skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I liked buffets a lot but in the last 15 years all but one buffet I liked to go to went dramatically downhill in quality. It is likely this was due to cost cutting measures to stay competitive. Eventually it got to where dishes and cutlery weren't even cleaned properly and I'd have to dig through a stack to find one without residue, and I was getting food poisoning about a quarter of the time. I simply had to stop going, they were bad, and unsafe. This is likely why there has been a mass purging of buffet chains nationally during this time period. It's not that the public has lost their interest in buffets, it's that people have noticed the quality is too low to be acceptable despite the price, which isn't a bargain anyway for any but those that game the system as is mentioned in the article, or for the ultimate in low cost places like all you can eat combination sushi-thai-vietnamese-mongolianBBQ-Chinese-italian-jello-mac'n'cheese lunch places only $4.99, or $3.99 if you use the pennysaver coupon.

Like the top comment mentions, some of us don't want to gorge ourselves, it's nice to have a variety of things to sample, but also buffets are useful for weekday lunch since you can be in and out with a full meal much faster than you can in a restaurant where you have to wait for your order.

One remaining buffet that's still good quality in my area is a certain classy Indian restaurant. They only do the buffet for lunch from 11-2, so it's impossible for people to come in and eat for 4 hours straight. Also there's almost no meat at all, so the restaurant doesn't appeal to those who come in to eat a pile of steaks. I've never seen anyone come and just eat plate after plate. People come because they can get good vegetarian food quickly for lunch.

High quality buffets will likely survive, but there's less of a market for them.

A successful hybrid model might be that of Olive Garden, which mixes reheated frozen food with unlimited breadsticks and salad, both which are extremely cheap to provide unlimited quantities of.
Obviously a review can't give the argument in its full detail, but that doesn't mean this presentation is good.

Did the DSM-IV result in inaccurate diagnoses? Worse treatment? The review doesn't clearly state a single negative consequence. For that matter, reading the review, I can't even be sure if the book argues that the DSM-IV was bad, or if that's merely the review authors' opinion. I expect that kind of clarity from a review, and it's missing here.

Or again, on the point about the DSM-IV being a response to Rosenthal, what I'd like to read is something along the lines of "Cahalan's book presents detailed evidence that the DSM-IV was [influenced/prompted by/etc] the reaction to Rosenthal's experiment".

In defense of the reviewer: the worst issue might be a case where the title simply promises more than the article delivers. And the reviewer typically doesn't write their title, so it may be the editor who is to blame.
Try reading _A New Kind of Science_. But only if you like many "sentences" starting with conjunctions. :)
Does a bankruptcy eliminate a civil judgement? Why wouldn't everyone file and wipe out their civil case debt then? Seems too easy of a workaround.
I'm still baffled as to why no one offers more than four USB-A ports - and very few offer four.

The Anker four-port hub [0] is great (I own like four, just in case), but I would kill for one with five or six ports.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Aluminum-Adapter-MacBook-Chrome...
*in genetically engineered rats
Vertical scaling (getting a beefier machine) is less preferable than horizontal scaling in the case of cloud providers, because a) it usually costs more to upgrade instance types than to run multiple smaller instance types, and b) eventually you hit a ceiling of available instance types as you grow.

But you can still make this work. In our case, we'd ended up going the first route, and we ended up adding AWS EBS as the filesystem block store for our Postgres database, which is easy to resize dynamically without incurring downtime or other issues.

The downside of a vertical scaling approach is, well, you don't get HA "for free". You have to manually configure followers and standby nodes for the sole machine. You have to worry about your own replication. If failover and management is abstracted out for you, as in RDS, then it's easy to live with - otherwise very painful.

tl;dr go with managed DBs if you just need a DB and don't particularly have to optimise query performance outside of DB config.
That's orthogonal to the comment I was responding to.
(author here) Yes, that is exactly why I wanted to provide an upgrade path from Python 2 to Oil (reusing a portion of its CPython). But I mentioned in this post that I'm explicitly cutting it out for reasons of engineering effort.

