skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm certain I'm missing something very obvious about Elasticsearch and other NoSQL data stores.

But in my brief experience with an Elasticsearch-backed web application I found it difficult to write integration tests for the portions of code that dealt with ES. Thanks to ES's "eventually consistent" nature, tests would fail intermittently because we'd be e.g. querying some data that was written to ES but hadn't been fully persisted yet. ES gives you some "flush the data to disk right now, please" commands but they're merely suggestions and cannot be relied upon.

Obviously, you want to stub/mock out as many of those actual physical database reads/writes as possible, but sometimes what you want to test is the ES queries themselves and I don't know what on earth the best practice is there.

Just to reiterate, this is an issue that any non-ACID datastore would experience. I'm not criticizing them, I'm just sort of wondering how people typically solve that...
I love my Audi S4, but I find the Tesla Model S to be even more fun than my car. Unfortunately it's too expensive.
A scalper's gonna scalpe
The worst offense is two-world last names. If you give me one field that says "Full name" I may as well roll the dice to determine if the three strings I input in there are First Middle Last, First Last1 Last2, First1 First2 Last, etc.
Journalism is already doomed.
Lending has always used reputation as collateral and the threat of social shame as an enforcement tool. "Pay up, or I'll tell everyone you're a deadbeat." Sexual propriety is far powerful social norm than keeping one's word; this was bound to happen. Still diabolical.
In an ad hoc situation like a rescue, what would the backhaul be?
crocodile clips instead of alligator clips, hehe
> Of course it doesn’t hurt that most Japanese cars sold in the U.S. are made in the American South.

And it's not just Japan. My 2 most recent "foreign" sedans, one Hyundai and another VW – were manufactured in the US.
The price peak was December 2017 — but the hash rate was six times that by August 2018, at one-third of the price.

Mining 1 BTC cost way less than 1 BTC during the bubble. So, to compete, miners built out big.

The hash rate changes approximately every two weeks. But capital expenditure — building and deploying single-purpose mining hardware — has a rather longer lead time.

The price just crashed, and the hash rate is now dropping off sharply. So everyone’s getting squeezed — the cost of mining 1 BTC is circling 1 BTC, like it was in the doldrums of 2014-2015.

F2Pool founder Mao Shixing estimates 600,000 Bitcoin mining machines shut down in the last two weeks — mostly older, less efficient machines.
...
The interview with Mao Shixing gives us numbers for how cheap Chinese power actually is. Summer prices are around 2.9 cents per kilowatt-hour. We’re coming into winter, and it’s more like 4.3 c/kWh.

The current worldwide hash rate is 45×1018 hashes per second. If everyone is running an Ebang E-10 (which they’re not — most mining is less efficient), at 0.092 joules per gigahash — then in summer, that’s about $2750 a bitcoin for the electricity alone.

Around now, it’s getting to … around $4000 to mine a bitcoin.
Also no relation to Sinclair Reasearch's famous home computer.
You dont get keto acidosis by eating low carb, that is misinformation.
I can't imagine how expensive it must be to keep this type of omnipresent security running 24/7. I'm guessing if the Chinese economy ever starts to take a downward hit, it'll be something like this that gets the axe.
Stock Market Reactions to Long-Term Plans Measured for First Time
I sometimes wonder if there's a requirement for making electric/hybrid cars "ugly". Like nobody will know you're driving an EV if they don't slap some bizarre styling on it!

The new Prius models look like somebody took a spaceship from an 80's B-movie and decided to model a car from the concept.

The Clarity looks as if they took an Accord but then punched it in the lip. And then they tried to make the back look like a Prius for who-knows-what reason.

The Bolt and the Leaf look like they're just trying to scream "Don't take me on the highway!" at the top of their lungs. But then since that's basically true--they're made to be an efficient commuter car--the styling was probably never going to hide that.

Even the Model 3 has a bizarre look to it, but I'm not sure if it's just because I'm used to expecting the hood to look a certain size which is simply not justifiable if you don't have to fill it up with a gas engine.

