skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Model Y gives two mileage estimates simultaneously - a ballooned EPA estimate and an accurate (typically within 1%!) estimate once I put in a destination. The latter is usually ~75% of the former.

At first this felt like typical marketing BS. But I also find my inner engineer defending it a bit - the range depends significantly on top speed and head/tail wind. If I slow down to 60 mph on the interstate I have exceeded the stated EPA mileage.

I get the confusion and frustration, but at the same time the claimed range is under ideal conditions, just like every other manufacturer. But because the Tesla is so much more energy efficient, deviations feel magnified.
I'd also like to know. It seems like a lot of restaurants like BJ's Brewhouse which has a menu longer than a dictionary (exaggerating of course, but it's ridiculous). Of course nothing is THAT great.
Are you only applying for front end? You might consider trying backend and devops too if not. Anything where code is written. Then if you get interviews, invest in learning the stuff that gets you past their tests and interviews.
I haven't been often, but I feel like I always saw a lot of orders for cheesecake. Many of them were to go orders, both by people eating there and people just going for cheesecake.
Tight coupling is bad, haven't you heard?
It doesn't work like that at all. You add GVA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_value_added) of each entities. Adding more intermediate entities doesn't increase GDP as the GVA of each entities is reduced.
Point taken. The green bar indicates how fast peerdb is. But I understand how it can cause confusion. We received this feedback from a couple other folks too! We will fix it soon. :)
I can't really fault them for that. Unfortunately, LiIon is everywhere.

> “As soon as the battery is charged, I disconnect it. You shouldn’t leave it charging for too long,” Lopez told The Associated Press in Spanish, “because if you leave it on there too long, that’s when you can cause a fire.”

That's a sign that they are using really bad charge controllers and chargers. There are supposed to be all kinds of safety measures in place that stops cells from overcharging. But: when they go there is no stopping it (effectively, there are ways but they won't be handy). I've built a (large) e-bike battery, 170 cells. At full charge that's 2.2 KWh worth of charge in a pack that is about as large as the hole in the frame of a bike. It's fantastic to use but I'm very much conscious about how dangerous such a pack is and how crappy the designs are of many commercial packs using exactly the same cells. LiIon is inherently unsafe and the older those packs get the more risk they embody.

There are safer chemistries, Lithium-Iron-Phosphate for instance (or LiFePO for short). Roughly similar from an application point of view, slightly more expensive. Unfortunately, most e-bikes (which are used and stored in proximity of unsuspecting consumers, charged in hallways of apartment buildings) use Lithium-Ion. I think that we'll see many more of these fires as packs get older and they have been exposed to more vibration and possible water ingestion. Even the big brands have problems.

If you have one of these and it's a cheap or older pack then make sure it is damage free, check it (even if that means opening the case) to make sure that there is no moisture in it that can cause the electronics to malfunction or the contacts to corrode and make sure the sense wires are all good. Broken or damaged sense wires are the number one thing I've come across in packs that failed, and in more than one case this was due to sense wires shorting out which is one very small step away from a runaway fire.

Laptop batteries are sensitive too, but given the nature of the laptops themselves people tend to treat them with more care. Impact is a big no-no and if you suspect a pack has been subjected to impact treat it with great respect and keep it out of any residence, usually your local disposal service will know how you can get rid of it in a responsible manner.

I've got a huge file on Lithium-Ion safety prepared, it's been in the works for a very long time because getting it right really matters, for now just take my word for it: don't take any chances with this stuff, play it as safe as possible and treat any battery that has been involved in an accident or a fall as you would a live explosive. If you think I'm exaggerating you can do some googling for examples of packs that go 'foof' without any warning at all. Sometimes in crowded elevators, sometimes in residences, garden sheds, bike stores (especially risky because that's where people will bring their bikes to be repaired after a fall or accident). And if either battery or charger gets suspiciously hot don't take any chances, disconnect and have it checked and keep it in a safe place until it has been checked.
I think the lede is missing. Arguing they are uneconomic with Solar and PV reducing electricity costs against gas is counterfactual. So, assuming its both counterfactual and true, what alternative is proposed, which is not "keep gas"

If the alternative is direct electric heating, electric hot water storage systems and electrically heated radiators and sub-floor heating say so.

(unless I have completely misread the article it demolishes some myths about heat pumps but winds up saying their LCOE may be good compared to gas but capital cost kills them economically)
Yep, that is correct. How fast peerdb is vs competition.
This doesn't sound convincing at all, and I'm struggling to follow your reasoning. I think it's an open question for Christians whether or not there are aliens.
Ok so much of a muchness between the two.
Hoping on the train for raising awareness of LAN Parties:

- MAGFest (Maryland) : Non-profit festival with a huge LAN center with tournaments and prizes. Non-profit too.

