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Ask HN: Kibana like data explorer UI for PostgreSQL?
I am exploring an idea of using Postgres + Timescale for storing very small volume of log data and having a "search based" web UI like Kibana's to let me and other users explore the log data.

Anyone here hacked around with such idea? have any open source projects to recommend?

Notes:
ELK will work, but it is an overkill for my needs, plus, I want to build this for fun with PostgreSQL.

I'm not good at Javascript and UI development in general (systems background), and would prefer to hack around some existing project rather than building something from scratch.
Isnt there already a tax on mobile phone service plans for this?
Isn't that trespassing on military property? I would shit myself, the risk is too high to be detained and accused of spying.
They'd never be that specific. If the warnings were that specific they'd actually be useful. Instead there are warnings saying an entire building contains some unknown chemicals that will have an unknown chance of giving you an unknown type of cancer.
Or:

"This is just an unmarked taxi."

"Except hailing/billing isn't stuck in the past so you don't have to get lucky to find an empty one on the street or call a surly dispatcher and wait 45 minutes. You also get the bill up front so you know how much it will cost before you even say yes. You can always pay by credit card too, you'll never arrive at the destination and then only be informed that the credit card reader is 'broken' and the cabbie can only accept cash. Added bonus: it's about half the price of a regular taxi."

"Cool"
I accept that MS/Apple was a competitive move. I’m not sure I accept that duck.com is.
How would it be any different than taxing voice-line service? Because that's exactly what this is--an attempt to extend Universal Service voice-line surcharges to cover text messaging service.
I mean right at the top of the page is a single switch that lets you turn off all targeted advertising if that's what you want.

But personally I like targeted advertising. Ads let me use services for no monetary payment while still providing income for the content creators, and I like seeing ads that are targeted towards my interests more than ads that aren't. And while it's not ideal that you might have to go in and change what your preferences are in cases where they get it wrong, I much prefer it over the alternative of all ads being "wrong" for me.
The good thing about this is that the grepping can be parallelised and distributed on to several nodes. Having said that, once you select the relevant metadata right, you should be able to narrow it down enough for the queries to be snappy enough.

While this will definitely be slower than something that indexes the contents, you'll be able to store much more in Loki at much lower costs.
Intel unveils Foveros 3D chip stacking and new 10nm ‘chiplets’
Also retroactive to messages sent in the past 5 years haha what a joke
Whats up with this new writing style on HN? This entire article could be summarized as "You can do ATDT 12345 to dial a phone number on a modem, and I used it for pranks round my office in the 90's."

All the detail about the coworker, the social cues, etc. doesn't really add insight nor entertainment value, but pads out 1 sentence into 1 page.

Journalists used to use that style when paid by the word and they didn't have much to say, but rachelbythebay isn't paid like that, so why is she writing as if she is?
Great point. Independent of an organization paying them for their work. It's impossible for a writer to not let their own preconceptions seep through but it is possible for writers to not let their editors' or institutions' preconceptions seep through. Hope that helps clear that up.
It's definitely complex. Thanks for the link to Microsoft's trouble in this area. It seems somewhat similar, based on this line:

Microsoft’s problem was that it failed to treat them like ICs — that is, like people running their own independent businesses. Instead, Microsoft integrated the workers into its workforce: They often worked on teams along with regular employees, sharing the same supervisors, performing identical functions and working the same core hours. Because Microsoft required that they work on site, they received admittance card keys, office equipment and supplies from the company.

From the information made public in the grievance letter, it seems that a significant portion of Google's TVCs (their name for ICs) would fall into this bin - workers doing the same work at a different level of compensation.

It'll be interesting to see this unfold as time goes on. People were out for blood even back in the 90s, and Bill Gates didn't even set out to create a walled garden for Ivy leaguers (and Stanford). Seems like Google may find itself at the forefront of another national conversation, this time about the growing class divide.
"But the telecommunications industry revenues that fund the program have fallen from $16.5 billion in 2011 to $11.3 billion in 2017, it said."

Is that because people spend way less time making actual phone calls these days?
That's rich coming from somebody who claimed Bruce Schneier doesn't know what he's talking about, before linking to a "rant", driving down exactly the same points I made, by a CEO of an InfoSec outfit, a former NSA spook to boot, praising the accuracy of his own service.

Sorry, but let's just agree to disagree, it's clear there ain't anything else left to do here.
I partially agree with your general criticism. But as conservative in tech, I'm completely with the lefties on this one.
> There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.

