skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like what I see provided out of the box by FusionAuth, but I'm rather weary of the hard dependency on Elasticsearch.

I'm curious why the need for Elastic. You already have a database which can be used to search all the user objects. What does Elastic bring to the party other then an extra ops burden?

This is not necessarily a criticism, just trying to understand what went into that architectural decision.
We switched over to off-the-shelf sourdough a bit ago, I'll pass this on to her and after this round of trials is over I may try baking a loaf of windowsill sourdough myself with more control over the inputs. The coarse rye bread we've been able to find is supposed to be "leavened with natural starters and little to no yeast" but there is wiggle room in their language.

Thanks!
Reading scientific papers with Sony DPT-CP1
Yeah, that's fucking bullshit. The US isn't a socialist country, but okay. I guess you don't know what socialism is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_states
While we're at it, we should require every $20 bill a person has to be attached to their belt with a long rubber band. That way they can pull the rubber band and get their $20 back, since apparently it's necessary to protect people from randomly handing out their $20 bills.
> ... the increasing tendency for a project's transitive dependencies to contain two or more libraries that do the same thing. When dependencies were more expensive and consequently larger, there was more pressure for an ecosystem to settle on one package for a task. Now there might be a dozen popular packages for fancy error handling and your direct and transitive dependencies might have picked any set of them.

It's not just a security problem. It also hampers composition, because when two libraries talk about the same concept in different "terms"/objects/APIs (because they rely on two different other libraries to wrap it), you have to write a bridge to make them talk to each other.

That's why large standard libraries are beneficial - they define the common vocabulary that third-party libraries can then use in their API surface to allow them to interoperate smoothly.
The number of immigrant workers is so small compared to the number of national workers (17.1% [1]), that although I don't doubt there might be some truth to your statement I personally think it's probably statistically not significant.

[1]: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/forbrn.htm
Target did a trial of a global queue in a store near me, it lasted about a year.
Two large Australian department stores implemented single global queueing for non-self-serve when they introduced self-serve. Its a mixed bag because they also reduced staff on the line to match maximal delay for minimum fuss: ie, they don't aim to serve this line any faster than the worst-case single line instance.

It doesn't invalidate the single global line theory: it points out that the qui bono moment in a queue is not you the customer: its the profit centre. They do anything to maximise profit absent a strong signal they went too far.

its morally akin to basic time-and-motion/taylorism.
1. Asians are over-represented by ~4x versus their percent of the population (5.6 in US and 22.9 at Harvard)... not that this is a useful metric. Is this a stat that SJWs are happy about? I genuinely wonder.

2. Affirmative action is a thing. If you stop the so-called “Asian quota” (e.g., by going race blind), then any slots gained will most likely result in losses for slots from other ethnic minorities. Some people believe that shaping the student body a certain way is good for the university. I personally agree with that general statement, but the specifics are not easy to hash out — there are many trade offs, and it’s not easy to determine where the magic cutoff is for too few or too many.

3. If Harvard goes race blind, don’t believe for a second that it will turn out like Stuyvesant or Berkeley. IIRC, when the change happened, Stuyvesant did not focus on the “multidimensional excellence” that most other elite schools do. Berkeley just lets in too many people to need to review to that level of detail. Harvard and other elite schools might see a very small Asian bump, but my guess is that it won’t be what people expect.

Note that I strongly advocate for fairness in the admissions process for all people, and I definitely think that some Asians get stereotyped poorly. That said, I also think that a lot of people, Asians as well as non-Asians, simply don’t make efforts to shape themselves in a way that optimizes their chance for elite school admission.
Yeah,that doesn't make any sense, unless they're doing an MITM attack just to insert ads?
For example, you can't have a repo that does both astronomy and psychology. It's a restriction with many publishers, but note that their policies are usually very gray.
Not being able to "parse" the above comment is on you, not its author. When else have you heard the goings-on at Maple Leaf Meat Co? That's right, never. Further, in what other context has someone expressed "very encouraging" (the grandparent) about a meat producer? Exceptionally rare, the only news meat producers make is as the cause of some environmental, labor, or health disaster.

Look, they don't care much about PR among consumers, they don't sell to them. But it is nice to be in the news for something positive for a change. PR within the food-supply industry, now that IS important, and this will certainly make news there, perhaps repositioning this company as a market pioneer. But the real reason they are adding plantburgers to their offerings is because purchasers, in virtually every industry, prefer (often mandated) to reduce the number of suppliers and consolidate orders. Maple Leaf wants to continue to provide one-stop shopping to its customers, it knows its meat orders are at risk if customers have to go elsewhere for these plantburgers. They obviously have seen more demand, or at least inquiries, and they are filling that need.
I prefer TravisCI to CircleCI, but I can get CircleCI on a private repo with their free plan. I honestly don't prefer CircleCI's UI/UX, it frequently is missing or caching info and I have to hard refresh the page to get things to work.
Must have been fun! Any interesting stories to share about that time period?
Ghostscript: subroutines within pseudo-operators must be pseudo-operators
>Only thing I wonder about them is what would happen to the pension if the company went out of business.