- DreamHack (Atlanta/Dallas) : Probably one of the most well known, but still has their BYOC areas at every event.

Anyone have any others?
Wondery Podcast on Sam Bankman-Fried (RSS)
Why even bother speculating about imaginary alliances?
LANWAR (Louisville, KY): https://lanwar.com 25 years going strong.
Heat pumps work well if you have net metering, less so if you don't but assuming that you're trying to reduce your overall bills insulation comes first, then you can heat with far less power and that in turn may get you within range of being able to use solar+heatpump for heating and supplement with gas for when that isn't enough. This should drastically cut your heating bill.
How severe is alpha-gal for her? Can you return to normal or is it lifelong?
Re: 1, in my anecdotal experience everyone orders a cheesecake, even if they're too full and take it to go.

Which is why they are my favorite restaurant (from a business pov): they've made a restaurant work around a dessert upsell.
The video that webwielder2 posted below from PolyMatter is a really good start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndqsvTIveR0

In short, it's about making an experience that draws people in who are looking for the comfort/familiarity/ease of a chain, while not just relying on that. The Cheesecake Factory is an above-average restaurant masquerading as a Sysco-food-reheating-service.

The very large menu is a feature--something for everyone--that would be a bug if a lot of other restaurants tried it because the execution is often so dismal once a particular level of size or growth (or both) is reached.
Wow, that design is modern but brings me back to the days of application skin sites and early digital art communities back in the early 00s. Great job. I'm going to sign up.
Who proves the collateral exists and is unfettered by existing contracts, specifically those provided through other platforms/existing mechanisms?

You see there is still a whole bunch of steps left out.
And eth fees are tiny?

And they'll get smaller as demand increases?

Don't worry I already know the answer to both is "No".

Ffs....
Every single one of those listed has a simple description of its use case.

Every, single, one.
Perhaps it's just me, but I always think the longer the menu the more food gets wasted.
Deception can be looked at from the lens of probability & friction. Biological and physical processes optimize for low friction especially when it comes to instant reactions.

The outcome of not lying is typically perceived penalty, loss or some form of high-friction endeavour. There is a probability of being caught in a lie, but then the risk reward is what we balance out in our heads at the moment.

Reinforcement on the risks of lying if ingrained within a system will quite obviously lead to the more truthful behaviour being practiced. Think of how Singapore has a high risk reward for bringing drugs into the country.

If you break down a lie into a combination of risk, reward and friction in the alternative, suddenly you put yourselves into situation where you are able to look at it more objectively and decide on whether the situation would warrant a lie from a biological machine.
The strain of influenza A responsible for the 2009 H1N1 pandemic - pdm09 - has passed from humans to pigs 370 times since 2009. And once in pigs, the virus evolved into new strains, which then jumped back from pigs to humans.

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...

If only there were a way to prevent zoonotic diseases originating from our animal agriculture ...
The large painting opposite the Mona Lisa is The Wedding Feast at Cana[0]. And I totally agree, I had the same experience there. Also loved Napoleon’s quarters.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wedding_at_Cana
No such thing as licensed repair thanks to Magnuson Moss Warranty Act.
A more cynical take is that it makes it look like the new management is doing something.

An even more cynical take is that it makes it difficult to compare performance with past performance.
Splendid! Great work, guys. And thanks again for sharing. Dockerfile is good way to share build deps.
The nostalgia tracks.

Also, the food is horribly calorific. The fettuccine Alfredo being mentioned here as one of the favorites is 2040 calories.

That’s almost the entire daily calorie needs of a man and well above that of a woman’s.
Agree with the general point. It’s one of few subfields which is about reducing “interop”, or what is allowed to be done within a system. Auth(n,z) are also in that domain, yet perhaps not academic fields in their own right.

Interestingly, this is also true for DRM, which is also political but does not protect individuals, generally. So restricting what “can be done” as a political expression depends on the “for who?”, even if the tech itself is inanimate and neutral.
> Cheesecake Factory, similar to Costco, is the ultimate example of how you have to know the rules to break the rules.

I read the article. It doesn't read like he understood 'the rules' at all.

> Overton told Thrillist in that same interview that he wouldn’t have made the menu so big and expansive if he had known more about the industry and how restaurants are supposed to operate.
The problem with developing your own cryptography is that it's easy to make something you can't crack but which has holes an experienced cryptographer could drive a bus through. A false sense of security is worse than no security at all. Plus, of course, most people who claim to have a Bold New Encryption Algorithm are selling the absolute worst kind of snakeoil, like XORing the input with a single fixed-length key over and over again, because they know most of their victims will be even less knowledgeable than they are. The outright frauds poison the make-your-own cryptography field for the honest ignoramuses.

