skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fellow Timescaler here. Thanks for the feedback. While we do not directly compare ingestion protocol and specific features, like continuous queries and retention polices (something I guess we could add), we do compare echosystems and third-party tools support, including ingestion (e.g., Kafka, Hibernate) and visualization (e.g., Tableau, Grafana). In fact, the developer behind the Grafana PostgreSQL data source is also a Timescaler, and an upcoming version of the data source will have an improved query builder and first-class TimescaleDB support.

Finally, I can assure you that this is more than a few input scripts. In fact, the project is thousands of lines of C code (if that matters) that implement automatic partitioning, query optimizations, and much more. Our code is open source here: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb

We have other blog posts (http://blog.timescale.com) and system documentation (http://docs.timescale.com) that explain what we're doing if you're interested in learning more about the details.
Wow so many people feel insecure to younger folks!

Now, i understand why tech companies have ageism.

Basically, you guys are reinforcing this thing that younger people are far better.
This is why you lock to a specific version of gofmt and let team upgrade in conjuction with reformatted source repo.
Suppose the ad just talks about some issue (pollution, guns, abortion, immigration) and what the advertiser wants to happen, and includes a link to their site "for more information" or "how to help" or something like that. The ad does not mention any particular politician or party.

The "for more information" or "how to help" page it links to, however, does explicitly name politicians and praises or condemns their positions on the issue and urges you to vote accordingly.

Allowed under your rules?
What they're actually doing is increasing the difficulty for local buyers by increasing demand and pushing up prices, and taking money away from them while simultaneously lining the pockets of existing property owners.

Foreign owners are likely to move at least a portion of this money overseas, which takes it out of the local economy, reduces the ability of residents to innovate by taking financial risks etc etc.
Thank you! You're right, I'll have to investigate. It's been a while since I made it and I might have missed something, good catch!
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I merged it into the official docs, thanks a lot for all your work nsm! <3
Off topic but I like that his website puts the menu where your thumb on mobile can actually reach it
Writing a kernel device driver – The anatomy of a device driver
Wrong attitude. I think you would benefit from meeting more people from different socioeconomic backgrounds.
>If the rest of your comment is true, this is probably false. Seriously, if you train constantly, a 15 year old hasn't had enough time to compete

Efforts are not everything.

Having resources and abilities also matter.

There can be 15 year olds who know far better than people who have spent years in a job.

Let's not pretend that it can't be possible.
If you build taller buildings, you will need to have wider streets, thus resulting in the same density, it won't solve anything.
While I think there's a certain romance and grandeur about enormous and lasting infrastructural projects, it's a little frightening how quickly we can forget our mistakes.

Even though so very much has changed in China since the Great Leap Forward in the 50s and 60s, I wonder how carefully the consequences of poor planning, overstretching one's resources, shifting economic conditions and miscalculation were taken into account.
You can argue that weed is legal because of sustained Hollywood propaganda.
OK, sorry about that. Thanks for the pointer!
The doctors. Anyone who spends the better part of a decade studying medicine can't be ignorant about opioids and addiction, regardless of what the slimy Purdue representative tells them.

The only excuse they have for the blatant over prescribing of opioids (2 months worth of oxy for getting wisdom teeth pulled kind of thing) is that if they don't do it, the patient will just go to another doctor.

But how can you justify setting someone up with fistfuls of oxy (knowing full that heroin / fentanyl and a world of misery for them and their loved ones is just around the corner) just "to make money" ?

> Or is it the responsibility of patients to not seek strong opiates for the smallest aches?

What the patient seeks is irrelevant. The only one who decides what prescriptions a patient should take is a doctor.

Personally I suffered from lower back pain for about 10 years and went from one useless quack to the next. Eventually I found a physio who taught me how to strengthen my core, now I'm at the gym 2x a week and loving it, did couch25K (and beyond) and am pain free for 3 years.