But yeah I still think that idea has merit... Somewhere on my blog I made the observation that Python 3 and Perl 6 are both worse than their predecessors for the shell scripting domain. They're better languages in general, but worse for that domain -- which is still important and getting bigger along with the rest of computing, IMO.

I think Oil would be useful in any case, but both Python 3 and Perl 6 opened up that gap in the design space even wider. I mean the string is the CORE TYPE of such programs, so it's important that it be logically applicable to the problem.

I'm sure many people saw the Mercurial / Python 3 thread on HN last week: https://lobste.rs/s/pnuak4/mercurial_s_journey_reflections_o...

Basically the same story, although I questioned their decision of not embedding the Python 2 interpreter instead. I think the only reason not to do that is "memes".
> set back psychiatry for decades

Milgram, ‎Zimbardo all these experiments from the 50's onwards are junk. Doesn't mean it set back psychiatry.

How psychiatry works is you get something that you intuitively think is true, make up a experiment to prove it (so it's ok for others to agree without getting in trouble)

Then consensuses decides.

It's blockchain.
Everyone "cheated" that by making going to sleep or hibernating the new norm.

My chromebook wakes back to playing the youtube video I was watching quicker than opening the lid.
It’s the intention. Intention is really important in the US legal system; killing someone on purpose is murder but by accident is manslaughter, even if the result is the same. Same goes for finance; failing to do something you intended to do is one thing, but lying to investors and the public that you’re doing it even though you secretly are not is another. And so we punish the second because there was an intent to defraud investors, even if the investors were foolish too.
Doesn’t seem like an unreasonable position to take. If someone murders a bunch of people, then trains as a trauma surgeon likely capable of saving a bunch of lives, the expectation is that we collectively shrug our shoulders and everything’s fine because it’s likely the final count will come out neutral?

Nah. We consider companies to be people in a legal sense and they should face justice in that same sense. Asset seizure, restorative justice, and incarceration all have suitable analogues that can be applied to these companies.

But back to the main point, that the two issues are often conflated by people? Also a reasonable position. Where has the profit been sought in extraction of non-renewables and release of CO2? Where should the capital for carbon re-capture and environmental restoration be drawn? The argument is that these two places are one and the same, and this idea has merit.
Photo of a suspended, glowing single atom wins photography prize
You've never tried patching server 2016.
Real deep investigative journalism is a beautiful thing when you see it in action. We need to treasure it and fund it. Makes me think it needs to be separate from mainstream media in some way.
Just curious: What, specifically, do you dislike about the iOS UX? where would you make changes?
Or maybe Apple just patented all of it. Assholes.

Extremely succinct. Apple's the only company possible that could get a patent for turning a page in a book.

https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/apple-now-owns-the...
I agree that there's some tension between the design of a user interface and the design of a scripting language. But there are also some synergies. Two have been mentioned in the comments: you only have to implement one language interpreter instead of two, and you can build up a program interactively in the REPL before committing it to a file. But a third is that if a program can be invoked from a shell script, it can also be invoked interactively; you don't need to write a separate user interface for every program. And this, in many cases, results in programs being automatable with no extra effort.

I agree that the Bourne Shell in particular is a pretty suboptimal language, and I think we can probably do a lot better. Tcl, es, rc, and PowerShell are four attempts. But it's easy to do worse.

One way to reduce the tension is through interactions that go beyond just typing sequences of characters as if we were using an ASR-33. Filename tab-completion, for example, eliminates most of the uses of `ls` and `cd`, and current programmable completions for bash and zsh are pretty good at listing available completions for things that aren't even filenames. ^X * is a very handy way to do globbing, but you could usefully do it automatically, the way Slack's hated new WYSIWYG UI automatically applies pseudo-Markdown formatting to your messages as you type.

