skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I understand correctly, they're not really solving the same problem on the read/write sides of the coin.

In fact, they seem to be on different tracks.

PipelineDB seems to do continuous aggregation, so the type of data it deals with is essentially summary data. If you know your summary function a priori, this can lead to very compact and efficient storage. The use case for this is reporting, dashboarding, etc.

TimescaleDB on the other hand deals with raw data. This is useful if you have multiple parties needed different types of aggregation from the same raw data. Also, if you want to do any kind of machine learning, raw unaggregated data would typically be more useful.

They serve different use-cases it seems.
This kind of political flamewar is the sort of thing we ban accounts for. Please don't do it here, at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Apartments could have a central robot kitchen and dumb waiters to send it up. Would be nice and easy to order simple stuff like pasta and pizza. Or also delivery of basic items such as milk. I'd love not having to carry heavy stuff home, or worry about if I have enough at home in the first place.
Google’s probably going to make about $130-140 billion, gross, in 2018. Twelve billion is a huge chunk of their profit margin.

Given that the source on this is one guy at Goldman Sachs, I’d treat that number with some suspicion.
Honestly I'm shocked that there isn't a company in the SFBA that just buys up busted 2015 MBPs and refurbs them to sell at a much higher price. Maybe they're afraid of getting sued into oblivion by Apple. Or maybe time travelers from the future are depleting our recent timeline of 2015 MBPs.
>but now I could randomly fail to click something if I rested my palm wrong.

Anyone else dislike the larger trackpad because of that?
Thanks for the response! FWIW I'm overall really interested in this, as I maintain an application that uses localStorage to keep very important data while the app is offline until it can be uploaded.

I recently tested localForage [0] to see if it could be more reliable and get around storage limitations of localStorage. Unfortunately, LocalForage has a very annoying problem where it picks a single storage backend to use, but the one it chooses can switch on page reloads (yes, even on the same device/browser.) and this switching causes data loss as keys stored in the other backends are unaccessible. I'm very interested to see if IronDB can help here! Thanks for working on this.

[0] https://github.com/localForage/localForage
I don't know why you are asking me what you should sell. If it was easy to come up with a service/product to sell, everyone would do it. That's the challenging part of running your own thing.

I love Creative writing, journalism, etc. In fact, I've paid quite a bit of money via Patreon and Kickstarters for creative pursuits. The creators didn't sell anything to me. I'm not sure what you mean by this.

And if your only method for asking your users for donation money is buttons/links, then you should change it up. Plug it in your media, in your speeches, etc.
That’s not exactly right. The immersive stereoscopic is pretty crazy. I had my wife try it and she said “the human race is going to go extinct!” You can’t move around, but the experience of a part of your mind thinking “wow this gorgeous woman is HERE” is EXTREMELY compelling.
Have used both, and don’t like either. I actually DO like very statically typed schemas, but you can easily do this with json over REST, and using IDLs to generate SDKs.

For gRPC vs. REST, I just don’t see the benefits. Performance wins of gRPC are extremely minimal for most backends, ”push based” workflows can easily be handled with webhooks (or message queues), so why am I throwing out extremely mature technology (and tooling/middleware!) that every dev is very familiar with?

For GraphQL, reducing client/datacentre round trips is nice, but can also easily be achieved with RESTful “coordination” services, that serve the front end specifically, and do nothing but stringing together calls to backend services. Why force people to learn another complex technology for that? “Returning smaller payloads” makes minimal impact in practice, and GraphQL requests are MASSIVE compared to REST requests, so you often end up with a performance loss, not gain. Also, GraphQL requests are way harder to glance at in the browser, you can’t just look for GET /dog/123, you have to peek into all the request bodies. And again, all the great REST middleware stops working, because you’re doing RPC.

