skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a coal powered plant in Eastern Montana that is having troubles.

"Data processing and blockchain interests are the latest entities to court the ailing Hardin Generating Station, a 109-megawatt coal-fired power plant that is seeking a buyer to avoid closure." - https://www.apnews.com/6a577c7d0dc1488b9481d03685950e96

Great, now we can watch train loads of coal go into a building and bitcoins come out! Yeah, that is the smell of progress.
Requiring liability insurance is entirely orthogonal to the cost of the business license. A locality could hand out business licenses for free and require liability insurance.
Yes, I agree. The only people who could possibly have problems with Tesla's hazardous working conditions and union-busting efforts are UAW shills, and as everybody knows, you can't be a valuable contributor to a conversation if you registered your account today. I think Merriam-Webster even lists the definition of "Internet troll" as "someone who has been on Hacker News for less than a month".
Mine has a powerwall disaply. I remembering seeing it and thinking "I bet this is not effective". Guess I was right!
In the bio :)
Your definition of diversification is flawed.

Their customers are diversified not only across product sectors, but across the globe. Unless internet traffic or engagement drops, which it hasn't yet and probably won't until a new technology replaces it, they don't need physical products to make the billions upon billions that they do.
What Big Tech Has Acquired from In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s VC Arm
> For a dramatic example, Amazon could decide tomorrow to give the entire company a 20% raise and eat the stock price crash.

Whereupon Bezos would be removed as CEO and sued into a smoking crater.
Clearly the result of over performing fully roboticized factory.
If you're referring to the map type, that is implemented in plain Go. (Though it does import "unsafe") . There are no generics like you would see in other languages.

https://golang.org/src/runtime/hashmap.go

https://dave.cheney.net/2018/05/29/how-the-go-runtime-implem...
Well, besides stock grants worth billions.
Lately, when I'm otherwise in a good place mentally, I keep the pattern going with:

1. 20 minutes minimum of cardio exercise per day. I avoid doing too much, as being physically exhausted has a negative effect on my next-day energy levels. Physical exhaustion can be useful as a mental reset though if I'm feeling overwhelmed.

2. Lots of fruits and vegetables. I think I'm happier when my gut bacteria are happy.

3. Proper sleep. Being well rested decreases my overall anxiety level. For me this means limiting alcohol, no caffeine past 2pm, and blackout curtains. I take melatonin when I feel like I need it.
Dry-aging is a different thing entirely. Prime meat isn't necessarily dry-aged, and you can dry-age choice meat too.
I don't think usage based pricing is esoteric, if you look towards products in the enterprise space (Gitlab, Splunk, Mongo, etc.) They're all based off of a usage metric of some sort (in our case API requests). We're making on-prem ML accessible at SaaS prices (try negotiating a on-prem contract at other MLaaS). Our costs are continual as we continue to improve the product over time, and those improvements will be passed down to you as a user.

If you're interested in running the product on a licensing fee instead of pay-as-you-go, feel free to shoot us an email at hi@modeldepot.io :) We found that licensed pricing model to be more restrictive for new ML users and increased barriers to entry. If you're not interested in using our paid product, you can check out our primary pre-trained ML platform at https://modeldepot.io/browse and hopefully find a ML solution that works for you without paying a cent.
What is more interesting is that while Linux might be a mess, so is everything else. Neither apple nor Microsoft or IBM managed to put something significantly better out-there at a price that was worth it.

One could consider OpenSolaris as something that could have filled that space in alternative future.

Check out Redox OS, it has many cool concept and is written in Rust.
HVDC is harder than AC transmission, but isn't it a solved problem?

"In July 2016, ABB Group received a contract in China to build an ultrahigh-voltage direct-current (UHVDC) land link with a 1100 kV voltage, a 3,000 km (1,900 mi) length and 12 GW of power, setting world records for highest voltage, longest distance, and largest transmission capacity."

