skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine the larger the employing organization, the greater the preference for specialists. The extreme example of a small organization, self-employment, is probably the ideal working environment for a generalist.

> "But I know all these other things (that you don't care about)!"

Having the skills be related to each other is also key. If you can't mix the skills in what you're doing, in a way that no 2 specialists can easily coordinate, then that's not very useful.

I think it's a matter of making use of one's advantages, but it's probably true that it's easier for a specialist, if all they have to do is apply to well known organizations for employment, as opposed to starting a new business or applying to startups.
Not very knowledgable in the area but can someone please explain how does kdb fit within this class of time series dbs and whether there are any alternatives available to kdb.
I think the point is, what is the purpose of voting if the voter knows nothing about the candidates or issues on the ballot? You can pass a law making voting compulsory; it's a much bigger challenge to be sure the voter is informed about what he's voting on.
The state of Washington publishes the entire voter roll, complete with names, addresses, and dates of birth, online in CSV format.

https://www.sos.wa.gov/_assets/elections/vrdb-current.zip
All modern columnstores can handle vast ingest rates and query speeds. It's all down to sharding, zone maps and sparse indexing, fast algorithms that operate on compressed data, and storage throughput. These are well-solved problems at this point.

Your blog post doesn't mention a single columnstore database though. KDB+, Clickhouse, MemSQL, or any of the GPU-powered variations will happily beat any TSDB out there.
Agreed. Although I suspect that if I had posted the quote with the comment <<"Interesting.">> beneath it and nothing else, nobody would have complained despite it being no more substantive.
It could probably be done with the Workflow app introduced in iOS 12 if you were so inclined that can stitch together different apps.
I think they just modify the status bar manually on hover. If you right-click a search result URL and copy it to the clipboard, it's the super long redirect URL, even as the browser status bar shows the URL you will be directed to.
Same here! I figure there must be places that apprecuate this kind of thinking. So now I'm focused on only working in those kind of placea.
Just play a silent audio stream and it will keep running.
Compulsory voting simplifies ensuring election integrity. By making administration more like double entry accounting. 100 ballots issued, 100 ballots returned.

Voters always have the option to soil their ballots. Or leave them blank.
But low turnout may frequently be due not to apathy, but to inability to get to the polls. I think this differentially affects the working poor, whose employers may deny them compensated time to vote. They're poor and can't take a chance that their employers will retaliate against them for exercising their suffrage.

Compulsory voting could easily include a requirement that employers impose no penalty at all on an employee who takes time from work to vote.
All this. It’s surveillance where your observation comes into its own tho.
MakaJs, Use json schema to express react
like robot wars? that was a great show growing up.
I think this is the show he was referring to: http://www.wxxinews.org/post/connections-did-2001-space-odys...
Expanding the CircleCI Ecosystem: Orbs and the Technology Partner Program
The given example (Wentworth) was a House of Reps by-election, in which full preferences are required for a vote to be formal anyway.

That doesn't affect the tactical voting possibility there - the possibility arose because the Liberal candidate's chances were greatly affected by which of the other two major contenders made it into the final runoff.
Making your C library callable from Python by wrapping it with Cython
Yes, that's why my comment said use metric name and timestamp.

Spanner isn't a column-oriented database, but they all support multiple columns as the primary/sort/shard/distribution key. Use the name as the first column, and timestamp as the last column, for scalable distribution.
> Compulsory voting is great if you are running a dictatorship...
That's a ridiculous reach.

Not sure where you pulled that out from.

> That signal is lost when you force people to vote.

Many spoil votes on purpose. That's a signal.

You see voter turnout, I see voter suppression. I'd rather force everyone to the polls where they can choose to say nothing, than have the powers that be potentially silence those that have nothing.