Basically I see them both as extra complexity with little payoff.
I would highly recommend nextcloud over seafile. Seafile does not appear to take security seriously in any capacity as can be demonstrated by the maintainers here: https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/350 , https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/490

Nextcloud is written in PHP an so many people believe it to be insecure per default, but the devs are highly capable and put an emphasis on security from my experience.
That is a good point. The paper didn't make it as black and white as I read. However in my mind intercepting calls without police power (thus carrier cooperation) is much harder to achieve.
I assume it was the submitter's attempt to make the title less flamewar-prone, but that cause was clearly doomed, so sure.
Well, I'm not sure what you mean by "massive response" as China's nuclear capability is more for regional prurposes (i.e. India) though I do believe they have some ICBMs capable of reaching anywhere in north america. But their military resources are much smaller (e.g. they only have a couple of aircraft carriers and no supercarriers) and the PLA isn't really set up for projection of force at a distance.

I do agree to the extent that though the US would win any initial skirmish the long term viability of such an effort close to or on the Chinese mainland is probably not great.

Then again I can't come up with any reason the US would want to fight a war with China either (or vice versa), but who knows these days.
The wake of austerity spawned both Occupy here in the US and nationalist groups like Golden Dawn et al in Europe.

Today, nationalist groups and media in the US receive millions of dollars in support.

I can't help but think someone took a look over at how Europeans neutralized dissent and thought they had a good thing going.
Sure! So stream-stream JOINs actually haven't been requested by users as much as you'd think. Users have generally been able to get what they need by using topologies of transforms [0], output streams, and stream-table JOINs. Continuous queries can be chained together into arbitrary DAGs of computation, which turns out to be a very powerful concept when mapping out a path from raw input events to the desired output for your use case.

The primary issue in implementing stream-stream JOINs is that we'd essentially need to preemptively store every single raw event that could be matched on at some point in the future. Conceptually this is straightforward, but on a technical level we just haven't seen the demand to optimize for it.

That being said, you could just use a regular table as one of the "streams" you wanted to JOIN on and then use an stream-table JOIN. As long as the table side of the JOIN is indexed on the JOIN condition, an STJ would probably be performant enough for a lot of use cases. With PostgreSQL's increasingly excellent partitioning support this is becoming especially practical.

I also suspect that this is an area where integration with TimescaleDB could be really interesting!

[0] http://docs.pipelinedb.com/continuous-transforms.html
And the origin of the lawsuit against La Croix, iirc. I saw headlines describing insecticide in La Croix, and read them and went, oh, that's in beer.
Frankly, I have the 2015 MBP and this still happens to me every once in a while. So a bigger track pad is one of the _many_ reasons I have no intention of "upgrading" any time soon.
Ah, right on -- thanks!
Until they have a combo adapter, they really don't have _the_ adapter.
A lot of companies have a lot of bonds out. Its not necessarily unhealthy to keep some debt around, especially through the 2013 through 2017 timeframe when interest rates were abnormally low.

Elon will have to roll over the debt somehow: either into stock offerings or maybe into new bonds. The meager profits reported this quarter aren't anywhere near the amount they need to pay off those debts... even if the profits grow 2x or 3x larger in Q4 and Q1-2019.

But, paying off some of those debts will put the company into a stronger position.
Here's mine:

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I guess I was thinking of all those who are in denial about any benefit from government spending, and work to undermine government. Or maybe I was thinking about those who insist that private industry is the only solution to everything. Or maybe I was thinking about those who insist that rich executives deserve everything they earn without paying any taxes back to our society.
I think that money helps on the cashflows side, but not in the income statement.
Or Signal calling
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Something can be a "dark pattern" and an industry standard at the same time.

I agree that the consumers should change their behavior, but there aren't a lot of options for supporting good news. I can't say I've ever seen a news site that was good enough that I'd actually pay money for.
I'd love to know more about this too (I'm the lead developer on Arq). Please email support@arqbackup.com with details if you don't want to post here.
Thank you!
Wonderful.