(From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current)
I think Musk perception is indeed inflated, but at the same time you can't blame him for refusing to die.
> combing the aisles to pitch customers

That's really obnoxious. What an awesome way to drive me to other retailers.
Seattle repeals employer tax after Amazon flexes muscles
There's no need for sarcasm. Have confidence in yourself that you can speak plainly and the import of your comment will be undesrtand.
The possibilities for psychedelic drugs to treat and shed insight into mental health issues are exciting. But I think it's worth pointing out (especially if you are a recreational user or are considering it) that we don't understand the side effects very well. Low resolution, we know they don't kill you or lead to addiction (though they can cause problems in people with underlying mental health problems).

But I'm concerned about the subtler, not-obviously-harmful-but-not-necessarily-desirable ways in which they permanently alter the brain. Slate Star Codex has a few recent articles that are worth considering:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/06/06/hppd-and-the-specter-of...

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/28/why-were-early-psychede...
Exactly, the Seattle tax punishes low-margin employers of blue collar workers much harder than it hits employers of high-salary white collar workers. It's as if it were a carbon tax on labor designed to speed to adoption of automation.
Korea to Use Blockchain-Based System for Bank Verification
Can someone from GCP explain why the App Engine standard environment has such long lead-times in terms of language support? What is required, infrastructurally, to ship a new standard-environment language?
In case it isn't clear: This was absolutely a problem for cyclists before the 90s, too.
Hi there! I worked on something similar a while ago: a compile-to-Go superset that adds some generic functions/methods. You may have come across it: https://github.com/lukechampine/ply

My perspective was that when I find myself wishing for generics in Go, what I really want is not full-blown generic types and functions, but rather a few helper functions like map/filter/reduce, or converting a map to a slice, etc.

Having "true" generics is undoubtedly useful when you really need them, but the Go ecosystem has shown that they aren't strictly required in order to write large, maintainable programs. And you pay for them in the form of misuse. In that sense, I view generics much the same as operator overloading.

Anyway, I ran into some tricky edge cases when working on Ply and I'm curious how you address them. First, Go lets you define local types, i.e. with a function scope instead of top-level scope. You can't define methods on these, nor can you reference them in top-level functions. How does Fo handle the case where I want to call a generic function/method on a locally-scoped type?

The second issue I ran into was imports. I didn't devote a ton of time to this, but it seemed like it could be tricky to properly fetch both Go and Ply packages and pre-compile the Ply packages to Go. How does Fo handle this?
Next friday will be my last therapy session. I've been doing it for about 1 1/2 years and I can't stress enough how helpful it has been. It helped me to sort myself out, so now I can go on without it. Maybe I'll need it again in the future, but that's okay.

If you're overwhelmed by your thoughts or your emotions or the nothingness inside you, please DO seek help.

F--k the stigma. You are doing it for you and you WILL feel better.
It can be difficult and it can be painful but it's also freeing.
Could point out something concrete?
PhpMyAdmin 4.7.x XSRF/CSRF Vulnerability (PMASA-2017-9) Exploit
See
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05357-w
and
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/06/09/...

"Though that sounds thermodynamically bonkers, such fuel would, from a legal point of view, count as “zero carbon” because making and then using it involves no net release of CO2 into the atmosphere."
Gardening for me. These are good examples of one of the main benefits of working from home. At many workplaces you need to simply be present at your desk hammering away at the keyboard to signal productivity, but it's easier for remote workers to get up and do their coding while engaged in something like walking or working outside. It's amazing how clearly the solutions for programming problems can come in those scenarios.
People targeting that religion are what ended up causing the human rights laws that say we shouldn’t target religions. I think also the right to join a trade union, though that might have something to do with who was on the winning side in the war that made all of this an issue anyone really cared about.
If you think it's overvalued there is easy way to act on it short some stock.
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A mission-driven organization, that wants to make enough money to continue its mission.
>It's about half an hour a day, that's all you really need. True, if you can't spare half an hour, then you've got greater issues.