All I sought was pain relief but pills is not what I needed. If I was in W-Virginia instead of the EU I guess I'd be shooting heroin by now.

The US health care system is broken in more ways than one, no doubt this is made worse by various societal factors like joblessness.
> I expected the simple encryption mechanism, over which whatever communicates

In the UNIX world, that's what it gives you - a stream of bytes. Hence things like rsync-over-ssh or git-over-ssh. It also has a port forwarding mode which has special support for X11, which gives you remote windowing over a stream of bytes too.

The main, huge, benefit is that the abstraction is pretty simple, it's discoverable, and you can use the same interface as a human. You can also plug any stream-of-bytes into any other stream-of-bytes, whereas API or RPC based systems have to be designed to interoperate.
You have to live somewhere though, and in NZ cities rents are high enough that they prevent many renters from saving any money at all.

So, no, supply and demand theory kinda doesn't stack up when it comes to housing.
.Net, PowerShell

We are doomed.
1. Start with your goals.

2. Make sure you have multiple non-contradictory goals pushing you in the same direction.

3. Connect your daily actions to those goals.

For example, as an employee:

1 and 2. "I have this job because I need to pay bills, and I care about what the company does, and I don't want to let my teammates down, and I am learning new technology I am interested in."

3. "Building this piece of infrastructure, even if boring, is critical to project's success because <reasons>, and will enable me to meet my goals by building on it."

Longer version here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/05/20/staying-focused/
See https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib/blob/maste...

- Olivier
A Ph.D. is mainly about research, the courses you take leading up to your dissertation should still teach you more in-depth technology to help insure you are an expert in the field of the degree at the graduate level. Without this in-depth course load you will have weak research and would not have a good in grasp to be able to create anything new, state of the art that helps push the industry forward through advanced research along with being employable.

If you come in the door with these credentials you will be highly qualified to be at least a principal cyber engineer. Your in depth research would makes serious waves in the industry and with real world experience it would be an amazing win-win situation for you and the company that hires you, or even better your own business doing cyber research.
If you are mid-30s then you will have no problem getting into these courses just based on your work experience.
Manufacturing jobs are booming in the US. The very people that you're implying are hopeless, that specific demographic, have access to blue collar jobs in a way they haven't in nearly a generation. The US hasn't seen this kind of sustained manufacturing job growth since the mid 1990s.

The US has drug problems, and has for 50 years, that other first or second tier nations in worse structural condition never picked up. This goes all the way back to peak US economics of the 1960s and early 1970s, when the US had a standard of living that it has taken the best European nations 50 years to catch up to. The opioid crisis is the latest extension of the US being a drug abusing nation, which it has been for a very long time, even at the peak of US economic success when it had 1/2 of all global manufacturing. It has had multiple heroin waves, multiple cocaine craze waves, multiple pill abusing waves.

The people of Spain didn't overdose at 2x or 4x the rate of the US despite having a drastically worse economic situation. Their economic desperation is still far beyond that of the US.

The standard response to that is: yeah, but the US doesn't have a welfare state. Yes it does, it has a massive welfare state, and its welfare spending as a percentage of GDP is higher than Canada or Australia.

The opioid problem has particularly hit poorer Americans. Why aren't Bulgarians or Moldovans overdosing at far higher numbers? They're radically poorer. Part of this equation is access: Americans have massive, low cost, easy access to all the drugs. People in the US have an almost unique position in the world in regards to having enough money, easy access and combining it with the way drugs get pushed to Americans.

Some of this is in fact unique to the US and doesn't require there be a particular high level of stress.

Every economic metric indicates Americans are doing better today than they were seven years ago, and yet the opioid crisis isn't receding and it's far worse than it was seven years ago.

Japan has lost a minimum of 1/3 of its standard of living in 15-20 years. They're not overdosing on opioids like people in the US are. They've suffered far worse than people in the US have.

Every culture behaves differently under stress, there's no question about that. There's also zero evidence that the on-going opioid crisis is a result of active high level desperation. That's where it started; those are not the same things.