Don't hesitate to let me know if there's anything else I can help with, bazizbaziz.
> You mean, like the Internet?

No. Most of the ARPANET, much less the Internet, wasn't originated from the government. They contributed maybe 3% of everything that went into it and people like to give them most of the credit. It was constructed of components invented in the private sector, with plenty of private networks among the first connections. Most of the people that worked on ARPANET were not employed by the government. SRI, BBN, Xerox were not government agencies. Harvard, Stanford, MIT, USC are not state schools. The government was the agent behind bringing ARPANET together. They did not form the actual Internet or invent most of its technology. Their single biggest contribution was being so kind as to get out of the way legally.

I'd argue that an easy 97% of everything that has gone into the Internet over the last 35 years, has been private technology and private capital. The private sector has invested trillions of dollars into building out the Internet and making it was it is. The government has contributed a laughably tiny sum by comparison, in both monetary terms and technology.

Besides the myth that the government invented and constructed the Internet, the government barely has a single dollar it doesn't first take from the private sector. Nearly all of its resources derive from private sector production and taxation against that production. The government then redistributes that private sector money. Factually anything that government does, in other words, is first thanks to private money that makes it all possible.
That Dell is the first laptop I have used that has a build quality and trackpad that is truly equal (if not better) than Apple's. I bought the Precision 5520 pre-installed with Ubuntu, and have never loved a machine so much.
I am not seeing what you mean to say. Will starting a costly Mars settlement dependent on Earth for resources prevent these asteroids? Isn't a self sufficient pod on Earth/space/moon much easier starting point? Isn't a nuclear bunker under the Earth as safe from these calamities as a settlement on Mars itself?

Finally, I don't think a meteor which wiped out dinosaurs will wipe out humans. We can always use a nuclear bunker and save a few hundred humans with years of food to survive on.
gRPC, Chrome and Closure are all open-source, Closure comes with source maps, and the "Proprietary Google software written in Golang" backend is pure speculation.They might turn out to be the Borg, but this release isn't part of of the assimilation process.
Yeah, I think more than anything this highlights the extent that media outlets seized on and amplified the outrage.
I get it that he's ranting, but there's nothing new here.

Apple software quality started to go downhill a long time ago, and now their hardware is catching up. It makes sense because hardware has a longer lead time. Anybody who disagrees can try explaining the mess that iTunes has become, or why I have to reboot both my phone and laptop (almost) every time I try tethering.
I've been looking at the librem 15, I like the idea of a mostly open source laptop, I'd like to do some more digging to see if I can find something more or less comparable to the macOS experience though.

Maybe, elementaryOS 5 + librem 15?
They couldn't leave it alone...
> If he's a wanker, than really who isn't?

In my estimation, most people are not wankers. I think we have different estimations.

And accomplishment is not a defense against wankerdom.
One advantage Apple has here is they’ve eliminated the tyranny of choice that I see with non-Mac laptops.

Which one should I buy? How much should I spend? What do I really need? I am paralyzed.

OTOH, I know an MBP will do fine, and the price is $1200, which is steep, but I have nothing to compare it to.

Not saying this is good, but I would think this drives a lot of inertia, which Apple is certainly counting on as they try to improve their profit margins.
It is true that gRPC tends to implicitly imply Protocol Buffers. It's the only format that is worked on directly by the gRPC team.