John Cowan suggests that tab-completion should invoke the command with -h or --help to offer candidate completions, and Javier Candeira pointed out that this could be made safe by doing the invocation inside a new container to prevent things like du -h from taking undesired actions.
Hobbies tend to be pursued by upper class men because they have both the time and money to do so. People eking out a living or doing blue collar work tend to watch TV or similar, too exhausted or too poor to pursue a hobby in their off hours.

Women tend to be expected to have interests like cooking. Studies show that people think an expensive Christmas gift for a man should be stuff like a good stereo system while expensive gifts for a woman should be stuff like a refrigerator.

(Please, please, do not tell me I have to explain to anyone how a refrigerator is not a personal gift in support of a hobby.)

So while the article appears to be written out of a genuine desire to say "Okay. I was wrong. Hobbies are not simply time wasters." the title used on HN could be roughly translated as "Newsflash: Upper class men still rule the world."

You don't say...
Some things are arguably better[1]. If you have an iPhone without a home button you can swipe left on the bottom of the screen to switch between your apps (or back right if you passed it) without having to open the app deck (not sure what the name is, previously you would double tap the home button).

[1] Yes, this is my opinion and not everyone might agree with me.
Any second-order linear ODE is going to involve sinusoids in its solution. But nonlinear equations can be quasi-cyclical (e.g. strange attractors) and not involve sinusoids or Pi.
And Rupert Murdoch decided to trust his journalists and didn't shut down the investigation despite Holmes's repeated requests even though he had a large personal investment in Theranos.
Eh, I dunno. We'll see. There are indications that the race didn't actually end, but took a turn through some very dark woods.

And unless your name is Pheidippides, there's not much point in winning a marathon if you die on the other side of the finish line.
A "Linux box" might very well be a consumer electronics device, a car, ... 400ms boot time is quite a nice gain in those domains (although there's a bunch of different factors at play, so one would have to try and see how the numbers play out)
Because instead of promising to build Uber for toilets and then failing to deliver a profitable company, she did deliver thousands of inaccurate medical test results to innocent people who then potentially made medical decisions based on those test results.
I always type ratio as ration but never type radio as radion.
Ask HN: How to do customer discovery / product validation?
Situations b2b:

- you have some idea about the problem and would like to learn more.

- you have an interest in the industry or think the industry has potential.

- you have access to individuals and would like to search for problems that you can solve.

All of these situations require you to find people and convince them to talk to you.

I see many resources on what to ask.

But nothing on how to find and convince them to participate.

Objections I've received:

- why would i spend time with so you can sell me something.

- why would i show you my business secrets.

- i am not buying whatever you're selling. (lol)

I am thinking of this approach....

1) be less intrusive and learn about industry first. get in places where you can also get face to face conversations with insiders. learn the lingo, learn the basic structures.

2) create hypothesize, and then approach directly to potential markets.

what are your thoughts or approaches you have seen work. To solve a problem you need to be aware of it. But to get that familiarity you need to get close. getting a job isn't always an option.
Teflon is entirely different from the PFAS chemicals that the article is talking about. There is no evidence that fluoropolymers like PTFE are a health risk. PTFE and PVDF in particular have been widely used for over 50 years in applications that bring us into intimate contact with them on a daily basis, like cookware and medical implants. They have been heavily studied, and have never been shown to be a risk to human health in any way, so long as they aren't burned.
I just played with DeepSpeech (v0.6.1) and I found significant improvements by using a custom language model.

The language model is built from sentences and is rather quick to build (~seconds), at least for the small number of sentences I used. This can then be combined with the pre-trained neural net.

