skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a specific website explaining indexing basics and different usage techniques - http://use-the-index-luke.com
Jeah, I found the lack of zoom control also a problem.

shit+rightclick or shift+leftclick works also
I think that depends. I was on a project where we absolutely as developers had to care about DB performance. We even wrote a tool for Sybase that monitored the query plans of long running queries. We discovered that the optimizer was really poor on Sybase 11.X and we needed to force indexes a lot.

Once you learn that DB performance is not a gradual thing, you get into the grove of it. It goes from good to horrible once you hit that magic memory / table size.

Truthfully, if your developers are the ones writing tools to figure out real-time performance, you probably want to start thinking about what's going on. (obviously this does not apply to the parent poster)
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there was a time public opinion thought alcohol should be illegal. there was also a long stretch of time where public opinion thought jews and people of irish descent shouldn't have certain jobs.

public opinion is useless. the US is a country of laws, not men (people)
Pretty much all the usability testing that's ever been done would disagree with you. Do you have a good reason for feeling like your opinion is representative of broader demographics?
Remember kids, paranoia on your part is a mental disorder, whereas paranoia on a cop's part is "reasonable use of force".
Nice, looks very simple. But I don't see how it would make it simpler to build an app like instacart. Try instacart, the app is borderline magical. I've never seen a bug with their cart or the awesome realtime-multiplayer shopping. I'm guessing if you tried to build an experience like that with just intercooler, your codebase would end up being significantly more complex.
Me either. I understand the benefits but for side projects and stuff it's just not a very fun language to learn or use. Even Angular, with it's weird paradigms, seems more natural.
What kind of "main memory" are you talking about? Regular, consumer grade memory, will have a bandwidth at least ten times faster than your 10Gb/s network interface. Change the bit to a byte and you're a little closer.
Every model ever devised lets people run buggy programs. If I couldn't run buggy programs, I wouldn't be able to run any programs at all.
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can anyone recommend a good overview of Raft vs. Paxos?
"As a user, I want to download an application from the original author, and run it on my Linux desktop system just like I would do with a Windows or Mac application."

what? no, man... this is the win9x "freeware" application install.exe, with my machine fill with crap
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ActorDB is very cool, but from what I gather it's — at least nominally — designed to work with many small databases (one per "actor") as opposed one large one, and that the constraints it puts on the query model means you have to carefully design your data model to be heavily compartmentalized from the beginning. It also poses some problems for database-wide queries, which have to fan out to every separate actor database. Whereas rqlite acts like one single SQLite instance, and can work with existing schemas.

Please do correct me if I'm wrong. Would ActorDB be happy and perform well with, say, just one actor?
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Any seller is required to follow Amazon's return policies, not just FBA ones. And Amazon will support the buyer in most cases. If the seller refuses to honor a return, file an A to Z claim.
I agree, but people judge things on appearance.
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Is this of help to you? https://github.com/spotify/debify
I already hold Kenneth in great esteem because of his work on Requests and Clint, both of which I make use of and admire.

This post amplifies my respect for him as a human being.

I welcome posts like this (and there seem to have been quite a few recently) because I really want to be able to talk openly about mental health to gain clarity and understanding.

I am particularly interested in issues around arousal, focus and mania, since these affect our profession so profoundly. (I wonder how many of us in this forum owe our professional skill and aptitude to a predisposition towards hypomania and intense focus).

It feels like our society is moving in a positive direction here -- a move which I applaud and welcome.

The mind is powerful, wonderful and strange, and we need to treat it with respect and understanding -- something that can only come about by being open and honest.
As far as I know, In the US, Apple has always fully and willingly complied with legal requests for data stored on it's servers. Even in this specific controversial case, Apple handed over the relevant data to the authorities upon legal request.

Where they are drawing the line is to "break in" to their customers' devices upon legal request. As far as I can tell from this article, there is nothing to suggest that the Chinese government has ever made such a request.

It is therefore very misleading of this article to compare the requests as if they are the same and to suggest that Apple is complying with similar requests in China while denying the US government.
The statement that 'Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia (the main causes of psychosis) are genetic, not caused by "spiritual crisis"' is not backed by the results of the paper.
I think you perceived this in the context of the medication Lithium, of which I am familiar and have close friends who take it, as opposed to the element. My understanding is that in the Texas study, quantities <1000x those used in the medication in the existing natural source of drinking water still demostrate statistically significant improvements in the mental health of the local residents. Lithium the pharmaceutical is about as high a dose as you can reasonably give people where Lithium the element is effective (seemingly) at <1000x that level. The only other water study was done in Japan and replicated the results but only specifically with respect to suicide [1]. I agree that Lithium in large quantities could be profoundly negative for all those exposed, but that there is probably a poorly understood but clinically viable amount that would improve quality of life without risking toxicity. Various parts of the world including Japan and Bolivia are working on further research to find a more conclusive answer. [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19407280
Desktop Linux is definitely still maturing...

