skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In California, armed security guards are required to have their gun holstered in a non-concealed manner. As terrible as the scanning is, a legit user of arms should be fine.
Totally disagree. ‘Same for self-learners: In a book, you can tell the reader to start at some state X, roll a die, etc.’ ->

This requires a learner to parse a procedure correctly AND understand how it relates to the topic. This is both doubly harder on the student and doubly likely to force a mistake (either in the procedure, interpretation, or both). Learning with an approach as given in the article approximately halves the work a learner must do, and increases the likelihood that the topic is correctly interpreted.

Retention with this method, however, is a whole other matter- one that does correlate with the amount of mental effort required, but how much so is a matter of debate.
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They do. Since recreational weed was legalized I've seen a lot of off-duty armed security using public transit.
Are you Tamil? I've never seen Rasam being sold online or in packets like this before.
it's not like the recipient will be resembling you at all, they almost never look anything like donor
I'm not sure about tedious—there's an awful lot of tediousness in internet forum comments—but we certainly see many flags on blatantly unsubstantive posts.
> The dude who carries a gun because he has to carry a ton of cash to fill up ATMs will be arrested

Those folks usually roll around in armored trucks, not the subway.
Oh 100%, I agree. But good luck having that conversation in the US.
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I mean, what's wrong with SOME cities being giant skyscraper filled grids?

Personally I would love to live in that kind of city. And apparently this is also true for a lot of other people.

The low density people have 99% of the world to live in. Why can't us high density people get the 1% that WE want?

Let's just let everyone live how they want. There is more than space for both skyscrapers and suburbs.
Reading the denials of these people about the problem reminds me of the emperors new clothes. They don’t see what is plain to see for anyone with half an open mind.

This insane growth of bureaucrats is particular to the US health care system. While it grows in socialized medicine as well it does not do so at the same insane rate.

This is what the free market fundamentalists wont accept: that their precious private enterprise is often terribly bloated and inefficient.

I live in a country with socialized medicine and I’ve lived in others with universal health care. The most free market oriented I’ve experienced was the American one and it was by far the most bureaucratic.

In software development terminology I think it is easy to describe the issue. You got several components you want to talk to each other. In software engineering that means some central group of people create common interfaces for the components to speak to each other.

That is essentially the function of government. It is what creates the common interfaces. Except in the US this doesn’t happen because somebody is going to scream “socialism” from the top of his lunges.

Instead every component speak to every other one in a clunky manner. Through faxes, paper forms, which are never standarized.

That is what I notice most about the US. There are so often no standards for anything. People just wait for the magic of the market to create one, except that never happens and you end up with half a dozen competing and incompatible standards.

The bureaucracy is the equivalent to all the insane amount of glue code you got to write when nobody has agreed upon standard interfaces.
I'd be keen to know more about how the transcendental instructions worked.
Hey rw, one of the core contributors to TSBS here. First of all, thank you for the work you did on influxdb-comparisons, it gave us a lot to work with and helped us understand Timescale’s strengths and weaknesses against other systems early on. We do appreciate the diligence and transparency that went into the project. We outline some of the reasons for our eventual decision to fork the project in our recent release post [1]. Most of the reasons boil down to needing more flexibility in the data models/use cases we benchmark and needing a more maintainable code design since we’re using this widely for a lot of internal testing.

Verification of the correctness of the query results is obviously something we take very seriously, otherwise running these benchmarks would be pretty pointless. We carefully verified the correctness of all of the query benchmarks we published. However, it’s a process we haven’t fully automated yet. From what we can tell, the same is true of influxdb-comparisons — the validation pretty prints full responses but each database has a significantly different format, so one needs to manually parse the results or set up a separate tool to do so. We have our own methods for doing that internally — once we get the process more standardized and automated we will definitely be adding it to TSBS. We encourage anyone with ideas around that (or anything else) to take a look at the open source TSBS code and consider contributing [2].

[1] https://blog.timescale.com/time-series-database-benchmarks-t...

[2] https://github.com/timescale/tsbs
That's fantastic to hear! Do let me know via email or github etc. if you run into any issues, I'm eager to gather more insights from other people's usecases and work on improvements where needed!
I hate to contribute to it going off topic, but it really is a sad postscript that what could have been an impulsive action as a teenager had such tragic aftermath. Totally separately from reading this I was recently reminded that more than 20,000 people kill themselves with guns in the US per year. And looking this statistic up to confirm it, I learned that people in households with guns were more likely to die by suicide than those without by a factor of 3-4 (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199208133270705 via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...)
Spaces + BunnyCDN is even cheaper. ;)

$6/month = 250GB of static websites + domain registration fees.