Unless you don't have a car, or live in a congested city, or live outside the city, in which case it can be half an hour of commuting time before you get your half hour of exercise. It's also ~$60 a month, which not everyone can spare. Your statement also assumes people aren't working two jobs, and aren't working shift work (or have access to a 24h gym, which not everyone does).
New study examines impacts of fracking on water supplies worldwide
Note that I said nothing about sugar coating. Those were words you chose.

Edit: Interesting. I initially wrote, "Please note..." but then decided to be blunt and leave off the Please. I guess I was, um, too blunt.
Also not a lawyer, but I remember reading on /r/gamedev of a geme developer who got screwed over by his artist saying that he could no longer use the assets, or something like that; I believe the same principle applies here. Copyright belongs to the creator of the work unless explicitly stated otherwise.
> Or make it automatic when the database isn't available?

I agree this is probably a good idea, so I created https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/4382 to keep track of things.

> were there any signs of impending doom before the event happened that could have warned us, and do we have alerts on that?

I don't think you can detect corrupt WAL until it is actually corrupt. In those case the host won't start up, for which we already have various errors that cover that case (e.g. there's an error for when too few transactions are happening).

There also wasn't really any impending doom before we started things. Two issues that triggered this were:

1. A lack of `set -e`
2. Apparently when we stop a command using `gitlab-ctl`, it will time out if the process doesn't stop fast enough. I'm not sure what exit status we report in that case, but in this instance it resulted in the script continuing to run.
An unprofitable business.
The very next sentences after that one are:

"What drives us is our mission to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable, clean energy, but we will never achieve that mission unless we eventually demonstrate that we can be sustainably profitable. That is a valid and fair criticism of Tesla's history to date."
220lb just happens to be almost exactly 100kg, so there's probably a lot of "wiggle".

The BMI chart says someone should be 204cm tall for that weight to be the upper limit of healthy. Most charts don't bother extending this tall.
I would say it is difficult for most people unless they're quite tall.

You'd need lean mass similar to Paulo Costa 6'1 https://i.imgur.com/ZBeIgGp.jpg to be a in a healthy body fat range if my napkin math is correct.
You could have stopped at

> You don't need a "blockchain"
The reply below in a feed from someone called Eleonmusk which I initially thought is Musk himself, offering bitcoins after registering in some scam event...lol
This surprises me. I had assumed incorrectly that flexible environments were the future of App Engine.

I'm pretty happy with using flexible environment for nodejs. However, the fact that this supports scaling to zero, and has headless chrome built-in, I could see using this for a low-cost headless Chrome environment.

I've had several projects where I've wanted a node server separate from the main app server on which I could use headless Chrome for pdf generation. It's never easy to justify the cost of an extra instance for that purpose. But with a zero scale capability, this could presumably be cheaper and easier to justify.
Did you get the TransPRK (SmartsurfACE) procedure? I ask because people from the US typically go to Canada to get it since its not available here. Seems like the much better bet for long term results vs Lasik.
The “habit” I’ve gotten into over the past year are slow, incremental changes based on a simple framework of priorities in order:

1. Health

2. Relationships (wife first, children second, family/friends third)

3. Finances.

Yes my health comes before my wife and family. If I’m not healthy, I’m no good for my wife and family.

That being said, I also knew from the 10 years that I stayed in shape as a part time fitness instructor and surrounded by equally fit gym friends not to do any diet/exercise combination that wasn’t sustainable long term

Because of changes in my personal life (married vs. single), health changes (nothing serious) and being more invested in my career over the past 5 years I stopped working out consistently until late last year.

First change is a version of the “S diet” that I didn’t realize I was doing and eating food lower in saturated fat, sodium, and cholesterol because of high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

I equipped a spare bedroom as a home gym meaning I can work out anytime and my wife works out with me occasionally when she doesn’t go to the gym and I have a consistent (T, Th, Sat) and tracked workout schedule. But mostly it’s 2 hour calorie burning sessions.