The field isn't closed off, either. It's just founded on mathematics that's beyond what the average untrained or semi-trained person reaches, especially the ones who feel entitled have Big Opinions on the subject. However, if some can't grasp the mathematical underpinnings of contemporary cryptography, their opinions of how cryptography ought to be done are worth less than nothing. Mathematics isn't a democracy, ignorance doesn't get a vote.
Don't forget there are "lost" nuclear bombs all over the world including North Carolina.

"oh well we can't find it, we're got plenty more anyway, what's the worst that could happen someday when everyone forgets it's there"

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220804-the-lost-nuclear...

> a B-52 broke up while flying over Goldsboro, North Carolina, dropping two nuclear weapons to the ground. One was relatively undamaged after its parachute deployed successfully, but a later examination revealed that three out of four safeguards had failed
The fed chart is adjusted for inflation, so the numbers at the pump are higher. Do you have any reason to believe that gas taxes have increased in the past decade? The federal tax has not increased since 1993, and is not indexed for inflation.
Glacier was originally using actual glaciers as a storage media since they have been around forever. Bu then climate change happened so they quickly shifted to tiered storage of tape and hard drives.
P powders are tightly regulated in the States, but alas,that's where I live. How many matchbooks does one need to purchase to replicate this study?
That’s why the nostalgia explanation in the article makes a lot of sense. I did not grow up eating Cheesecake Factory, and so when I went there for the first time as an adult, the food was pretty unimpressive.
First they encourage everyone to get into politics. When people do they label the activity as unhealthy.
The issue is that most people don't want to live in a surveillance state. It's not about solving or not solving crime, it's about how much police can encroach into the general public's lives. That's what warrants and probable cause are for: to allow the police to get the job done while protecting the general public's privacy/integrity. Otherwise, you might as well go back to the middle ages and deploy the royal guard. The issue at present is that private companies, typically fueled by the advertising industry, have spawned to collect and record literally anything of potential value. Then police get access to this data, often with warrants, but also often without them. See, e.g., Amazon's Ring, or all the other examples in the other reply to your comment.

I think there are basically two questions here:

1. Whether this kind of unrestricted bulk data collection (i.e., mass survaillence) should be allowed in the first place.

2. If it is allowed (presumably because the benefits outweigh the downsides, which isn't my opinion), what controls exist to access the data, what oversight exists, and who enforces it.

The current state of things is basically a free-for-all, where any collection goes, police often work in the shadow, and corporations get, at most, a slap in the wrist.
In a world of limitless storage that makes sense but for users who have music locally on thier phone not so much...

The actual use cases for each form undermine consolidation into one file.
Innocent people do get sentenced to imprisonment. There is one incident that I can remember from the recent past. This individual was fortunate to get her conviction overturned by a pro-bono lawyer's efforts.

https://www.home.org.sg/our-updates/2020/9/7/parti-liyani-an...
thanks for the insight cratermoon, I've considered learning Rust. I will definitely check into it.

I appreciate the links you've posted.
Why Software Engineers Need Fundamentals
We tested kafka connect and felt it was hard to work with. Had to setup 3 steps a) stream changes to kafka b) sync raw changes from kafka to the target data-store c) normalize the raw changes to the target. Overall it wasn’t that trivial and there were multiple moving parts. PeerDB should be much simpler than that - create peers and create a mirror using simple SQL commands. This takes care all the above steps.

Also my understanding is the kafka connect means you need to use debezium. Sharing a thread which captures a few benefits of PeerDB vs Debezium - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36898413
> Why do you hate to say it?

I think you answer your own question with this bit:

> I'll admit, I loved Cheesecake Factory as a kid, but then as an adult I feel bad to say I was afflicted by a bit of the "anti-Cheesecake Factory snobbery": it was too kitschy, too "chain theme restaurant", too "American excess" with its giant portions and million menu items. I hadn't been in years (there is also not one close to where I live).

A lot of my friends and coworkers have the same view. If it is a chain, it is most likely bad (which is a statement that has a decent chance of being correct) but then extends to "and people who like to eat at chains are bad eaters."

My experience with The Cheesecake Factory is like yours:

> I then went recently as part of a family get together, and it was just plain great. My meal was really, really good: well seasoned, not overly salted/cheesy/creamy but still delicious, the veggies were crisp and fresh.

It's really good food. My wife and I eat there a couple of times a month for "fancy dinner". I feel like so many independently owned restaurants go overboard in either their "conceit", trying to find a way to stand out that winds up being over the top and puffery, or they are aiming for an experimental/possibly-outlandish food menu that winds up falling flat. So many of these places feel like "celebrity chef wannabe outlet that sells a ton of alcohol to make up the profits."

Meanwhile, The Cheesecake Factory merely...exists. Doing its thing, pretty well, with enough variety that it doesn't get boring.
That's kind of an unfortunate name, there's a major VPS/web hosting in that brand...
After reading the post a bit more carefully, I think livelock is impossible since transactions are only aborted if one or more read pages have been modified since they were read. That implies forward progress must be made another transaction in order for a transaction to be aborted.