FFS, it's one day in your life. Make it a voting holiday. Create more voting centers. Make it easier to vote.
Interesting, I've never heard of ECS before.
I used this to close a sponsorship deal the other week. I had been talking to this potential customer for weeks at this point, and every time their answer was "we really want to pay for a sponsorship but just haven't had the time to go online and pay for it yet". So I asked "what if I do the paperwork for you and you just have to type in your card number"? She handed me her phone and went to grab her credit card. By the time she came back I was at the payment screen and the deal was closed on the spot.

That one deal tripled our YTD revenue, and opened my eyes to the fact that my sales process was far more complicated than it actually needed to be.
It's too bad people were arguing with your point about 9/11 as if they could prove that was invalid, it would completely invalidate your entire argument.

The most recent example of your argument was the death of Jamal Khashoggi. The Washington Post reported that the CIA had advance notice of the attack.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/saudis-lay-in-wait-for-...

The problem of course is because of the secret nature of their budgets, spending, successes, and failures, it's hard to know how good or bad they are for the country.

But there comes a time when we get real victories, even if they aren't revealed for decades. And the victories that happened this decade, may not be revealed for another two or more decades from now.
Runway Startup Postdocs (Cornell Tech)
Reminds me of Dune before Butler's Jihad.
Maybe it's different because I live in a rural area, but a lot of my students want to go into welding or mechanics, etc. They know they can make a good living, and some of the more ambitious want to do underwater welding or work on airplanes (and one even has an "in" through his father, who does that) and retire early, or just live large.

But, overall, I do agree with your points. What I mostly see in high school here is kids who don't have a fucking clue what they want to do. To be honest, I'm 26 and I'm not sure if I know what I want to do either. I think a lot of the issue is that we force kids to make decisions impacting the rest of their lives before they've ever had a chance to really find their passions and such.

I hate our culture.
I never argued about the relative importance of the wars, just that your bar for "major" is extremely high.

You also forget about Korea as the start of the communist domino theory that directly led to the Vietnam intervention. And vastly understate the cultural changes that happened as a result of the Vietnam war protests.
Been there done that.

I had a PowerMac 6100/60 with the DOS Compatibility card that had its own sound chip, video controller and optionally RAM.

My 6100/60 had 24MB of RAM and the card had 32MB of RAM.

Before that, I had an LCII with a ‘//e card.

I doubt that modern Apple would ship a hybrid x86/Arm laptop though.
Big thanks and props to the team on this, very exciting! Looking forward to pitching in on the guides or other areas where some contrib help may be needed.
> Say someone doesn't pay their newspaper bill. Maybe contact their water company and ask them to shut off their water, to encourage them to pay. It's worth a try, right?

I can do better than that.

Where I live in the US, if you don't pay your water bill, the government can take your home in a forced forfeiture. They put it up for auction to pay for the water bill. If that water bill is for $800 and the home has $300,000 of equity, doesn't matter, they'll steal it just the same.

The benefit of having a lot of guns behind you and the legal right to use deadly force to steal property.
Only the GOP can have have a deceased pimp run for them in an election and then laughably, but with a straight face, proclaim they are a family values, and law and order party.
For the USA, universal voter registration and compulsory voting would utterly moot multiple recurring dramas, imagined or legit.

Purging, caging, shunting voters to provisionals, registration errors, challenges (eg mismatched signatures), insufficient poll sites and ballots, etc, etc.

But then what would the infotainment complex talk about if we engineered away all the manufactured outrage and electioneering?
Ask HN: Why do we assume aliens would depend on water and oxygen like us?
I have been using Photopea for a while now, especially since I moved to a Linux machine from Windows and being a Photoshop enthusiast I would say, this is the best alternative outh there.
NET Standard 2.0 Support and Control File Compression While Saving FBX in .NET
What an amazing project. Neat read!
the GOP are a national security threat. Causing mayhem, division, and interfering with Americans exercising their founding fathers given right to vote. What a country. Kemp should be behind bars for what hes done this election cycle.
Its worth noting that its not actually compulsory to vote in Australia. Your options are:

1) go to a polling place and get your name marked off. Whether you actually vote after that is up to you. You can just leave or you can take ballot papers, not fill them out, draw pictures on them or whatever appeals to you.