Then you get the other end of the spectrum, where they try to retain the styling of the gas equivalent as much as possible, so you've got the Kona EV continuing to have a grill but it's actually closed and painted.

It's probably somewhat lose lose. People are used to styling that makes sense for gas cars and so practical decisions for EVs lead to "abnormal" styling. As they become more popular we'll probably get used to them.
There is so riot.im which is built on top of Matrix.org (which was built for federation and E2E encryption). There are already IRC and Discord bridges to matrix.

Riot is being deployed as the govt chat infrastructure for 5 million users in France.

The SaaS version is modular.im (much cheaper than slack)
Yeah, sounds like you're right. Edited my post with a long diatribe! The "juice" part doesn't instill confidence.
Useless. Savvy inventors get at least a provisional patent application on file before meeting with predatory companies like goog, ms, intel, etc.
I found very useful the "How to Start an Startup" series: https://startupclass.samaltman.com
No. It’s saying that GP has completely miscategorised notwithstanding your clumsy strawman.
Earthquake Magnitude 7.0 – 13km N of Anchorage, Alaska
I can't remember how I got a copy of the Collector's Edition, because I don't think I had an NP subscription. Was it a pre-order bonus for Wind Waker as well?

In any case, I found it endlessly amusing when I would go to Gamestop and see used copies of the Collector's Edition marked for sale at $50 or so. Particularly with the giant "NOT FOR RESALE" text on the cover:

http://static4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110103022630/zelda/i...
Lua is such a great language. I wish I had a chance to use it more often.
It so happens I designed a scheme a lot like this: clients send an opaque payload which the service provider wraps and forwards to an authenticator. The authenticator simply replies with a yes/no statement of whether the user is a legitimate participant in the scheme. The payloads are compared offline to validate that the versions of events given by the user and service provider are the same. There's a lot more needed to make it trustworthy, though.

It took me most of 5 years to obtain a patent on it: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9853964B2

To me the primary advantage would be to open up an untapped segment. There are readers who will never pay, they see ads. There are readers who love a source so much they will pull out their credit card and deal with the hassle of having yet another subscription. In the middle is a large, untapped group who would pay if the transaction costs (pulling out the card, hassle of multiple subscriptions, worrying about how much they're spending etc) were approximately nil.
I can’t figure out how to actually read the article. There is a button to continue that does nothing when I tap it.
Anecdata: a fellow driver told me the story of a truck stopped at a light in "a bad part of town." Thieves rushed the back of the trailer, cut the lock and opened the door, just in case there was something worth grabbing.

Another, parked overnight with a load of electronics at the southern boarder. He woke up and discovered the trailer had been broken in to. Yet it didn't seem anything was missing. Maybe something "extra" had been placed on the trailer before it crossed in from Mexico?

In our company we're reminded when we'll travel through high theft areas.

If we're pulling a trailer designated as "high value," wherever we are, we're not allowed to pick it up unless we have the fuel and legal hours to go at least 200 miles before we stop.

My vague point is that every security move in history and to come can be defeated, if it's worth it to someone. And it's always with it, to someone.

[BTW, it "feels" unlikely that a judge or jury would convict based on gait analysis.]
This gross oversimplification and attempt to quantify intuition is kind of laughable.

Intuition is the effect of all the different types of knowledge you have coming together in one converging lighting up of your nervous system.

This is basically ancient genetic knowledge, combined with all the previously recognized experience traits that are connected to the current experience, combined with whatever other information that you are receiving.

Trying to estimate a student's GPA is not a good example of how intuition works.
Very nice. With ShapeShifter, this will also run on classic Amigas.
That’s definitely a factor. That and the automatic reduction in carb intake with such a caloric restriction. I mean, if they fed them pure sugar, they’d still be getting “only” 200g of carbs per day which is still less than what a lot of people who developed diabetes used to eat. More realistically they are likely getting significantly less carbs per day with elements of fasting thrown in.
If you don't sort of tailgate get ready for someone driving an SUV/truck to cut you off. I'm not saying be on their bumper, just close enough to keep others from dangerously cutting in front of you.
Detroit's Heidelberg Project
Americans have by and large followed the recommendations of the government: meat and saturated fat consumption is down, and we eat way more “heart healthy” whole grains and polyunsaturated seed (excuse me, “vegetable”) oils.