Do people in Sweden and Belgium commit suicide at higher rates than people in the US, because their standard of living is collapsing? Belgium's suicide rate is nearly 100% higher today than the US rate was in the year 2000. Does wealthy Europe have among the highest rates of suicide on earth because it's so terrible there and they're under incredible economic stress? Or is it more likely these cultural issue are in fact complex rather than simple.
I have always wondered how pain killers could be so addictive.

Stimulants are physically addictive. They modify signals in your physiology to increase signal performance, in some way, and the body reacts to the temporary performance boost. There is a craving for the stimulant the body has becoming reliant upon and a withdrawal in the absence of that chemical. This manner of physical addiction isn't a choice and everybody is roughly equally at risk. Even laxatives are equally physically addictive in this manner even though there is absolutely no modification to behavior from laxative consumption.

Pain killers, and other depressants, on the other hand, don't work this way. With a very narrow exception to extreme alcohol consumption depressants are not immediately physically addictive. They require a modification to behavior to be addictive. In this way marijuana, which has no known physically addictive properties, has shown to be addictive to a small segment of users.

I have always wondered how depressant addiction occurs. Unlike with stimulants we are not all created equal. Some people are more prone to addiction from depressants than others. Some few people do not find depressants at all addicting and even detest their use. It makes me wonder what is the primary behavioral switch that enables this manner of addiction.
Interactive: The Top Programming Languages 2018
> We leverage remote workers for specialized consulting (such as legacy IE browser debugging) but we not for full time hires.

Do you have any interest in hiring someone to do remote consulting in the areas of accessibility and screen reader usability?
Cập nhật học phí các trường Đại học năm 2018 – 2019
Can you network multiple boards together to drive larger LED arrays in sync?
No termcaps which ncurses depends on though so I don't think so
Ask HN: Since i have $2, Suggest where i can rapidly gain users for free
YC'ers,

So I've got my carrd.co landing page built and a built-in viral form courtesy of Growthsurf. Now I've added myself to Betalist etc for free, but I'm going to have to wait 1-2 months to appear on their websites. Can you suggest where I can post my website link and what we do so I can build my email list to 200-300 people?

Also, my website is http://useraffinity.carrd.co just for informational purposes.
How to fix the iOS Gmail app error – Oh no, something went wrong
Builders gonna build
> My code is better, I'm healthier, and I get more done per working minute.

It's not about what you are. What market asks is, are you better than others who you can be replaced with? The ones who are ready to scarifice themselves, their health and deliver more code then you. Let's not pretend that his worries are unfounded.
I have a timer app (RSIBreak) that forces me to take 20 second breaks every 10 minutes and 4 minute breaks every half hour; I usually get up and walk around or stretch a bit and look out the window for awhile. Works wonders for making me feel way better. I've improved my posture from doing it, as well as making my eyes feel way better after working a full day. I also use Redshift to tone down my screen; when I turn it off for certain things, my screen feels blue and bright in a weird way.
Fuck Apple. Just another snippet to add to the "Apple hates consumers" pile.
I wonder why on earth mobile phones usually have controls on top of the screen, but not on the bottom. Phone call app has search bar on top. Call activity tab on top. The default sort behavior, when searching, is to put more relevant results from top to bottom. Why not bottom to top?

This design decision is especially annoying on larger screen devices.

At least invoking keypad is lower-right corner.
What if browsers natively supported lazy loading? Turns out, soon they might
I would love to learn to sleep on my side...I snore terribly when I'm on my back. No matter what I do, I always find a way to turn onto my back in my sleep.
Except accountability in Mutually Assured Destruction was always crystal clear.

Today, there is much more (potential) room for confusion and false flag attacks.

Relevant pop culture reference:

https://www.imdb.com/videoplayer/vi4020353817?playlistId=tt5...
I added a script on greasemonkey for HN visited linked with :
I dont remember where did I get that code, but it work for me.