I can't speak for how they're managed in the states but, in Europe, pensions can be handled in various ways[0]. Generally speaking, they're considered more secured (e.g.: FDIC insurance in the states) than bank accounts and are independent of your actual employer (and follow you, whever you go - even overseas [dependent on bilateral agreements]).

[0] - https://www.pensionsmyndigheten.se/other-languages/english-e...
All I see is two numbers, and absolutely no argument as to why that makes any difference.
This is what I used to learn about IPTABLES: http://homes.di.unimi.it/sisop/qemu/iptables-tutorial.pdf
I wish D had copied pythons with statement (without the scope escape) and not used the with statement for destructuring.

The nicest thing: you can throw in the exit method without the runtime falling over itself.
> We have to reduce meat consumption as we understand the impact on climate change, and as ever more of the world gains a developed life. Meat consumption needs to trend like smoking.

For the US I disagree. According to the math, if the entire country went 100% vegan it would cut emissions by 2-3%. If we're only going to look at individual habits there are other areas that are more impactful. Flying in airplane less would have a far larger impact than not eating meat. Or not having children, or owning an automobile etc.

Meat consumption has also declined in the US by ~25% since the 1960s. So you may get your wish :)

Growing more crops doesn't necessarily == better for the environment versus livestock either. Especially ruminants. They can actually be an important component of regenerative agriculture. I think that's what we need to encourage. They also utilize land that's not suitable for growing crops, and can eat things we can't and turn it into something nutritious for us.

I realize this argument goes against the narrative that's being put out. But according to the research I've seen this is the case. If you disagree I can't promise I'll have a detailed response but I'm always interested to hear others' thoughts.
The reason I asked is I tried these meat imitations too and I felt I liked some (thought most definitely not all) of the usual soy-based kinds more. Sadly I forget what exactly it was but if I remember correctly MorningStar has been one of the ones I've liked better. So I'm wondering what the actual data on this is like.
A Simple Camera and an Algorithm Let You See Around Corners
We use Azure DevOps for a fairly large project and so far its working good (i.e., not great, but better than okay-ish). The point with the lost communication is something we also experienced more often than I would wish for, however, on a standard day I do not see the issue appearing at all.

Yes, the mobile page could be optimized (but this is not a deal breaker) and yes some pages do not subscribe for notifications, but usually all these things are not in the hot path.

TL;DR: Lots of improvements in the recent year and many things to come - it may not be perfect but it certainly is usable and provides value to our team.
Brain behind IBM Watson
IBM uses the brand 'Watson" to market its A.I. developments. It's worth understanding what is under the hood to see if the same techniques could be applied to Watson Health, or other initiatives
This is really wonderful, thanks for posting.
That's why I also brought up Zimbabwe.

Should I also bring up the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)? (If you're going to claim "that wasn't really socialist", I will not argue, but I will point out that they at least claimed to be.)

Anyway, the point is not that one should cite Venezuela for "any social experiment". One can cite Venezuela (and Zimbabwe) for the position that having the government controlling the means of production often winds up in poverty. (Socialism is defined as "a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole", per dictionary.com.) That's relevant because mjevans not only called for the government to spend a bunch of money, but called for "full socialism".
This is why I think languages could use a monosyllabic sound for open paren and close paren. The closest we have are like "um." You could say something like:

It's just, uh, something weird, um, humans enjoy doing.
I've only had pain from systemd when I tried to put my own code under systemd. running a closed-box with packages written for systemd, works fine for me. YMMV

But having said that, I'm a BSD person partly-moved to Debian and I never came strongly into it, before systemd deployed so my rc.d wishes were never met, so I didn't go to devuan first.
Prehaps especially if we're talking fox news and not fox and friends which is held to a lower standard. They're still certainly not as reliable or credible of a source as wikileaks. The worst that has been alleged of wikileaks is selective leaking. They're more reliable and credible than ANY mainstream US source.
Social democracy (which is what I think you meant, since the U.S. is definitely not an example of democratic socialism) and socialism are very different. The first redistributes the proceeds of capitalism. The second has the state controlling the means of production without the price mechanism which is necessary to coordinate economic activity in a large, technologically advanced society.
Your rant comes down to a distaste of +1s in certain situations. My point is that Julia's emphasis on arrays allows you to compose ranges with mathy operations in very powerful ways. You're concerned about composing APIs that take endpoints as arguments — I say you should just accept a range in the first place!