2) pay a fairly trivial fine. I believe its $20. https://www.aec.gov.au/FAQs/Voting_Australia.htm

3) provide a reason why you didn't vote. Anecdotally the reasons can be incredibly flimsy. "I was suffering from a case of ennui" is a reason that has been accepted. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ennui

The whole point of it isn't to get people to vote. Its to ensure that the electoral roll is up to date. They don't care if you vote.
I think it’s great that you reduce the price for countries that are less wealthy.
Not to take away from your excitement or the validity of the change, but non frontenders find webpack rather bloated. To be fair, I’ve met more than one front-end developer with the same perception.
Sugester – More than CRM and helpdesk
Which would have a strong correlation to "I'm out of the house at the moment."

Also known as an invitation to come rob me.

The Secretary of State (candidate Kemp in this case) could have handled this a lot better ... but chose not to.
> I noticed that it's almost like there's a game loop that periodically hits the CartesianSelfAssertion function. Or something.

Could you go into a bit more detail? What does CartesianSelfAssertion feel like? How often is it called---on the order of 40ms per OP, or less frequently? Do you notice this only during/after meditation?
> It requires as low skill level from support as you can get. Some rudimental diagnostics skills and understanding of the product itself are needed; from there, if it's not in the FAQ, let engineers handle it in full.

Management has to enforce that tickets aren't thrown over the wall. I can't count the number of times that your approach is misinterpreted as, "I don't need to know much about the product or try to understand the customer's problem and communicate it correctly."

Anyway, without support that takes pride in, well, support, it leaves customers very unsatisfied.
Encouraging People to Vote – Lessons Learned
iPad Pro 2018 - Tablet to End the Tablet Hunt?
As someone explained the certificate isn't part of ServerHello.

After ServerHello is sent, the server knows a client now has everything it needs to establish all the keys, so it encrypts all subsequent data.

The pretence that this is just a TLS 1.2 session resumption continues though. So there's a wrapper shown in the document. This wrapper claims to be TLS 1.2 encrypted application data. In fact it's TLS 1.3 encrypted handshake data. For clarity in the document they show both the whole encrypted wrapper, its decrypted data, and then the separate components inside that decrypted data.
Could machines using artificial intelligence make doctors obsolete?
Get Image from Local Resource Folder in React Native
It’s hard to remember, but the telephone book used to contain the street address for almost every adult by default.
At Last, Physicists Understand Where Matter's Mass Comes From
This is just sad. Humans were meant to create and dream.
This is a red herring. Yellow books have existed for decades with peoples name and addresses. Not taking a stance on the doxxing but the real problem with what's happening in Georgia is the fact that the election is straight up rigged like a banana republic. Techcrunch spends literally half a sentence on this issue in the entire article:

"Kemp, who as secretary of state effectively runs the state’s elections despite running in one, has been accused of voter suppression in recent weeks, "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY2ZeqdRjjc
> Does anyone else notice the length of a moment changing?

Sure- a couple beers makes a couple hours feel like a couple minutes.
All yours: https://fs.blog/tobi-lutke/
"...targeting unoccupied properties..."

This is why I could never be a criminal. I would have never thought of that exploit. It sometimes scares me how clever and resourceful some people can be.
www.brainpickings.org
I haven't read your work but it is nice to see more instruction on GraphQL being published. I think Apollo is a great choice for beginners and an appropriate choice for many projects in general - largely due to its framework ambiguity. I look forward to looking into your section on other options. It's good to keep perspective on that sort of thing and hard to do so when it involves such a learning curve.