// ==UserScript==
// @name HN visited link
// @version 1
// @grant all
// ==/UserScript==

let aCss = `
.news-list a:visited {
color: lightgray;
}
`

addGlobalStyle(aCss);
function addGlobalStyle(css) {
var head, style;
head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
if (!head) { return; }
style = document.createElement('style');
style.type = 'text/css';
style.innerHTML = css;
head.appendChild(style);
}
# cities
Den Haag: 52.069961, 4.302315
Málaga: 36.721447, -4.421291

Here, “cities” looks like a comment, but it is part of the syntax, otherwise this example code would not work:

document.section('cities').lat_lng('Málaga')

The actual comment syntax is “>”:

> comment
Sorry for the delay! It was fine, couldn't taste the baking soda at all.
> When I have the opportunity to code something from scratch

But how often does that happen, outside of toy systems and support utilities?
This is a nice project made with FastLED:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zQ8qC1KQgU

Next step: Warp Core
Ebay is worth considering for these too.
Nope! Couldn't tell at all.
Yea that's a no go. The rest of the process is doing stuff with those!
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I’ve gone out hunting and yes, it is absolutely work even with a gun. It’s a lot of waiting and preparation to be in range for a shot. As paradoxical as it may seem, I’ve found hunters to be generally more appreciative of nature than the average person. Also, hunting license fees fund a huge part of conservation. The decline of active and paying hunters is a significant threat to the preservation of nature reserves: https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/593001800/decline-in-hunters-...
If we're going to have any chance of hitting the 2C climate targets, electricity production must be more or less completely emissions-free by mid-century (preferably ASAP). So, any non-trivial amount of natural gas usage is out.

Also, there's the rough rule of thumb saying that when variable sources (like wind or solar) approach a fraction of total generation in the grid equal to the capacity factor of said source, system integration costs start to rise rapidly (because that's, at the latest, the point where you'll start needing large amounts of storage, curtailment, or long-range transmission). Thus, in most grids wind+solar will unlikely see much larger than 50% of total generation without massive extra investment and/or breakthroughs in storage costs.

If we're going for lowest-cost deep decarbonization, it looks like the share of nuclear will start to rise when we go deep enough, see e.g. slide 41 in https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/Getting...
is it anecdotal or is it provable?

There are dozens of open wide Rues, Avenues and Boulevards in Paris that don't have any dense housing compared to Manhattan or Hong Kong etc.
You mean their pizza delivery service with unicorns is not working?
When they are building a tunnel anyway, why not run a normal metro line through it and be able to transport much more people?
Ask HN: How to help people affected by flood?
The state of Kerala in India is going through the worst flood in the history. People are stuck in their home and they are unable to reach out for help as the electricity and telephone lines are down, most people are unable to recharge their phone. Already a website is up to identify and help these people www.rescuekerala.in , what other things can be done from the technology aspect?
I recently saw one called "What the health" and "in defence of food" (better) about how USDA is in bed with The meat, egg, sugar and pharma industry and how their guidlines are just plain wrong if not harmful.

I've been reading about this lots and lots to the effect that I've reduced my non veg intake to once a week and yes my health has improved a lot since too. But ymmv and it's definitely worth a watch even if you don't agree to hear their viewpoints.
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> Pixelblaze was designed for APA102 LEDs (aka DotStar). These LEDs are state-of-the-art and provide rock solid updates, faster refresh cycles, and the possibility of a dynamic range well beyond 0-255

Are these still the state-of-the-art in their category?
Timescaler here. We're not blaming "PG devs". We have great respect for the PostgreSQL developers and what they are doing; so much, in fact, that we chose to base our product on PostgreSQL. And, TimescaleDB is not a fork--it is an extension to PostgreSQL that can be loaded in existing PostgreSQL installations.

