skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where elasticsearch shines is in complex queries ...

If the "Multi-tenant indexing benchmark" is accurate it seems like it might be a robustness concern for ES. "Elasticsearch crashed after 921 indices and just couldn’t cope with this load." -- does that mean memory exhaustion or some other crash? If it's the latter, it seems like a quality problem more than a performance one.
I think that what's lost in some of this is that there are not enough private bathrooms in the city. Most stores don't have public bathrooms anymore, largely because of the rise of serial ADA litigation. In California, if your bathroom does not meet a fairly long list of very specific accessibility requirements, you can be sued by a disabled person, and it can cost you tens of thousands of dollars. There are a number of people in California that make their living driving around visiting businesses looking for violations and then suing them.

The response from many, many California businesses is to just close their bathrooms to the public. This means fewer places for homeless people to use the bathroom. This causes homeless people to go to the fewer and fewer available bathrooms. Since homeless people often smell, and may make a mess in the bathroom, without necessarily buying anything, the increased traffic to the remaining bathrooms causes even more bathroom closures.

Combine this with the SFPD's non enforcement of public urination and defecation laws, and general non enforcement of minor crimes, particularly if the perpetrator is homeless, it's inevitable that you will have poop all over the sidewalk.

We need more bathrooms, and we need to start enforcing the law against homeless people. If there is a reasonable place to use the bathroom, and not using it will get you arrested, the problem will go away.

Next up is getting the drugs out of the SF city jail. Many ex-addicts say that they got clean when they hit rock bottom, got arrested, and had no choice but to kick in jail. In SF though, you can get drugs in jail, so one of the only positive things about going to jail is eliminated.
I tried putting Linux on my 2015 Macbook Pro and found that sleep was totally broken with no workaround, which is a dealbreaker on a laptop. It was a known bug for a year before a patch hit the kernel to fix it, and that kernel didn't come with a standard Ubuntu install until a year after that.
By the time you have an army you're a government yourself, and you're gonna need to levy taxes, draft conscripts, etc.

Simply put, a non-nation-state can't bring the resources to bear to fight against a nation state. They're just gonna get rolled.
Wouldn't that require proving that Satoshi owns the Bitcoin he is suspected to have mined?
No, there is not. The Everett aka many-worlds interpretation demonstrates that you can explain the observed effects of measurement without invoking "collapse" of the wave function, and without reference to anything outside of QM.
As a fan of Clojure, I would love for Python to get rid of most of strange and archaic (IMO) unpacking syntax and just switch wholesale to Clojure-style destructuring. In my opinion, it's a single solution for all of those problems and it ends up looking a lot cleaner. It's also just a lot easier to work with if you're trying to unpack a single value from a nested structure or define a flexible API.
> If the damage is intentional, then the staff member always pays. This comes up more often than you might expect.

?

I’m guess the children example you mentioned might be one example of this?
'Undefined' does not mean 'not defined'. It means that it specifically has no definition, not that they haven't gotten around to giving it a definition.

Another way to think about it is that undefined means they have defined it, and they've defined it as not having a definition.

Most of Ruby is not defined. But little of it is undefined.
We sell low-cost tickets to events to largely non-technical students. On the order of 10k sales a year, so we're nowhere near enterprise scale (which is also why we couldn't use Akamai). www.srnd.org if you'd like to learn more.
Or we stop building power plants that are un-insurable? How about that...
The real Satoshi posted the word "nour" followed by Wright spouting off in Arabic. So now he's at least proven that he actively monitor's Satoshi's account, and can use Google Search and Google Translate to create a "coincidental" response.

Real proof would have been posting in the opposite order - Craig first, followed by Satoshi. Or even easier, Satoshi could have just posted "Craig" instead of Nour. So easy... this is all such a game to play.
C# along with lots of more recent programming paradigms have been moving in a more functional dimension for a while. I guess its not surprising the F# user base/culture is probably more excited to be beta-testers"new functional goodies" before things get ironed out enough for C#ers who (to broadly generalize) are more interested in getting something built than the theory of how it gets done.
I would be fine with "easier to reason about" if they did a comparison study to some other language.

For example, have participants do a few comprehension tasks with Bosque code snippets and also with C++ code snippets. Measure task completion time, task success, and self-reported cognitive load [1]. Then do a semi-structured interview to get some insights into the participants' opinions.

[1] Cognitive Load Measurement as a Means to Advance Cognitive Load Theory https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/S15326985EP3801_...
Yes it is. Measurement is entanglement between the observed system and the observing system. Wave function collapse is an illusion caused by the two systems no longer being separable. They have entered a mixed state. It looks like information is lost in the observed system only because you are ignoring the observer.
>> ML had better results than our human effort and it was obviously way cheaper.