An e-book is a good choice of format as well. I learned GraphQL from a video resource until I was competent enough to proceed with the (admittedly very good) documentation. I wish there had been a resource like this available.
Can somebody who's worked with legacy J2EE applications get a gig? All the buzzword right now is fullstack react/angular + lots of tools to make javascript development scale. Most of my recent experience right now is stopping/starting JBoss and figuring out how to sneak in yet another feature into a 15 yr old java codebase.
Read up on TPM
I'd rather not repeat confidential information in a public forum, but the advantage had very little to do with a specific feature, technology, or performance.
It was its own thing before, fundamentally.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/samsung-bixby-viv-alexa-rvia...
Setting up some energy function and then finding the lowest energy state sounds a lot like adibatic quantum computing. Assuming this research lives up to the hype, quantum computers might be able to run this algorithm faster. Quantum machine learning is already a thing, but its nice to see it fit so congruently with a classical counterpart.
It really depends. Capabilities like time-series-specific compression, automatic rollups, complex aggregations and/or ranking, stable storage in S3, clustering, and replication vary a lot and I think that's why we see so many TSDBs out there. I maintain a list of TSDBs[0] and it started as an evaluation of what already available for my previous employer to use. We didn't find one that fit our exact use case, so we ended up building our own on top of MySQL.

[0] https://misfra.me/2016/04/09/tsdb-list/
We got a pamphlet for the ballot initiatives.
I drove through Hof's district last year and picked up his memoir "The Art of the Pimp", which was stacked high in the gas stations.

Hof was a selfish man with selfish politics, but it was a fascinating read, and weirdly honest; i.e. Hof deliberately did not make himself look good in his own memoir. I have no idea why.

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Pimp-Mans-Search-Money/dp/1941393...
What's your opinion on Rust? It seems to be successfully filling the niche Ada could not, even if Ada's problems were more political than technical.
I'd argue it's actually the economics. End users both want everything for free expecting it to work perfectly as well as assurances that the project isn't going away while also somehow still wanting guarantees around release schedules. Those same people also endlessly complain to OSS maintainers about something they are getting for free and somehow expect the red carpet when it comes to feature requests.

Attribution isn't the issue, it's balancing the need for building a community vs the financial incentives to actually support the people building the thing you're using.
> My personal subjective estimate is something like to 40 ms

This is fascinating. I'm waiting for the time in my meditation practice when I start to notice it.

Could you (or anyone else who experiences individual moments) go into a bit more detail about what you experience? Do the moments tend to all be from the same sensory modality (e.g. vision), or are they mixed? If you can tell, does any moment combine more than one sensory modality? How often are there moments of thinking (e.g. narration or a visually imagined scenario), or does thinking tend to end the experience? How isolated do the moments feel: are they like isolated snapshots, or is it like a movie running slow where you can tell that there are frames but they partially blend together?
> what is the purpose of voting if the voter knows nothing about the candidates or issues on the ballot?

Basically eliminating voter suppression, for one.
Text Predictor – Generating Rap Lyrics with Recurrent Neural Networks (LSTMs)
You don't have "missing rows". For time series A you have a time point at 12:01 AM, a datapoint at 12:02 AM, and another datapoint two weeks later at 5:04 PM. For time series B the times are different. You need some notion of whatever state the physical system was in at any given time.
Great read! Thanks for the website info! Taking my General Test on Tueday. I have picked out a Yaesu 818 as my first HF radio. Look forward to QRP and SOTA.
One of the nice thing about emacs is that I can use the GUI with all modern features and still have the same keybindings and features when working on a remote server/computer. Even if emacs was huge before I was born, it is very lightweight for today. Atom and VS code are built with electron, which makes them much slower and heavier on RAM. Visual Studio is like a proprietary notepad++ with a gigabyte per feature it has over notepad++ (C++ compiler, Python tools, etc.).
> server is far from trivial.

Yes, but most people will use commercial VPN providers, with added benefit of obscure IP address, with your own server IP is still unique to you.
You do realize there are say ClickHouse clusters that ingest in a few days more than largest timescale cluster can handle as it's max size.
Timescale, for all their wonderful marketing, is just an automatic sharding extension for PostgreSQL. You can accomplish the same yourself using native partitioning, or pg_partman, or Citus.