Lots of people followed the advice, because lots of people wanted to be healthy. The advice was just garbage.

I was under the impression that parents could not decline life saving treatments for minors, and that the state had the right to step in.
Do you mean PS4? PS3s were very hard to get at the start.

3 PS3s guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sjhjFOw4Ok
> They also just don't seem to want to make enough of them or ship them to markets where people want them. Canada was starved for inventory all last last year. None went to Europe. Asia, where they'd make a lot of sense, got only a smattering. And they don't seem to be improving on this.

They lose several thousand dollars on each car, so the reluctance to expand production is perhaps unsurprising:

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1107604_gm-loses-9k-on-...
Can something owned by Microsoft be really considered less of a "proprietary behemoth"?
> What happens if a correction happens in the SUV/Truck market that the time horizon starts to reflect sedans (again)?

I guess GM and Ford would just start making sedans again?

They could switch back. A lot of the crossovers are built on lifted sedan platforms anyway.
> in order to develop expert intuition (1) some regularity in the world that someone can pick up and learn (2) a lot of practice, and (3) you have to know almost immediately whether you got it right or got it wrong

> “So, chess players certainly have it. Married people certainly have it [about each other]. People who pick stocks in the stock market do not have it. Because, the stock market is not sufficiently regular to support developing that kind of expert intuition,” he explained
this case as whole is just gross. i dont think anyone will come out with anything positive.

that said, whats wrong with facebook selling their users data, the users agreed to it. don't want your data sold, stop handing it over to capitalists. :x
About 3 years ago (late 2015 now) I was quite overweight, had a knee injury that limited my mobility (stairs mostly) and had a fasting glucose and post-meal readings that indicated I was nearly pre-diabetic (T2).

So, I cut out out all sugary drinks, refined carbs, late night eating (!!) and tried various intermittent fasting / time restricted feeding techniques (5:2, alternate day, one-meal-a-day) and after about 3.5 months my glucose readings returned to the "normal" range. (Which is WAY more tolerable than sticking to a low-calorie diet every single day IME. I still had pizza and cheeseburgers on occasion, just no soda, fries, "junk" etc.)

After around 6-7 months I'd lost 40+lbs, my knee stopped bothering me and no longer had to entertain the idea of fixing it with surgery. I'm now down well over 60+lbs without having put in hardly any effort to exercise (occasional walking) - pretty stunning to me.
Nice, I had not seen that. Thankyou.
I like Gitter, the Scala community is on Gitter.

However I wish they'd fix their IRC bridge, which has some issues, like not reporting the full list of users, which is driving me insane.

Speaking of Slack-like, the best alternative remains in my opinion good old IRC. I'm a user of https://irccloud.com for always-on presence on IRC and it has better clients than Gitter.
Removing agency is exactly what you should do when you're talking about a widespread problem. If I have a personal friend I'm absolutely going to tell them they can make the right choices and overcome their problems, but you can't do that with a society. You have to look at incentives and environment and change those to change widespread behavior.
Yeah, no way I could even buy one outside of California for the first year or so, and there are none available for a test drive anywhere near me.

I don't think GM wants people to like the Bolt, just like they kind of shuffled away their previous EV platform. Not sure why, though—it seems like a pretty nice car, and the few people I know who bought one really like it.

It doesn't have the fandom of the Tesla Model 3, but it's a good little car if you want an EV.
This is an absolutely crazy response. In no world is a 15 year old economy sedan more comfortable for a highway commute than a newer SUV. The only argument you could make is fuel economy.
Related tsunami info: https://www.tsunami.gov/?p=PAAQ/2018/11/30/pj0ol4/2/WEAK51
>People whose names break my system are weird outliers. They should have had solid, acceptable names, like 田中太郎.
>No, your system is badly designed.