If you want to get really cheap, OVH's cloud storage is basically free but you lose https. ($.01/GB of traffic/storage roughly)
Do you really need to do a full copy? What if you had a shared page and notified the user process when the data in the page was available at a certain offset.

Take a look at this paper (FlexSC: Flexible System Call Scheduling with Exception-Less System Calls):

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/...
Congrats on the launch!

My wife's last job was at a factory that produced ice cream, and I was astounded to learn all the stuff that goes into quality control and keeping the food safe to eat. It's actually made me switch my cat food from those sort of 100% organic, high quality things to more mainstream brands, since I think what's being produced is less important than how it's produced, and I tend to trust larger factories by known quantities a little more.

Can you detail a little more your industrial process? The home page says "We make everything from scratch in our Seattle kitchen using only locally sourced ingredients + fresh vegetables" which sounds nice at first, but actually kind of creeps me out a little bit. I assume you have random FDA inspections and the like? Precautions to manage listeria, e. coli? A "locally sourced" supply chain with known quality controls, etc?

Also, is there a detailed ingredient list somewhere? My wife is allergic to chickpeas and lentils, which unfortunately makes eating Indian food very difficult for us, as much as I love it! I see lentils explicitly in some of the items, but others don't mention either, but that doesn't mean it's not used, e.g., in the flour or something.
According to the Case-Shiller U.S. Home Price Index, house prices are almost 2x as high as Jan 2000. Is that not a significant increase to you (inflation was 1.5x during this time)? And that is an average, as urban areas have experienced fast growth.
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Security, performance, ease of use.
We're replatforming for a redesign and so that should fix that, but thanks for the heads up. Just about all maintenance on the current site is on the back burner atm except for GDPR stuff.
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> Enums are also ordered, which can be useful in certain circumstances.

Are they ordered in a way that's different from an integer value that's a foreign key into another table?

The main difference I can perceive is that the ordering is non-obvious to a human, unlike integers, which seems less useful, not more.
You're just saying "the commons" instead of "the community" now. Are renters part of the commons? If so, what it means to care for the renters is part of what it means to care for the commons.
Any recent iPhone/iPad, Apple Watch, the iMac Pro, and Macbook Pro touch bar, all contain Apple's "Secure Enclave", which runs the L4 microkernel:

> The Secure Enclave runs an Apple-customized version of the L4 microkernel. This microkernel is signed by Apple, verified as part of the iOS secure boot chain, and updated through a personalized software update process.

https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
I think you have to explain the purpose of the "shared" team. From my understanding, they should ensure quality and stability. In that case, you have to hire more people to speed up this process or when possible try to automate such tests.

In the other case, you could remove the "public API routes/contracts shared project" and replace it with a proxy like https://konghq.com/kong-community-edition/ which provides better integration options. Imagine each team could deploy multiple microservices without to integrate all endpoints on a shared repository because at deploy time you only have to send the service configuration to Kong and it will route every incoming request with the specified public DNS to the associated target URL.

You could maintain a config file per service (like travis.yml) and use it to configure Kong once when your project is deployed. https://github.com/mybuilder/kongfig

Kong is very interesting because you can centralize Authentication, Logging, Metrics, Traffic for all your services.
Thanks, we've switched to that more textual link. The interactive version is pretty impactful, so people should probably look at both. That link is https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/09/face-tra....
I believe there's a lot more to serving this customer segment. Especially, in terms of engaging the. Often, times it is the details in the "home-made" dishes that differentiate from everything else. It is quite exciting to have the building blocks for having an amazing meal, but the scope of the twist should be customizable. If you could incorporate, a video series like https://www.youtube.com/user/BonAppetitDotCom while using your ingredients (by the way I can get Basmati rice, from any grocery store in US!) and other common ingredients - that would fundamentally improve the experience.
Thanks for both the recommendations but I was sort of hoping for half a dozen lines of C I could compile and run as a really thin layer. Research continues...
We used to have clear guardrails in the U.S. where the government and others could not go. They couldn't decide to use your house for soldier's quarters, they couldn't rifle through your private papers, they couldn't hold you without charges, and so on.

Now there are so many "well, unless you're talking about this other stuff" exceptions that I am unclear: just how much invasion of privacy is enough to ensure the public safety? Random strip searches okay? Maybe we could tap into the cameras and listening devices we've already convinced people to install in their houses. After all, why not? Privacy is dead, right?

