequently create accounts at work and when traveling. This subset of people are going to be doing either #2 or #3.

Yes, that's the use case where they are working to extend the protocol for using backup keys: https://www.yubico.com/blog/yubico-proposes-webauthn-protoco...

Again, most people aren't on the road a lot, and most of those that do already follow so many other bad security practices when they do so that creating new accounts in that context will already be fraught with peril regardless of the mechanism you use... and they'd probably be increasing their exposure if they used a password manager. I'd advise them to not do it, or to create a temporary account using some low-security, low-tech compartmentalized mechanism (like writing the passwords on a piece of paper ;-) and then delete the whole thing and create a new one from scratch when they get home, because that's probably less likely to be a problem. ;-)

"For the folks that are still using the same password everywhere I think a password manager is a better recommendation than a security key. For one it helps them everywhere, not just the small number of sites that currently support U2F/Webauthn. For another, such a person is probably at high risk of making mistake #2."

I do use a YubiKey secured password manager for services that do not currently support U2F/Webauthn, so I agree that is really the only practical solution for certain cases. There's an in between space where you can use the SmartCard protocol or hardware based OTP, but... My observation has been that for "most people" the non Webauthn cases are a) not necessary and b) actually far more difficult for them to manage, leading to them simply not using the password manager for a lot of cases.

It turns out the typical person's needs are surprisingly limited, but the risk is enormous as is the number of "pathways to failure".
Removing native flora and fauna and replacing it with domesticated varieties has a clear impact on the environment
Another little idea... Why can't we just stop using coal all over the world?

http://h4labs.org/ive-got-another-stupid-idea-to-deal-with-c...
Un-used land serves a purpose for biodiversity and maintaining ecosystems and plays a role in the climate.

Deforestation for farmland has major implications here.

If you want to make and apples-to-apples comparison, you have to consider what turning a thousand square miles of forest into farmland does versus stacking these containers up.

This solution also claims to use 10X less water, so we can start to factor in energy use related to water production as well.
I'm no an expert on DRM, but maybe someone here is. What would open source programs using DRM look like? My understanding is that the whole point of DRM is to prevent the software and the user from having arbitrary control over the data, which is fundamentally opposite of open source.

Say that Google desperately wanted to support any reasonable method to accomplish allowing open source tools access to DRM-protected media. Is there some way to allow that? What would it look like?
Or a non-profit foundry that serves every semiconductor company in the US. Intel is welcome to help...
Kind of eerie that today, Inauguration Day, there were supposed to be demonstrations at all the state capitals and DC but, from what I can tell by the news, none of these happened. I guess the old "And I'll go with you." line only works once.
What's the reason behind JWZ doing that anyways?
> but they seem to be using their size and market share to snowball competitive advantage in a way that doesn’t necessarily add value for humanity

How can you argue with a straight face that there is no value to humanity? If I have a project and need application logging at scale and I pay AWS for managed elasticsearch, obviously that’s providing me value - that’s why I’m paying for it.

For lack of a better word you seem to have this marxist/communist mentality where you view voluntary free market transactions as somehow not being an example of mutual benefit (the underlying principle of free trade). Isn’t it self-evident that when I buy an iphone or buy food at the grocery store, that I am gaining value?

—-

BTW, you seem to also ironically confuse the concept of monopoly with the concept of free market competition. Being a good competitor, like AWS Elasticsearch, is not a monopoly. Indeed it is Elastic who is trying to change their license in order to monopolize this market.
Also Donald :

"We love you"
"You are patriots"
"They love their country"

Sure, he did say that quote in 2017. That is clearly not the messaging that was consistently conveyed. Hell, you can just ask the hate groups themselves what they think trump thought of them.
I honestly don't understand why the 1984 comparison is not appropriate here, because the book is about the oppression. I don't know how it's for you guys (that's why I asked), but for me it does not matter who oppresses me, government or corporations.
Musician took on biggest TV network over copyright – and won
They have plenty of money. They don't have good management.
I sometimes wonder if we're getting too much plastic on our diet. Or if we're encountering a new form of mass alzheimer's. Maybe from plastic.

Or maybe that's my personal paranoia.
Angels vs Viruses.

About 20 years ago I read an interesting theory about how theoretical aliens would look to us if we happen to find them. The theory was that the assuming that there is life other than earth's in the universe, the probability of it being within ±10,000 years of current human development (i.e being similar to us now ± 10,000 years) is very very small. Most likely, life outside the earth will be 20k, 30k or even 50k, or more years in the future technologically, socially and medically advanced.

Think about, how a human now would look like to a human 50,000 years ago. Or how humanity would look like in 50,000 years. For all I know, we will be able to replace every organ (lab tissue growing), live for a LONG time (Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, metformin) and other unimaginable things.

So, if we encountered "space traveling" aliens, their frame of reference would be completely out of our understanding.
Exactly that is what worries me most. Even lawyers tell they don't know how it would be played out in the long term. Worst case would be: Being taxed very high and then forced to move to an other country.
Yes, but you can also grow that premium produce with traditional agriculture at a lower cost than these alternatives.

It's just that most big farms want the most cost-effective use of their land.

There's an argument that this process facilitates some market for people to pay a premium for produce grown inefficiently, but people also pay a premium for their local farmers markets to grow exotic stuff too. Traditional agriculture still wins, all things being equal.

I dabbled in Aquaponics for 10+ years.
DRM circumvention measures don't have a takedown provision as such, but the hoster becomes jointly liable as soon as they are notified, which was the point of the letter.
Not negligible in terms of pollution