I'm not up on the latest in Gnome-land and don't know the background on the issue you linked, but it looks like the benefit is that they get to stop maintaining a bunch of code for a UI feature they've decided isn't actually a good idea. That will make it easier for them to continue to build reliable software, as there will be less legacy code to consider when writing future code.

The UI churn you talk about may be because the "window manager" concept is probably fundamentally flawed. Creating a coherent and sensible UI when you have to target a whole suite of different window managers which may use entirely different UI paradigms is... probably a nigh-unsolvable problem which might not even be worth working on.
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You buy the land from individuals and pave it. Eminent domain is relatively rarely used in most road construction - at least in the Northeast, almost every road here used to be a dirt trail two hundred years ago.

There is a natural equilibrium between consumer resistance to selling their land and market demand for roads. If you did not have eminent domain being used to compel home sales for new roads, you get this chain of events:

1. Existent road usages increases and grows congested.

2. Private road companies start offering residents to buy their lots to build new roads, because there is now a profit motive off building new roads, and one of two things happens:

A. They can build the road, increasing capacity, making money, and spurring economic growth.

B. They cannot build the road, and the area withers as businesses and people migrate away to avoid the congestion.

Either way, congestion solves itself, and for the landowners the optimal time to sell would be to sell to a road company - it means your land is at peak value, when demand for new infrastructure is high enough to justify investment, which means your property is as valuable as it is going to get.

It is important to remember when talking about things like private roads that we look at it through the biased lens of a society that has been erected on public roads, where you get told how much you get when your house gets eminent domained and the best you can do is appeal to a court that is also a part of the same state that took your land.

I would also imagine that a lot of homeowners associations would emerge naturally, that make it a stipulation of living in the neighborhood that in the event of sufficient demand for new road construction you be willing to sell at some multiple of inflation-adjusted property value, to guarantee that everyone has some price rather than having holdouts who just refuse for any amount. But it would still be your decision to move into such arrangements, and a lot of people probably would not, but businesses would likewise strongly consider the growth prospects of neighborhoods without strong homeowners association sale bindings on property in the area and avoid regions where they know it is unlikely infrastructure expansion could organically keep pace with demand.
They're just stale euphemisms.

http://englishcowpath.blogspot.cl/2011/06/euphemism-treadmil...
Not everyone has root on their Linux box and even if you do, you ought to be able to install applications as you without sudo'ing anything. Right now most Linux applications guide you to a deb/rpm which runs as root (and who knows if you can trust it).

TBH this is just the start of making applications more secure, they ought to be sandboxed too, so one application can't read the data from another application by default (similar to how phones work).
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I do believe in the facts reported by that link (although I don't blame people who don't, scientists in general are not trustworthy). I didn't say that.
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I agree fully. Add in the blatantly fake reviews that are plaguing Amazon (my wife recently got screwed by this on a purchase, thinking it was highly-rated) and Amazon is losing what, IMHO, is a core piece of what got them to where they are. Namely, trust and reduction of risk. They had great reviews that were actually helpful, and if there was an issue they'd take care of it. Increasingly, this is not the case, but it may matter less for them now that they dominate the market.

Today, I increasingly make major home purchases from Bed Bath & Beyond of all places because of their policies. Even if I order it online, I can have it shipped to the store and return it in store for free, with a damn near unlimited return due date. I've even returned a pillow I slept on previously, no questions asked. Add to that the fact I can physically look at the item (absolutely critical for determining color match, build quality, etc.) and for some purchases Amazon just doesn't provide the necessary experience yet (despite having a retail location now).