However, unless they do some very careful accounting, this sounds equivalent to snapshot isolation which has anomalies not found with serializable isolation, though the chance of this happening is reduced by using page level locking.
> the central Tarsnap server (hosted in Amazon's EC2 us-east-1 region)

What prevents you to distribute load among other regions?

(Also: did you ever think about abandoning AWS?)
That’s why congress needs to send a special envoy to investigate, and from what I’ve read they are looking into doing so. Ross Coulthart likely did not get this information from David Grusch btw.
Just à nitpick, consoles at that time didn't load levels to ram but rather the part of the level you're seeing. You could access rom as normal memory (rom banks considerations aside) so everything was already accessible (sometimes compressed)
From the submitted article:

> Proteins, sauces, veggies, the dressings that go in their gigantic salads, the chicken marsala and mushrooms — it’s cooked on the spot. If there’s any part of the Cheesecake Factory that resembles an industrial machine, it’s the multiple stations and line cooks needed to create handmade food for every meal. ...

> “Their quality, their execution, and consistency across the country — it is always the same. And that’s a compliment! That’s impeccable,” pastry chef and Food Network star Young says, “The sauces, the dressings, everything is made in-house. That level of consistency doesn’t happen anywhere else.”

This is in the last section, titled "The Cheesecake Factory is a marvel." That section is the most interesting part, because it talks about the execution required to make a large amount of a wide variety of food from scratch, at scale, consistently.
> Maybe I'm in the minority, but I never really understood the appeal.

I think one of the theses of the article is that a lot of its success derives from the nostalgia it earned getting associated with "special occasions" for millennials growing up. And the other being that, while nobody may be clambering for any particular dish from the menu, it's a pretty easy inoffensive choice for a group of people who all want different things.

I'm generally with you, but the nostalgia thing seems to fall squarely in the category of "either you get it or you don't"
Not quite sure if it addresses the same-ip bot issue, but I have my self-hosted instance setup for searxng to use a VPN. Then access it via Tailscale.

All click-throughs will the use whatever IP my web browser while the results are pulled in via the VPN IP.
Thank you for the above comment. This is exactly why we are building PeerDB. Let us know when you are testing peerdb out, we would love to collaborate and help as much as possible. It will be great feedback for us too!
When we go to the CCF we plan on having it for lunch/dinner the next day.

The portions are so large that if we plan on getting a cheesecake we order it so it comes after the meal. We actually don't like the cheesecakes so much; I like a thicker/heavier or a fluffier cheesecake, and the CCF cheesecakes are kind of right in the middle.
Thanks @clayongulick, I've also considered learning Go but I appreciate you explaining what Python offers as well as some of the cons.

I've messed around with Go's sandbox and find it very readable.
I was able to open the webpage yesterday. But today, now Jul 28 03:25 UTC time, it seems both the website and the github project (actually the whole namespace) were gone.

https://eupnea-linux.github.io/ --> 404

https://github.com/eupnea-linux --> 404
In the movie version of this story, one sister would anonymously write to the other asking for advice on apologizing to and reconciling with her estranged sister.
Taylor Swift fans causing record-breaking seismic activity during Seattle shows
> The thing I don't get about Satanism/witchcraft and the like is...

Satanism and Witchcraft aren't really similar at all, though it's common for them to be wrongly conflated. The modern idea of Satanism can be traced with the founding of the Church of Satan and pretty explicitly has roots in the traditional framework of Christianity. Given Satan's role in Christian dogma, I can at least understand the "ick" factor.

Wicca on the other hand is part of a larger group of modern pagan religions that take inspiration from the kinds of ancient religions that were steamrolled by Christianity and Islam. It has more in common with New Age spirituality than anything else, and it really doesn't seam any more harmful than mainstream religions - in fact it seems less so, due to the lack of organization and agreed-upon canon.
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At this moment, Resend is tailored to the transactional email use case. This means one-to-one emails that you typically integrate into your app like reset password, weekly digests, etc. - as opposed to one-to-many email broadcasts. At some point, we'll probably expand the product to adapt to non-technical users like your sales colleagues.
I guess all the people downvoting are moderators on SO who are upset they killed a community.
They make almost everything (baked desserts and cheesecake excepted) in house. Most casual dining places use a lot of Sysco pre-made stuff. This doesn't make it better but that's unusual for a chain, along with the high number of menu items.
Comment below the image: https://twitter.com/8teapi/status/1684571913908293633
Metaprogramming Ruby by Paolo Perrotta is an awesome in-depth resource in comparison. It’s a bit outdated but the base of metaprogramming magic in Ruby hasn’t changed much in 3.0+