However, C#/C++ Bond, C++ FlatBuffers, and Java Avro have some level of code generation support for gRPC. I'm not very familiar with Microsoft's Bond, but it appears to have generics for both the service and structs.

disclaimer: I'm part of the gRPC team.
Just out of curiosity, do you have a specific use case that necessitates stream-stream JOINs, or were you just exploring the docs and wondering about this?
I think the initial use case of this will be with everyone’s videos in rectangles floating in space. People are already comfortable with video. It’s much more natural to glance at a shared workspace and then up at them, than it is in a current call where their video gets covered by another window on your screen.
IMO json+REST works just as well for contract first workflows. Just write up the contract in an IDL, have both sides agree on it up front, then use codegen tools to generate client SDK(s) for your client language(s) of choice. Same workflow as as with gRPC, though you’re probably less likely to get generated server stubs (which you don’t really need with json+REST anyways).
Absolutely. I'm in the very same boat. The ~2015 15" models are the best laptops Apple have made so far. (I use one of the new models at work, and they are worse - keyboard, useless touch-bar, ports)
Nothing in the schemes I suggest takes the President any time. You outfit his environment with picocells & secure wi-fi networks, set up his phone to prefer to connect to those, and you're done at least for preventing Stingray attacks.

I think a more compelling answer would be "You'd think that the government's IT people would have found a way for Hillary Clinton to have an easy-to-use yet secure email server and yet they stonewalled her to the point that she had her own server set up at home."
Cubes are far closer to an office than they are to open plan. Easily.
I referred the jostling in the Spratleys in my comment and on their ability to project force in another comment down thread.

They are rapidly expanding a blue water navy from a tiny starting point (e.g. recently bringing online a Ukranian aircraft carrier (not a super carrier) doubled their carrier force) and have a few remote naval bases, but their strength, to the degree it exists, is locally strong and externally mainly soft power.

There is no question the US would abandon Taiwan the same as Macarthur pulled back to the southern half of Australia in WWII. Pragmatics argues this -- as pragmatics argue against China actually attacking Taiwan militarily any time in the next 30 years. E.g. bombing Hon Hai would degrade Chinese manufacturing unacceptably.
Moving to Italy Before Brexit?
Amazons move off Oracle caused Prime Day outage in one of its biggest warehouses
i'd be ok with manually configuring up to tell it to copy certain config files to the sandbox so they are available for the commands to run there.

there should not be to many commands that need configuring.

greetings, eMBee.
Middle class is disappearing in California as wealth gap grows
My impression is that many Tesla shorts had covered to book profit on the way down from high 300s which I'm pretty sure they would count as a "win". Short interest has declined since earlier in the year.

Positive Q3 was widely expected. Citron Research (one of the more well-known Tesla shorts) was among those who saw this coming and publicly not only took profits on their short position but moved into a long position ahead of earnings.

The scale of the positive FCF is however a big shock. It's not clear at this point how much of this was "real" and how much short-term timing or one-off factors. As a big part of the short case was/is a short-term free cashflow/need for funds story, I'm sure this will be picked over in some detail over the next few days.

The longer-term bear case is simply about relative value and harder to assail with one good quarter. Difficult to take a short position on that basis though.
Assange used to be involved in FOSS, even writing and maintaining tools like surfraw[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfraw
Can you provide a source for that? I tried finding information showing a decrease in legal immigration, but couldn't find any statistics that were current.
It's not just the database itself, it's everything else you have to do to do it right. How will you do backups and replication? How will you recover? What are the ideal configuration settings for your particular situation? What about authentication, roles, open ports, allowed ip address ranges, etc.
Foreign born doesn’t necessarily mean diverse.
This is an incredibly condescending and insensitive post... Why would you attack the completely valid opinion from that person in this way?
What I don't get is why they hand wave as to why the f2f interaction reduces.

They even say "people isolate themselves with headphones", and don't look at the converse: if you need to wear headphones because of people talking, you probably realize the frustration you cause other people if you have a conversation around them.

This is not a hard concept, and it remains weird that they don't address it.