On the other side of this story, people trying to be Amazon resellers are plaguing every entrepreneur-related forum I used to visit. Between that and subscription boxes they are clearly the next big "Get Rich Quick!" scheme. I can't wait till they die off.
There are some interesting cracks opening up in the two party system. Probably the most notable is the open or blanket primary, where the two candidates getting the most votes in the primary run in the general election. I believe these are currently the case for most offices in Washington and California. In both states this was established by referendums.
you can also push. You could put a band around your eyeballs just like they do on the stomach, to help patient loose weight.
I find it fascinating how many medical "problems" we (Western medicine) have that are perceived differently by other cultures and faiths. I do believe what you say. Presumably Lithium deficiency is something which does not serve ones ability to contribute to our modern economy as much and therefore is seen as being a negative.
You missed my point entirely. A one year degree isn't the equivalent of 5 years of post-bac experience in the field, and that is your first bullet point, the "expected" and most discouraging one - folks stop reading after that. That some folks have masters or PhD degrees is great, but shouldn't be an expectation for a team lead role. I'm sure you'll have issues trying to attract talent with that kind of messaging and expectations.
You can't seriously be saying logical people aren't very curious? :(
While this doesn't answer your question, you will find this interesting - https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/~ongaro/userstudy/
"The government should be able to do anything no matter how egregious and unconstitutional in order to prevent terrorist attacks and keep you safe" would get a whole lot more support than you'd like, too.
I believe Ubuntu has done a some progress in this area with Snap packages.
Yes it is. That's what heritable means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability
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Saving less than 1% may not be worth your time in case of any problem. But often the difference will be much higher, and then it becomes a question of how much risk you're taking versus the savings.

One thing you can do is leave bad feedback, which encourages sellers to behave. Also, before ordering, just glance at the feedback for the seller. I doubt that your router horror story was with a seller with >95% feedback and >50 feedbacks. Takes a minute more and reduces the risk. Or, restrict purchases to FBA, which has customer service by Amazon.
TRIM is like the free() equivalent to malloc(). It releases a NAND page back to free state for other uses. It dones't require any NAND access or writes per-se but if persistent TRIM is needed (vs best effort,) it gets much more complicated.
Why do you think build-out requirements are a dumb idea?
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"scientists in general are not trustworthy"

That's quite a claim.
Good luck sir getting web stack to work with native that's at par with Swift/Obj-C perf. Also, do share some non-trivial apps that you/your team has built using web stack on iOS.

p.s. I've explored JavaScriptCore the first day it was available to developers.

p.p.s. I noticed you are a "React fanboy," so that's normal.
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a.k.a. how Windows executables more or less used to work before the crawling horror that is the registry.

Special support for "portability" is an indicator of a design flaw in your OS.
It would perform well with one actor when compared to a single SQLite instance. Not compared to PostgreSQL/MySQL due to the concurrency model being optimized for many concurrent actors, not concurrent access to a single actor. A single actor can still execute thousands of queries per second however.

Compared to a single SQLite instance ActorDB has two major advantages. No write multiplication due to using LMDB and compression which means reads/writes are significantly smaller. SQLite will always write everything twice. First to WAL, then to the SQLite file and it has no compression capabilities. It should completely trounce rqlite in the performance department.
It's an interesting problem. I used to work for a PCO.

A lot of developers do a really shitty job on the wiring, which is often why in these exclusivity agreements the PCO also negotiates to do the in-home wiring themselves. But these properties were built 10, 20 and 30 years ago when utilization was a lot less and infrastructure simpler. Often these contracts are not renewed (aggressive price competition from the incumbent provider) so it's not cost effective to do any upgrades until contract renewal time.

Then you have overutilized nodes and shitty service.
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Glass falling over your head isn't exactly the same as a gun shooting in a school. When a glass breaks, that's an accident. When a gun fires - it does what it was made to do. Living in a guns-free society is not similar to a glass-free one IMHO.
Yes, those are fair points. It wasn't really the actions/reducers that were the biggest trouble as much as the seemingly strict design around immutable-only data. I actually think that sometimes enforcing some kind of structure around architecture helps protect it from abuse, and following a more Flux-like design seems to help more than hurt in that respect. However, it was more complicated to explain how this worked rather than Mobx's "it works like a spreadsheet" explanation.
Thanks. I have read a great deal about human biology and come to understand that there are systems that reliably stop working across such a material percentage of the populationt that something like water fortification of the elements in question could have immense, permanent, positive impact on the residents. And we could likely find a city in the world with concentrations at that level to regress the data and find any lurking downsides. Since Lithium is already in so many water and food sources, and can be clinically significant at dosages of <1000x the pharmaceutical drug, it seemed like a good place to start!
You're not alone: http://baus.net/im-bipolar