Partitions are a basic building block for scaling performance and storage so it helps when you have lots of data, but Postgres w/Timescale does not have column-oriented storage and is still single-node only so it comes nowhere near the capabilities of cutting-edge columnstores like Clickhouse, KDB+, MemSQL, Kinetica, etc.
Not sure if you were looking for non professional ones but reforge's brief is great to subscribe to https://www.reforge.com/brief
Generalist because it's in my nature [1] "When environmental conditions change, generalists are able to adapt, but specialists tend to fall victim to extinction much more easily."

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalist_and_specialist_sp...
You can make loop antennas with parts from the hardware store.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_antenna
It's always possible to explicitly vote for none of the candidates. You just have to turn up. I reckon this probably results in a better representation og the true will of the people overall.
Does anyone else see an asshole when they look at the Pi-hole logo/landing page image?

https://pi-hole.net/
When I rode my bicycle across the USA from LA to NYC I met a dude named Ryan through WarmShowers. Over pizza and beers at a local joint in Tempe, AZ, Ryan told me about this blog called _Semi-Rad_ - "you don't need to be a rockstar in something, you just need to be semi-rad. Semi-rad people have the most fun, they achieve the most, they experience the spice of life. They're not so caught up in perfection, but they still achieve a degree of greatness."

I approve this message, Darius Foroux, and I encourage others to consider the trade-offs of "perfection" vs. "semi-rad".
rpmfind.net !
Just because someone used an absentee ballot doesn’t mean the address is unoccupied. I used my parents address in college and I know people who used it because they were traveling Election Day.
Skip the mock trial and fairly assess the criminal justice system. The trial doesn't teach useful things, and instead leaves students trusting a system that could arbitrarily decide to ruin their life.
why this whole per minute thing I can insert 1000000 per minute on my mbp using reasonable batching (it's only 16K per second)
Apparently there aren't many: no one (except perhaps a few buddhists who spent an unreasonable amount of time meditating) noticed until now. The interesting bit is that we don't notice.
Flickr free accounts will be limited to 1,000 photos and videos
After I got my license I also got a Skywarn license (that has to be renewed every 2 years) so I can do storm spotting. It's basically a volunteer effort for the National Weather Service. Licensed spotters get called out to go spot severe weather and report back in on the ham bands to the Weather Net. I installed a ham radio in my car for this very purpose.

There are a million different areas in this hobby. Chatting with random people is just the most obvious (and boring) one.
Does Kafka have timestamps? I didn't see any when I looked, but I was working with an older client version & didn't get far into it.
It's actually more similar in TLS 1.3 than earlier versions. In earlier versions a client uses a very different method to prove its identity then the server does.

In TLS 1.3 they're completely symmetrical. First they show their certificate and then they sign the entire transcript of the session handshake using their private key and send that signature. The peer can use the public key from the certificate and their own copy of the transcript to verify the signature.

If your peer doesn't offer an acceptable cert you abort. If they show you a signature that doesn't verify you abort. This could be because they're an imposter who doesn't have the private key, or it could be that a MitM has changed the handshake, which will mean the transcripts don't match. Either way you haven't got a secure connection.

The TLS 1.3 server gets to be more specific about the cert it wants from a client. Where before it just says "Here's a list of CA roots I trust" now it can specify other filters such as here are some OIDs I want to see in the Certificate Policy.
True, but I can still copy the link I guess, on desktop anyway, maybe it was mobile that used to change the links to google on copy.
So what your saying is that the unwashed masses shouldn't be able to vote?

Maybe we should go back in time, and not let women vote either, I mean you know how hysterical they are.
Yes, I understand this as the "last value recorded" concept in my comment. KDB+ supports this with "asof" joins. Others can just do it by scanning a wider time frame or the entire table.

Null gaps in a columnstore can be skipped over basically instantaneously and usually are just zone map/index lookups. Again I question how common this query is and whether it's really worth limiting yourself to a special TSDB because of it.