>People have names.
>This one is perhaps the most difficult for which to give solid examples. There was an isolated culture in which no one had names – they referred to everyone in relative terms, such as “my mother’s eldest sister”.

So taking the last two statements together, any system that assumes a name exist is thus poorly designed?

Some of these examples are things people need to take into account, but that doesn't mean bad design. A well designed system takes into account that there is a business need and a business budget. To ignore the constraints of real world situation makes less sense than ignoring the one culture where people don't have names at all.
Thank you for this useful piece of information. What browser are you using? Do you have JS enabled? Have you tried it on a mobile device, the target segment for m.?
I wonder how those three conditions apply to intuition in software development. The only condition that seems to regularly be unmet is "immediate feedback."
> Moz has a ton of data about how harmful to users it was to have an ecosystem full of trashy spam extensions.

I wish that this data were available somewhere—not this specific data, but in general. Mozilla's response to community push-back is always "trust us, the data show that this is what's best". If you trust them already, then that might be good enough; but, when this is always their first, and often their only, response to push-back, it's hard to distinguish it from the empty response of someone with no data who wants to avoid questions.
ublock Origin does it. You can subscribe to filter lists like "Fanboy’s Cookiemonster". And you can manually remove annoying elements (e.g overlay, banners, etc).

I can't skip GDPR page redirects, though.
It's fun to watch a market that's actually nearly perfect: no barriers to entry or regulation to capture means that lead time is about the only source of surplus and profit consistently trends to zero.
Source? From my read it looks like you absolutely can.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc052709
A lot of my friends have moved to qutebrowser.
I'd also love to know how children were diagnosed. My 10 year old was diagnosed with ADHD, but that was the result of a fairly comprehensive two day evaluation by a neuropsychologist. In that case, she was able to provide evidence and reasoning that went well beyond the "can't sit still in class" or "needs constant reminders" notes we'd get from frustrated teachers. Ironically, it was that diagnosis and subsequent lack of support from his school that led us to pull him from private school and put him in public school.
IntelliSense. Definitely my reason for not going back.
What stops other people from taking your tangible property other than the threat of state action?

Sure, there are plenty of people who would refrain from stealing anyway just because it’s morally wrong. But there are enough people who don’t care that the whole idea of property rights becomes meaningless in practice without some way of enforcing them.
I made it very clear that it’s high ketones while diabetic that causes it. If you’d like to correct that in a more constructive way, that would be helpful.
> The fate of the Volt and Bolt together makes me entirely skeptical of GM's claims to making a transition to EV production

Couldn't agree more.

To add - my parents were in the market for electric cars and were evaluating the Bolt as a serious option. GM turned them away, including refusing to take a reservation and said "check again in 6 months when the new model year comes out". Seems like the production was very intentionally capped, and there was little effort to retain their business.
After looking at both, I chose Atom.

The VS Code developers observed that things can pretty tangled with open-ended plugins and HTML rendering, so they cordon off plugins to separate processes, and only offer limited UI control to plugins. This helps keep things stable and fast, but I think the ability to have plugins easily create new UI in an open-ended way is the coolest feature that Electron enables in an editor.

Atom offers a lot more UI control to plugins, and in my experience, is still acceptably fast and stable.
Marriott breach, affecting some 500M guests
There is no such thing as being "done" with safety. You can go as deep as you want with as large a team as you want and never be able to say "okay we're safe now."

If basic ethical grounding requires safety to be the top priority, and safety work is inexhaustible, then it must be unethical to ever work on the product being safe.
If it were only about hauling people then isn't a minivan as good or better? But U.S. manufacturers are abandoning minivans even more quickly than sedans-- only Chrysler still makes one, Ford and GM don't.