They talk about all sorts of complex topics ("Similarly, recent collective intelligence work suggests that, like our open offices, too much information from social data can be problematic", "assumes that spatial boundaries built into workspace architecture support collaboration and collective intelligence by mitigating the effects of the cognitive constraints of the human beings working within them.", etc), rather than going:

1. Open plan means more distraction. By design: that is the increased f2f interaction.

2. Basic decency means people attempt to reduce unnecessary distractions for others.
Anyone paying any attention in the Bay Area over the last few months has known what the Wall Street shorts and national media don't. Model 3 is an unbelievably massive success. It went from zero on the road, to more common than seeing a BMW 3 series in 6 months.
What's your expectation with OneDrive on-demand files?
That doesn't work well if everyone is constantly turning away from the camera, not to mention has an AR headset covering most of their face.
Microsoft’s Earnings Surge, as Cloud Bet Continues to Pay Off
I got really into 19th century British military swords after discovering the Scholagladiatoria YouTube channel [1].

I've always like swords, but the 19th century is so interesting to me because you can actually find relatively affordable originals. Plus we know a lot more about how 19th century swords were actually used because of the abundance of military manuals.

1. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt14YOvYhd5FCGCwcjhrOdA
Ask HN: Which SaaS companies do you gladly pay?
I've managed millions a year in IaaS/PaaS/SaaS spend, and most companies I begrudgingly pay (PagerDuty, New Relic), but there are a couple that I wholeheartedly recommend and I'm happy to give them my money:

Fastly – product is so much better than competitors and their support is phenomenal

Catchpoint – product is extremely powerful and I don't think there's someone else that can compete with their visibility to/from/within China

Which SaaS companies do you gladly pay? Why?
Another way to look at it is their submission process fails to catch problematic apps. Making it necessary to pull them from the store after they have been published.
Yes. A green card auction would be great. Expand it to some large number and get rid of all the huge variety of visas and paths to citizenship. Maybe half or more of all immigration to the US could go this route.

After some years of high demand and high prices, I imagine that the price would drop to some stable level. When that happened, we might have an opportunity to bring some sanity to the illegal immigration problem in the US. In some more sane world, both parties might agree that a person that can prove they have been in the US for some number of years can pay for a green card at the auction rate (gov financing available).
> Cubes are far closer to an office than they are to open plan.

Not if the major disadvantage to open plan is that you're constantly being disturbed by your coworkers because there is no noise isolation.
The conclusion at the bottom, of drinking lukewarm coffee, is not well thought through. Do we really want pilots or crewmembers, on very long flights (I've personally been on a 14 hour USAF flight), to be drinking cold coffee? It's very important to keep them comfortable and focused, and having been a Marine on the ground for a decade, I can say that there's nothing more important than a hot cup of coffee to stay in the zone.
Repair shop owner here. A 2015 MBP is basically 3 parts: the screen, the logic board, and what Apple calls the “top case” (the metal component where your keyboard and trackpad hang out.)

RAM went bad? Tough, it’s soldered onto the board. LCD cracked? Well, Apple doesn’t make parts easily available to anyone except Apple, so unless you’re Apple authorized, you’re stuck buying them from resellers who’ve stripped them from other laptops. That screen replacement runs hundreds of dollars.

It’s the unfortunate reality of Apple making non-repairable, soldered-on boards to make their laptops a few mm thinner.

I highly recommend the Dell XPS series. I switched over to a Dell XPS 15 and really like it!
How Dismantling an Obscure Tax Created an American Aristocracy
>What's just as amazing is that this whole revolution is done off the back of the Li-Ion 18650/21700 battery cell.

18650 is the cell form factor, not a specific anode/cathode/electrolyte combo. There have been leaps and bounds in cell chemistry over the last 10 years which have made it possible to build high-end expensive cars, but we still need about double the performance of current tech to achieve true low cost mass adoption. A $45,000 car with 300 miles range is just barely enough to convince well off people to buy a new toy. The first $20,000 EV with 300 miles range will change the world.
See also Maciej Cegłowski's “Benjamin Button Reviews The New MacBook Pro” https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/10/benjamin_button_reviews_the...
Simple, effective Earth-system modeling
Perhaps originally, but the purported collaborative benefits have taken on a meme-like life of their own.