I’ve lost about 20 pounds and I’m near my former fitness instructor body.

Next steps....

- Eat more fruits and vegetables

- add muscle building exercises on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Sundays)

- add high intensity interval trainings on (Mondays, Wednesday’s, and Sundays)

————

On the family front, stay off of my phone while I’m spending time with my family and budget “date nights” more often with my wife.
They're a business that's not yet profitable. It's not that complicated.
Show HN: JustAML no more sending emails to yourself!
if you can just invest based on simple metrics like that it would be very easy to make money in the market.
How is it misleading?

They purged contractors not long ago and are now laying off lots of people. Those are facts.

They reported that "production associates" are unaffected by the layoffs -- which doesn't mean that people working in production aren't impacted. It just means that they aren't laying off hourly employees in production. The editorial at the bottom of the article rationalizes the decision and reflects that it is ultimately good for the company.

IMO, it was a pretty balanced article that delivered potentially bad news in a fair way.
Is it a reverse auction or one where the company agrees to gouge the user with high fees that is passes a fraction of to the municipality?
It's not bad of itself but it's nutritionally deficient. My ex raised herps lizards and turtles. Both die of malnutrition if fed too much iceberg lettuce.
I don't know. This seems more like post-rationalization than it does anything else. Note that nobody is calling Tanenbaum dumb or unintelligent. I think even Linus still highly respects his work. However, the claim that micro-kernels will be the future has been a near omnipresent claim for a long time now.

It is interesting to think that they would be easier to secure. I'm not convinced we have any evidence of that. Best evidence we have, is if you are willing to cutoff your past support, you can secure your future more easily. Supporting the past, though, has been a constant requirement of Linux the kernel.

So, I wish the Fuschia folks well, but it is hard not to be doubtful on that front.
Do people just randomly browse GitHub search for tutorials on how to use GitLab? That makes no sense. I'm pretty sure all the traffic that page is getting will be from news aggregators like HN, or from search engines, both of which don't care where it's hosted. It makes more sense to have it on GitLab so you're actually seeing the features being presented without having to go to a whole other site, and to show the site can handle the traffic / use-case.
I don't see why you'd need more than 2 full-time equivalent Tesla salesperson per Home Depot store.

Also, those employees weren't hired yet, the "advisors" were a planned/prototype project.
But the meat in the article is Dry-Aged Prime beef. To make a statement solely about the fact that LaFrieda was using Prime beef without also bringing up that it was Dry Aged removes important information about the product he was using.
I think the point of containers is to make the exact needs of your environment configurable and runable in many different context.

That concept is very valuable and in the future this configuration might compiled to a unikernel that runs directly on the hyperwiser. Or maybe in a process on a microkernel OS that runs isolated processes.
The 'scientific method' is mostly a pop-culture myth. Mostly used to discrediting whatever views one does not like. There is value in predictability, but one must understand its limits. It's one thing to work with electrons and planetary systems. It's easy to be cocky about how successful physics is. But that is far from covering the whole of reality. Our minds, whether you believe that means your brain or soul or both, are much more complex than the hydrogen atom.

It's one thing to appreciate what Richard Feynman contributed to physics, an another to understand his behaviour in striptease clubs. It's one thing to explain black holes and stuff, and another to analyze the correlation between IQ and success, BIG FIVE personality traits, disgust, political views and biases and what not.
I don't think this is accurate. It's the nontechnical zeitgeist shouting blockchain, not those in the know. Just like how carbon nanotubes were supposed to be the best at everything from conductors to batteries to bullet proof vests, and there are 0 usable products on the market.
It's just easier to to get away with for programs.
Even in the EU, not every origin name is protected. For instance, Gouda cheese may be produced anywhere, the Dutch were unable to get that name protected.
Somewhat higher now ($50k). “Mr. Musk’s base salary reflects the current applicable minimum wage requirements under applicable California law, and he is subject to income taxes based on such base salary. Mr. Musk, however, has never accepted and currently does not accept his salary.”