Though I hear DeepSpeech is currently fairly US-influenced when it comes to recognizing accents. So if you're not a native speaker, consider contributing to the open-source dataset over at https://voice.mozilla.org/
Salt makes food tastier and motivates you take another bite, which continues the cycle, so it's a good choice to put in the cheaper food by calorie/mass/volume/whatever-creates-satiety.
a truly novel competitor to postgresql is Datomic. Datomic takes the ideas of the Clojure programming language (immutability, functional programming, data is namespaced) and extends them through to an ACID database.
Quantum Country is a fantastically useful learning resource. They're tracking you so you don't have to digest it all in one gulp, and can pick up where you leave off.
The State of Global Biodiversity
Gradle 6 Brings Significant Dependency Management Improvements
I'm imagining some world where patent troll-equivalents crawl the web for abandoned experiments that could serve as fodder for lawsuits. I agree with the sentiment that companies shouldn't brick products with code changes but worry about the downstream effects.
> This question doesn't make sense because you are asking if databases can be management systems which is obviously false by definition.

Yes! And by extension the tar utility is not a DBMS even if it checks some of the boxes for one. And thus SQLite files are not RDBMSs. Looks like you and I agree.

> The database can be physically stored in any arbitrary format. One can build an RDBMS that stores all its data in tar or JSON files. No matter how inefficient as long as software exists that manages the database.

Sure! One can come up with all kinds of very terrible software. But what's the distinction between some random software that just allows CRUD operations on a file format and an RDBMS by your definition? Because you've defined something close to 100% of all software as an RDBMS which makes the distinction between software and RDBMSs meaningless.

There has to be something more than just that to be an RDBMS doesn't there?
Whenever this point is brought up it’s suspiciously blind to the concept of per-capita emissions.

China and India have enormous populations. Their per-capita emissions are low.

Unless you’re arguing a position that some folks in the world are inherently more deserving of a better quality of their life beyond mere circumstance, it doesn’t make sense to raise the ‘per-nation’ measure of emissions over the per-person measure.

There is greatest scope for emissions reduction in nations where per-capita emissions are highest. American citizens need to be converned primarily about how to reduce America’s emissions. Chinese citizens need to be concerned primarily about how to reduce China’s emissions. Everyone is already best placed to exert political pressure and carry out grassroots change on their respective home turf.

Targets for nations have already been established in inter-governmental negotiations and re-litigating the basic figures in individual citizen discussion is pointless at best, actively distracting at worst.

“First, pluck the beam from your own eye”
You disagree that discontinued products should not be required to open source their API?

Not active and existing APIs, discontinued ones.
I believe he is talking about payment terms like "net 30 days". A made up example: Walmart buys a can of beans and promised to pay the seller 30 days later. During those thirty days, they buy five or six more order of beans to make up for that first sale and the other ongoing sales, each payment being thirty days later. During each of those 30 day periods, that cash is sitting in Walmart's pocket for them to invest etc.
China coronavirus ability to spread is ‘getting stronger’ [video]
(I'm the Lobsters admin.)

Users and mods have used it to detect sockpuppets and voting rings. We've had almost zero trouble with bots because of the invite system.

It's not obvious from browsing the site (though of course it's visible in the source: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/blob/791b21f60a2e952cab...) but users can lose the ability to invite if they reach a net score of -5 (rare, they have be a bad actor right out of the gate) or from a mod removing it (also rare, they typically have to invite several problem users or run a voting ring).
If it's embarrassing there is already an EXTREMELY high chance some local news agency will cover it sooner or later already. Yes, even more so if those in need don't call and end up dead.
Maybe I'm not looking as much, but I don't see things branded as GoreTex at all anymore. I attributed to something like the patent running out on it. Either way, I see almost no jackets or boots including the GoreTex logo. I assumed everyone moved on to cheaper DWR type stuff, which is probably just as much if not more harmful & full of PFAS.
Cool that you have an option to turn off affiliate links but since you are providing value and product recommendations with this site I'd personally say it's fine to remove that option.
There’s little question that having the freedom to pursue a hobby is a privilege reserved for a few, broadly speaking.