My point is that I don't understand where any of this stops, if ever. I am not an unintelligent person, and it looks to me like the world governments are in this to produce absolute security at any cost, hell with consent of the governed. When I grew up, I used to know that the cops couldn't do certain things to you (Well, legally anyway). I have no idea what any of those things are any more.

The country can't function like this. It's not a matter of civil libertarians or any of that. Governments structured like this simply cannot continue to rule over a long period of time. You can dial up the security as high as you want over a generation or two, but long-term it doesn't work. You end up putting the people running the security state in charge of everybody else -- and they're not so stupid they don't eventually figure that out.
> Managers shouldn’t “negotiate” with the estimate

Well, the unspoken part of the negotiation process is, "ok, you said it was going to take two month but how long would it take if you worked 18 hours a day for the next 4 weeks straight? You are on a salary after all."
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Jesus that was difficult. How the hell did she even survive the gunshot wound?
Under what terms does the government get to decide to deliberately strike me with ionizing radiation while I'm making use of my fundamental right to travel?
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Fair enough.

I think we need to market images of badly disfigured veterans as a tragedy instead of an honor.
On the flip side, there are vastly fewer drivers. I can plug a random USB device into a Linux system and the chances are it just works. Same with Windows, though it might require the driver installing first. MacOS might not have any driver at all.
I'm seeing, also at least in the US, a combination of remote work and business moving out of the confines of a large metro's downtown into the sprawl themselves. This reduces commute. I'm also seeing more inter-burb infrastructure becoming private and not relying on funds from the municipalities they traverse. I feel like inner city space is more constrained than outer city budgets.
That would have saved me a ton of effort if I had known that before getting started. Thanks, I'll keep that technique in mind for next time.
Rents are definitely linked, until discretionary income for the local people goes to zero they can still pay more. Housing prices also affect mortgage payments, which rise in tandem.

Looking it up, I see USA is somewhere around 30% of income [1] as housing cost, while NZ is about 17% [2]. Seems to indicate there is room to grow under tight supply conditions.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-save-more-money-2017-...

[2] https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/household-inc...
Borrow a book and take it to the coffee shop. Or request a coffee shop be put in your library. Or bring some coffee with you.
> For Blue Origin, they don't have any customers yet, so no income there.

You couldn't be more wrong. They've had payload customers for their test flights. They also have 4 large customers signed up for their New Glenn rocket (in development).
Public urination has several causes: 1) People not caring enough not to; 2) People can't find a public restroom and they have to pee; 3) People can't afford to use the available restrooms.

The first of those could possibly be handled with threats and punishment; the other two would only be minimally affected by that.

Yes, it's sexist to only provide facilities for men—whatever the argument. I don't disagree! But corporal punishment for urination, as rayiner was suggesting, without providing free public toilets... that's just cruel.
Thanks for the great article. And I found a ton of other interesting stuff that will keep me reading for some time.
So your argument is that venture capitalists are idiots, throwing money at people building networks and not expecting anything of similar value in return? VCs are not in the habit of throwing money away. When a VC-funded venture succeeds, the VCs take the lion's share of the rewards. Accepting VC funding is not a quick path to easy riches. (Of course, the VCs are also taking on the majority of the risk if the venture fails, as happens more often than not; in the end, over enough ventures, it all balances out.)

Capital is not money, but rather durable goods which contribute to more efficient production. It is the networks which are the capital here. Money can be used to buy capital, but only if someone goes to the trouble of designing that capital first. There is plenty of available labor looking for productive work to do, just as there are plenty of VCs searching for ventures likely enough to succeed to justify the investment. It is a lot easier to find people able to do whatever work is required than it is to find the right capital (networks) to organize them and enabled them to do the right work productively.

Both capital and labor are needed. The networks receive a greater portion of the reward because they are more scarce than labor as well as contributing more to overall productivity.
I would guess that it's swelling and scar tissue buildup (fibrosis) from the surgery and ongoing autoimmune response. As far as her immune system is concerned, the grafted face is a foreign invader. She's going to take anti-rejection drugs her whole life and she will always be at risk for total rejection in the future.
Yes, whenever feasible, the donor is still on life support and the organs are removed before the body dies, ideally in close proximity to the recipient. I used to work with the eye harvesting team all the time when I was a surgical tech. A quick Googling turned up this: https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/i-harvest-human-eyeball...
Sometimes food is prepared for flavor, based on a consensus of what tastes the best.