Would it be possible to give more details about how you evaluated the machine learning system and the human effort?

e.g. did you have some idea about which, or how many, cases were missing the form of interest, etc?
Cutting Large CSV's
> Cop catches some kids who are not quite 21 with beer and instead of fining every kid up to $1,000 and suspending their license (which is now on their record), he makes them ditch the beer and move on.

...unless they're black?

There's no reason to give cops this discretion, it just leads to unfair policing practices. Better to have police enforce all laws and think hard about what we want those laws to be.
I love this idea, but encourage people not to get hung up on the UI--ie how you interact with the game world--and instead think about what's going on in the game world.

What if the world included a number of fully independent agents with their own motivations, values, and policies and equipped with pattern matching, goal solving, optimization, and even a hint of common sense[1]. The game state would never be the same twice, and it would depend on how you interacted with the agents and they with each other.

TlDr: If you open a door, you might let the Grue out of its maze.

[1] https://github.com/AndrewSmart/opencyc
Must not have been 20 entry level tech workers, just 20 unskilled workers. 20 entry level tech workers would be worth 2 senior workers, no management team would ever allow this.
Apparently I've been flagged and I'm having trouble finding the parent comment. What I recall was "YOUR" also emphasised, and I did not follow why. Underscores around the word also work for emphasise.
I dislike the use of the term "trafficking" in this context. We have a perfectly good word for coercing someone to perform labor: slavery. We have a perfectly good phrase for coercing someone to have sex: sexual assault.

I don't think slavery, sex slavery, or sexual assault are good reasons for removing safe harbor from sites that host user generated content. Instead, such sites have been, and could continue to be valuable resources for law enforcement.
Peter McCormack appears to live in the UK[1], so establishing jurisdiction is straight forward.

Libel damages vary - £24,000, £40,000, to a few hundred thousand[2] - it depends on the facts of the case (though the loser will also have costs to pay).

[1] https://uk.linkedin.com/in/petermccormack1

[2] https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/food-blogger-jack-monroe-wins... ; https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/40000-damages-in-twitter-li... ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_defamation_law#Damages
> Machine learning techniques are AI ...

No, they absolutely are not: this is why we have a separate term and subject known as "machine learning." It is only pointy headed managers and regurgitators of public relations press releases (aka modern journalists) who refer to machine learning as "AI." Oh yeah, I guess I should include people who think the latter are some kind of authority on the topic.

From the damn Miriam Webster dictionary of the English language:

"artificial intelligence:
: a branch of computer science dealing with the simulation of intelligent behavior in computers
2 : the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior

machine learning noun
Definition of machine learning
: the process by which a computer is able to improve its own performance (as in analyzing image files) by continuously incorporating new data into an existing statistical model"
Fearless Genius Photo Album
I guess your definition of "ease of setup" is not the same as mine.

If I could be guaranteed that everything work perfectly out of the box with no weird driver issues when I burn and install an Ubuntu .ISO, I agree that the OS being default is not a necessity.

But I've only heard of this being the case on a small whitelist of "known to work well with Linux" devices, like Thinkpads, etc., which don't fulfill the other conditions.

Again, I'm not just arguing ideology, here: I'd be genuinely happy for you to show me a non-Apple laptop that meets my criteria, if one exists.
It's Friday, the task was to deliver the aritcle by the weekend :)
I highly doubt if they counted you as an enterprise customer. Enterprise customers have significantly large multi-year contracts. I have worked in sales org before and we reported only contracts which fetched ~ 100k/year as enterprise customer. 10k to 100k were reported as SMB customers. These numbers may be different for Fastly but I doubt $100/month customers are called Enterprise customers.
Why should the US step in to defend sea-steaders who are claiming they are free of the sovereignty of all governments?

I don't want my tax money being wasted on that. Defend US interests, sure, but this isn't a US interest.
To further build on what you're saying, by bringing in the concept of a measure-er we have already entered the domain of philosophy, because the special class "measure-er" belongs to the Copenhagen interpretation and the interpretation of quantum mechanics is a philosophical issue by virtue of the fact that it will never be decided experimentally.
I've suggested numerous times one of the easier ways to address this and split the responsibility and liability evenly among parties. [1] Most importantly, this process needs to be overhauled to keep PII out of the age-check websites. Such websites will be a very tantalizing target for attackers to mass gather credit card numbers.

In my opinion, the UK government is setting itself up for a lot of political blow-back when that site is compromised.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19685800
I believe that’s correct.
The secret to the bad grammar in spam emails?
If I ever saw this in real life:

foo([po1, po2], pk1, pk2, *args, {kw1, kw2, kwd1=default, kwd2=default, **kw})

I'd think... that function is trying to do too much with its parameters and should be multiple functions.