I think what’s interesting is that the study was comparing Nobel laureates to other scientists, which I’d imagine would somewhat correct for this bias.
This isn't just an Apple thing as this isn't the most ridiculous sounding patent (it is ridiculous) that has been posted here. There are so many patents that take an existing concept but add the phrase "on a computer" or "digitally" or some such. Is it an example of one company being an asshole or yet another example of how the patent system is patently broken?
So strange given the fact that he owns fox news. I wonder about how he runs these companies.
The Golden Hour: The Incas Revered Light (2019)
Besides being a cross platform platform for Android and iOS, it appears to be a native UI framework for Fuchsia, Google’s nearly ‘from scratch’ OS.
The primary difference lies in execution. Most countries would err on the side of permitting the site to continue to operate, as with an injunction in the U.S. Here, it was effectively treated "guilty until proven innocent".
They don't have a goal of blocking iPads or poor people, they have a goal of blocking old TLS versions.

But yes, I would like to see their reasoning for this decision. How many people were using <= TLS1.1? If it was near-0 then it should be fine, but if a lot of people were using it (probably yes), then they should have a strong reason to block them. This page[1] seems to say the reason is for PCI-DSS compliance. I dislike compliance-based decisions. We should base decisions on real user impact, not on compliance.

[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/111/wikipe...
I remember at Amazon they open sources something in similar vein but worked with a bunch of various key value formats.

We used it heavily for triaging into log files and such.
Fractional reserve is lending out money people give the bank. it's not free money for the bank; the credit is balanced by a debt. You can do the same thing if you convince people to leave stuff at your house and then you rent it out.

Heck, every lessee on Airbnb is doing this.

As is everyone who has a mortgage and an investment account.
Nobody's ever asked, but so far it's all the obvious stuff like the invite tree, IPs, user-agents, activity limited to their own stories, etc.
Which is not indicated in the title. The title is the thing I'm critiquing. I'm a writer. Titles are hard. I get that.

This one basically sucks -- IMO, of course.
I can recommend the Thinkpad Thunderbolt 3 dock. It's fully compatible with the MacBook Pro. With the latest firmare (or gen2 of the dock - there are two generations), it supports MBP with 2x4K@60Hz (on gen1, one of them needs to be driven from the second Thunderbolt/USB-C port). No DisplayLink needed.

You can get this on sale for reasonable prices. Here's a second hand dock currently going for $80:
https://www.ebay.com/i/303430714025
The xcodebuild command line tool is insanely powerful. The one provided by vanilla Xcode is awful.
The maximum sentence the DOJ is asking for in Holmes's case is 20 years. She may well deserve it, (if she caused sick people to die or get sicker) but she'll probably get less. In the worst case (for her) she'd be 55 when she got out of prison. Everyone will have forgotten about her by then. She may think that's the same as being forgiven.
Mostly true.

But upstream signalling predates cable modems by a certain period; originally the upstream was intended for things such as city 'public access' stations to feed back to the headend (to then be transmitted back out to customers). It's existence was certainly handy for the use of cable modems.
Exactly, which is why this argument is so stupid. The evil posed by the Axis was of such a magnitude that it took everyone else working together, all over the world, to end it.

Arguing over who did the most good in WWII is as pointless as arguing over whether Hiroshima or Dresden or Bataan or Unit 731 was the greater atrocity. The only lesson that endures is that humanity shouldn't do any of this stuff again, ever.
Could be power reasons? There are plenty of many-port USB hubs for desktop use, but they tend to have external power bricks.

For example: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014ZQ07NE/ (7 ports)

With a cable like: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UXKTJE0
But does that same rule prevent bankruptcy after getting a final judgement.

She's going to get hit with a 200 million dollar judgement. But she doesn't have 200 million dollars. I assume, at that point, she can declare bankruptcy.
Yeah, there's a reason I said "Walden" and not "200 miles into the Alaskan wilderness".

My ideal hermitage is a small patch of land large enough that I can pretend to be isolated without actually putting me in danger of succumbing to the elements.
That and the jet fuel are powerful reasons to never live near a military base.