If more people affirm that a given recipe is the most desirable, it would be completely ridiculous to impose a lesser recipe upon the menu, if it sells poorly.

I can easily prepare low sodium pretzels, and try to sell them at the county fair, but what good would that do, if every passer by takes one look at my pretzels and asks, “Where’s the salt?”

Then I’m selling maybe 90% fewer pretzels, but wow! Look at the complements I get from those one or two people who appreciate the effort, but still don’t necessarily buy anything.

If three or four people out of one hundred are apt to complain about a detail like sodium, that the rest happily ignore, then keep the preferred recipe, and offer a separate low-sodium menu, optionally.
Let me preface that I like the concept and it definitely makes it easier to introduce some folks to actually cooking this food at some point down the line.

That said, I don't understand how you have this much salt in these packs. I'm south indian and cook on a regular basis; specifically I cook these foods quite often and the spices involved generally don't have salt mixed in (unless the spice mix wasn't ground by you originally and so I can see how the salt would be mixed in, but still)
Do you have some examples? I am not aware of any.
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This will never work because each browser has its own idea of how native controls should be rendered, even within the same platform. The link you posted even has examples of this. I'm all for the idea of using OS-native controls where possible, and for native apps you should absolutely do this, but I just don't think it's feasible on the web; I believe making your controls consistent across browsers is a better goal in most cases, as long as you don't sacrifice accessibility.
In other words, people can still freak out over "cancer!" but it's just from the non-stop onslaught of harmless wifi and cell and radio and satellite frequencies that penetrate some and reflect some. Plus probably some infrared for the "emitted by the person" bit specifically. Passive signal analysis can be very revealing.
To get the most out of my periods of intense focus I try to plan multiple after hour activities.
I find that tactile activities such as climbing and pottery really help with balancing my brain and softly undo the anti-social mood that develops in me during long coding sessions.
Looks amazing. Don't forget the english ex-pats too - the Daal Pack looks lovely.
No, because the library is just as much for them as it is for you. The best way to remove "homeless junkies" from your community is to help house and rehabilitate them.
> Which one are landing orbital class rockets again?

Blue Origin is also developing VTVL rockets.

BO is expecting to have passenger flights by the end of 2018.
> Though I sometimes think there’s a contradiction there that if you do understand other humans you don’t tend to end up so far down the libertarian scale in the first place

I've started to come to the conclusion that anyone who studies economics, systems, and political science more than they study psychology, sociology, and history is at dire risk of becoming a libertarian.
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You'd be surprised. I've seen college girls carrying backpacks with 40k in cash to do a drop. They blend in.
I don't get why you are getting downvoted. For that price, you could easily get a few pounds of the spices needed to cook those foods.
From what I've read in financial publications, it's getting its act together. It's sick of doing contract labor making flip-flops and other plastic bits, and is making investments in infrastructure to compete in the long-term.

So, compete today? No. Compete in 2030? Maybe.

I haven't been there, myself, but that's what I read.
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So why is it that you can be hit and handcuffed for yelling at a police officer, but you can swindle the entire population of the USA, force sweeping policy on them against their wishes, and send a wave of lies at them to cover your retreat, and all you get is a tongue lashing? I vote execution. I'd say that he has caused damage he can never repair, and it is tantamount to treason. And imagine how many people will choose not to follow in his footsteps of fucking the public, when those steps include a last dance?

Washington needs more corporal punishment.
Think hundreds if not more different pathways utilizing many different mechanisms that are not even mapped that well. Anything from external to the cell molecules to internal ones to noise based ones. And then add on top of that variations in tumor topography and variations in each tumor type that make some people with the same cancer react to a drug really well while others don't.

Also no categorization in medicine is arbitrary ( or at least almost none). Everything on a clinical level is categorized based either on how it's best diagnosed or cured, for example a cancer might be categorized as a small cell lung cancer when it comes to chemo but use a different classification scheme from radiologists when surgeons are concerned because they care about the area of effect instead ( in both cases a cure based taxonomy). The small cell cancer has different molecular signatures than e.g. non small cell types which means it will react differently on specialized antibody therapies.

This taxonomy is nowadays expanding rapidly based on new drugs and studies on which variations of proteins they are effective.
amazing!! cant wait for this to be in the main branch
There is no loyalty when dealing with profit.
As they used to say, "war is our profession - peace is our product."
... what country?
You could always hire remotely, which means zero in office costs.
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