Now yes, I realize an author could already do that with ∗args and ∗∗kwds, but the fact that the author would need to handle the argument parsing is sufficient disincentive to prevent most people from doing so.
In theory it works both ways - but once politicians and government agencies gain power, they will not lose them easily.
I was tasked to integrate Fastly into our infrastructure having not done any configuration with Varnish (VCL) before. ~10k req/s

VCL can be challenging for complex flow control (IMO), but it is made easier with Fastly enhanced/custom VCL modules.

Their documentation was good, and the Fastly support team was excellent. Their sales engineers gave us a baseline configuration that suited our needs and were quick to answer any followup questions.

Haven't noticed any downtime or response delays to date.
I do find having keyword parameters for free, as Ada does, to be an interesting feature, but the need to make the parameter names part of the interface is a drawback. Common Lisp separates positional parameters and keywords, but at the cost of some efficiency and yet other drawbacks.

In general, though, I don't see the issue with always needing to pick good names. It's very simple to use single-character names if one needs to, such as for a mathematical function, or simply a procedure where the letters have clear meanings or will likely never be used to start with.

Asides from the design features I thought were jokes when I first learned of them, such as one-line lambdas and whatnot, this ''beginner's language'' certainly has a great deal of complicated syntax sugar and other things being added to it.
Ask HN: How to Validate an Idea for a Startup?
Interview with Rob Vugteveen – An Old-School Fortran Programmer
A paradox is essentially a logical contradiction. As far as we know such contradictions don't occur in nature. Paradoxes indicate that there is a flaw in either our theory or our understanding of our theory.
There is only one system. There are no outsiders. These are dichotomies of convenience.
Requiring the existence of something that is fundamentally impossible to detect, is a poor resolution to the problem.

If there are many worlds, how is it decided which one we are in?

MWI is scientifically equivalent to collapse, it's just imagined as a branching instead of a selection among alternatives.
A route other than "dividing the world into two categories," has been available since the early days of quantum mechanics, if you believe in many worlds you don't have that problem. It is important to recognize that we are not talking about physics here, we are talking about philosophy.

If anything, the greatest shock of quantum mechanics is how it shows that "questions we naturally want to ask about the natural world" and "totally unresolvable philosophical disputes" are not completely disjoint.
Do they make them pull a longer day to make up the hours? I've worked at places with a 9/80 schedule. The every other three day weekend was nice but I felt like the extra hour was almost as waste of time. This firm was not the kind of place where you can just go home when your work is done no matter what time it is. You're in the office until the working day is over. During a short week, I would usually find that the three day weekend was interrupting things I still needed to work on and that I'd usually come in on the day off just to finish up stuff. Plenty of others would be doing the exact same thing. You need to pull so much extra hours that the 9/80 thing doesn't really matter. The upside was that it was easier to schedule long weekend vacations. I'd just say that I'd be out that friday and no one would bat an eye and I wouldn't need to spend PTO for it.
Why it is imperative to Invest and Develop a branded Taxi app for your venture?
If anything, that's an argument for legal rather than technical enforcement. If you can cover the camera or take it off, why not just allow disabling it temporarily? Maybe put a time limit on how long it can be disabled.
Seems like none of them "deliver performance while having fast compilation times", rather that you can pick between fast compilation and high-performance result. Which is pretty much the theoretical intention between mainline go[0] and gccgo.

And I will thus restate my original assertion: in 3-5 Go (the mainline compiler) will be nowhere in terms of optimisations. If you want an optimising Go compiler, work on and help with gccgo.

[0] whose maintainers simply don't care for advanced optimisations at the cost of compilation speed
The fact that this is even happening shows that the Thai state is seriously quaking in its boots.

In a certain sense, I guess they accomplished their goal
Right, but apart from the national defense, hospitals, schools, roads, subways, water, electricity, sanitation, and public order - what has the government ever done for us?
Or, use Darch with Ubuntu (or whatever you want).

https://godarch.com
Naa you’re not alone. I love the new MBP keyboard. My experience to suggests what we have here is a vocal minority. I type faster with the new style keyboard, I enjoy the springiness of the keys and their much larger size than previous iterations. I also like how their backlighting works compared to the old style. If people are having trouble with them, Apple should resolve those issues, but in my opinion the keyboards and new MBPs are excellent machines.
> is it possible that this article is getting promoted because it feeds into a "they dont know what they are talking about" meme of anti-science know-nothing'ness ?

I would go further and say it's not only possible, it's likely.....similar to how articles from the opposing viewpoint are promoted, also often full of weasel words to some varying degree depending on the specific topic. Much of science discussion in the mainstream is actually a bit of a meme war, but this has probably always been true.