Of course he has also received equity compensation and will receive more in the future if Tesla somehow makes it. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-24/elon-musk...
Wow, this is huge information. Can you link your source?
A local partisan magazine, The Stranger, is a big apologist for this tax. Similarly, it also supports carbon taxes for speeding up adoption of renewable energy technology.

Perhaps the idea is to tax labor to speed up the adoption of automation technology?
Then "consensus on a distributed ledger" is a solution in search of a problem.
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They also belong to the much smaller set of computable numbers. The set of all reals is almost entirely full of absolutely useless numbers- ones that can't be compressed or expressed by any algorithm or notation system with a finite amount of space.
Study confirms lifting weights reduces depression
> Coal production in the US over the past decade was higher than ever, by quite a large margin too

No it wasn't. It peaked in 2008 and is down quite a bit since then. 2016 production dropped 18% over 2015 and was the lowest since 1979. And despite the current administrations best efforts, 2017 production increased ~6% over 2016.
I am waiting for my scheduled HR meeting along with several hundred other co workers in a few minutes. I am an outside, in-home residential solar salesperson hired by Tesla long after the Solar City aquisition. I have relied on the leads generated by the Home Depot employees. I am salaried and most likely going to get my walking papers today. It is apparent they don't see value in the proactive approach process to sales.
I haven't seen anyone else suggest this book yet [1] but I found it incredibly helpful. It's about Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) which has been clinically proven to be at least as effective as drugs and is supported by the NHS [2]. The book was recommended to me by a couple of GP's I know and I use the techniques I've learned from it on a weekly basis to either just relax or to slow down my thought processes.

1. Mindfulness: A practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world by Prof. Mark Williams

2. https://www.nhs.uk/news/mental-health/mindfulness-as-good-as...
> but the language of the US' constitution's first amendment has no such exceptions

None-the-less, those exceptions do exist!

> Comparatively, the right is sacred in the US

I argue this is much more a result of political/governmental culture than the letter of the constitutional law.

I.e., we could swap the text of the First Amendment with the text of Article 10 and speech in the US would still be freer on average.

I believe this because it turns out all of the categories of speech not protected by Article 10 are also not protected by the First Amendment (there are differences, but those differences are matters of boundary rather than category; concretely, Article 10 could be interpreted in a way that's congruent with the current interpretation of the First Amendment).

> Which is part of why most transgressions involve the judicial branch heavily, the exceptions get their own page on Wikipedia.

The thesis that pithier speech protections and less explicit exceptions result in judges more jealously guarding speech is an interesting legal theory. IMO it's much more likely that these differences are attributable to political culture and national ethos.
I am not the someone who is 100% following it but I try my best to follow these:

- Morning walk.

- Be thankful for what you have. It will help you get out of rat race.

- If you follow a religion then get in habit of praying and shift the credit of your achievements towards God and remain humble.

- Give charity as much as you can and look towards the people who are less fortunate than you.

- Help others.

- If you don't have a family, start it ASAP if you can.

Stay blessed!
Well, it's not quite fair to say it's "plain Go." The compiler converts expressions like x, ok := m["foo"] into function calls. User-level code can't define syntax sugar like that. Also, the hashmap implementation imports some internal packages, so you can't just copy and paste it. (I would know, because I mostly did copy and paste it for one of my own projects: https://github.com/lukechampine/randmap)
FCC Chairman Still Receiving Threats Over ‘Net Neutrality’
Isn't it harder to keep rewriting stuff?
It’s a valid criticism they seem unable to tackle without massive layoffs, which seems problematic. Taking credit for clean energy is good PR though... maybe they’re a PR company?