We would be happy to contribute to PostgreSQL, but I think the issue here is that, as a business that is focusing on a very particular use case, we are not perfectly aligned with the PostgreSQL roadmap. We want to be able to move quickly and adapt to customers needs, focusing on the pain points and issues they have. This simply isn't compatible with the more conservative development pace that main PostgreSQL understandably has.

From another perspective, I think one strength of PostgreSQL is, in fact, its support of extensions, enabling innovation alongside main PostgreSQL while the core developers can focus on a rock solid and extensible foundation. So, from where I am coming from, this is a feature and not a bug.
It's actually related. The tunnels are meant to be forward compatible with Hyperloop. Just no vacuum for short distances.
There's been a lot of discussion recently about Chinese influence or interference in Australia, and much of that is through Chinese people living in Australia. For example, Chau Chak Wing is a Chinese-Australian billionaire with ties to the Chinese Communist Party, is one of Australia's top political donors, and is the unindicted co-conspirator in a bribery case involving the former president of the UN general assembly.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/political-donor-chau...

Edit: In today's news, more controversy around another Chinese billionaire with permanent residence in Australia and how he's getting involved in Australian politics for the benefit of the CCP https://www.smh.com.au/politics/western-australia/wyatt-s-al...
1) Would a civilian-converted Galil battle-rifle be so readily described as a "hunting rifle"?

That said, the make is irrelevant. What is relevant is that getting all the muzzle energy and accuracy out of a .308 cartridge so as to make it useful for hunting, means a rather long barrel, and specifically one about as long as the M700's barrel.

Also, I'll admit that the rate-of-fire is not actually relevant because you still don't want to use any kind of .308 cartridge for home defense, because of overpenetration.

However, Remington's M700 is the most popular civilian-available weapon in the US, by far, which meets the description of ".308 hunting rifle".

2. Someone other than the owner, obtained it without authorization. That means that it was not securely stored.
Book Offers Peek into Nixon's Mind (2000)
People are people, over there or over here or anywhere.
So you are re-inventing a train?
The Definition of Art
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It’s Paris, so of course it’s not going to be cheap. IIRC in Belville my studio was about 1,000€ per month, which compared to virtually any western megacity (London, NYC, SF, etc.) is a great deal. Of course, the place was tiny, but that’s Paris in general.
How Militaries Should Plan for AI
I started smoking Cannabis. It has helped me a lot after long programming session.

My mind used to keep racing. I tried everything from playing instrument to swimming but nothing helped.

I would get the flashback of the diagrams, communication, tickets and emails. I would continuously think about the data structure and algorithms, reaearch a lot of them and figure out which one would be most efficient for my employer. I would work out the complexity and implementation in my head. Once i got into accident when thinking about a bug.

But now it's solved after i started taking cannabis.
Yes, UTF-16 can encode all currently valid Unicode codepoints, which is more than 2²⁰ but less than 2²¹. But cryptonector doesn't believe it will be enough in the future.

OTOH, UTF-8, as originally defined, can encode 2³¹ codepoints.
I smell a GraphQL rewrite!
Is there a schema definition available for this API or you are supposed to figure it out by looking at actual replies and hope it doesn't change?

Is there even an equvalent of XSD but for JSON?
It would be nice if someone could come up with an algorithm that automatically tell which posts are astroturfing, just like fakespot.com But apparently this would be much more difficult than the algorithm used by fakespot, and seem to be less domain specific...

But at least, perhaps, we could do some information clustering, as comments written by independent individuals are more likely to have greater variances -- and quite often, difference is what makes an individual human so valuable...
I think using a 10 years old figure if the same table shows that there are reductions to be expected is not perfect.

https://envir.ee/sites/default/files/kpp_energiajulgeoleku_u...

has 1170g/kwh as value. While it might also not the "right" value it probably is closer to reality.

Don't get me wrong, I really like the page and what you did and being myself tangentially involved with the european energy market I know how hard it is to get good values for all the different countries as emissions differ on a per powerplant basis even with same fuel type and even when all the specs are identical because their load profiles are different.