Say I have an index `idx` into a very large array and I want to select a symmetric window of `N` indices before and after that index. In Julia:

A[idx .+ (-N:N)]

In Python:

A[idx-N:idx+N+1]

Python cannot even index lists by ranges (or other lists). And if I go out of bounds, well, it'll happily just give me back a list of a size I didn't expect.

Heck, in Julia I can even easily determine what the OOB behavior should be. It's an error above, but I can easily change it. This, for example, will ensure no indices go out of bounds by repeating the final endpoint as necessary.

A[clamp.(idx .+ (-N:N), 1, end)]

Sometimes you want to work in terms of the fenceposts, and sometimes by the length of the fence. There certainly are cases where 0-based offsets are nice — or even arbitrary offsets. In those cases we have OffsetArrays.
Four Climate-Influenced Disasters Cost the U.S. $53B in 2018
I think whatever causes people with normal vision to become farsighted as they age also causes nearsighted people (or at least some of us) to become less nearsighted over time. It seems to be happening to me, though only slightly.
As someone who's family is from a former Socialist/Soviet Bloc country, I have to note that "one failure" is a bit of an understatement...
how's the trackpad?
It's great to account for what structurally led to the moment of a decision. What's tricky is that it's hard to get the right level of granularity. If you don't have data on how historically disadvantaged a given person's path was, you're going to get false positives and false negatives, and you can't make the system fair across both.

Changing the discussion to be structurally fair, not just transactionally, you still have the same impossibility issues arising if you don't have an oracle model with omniscient features. It's the same issues, but with a larger scope of features and outcomes.
I think people are fascinated with stuff like this because it seems impossible to predict where it is going at the time, but we hope that if we look back we can either see some king of indicator of future greatness or at least reassure ourselves that our crappy looking early stage project isn't necessarily doomed. After all, x, y or z didn't look that different back in the day. (Or whatever.)
I have a 2017 13" XPS running Ubuntu. It's a 9360 and I made sure to order one that actually shipped Ubuntu. It works perfectly and I'm very happy with it. I also have 8GB of RAM. I recommend this laptop to everyone, though of course I haven't tried the newer ones that are available today.

Perhaps OS support is your problem? Did you order it with Ubuntu or with Windows?
Shame we can't see the threads.
So we should stop spending trillions on war and fix the healthcare system, and then there will be more than enough to cover the costs. It's completely absurd that more tax dollars are spent on healthcare per person in the US than any other country and yet it's not covered. Somehow other countries give full coverage with less money - it makes no sense.
Such monitors are pretty common now, at the higher end of the market, but most of them cannot charge larger laptops like 15-inchers that need more than 80 watts.
Ternary computing: basics
Cold weather doesn’t mean climate change is fake
Watson Health is struggling: https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/robotics/artificial-i...
Uncertain Future of Particle Physics
There is a benefit guarantee corporation run by the federal government which takes over insolvent pension funds. First thing is that they cut benefits to the maximum covered amount of $67k/yr.

There is a ton of BS in the financial services industry for sure.
I ask seriously: could this be replicated with AirPods and an iPhone, in software?
Scale matters. If you don't think so, look at Bubble Sort. It works just fine if you're list size is trivially small. Now try running it on a list with a size > 1 million.
IME the documentation is great at a command level but does a poor job of explaining how things fit together at a macro level.

I did a large project conversion last year and was well into it before I started getting a feel for how everything fit together with Public/Private.
Character by character IS fun. I've always wondered why newer messaging platforms haven't implemented it yet.
What makes you think it won't?
IBM Watson is behind the trends. They need to jump into the Deep Learning boat...
I'm amazed someone can be so hilariously wrong.

~90% of the calories a species takes in get lost going up the food chain. You need to grow ~1000 calories of plants to make 100 calories of beef.

>Not to mention plants are nutrient deficient and as a result people have to eat far more of it

Source? Also, what specific nutrients are you referring to? Where do you think the energy and minerals an animal has come from?

>The most environmentally friendly method for humans would be the "hunter gatherer" diet ( wild vegetation and wild animals ). But we might be too populous for that to work.

Modern agriculture is hands down more efficient. You know this, because you know that it can support more people. By extension, modern agriculture with a small population is more environmentally friendly than "hunter gatherer" with a small population.