Daniel Dennett: Memes 101 | How Cultural Evolution Works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fG-3f4f0hA

Replace religion with "fundamentalism, of any kind":

https://pics.ballmemes.com/the-one-thing-that-i-think-is-rea...
Yeah, the NES emulator that's one of the benchmarks is about 1.8x faster so far, so only another 1.6x to go on top of that.
In a production setting, I wouldn't recommend doing ElasticSearch multi-tenancy in this manner. Indexes aren't free.
I just wanted to take a moment to wish your friends, family, and you well.
I don't think I understand your point. The majority of multi-millionaires aren't that way because they got a good education and worked a standard job. Most are because they made good investments, started a company, or were born into money. Dropping out of middle school is pretty unrelated to this if you're a smart, enterprising person.
Not to mention spelling correction, synonyms, nested taxonomies, etc. Search is incredibly complex, and I always snort when I see someone trying to create one from scratch.
This is less of a risk in a climbing harness due to the location of the tie in point. With the point in front of you at your waist, it is possible to shift your legs around even when free hanging. Think about doing a rappel on a long free hang. For me, I keep my legs in front of me and more or less above my waist. If you were tied in at a point on your back, as construction harnesses use, your center of mass is below the suspension point and the only position you can grab the rope is with your arms above and behind your head. Try doing a pull up in that positions, it is extremely hard.
It's not a matter of intuition, it's a matter of incompleteness or inconsistence in the theory. There is no theoretrically testable explanation of what happens when states transition in quantum mechanics.
Not really age-related. But, I definitely now believe concussions affect happiness/depression. As someone in my late 40s who has endure a few concussions, and looking back, can almost definitively state that this physical condition has a part in my mental state. So by correlation...I don't think the question is anything but plausible.
Cops have higher ceiling of available tools of coercion. You really want every police visit to start with a flashbang through the window?
> "These are fine Swiss rifles, not AKs."

"Fine swiss rifles" are known for being expensive to manufacture, not for being fragile.

Incidentally, why can I buy a fine Swiss watch that works 500 feet under the ocean, but not a fine "Swiss"(Cupertino) laptop that can withstand a few drops of tap water?
Here's the directive: http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgad.nsf/...

This isn't really a grounding, at least not the way the 737 MAX is grounded. Cirrus jets can't be flown until the AD is complied with, but complying with the AD is a (relatively) simple matter of replacing the angle of attack sensors. Once that's done, the aircraft is airworthy again.

The issue is a "quality escape," i.e. the existing sensors weren't built to spec. There are two screws that attach the vane to the potentiometer; the factory didn't torque the screws properly and didn't apply thread locker to them.

So this is a manufacturing error, not a fundamental problem with the design. I say that just to provide contrast with the MAX issues since the problems are superficially similar, but quite different once you get into the details.
Care to elaborate which type of work you're doing and which libraries you're using?
Everyone recognizes that jackhammers are necessary for the built environment that supports our civilization. The understanding that “hacking tools” and the like are necessary for our online civilization is less common.
Getting into Buddhist philosophy has helped me a lot with this. I'm no bubbly positive spirit or anything but I feel much more content and present over the last few months where I've finally dove in. Ram Dass is known for saying something along the lines of "You spend all of your time loving or hating things. Why not just love everything. It's easier."

If you're interested I'd recommend reading Thic Naht Hahn, Tolle, the Bhagavad Gita (get it with explanations, The Essence Of is great), etc.

I've found that whether or not I practice the teachings just continuing to read about them keeps me mindful.

And daily metta meditation.
Why trying to be a sysadmin to save $20/month is a bad idea
While this Thai case doesn’t seem to be a micronation, but rather simply a house, I agree with your point about micronations.

Nationhood, but really we’re talking about sovereignty, isn’t something you can just declare. It’s something that’s granted by others. Sometimes it’s through agreement. Other times it’s by fear of force.

That’s why I was always skeptical of things such as the Seasteading Institute that wanted to declare a cruise ship a country, and then have the “populace” commute to San Francisco. That plan works, right up until a US Coast Guard cutter pulls up and sends over a boarding party.

The sea floor is littered with this folly.

Republic of Rose Island. Seized the the Italian Finance Police, and sank by the Italian Navy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Rose_Island

The Republic of Minerva. A reef island 250 miles from Tonga. Evicted and claimed by the Tongan Navy.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/republic-of-minerva

Sealand. Raided by pirates, but honestly ignored by the U.K.

Putting aside the varying seriousness and motivations of micronation would-be-founders, it’s hard to judge the history of such endeavors[0] as being anything other than failure.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_micronations
There are ships that travel out in international waters all of the time, and most of them don't get executed by any rando nation that feels like it.

A seastreaded home is no different.

It is rare for a nation to just go around bombing random boats in the water. It just doesn't happen very often.
They did not ground them. They issued an emergency AD (airworthiness directive). As soon as you comply (replace a sensor) or if you already don't have a faulty sensor (a specific model number was bad) you may fly