The chicken tax and the "cool" factor / branding must play a role over and above the raw utility of hauling lots of people, surely?
It's going to be extremely difficult to confirm to 800 calories consisting almost entirely of carbs - very few people are going to succeed with this.
I wish they could get Ruby working in Atom out of the box. I still can‘t believe how weak the tooling is in the Ruby on Rails world. Even Jetbrains fails miserably. Why on earth can‘t we have decent code completion in Ruby?! If the human brain can tell what will be available why can’t my computer.
The diesel Jetta emits way more particulate pollution than a modern gasoline-burning SUV, too. Like over an order of magnitude more.
Ish. Actually I live pretty much right next to Facebook, so Facebook traffic is my traffic. Trust me, when I commuted from the north, I'd spend 3-5 minutes sitting on my own damn offramp just to go a few hundred feet to my house while all the FBers and bridge folk were trying to turn left onto a gridlocked overpass :)
Ford and Chevy are pretty reliable. BMWs are fun to drive. Porsches are a step above BMW in terms of fun factor.
That's not a car/SUV thing. That's just a reflection of natural preferred following distance vs minimum acceptable merging space vs amount of available space on the roads.
I wonder how he knew there would be a market for this that would buy it for so much over retail.
> I'm a city boy so mind the ignorance, but who is buying up all the trucks?

Visit the south and you'll have your aha moment.
Satellite or long haul radio. Or they'll find one of the few remaining working trunk lines and serve it from there.
>Note: none of this prevents tracking unless you also have fingerprinting turned off

It does prevent tracking of websites that don't do fingerprinting. The best is the enemy of the good!
Type 1 diabetics may be at risk for ketoacidosis if they screw up their insulin, but T2 diabetics are not at any risk from just a low-carb diet. The problem is having high blood sugar and high ketones simultaneously, not just having high ketones. And the nice thing about a low-carb diet is that you're not eating carbs, so your blood sugar does not become elevated. If your pancreas can still create insulin at all, you are highly unlikely to go into ketoacidosis.

Keto is a really good diet for both weight loss and correcting insulin resistance for a T2 diabetic.

(Source, I am a T2 diabetic that eats a ketogenic diet. I am losing weight and my A1c is dropping. My doctor is pleased with my diet choices.)
> It is however very uncommon

It is not very uncommon, and in fact the most recent (last ~decade of) research has actually caused us to question the extent to which people genetically predisposed to diabetes can mitigate their risk through diet and lifestyle choices.
> ketone levels up into the range that would kill a diabetic quickly

That's not how it works. DKA happens because your body is burning fat because it's starving from a lack of insulin. Ketones from healthy weight loss are not dangerous.
There is an entire industry for kidnapping, ransom, and extortion insurance.

Honestly, most kidnappings are parent without custody snagging their own kid. Rich kid kidnappings are a thing though.
i think you missed the point, it's not just a safety thing... its annoying as well. even with proper following distance, seeing more than the car in front of you adds to your safety.
Stupid Patent of the Month: How 34 Patents Worth $1 Led to Hundreds of Lawsuits
Bodybuilders use carbs restrictions (keto, intermittent, kind - complex vs simple carbs) to regulate muscle mass and fat, insulin and GH sensitivity, water retention mediated by glycogen, etc...
You wouldn‘t have to drive your kids around if your country weren‘t designed primarily for cars.
Matrices become captivating when you try to do almost any kind of engineering thing in the real world.

Like building a graphics or physics engine, or calculating the Page Rank of a web page, etc'.

If you can program, I recommend trying to build a 2D graphics and physics engine using vectors to represent position and velocity.

Also, Steven Wittens is amazing: http://acko.net/tv/webglmath/
But then your BOM, PCB, and schematic wouldn't match. Somewhat like automatic code formatting, disallowing this sort of divergence seems more a feature than a misfeature to me. Even for in-house use.
Some bit of my head is a zero ohm resistor resistor. Every time I read 'zero ohm resistor', it goes 'nope nope nope' at me.
Why live if you're mortal?
It does seem amazingly short-sighted. EVs are the future and yet here they are scaling back on them.

It's like the other manufacturers are rushing to cede the entire market to Tesla.