>You essentially have to farm one plant to feed livestock for your burger. How many different types of plants have to be planted to produce a single burger?

More variety but far far far less total quantity. And monoculture farming is much more destructive than farming a variety of plants. There's a reason that farmers rotate corn and soy, even when growing animal feed.
Unfair Diagnosis: Socioeconomic Gap Drives Cancer Outcomes
I had a really old laptop with a 2.4Ghz C2D and 2GB of RAM plus a 4600RPM (I think) 60GB HDD that I had to switch to Cinnamon, but after that it worked alright. Could even keep a few tabs open in Firefox. It really only had trouble when it ran out of memory and started swapping.

It doesn't seem as easy to switch Windows to a lighter desktop environment.
> I think the critique of socialism is that it leads to authoritarianism and rampant corruption because it eliminates on economically productive ways to provide for yourself.

There are critiques of capitalism that say the exact same thing.

Personally, I think the key variables that makes a successful economy are actually found outside of the details of its economic system (e.g. rule of law, strong yet uncorrupt institutions, democratic representation, cooperative social mores, etc).
I think the idea may be that human societies (and governments) don't scale linearly. That's at least plausibly true. Is it a large enough effect to be relevant? I don't know.

Or, the idea may be that smaller countries are more socially cohesive (fewer degrees of separation between people), and therefore it's politically an easier sell to ask people to contribute to the welfare of others.
Same with my college networking class. The professor talked a lot but we didn't do much besides look at HTTP requests in Wireshark.

The most practical thing I had to do with networking cane up in a job interview where I paired with someone to work on some low later stuff.
My vision was at its worst when I was in my mid 20s. It's steadily improved since then.
Spectacular and Bizarre Airbnb Rentals – Flying the Nest
There have been quite a few large threads on this over the years.

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17061380

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15736573

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13091936

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9183464

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6718224
> I'm too cynical to see this as anything more than the first move by the tech companies themselves to push down waged for everybody in tech

What do you mean by first move? Google, Apple, Intel, Pixar, Adobe, Lucasfilm, eBay and Intuit were all found guilty of colluding to keep engineer compensation low[1][2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

[2] http://fortune.com/2015/09/03/koh-anti-poach-order/
Yes on negative connotations: the title "Turbotax for Bankruptcy" made me think this would be a hit piece on an unscrupulous vendor.
Although you're technically right, my point is more along the lines of people just being in the default state of skepticism. Be as secure as you, personally, can possibly be and just assume that everyone else isn't following standard security protocols, that their SSLs are invalid, and that they're monitoring what you're typing.

It's similar to the old adage about driving: "Drive like everyone else is an idiot out to kill you. Don't be right, be predictable."
Just realized that I also not eating my meat-substitute burgers to not eat meat, but to eat more veggies and cut down on that stuff in my diet. Which is probably why I still eat meat. If only a small amount per week (compared to typical SAD diet).
You seem to have no familuarity with software or computer science, and you're intentionally ignoring and evading addressing the issue with the Bitcoin bugs and hacks on BTC client wallet software, which keeps having bugs/hacks in the protocol itself allowing more free Bitcoins to be generated by hackers:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposu...

CVE-2010-5141 remote attack can spend anyone's balance

CVE-2010-5139 On 15 August 2010 over 184 billion bitcoins were generated
in a transaction, and sent to two addresses on the
network.

https://www.webcitation.org/6IwX8oDIN

CVE-2012-2459 2012-05-14 This could be used to fork the
blockchain, including deep double-spend attacks.

CVE-2013-3219 Attacker can double-spend with 1 confirmation

CVE-2018-17144 Multiple double spend bugs allowing a user
to send more funds then available in wallet balance.

This book offers a more comprehensive and detailed insight into the history and technical details of Bitcoin and the history of those involved within "the Blockchain community": https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/book/

If you look at the previous comments you keep ignoring the specific points explained against why your claims are disingenuous and naive and repeating the same tired marketing falsehoods in your attempt to convince rubes into buying database software which may very likely become obsolete at any moment in the immediate future. Why would you want to store your "money" in a fragile software system with no protection or safeguards? At least with gold, you won't have someone on the other side of the world capable of breaking into your house remotely and stealing your savings.

Here's a recent research paper analysis on Bitcoin and the lightening network:

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2019/01/23/1548238967000/BIS-tro...

https://www.bis.org/publ/work765.pdf

https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/htt...
Appreciate any advice you could offer: https://imgur.com/a/0s7J0WQ
This is probably a prelude to a deeper discussion of the module notary service that the Go project intends to run. First announced in this post from the end of last year: https://blog.golang.org/modules2019