It is interesting that meditation was one of your triggers. Meditation and mindful awareness is something I'm personally spending a lot of time on to reverse the effects of bipolar -- specifically to slow racing thoughts and dislocation from the moment. For me, I feel like it helps. Many things that cause me anxiety I'm able to work out through meditation. For me, one of the hard parts is just letting go.
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Whenever I hear "You don't need jQuery!" I immediately ask myself: is this guy/girl younger than 25?
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Wouldn't it have been nice if he indicated which sequences came from the RNN and which came from the HMM? My guess is that the HMM would generate more feasible (though not necessarily better and in fact quite constrained) sequences given the constraint of the last 5 characters having happened at least once in the training set, so, shooting from the hip entirely, 1 and 4 are the HMM?
Actually it does. Exclusive contracts are how these companies stay in business. The larger providers hyper-aggressively price compete. I've seen 50/50 internet in a Triple Play for $30/mo - for 2 years. Nobody can compete with that pricing.
And your point is Telecoms do additional work for law and security services - doing a on of build of ios is not a huge amount of work.
To clarify, I'm obviously not saying all spiritual stuff is psychosis! I'm saying that it's very common for the hallucinations and delusions in a psychotic episode to have a spiritual or religious element, such as believing that you are a messenger from God, or that you're having visions.
jQuery was invaluable 5+ years ago, but luckily it's not needed for most modern web projects, unless you need to support old IE browsers. Even then, it's worth seeing how many calls you really need to make that are not supported across your target browsers.
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I think even people that are older sometimes forget how terrible it was to develop with JavaScript before things like Prototype and jQuery came on the scene. Just moving from alert() to console.log() was a revelation.
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Nice work! This reminds me to something I tried a while ago:

https://wiffinity.com

They basically provide the same thing but as a crowdsourced list of truly free hotspots and you can connect to them through the app. Only available as a native app though...
They started to provide a beta version of amazon.de in English, which is very nice.
To me, that just sounds like it forces you to do the Right Thing from the beginning. Eventually, you will need to shard your data in some way†.

If you're already locked into a "global queries against tables containing Everyone's Stuff" data model, you end up doing this through Stupid Database Tricks like "see-other" redirection or silent persistent-hash load-balancing (with constant ops-heavy rebalancing as you grow.)

If you think about sharding from the beginning, though, you end up just dividing your data into little naturally-atomic "worlds." Like sharding email [headers, not bodies] by user, or sharding StackOverflow posts by community.

If you don't think you'll ever scale to the point where you'll be forced to make those calls, just pick a different database. (But then, if you don't think you'll ever reach that scale, then literally any database will do.)

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† Unless you're EVE Online. They could probably write a really good whitepaper about how they've scaled their single-node MSSQL database so far. I presume they're mostly following the same patterns you would when running e.g. Oracle on big iron; but—according to most sources—they're just using some heavily-loaded commodity hardware with no fancy IO offloading et al. No idea how they do it.
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Interesting that a patient positively responded to the Shamanic approach. Anecdotal evidence, but it makes you wonder.
I spent 20 minutes trying to find this reference and could not find anything convincingly close enough. It is a sci-fi reference or something that happened in our world? The only thing I could find was FireFly related. My concern in this case would be chronic toxicity, which does as you say occur in some cases at lower than pharmaceutical dosage levels. I would only be campaigning for raising Lithium in towns <25% percentile to a level found in towns in the 75% percentile. This would be relatively simple to communicate to people, and you could point to a road down the street from which people's Grandparents grew up and demonstrate that you would simply be replicating amounts found in that town naturally. I think what is more disturbing is the concept that most people have no idea what is in their water, not that we could arbitrage minerals between different towns and try to come to some kind of optimal mineral content. In the study I reference, the spread between "highest" and "lowest" Lithium content is between ~2000x and ~1000x less than is currently used in the pharmaceutical. So if <10% of Lithium patients have any signs of toxicity (real number, around 10%) and 1% have life threatening toxicity, we could (perhaps not perfect math) assume that only 0.001% of people would experience a similar issue in dosages of 1000x less. My thought is that dosages at that level are akin to living in an area with high Lithium naturally, or eating lots of seafood, and that people would at least consider it, if you could reduce the rate of suicide by 50%. I could be wrong though, lots of opposition to this thesis, including here, including among people who no doubt know far more science than I do.
Thanks, that's useful. I know nothing about SQLite's concurrency model, but it's not surprising that it can't compete with Postgres.

Does this mean that ActorDB relies on LMDB to replace the WAL? I don't know enough about LMDB either, but I presume it has some kind of redo log.
You're right!

Forgetting to say "thank you" to people who helped us a lot is something that happens more than often in IT.

I still remember when I heard of jQuery. It was in 2007 and it was so amazing.

Yes, I admit, the 'alert()/console.log()' was amazing :)
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