There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
The Fire Next Time — James Baldwin
Between the World and Me — Coates
(back-to-back)

The Scar — China Mieville

The Alphabet vs the Goddess – Shlain
These ads are served by models. She's saying, "Hey model-builders, add in the stillbirth option. You can detect that using machine learning too -- throw in some sentiment analysis and call it good." As someone who is not building these models herself, that's as much personal responsibility as she can take. And it's a good point. Brands that want goodwill and sales if she has a kid later should want to not be seared in her memory as a pain-point after stillbirth.

It's a bit much to say "ads she herself engaged with at one point" -- Facebook and email marketers serve you a lot of ads for companies and sites you may never have engaged with directly.
Our company bought a nasty piece of proxy/security software that injects a bunch of DLLs right at the center of the address space. 2GB is small if you lose 256MB on this kind of contraption. We had regular problems when ASLR made unfortunate random choices at startup, and not enough continuous adress space was available for end user software.The only option was a reboot.
Thanks for that, the articles I've seen haven't linked it. Seems like the surcharge could be like MTS surcharge. The carrier is _permitted_ to apply a surcharge up to a defined maximum, ostensibly to defray the cost of mandated "Universal Service", emergency service, etc., but the funds are not collected by the state, and are instead kept by the telco. My MTS surcharge is about %20, before sales tax, btw.

I infer that media coverage calling this a "tax" might be sort of a telco lobbying submarine.

Edit: The more I look into this the less I know. I have had a lot of trouble finding details on who manages which fees. FCC has apparently designated several non-profit corporations to manage universal service fee funds, while some states have their own funds.* I can't find an authoritative answer to whether other surcharges are outside the scope of government management or not. Customer service won't talk about it (I tried once), and the legislation itself seems to describe what is _allowed_, but doesn't usefully summarize what is actually occurring. If anyone knows where to find more authoritative information about this sort of thing, I would like to know.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Service_Fund#Adminis...
living 66 years on a minimum wage is not rich. you seem to have a very different definition of rich from most people. having $60k a year for 16 years is also not rich. do you consider someone making medium income rich?
Well, texting while driving is a leading cause of road accidents..
wonderful, now we will have a double down of the word libtard.
They just discovered specific tax for communication, which has been existed for 19 years in Turkey. And not specific to texting.
its just nvidia was over-valued and the market is correcting itself now alongside all the other tech stocks getting smashed, but I think investors should double down on nvidia now while the getting is good. The company still has the best gpu engineers on the planet $$$.
> the common folk in a town have to pay at least somewhat for the municipal broadband even if they do not use it

Keep in mind here that this was the Comcast model, as well. The town was going to pay to expand the infrastructure, then Comcast was going to use it.

I take your overall point, though, about encouraging competition among service providers. Unfortunately, this is something that in many places cannot be accomplished at the local level, as Comcast (along with other large providers) have been lobbying and colluding at state and regional levels to prevent competitors from entering the market. Municipal broadband, for some localities, may be the only effective solution available.
You have no idea what you are talking about and clearly have never headed a company.

The issue is that if you hire temporary contractors and treat them like your employees, then you have to extend the status of employment to them, including withholding payroll taxes, otherwise the government will come after you.

Google doesn't give two shits about giving people t-shirts and access to their gyms. The issue is, if they do these things for temp contractors, then the temps become employees.

You hire temps in situations where you don't actually need a full-time worker for a long period of time. If you are not allowed to hire temps, the choice then becomes should we hire anyone at all?

When Google does need a full-time worker, they do hire them, and they do pay them as full employees.

If you have a problem with the casteism developing between full time employees and contractors, go see your Congressman and ask them to change the laws that make it so companies have to distinguish between temps and full-time in their hiring.
And store it where? And query it how? What will render my NoC dashboards?

With graphite protocol the metric stream is already plain-text with just 3 fields per line (path value time), its pumped over a socket to a collector.. but that's where the hard stuff starts.
Good point. Mozilla also received (still receives?) a substantial amount of money from Google, no doubt that achieves similar goals -- prop up a competitor -- although it also helps Google make their search engine the default for Firefox users.
Now that they've changed it to straight lines it looks like a cigarette to me.
In the case of the letter author, I suspect the problem isn't just that stillbirths are rare, but that you can't really monetize a stillbirth. Better to assume the baby was born successfully than miss out on the opportunity to advertise to a new mom.

I'm sure no one in the room of marketing execs has considered personal consequences like this one.

This type of thing is why I do my best to enable privacy settings and disable personalized ads. I don't actually care whether Google knows what I ate for dinner last night, but I don't want constantly see Google's fuzzy judgements of my humanity as I browse the web.
I don't think the OP is asking for regulation.

I think the OP is begging for consideration.

As a user, we have every right to state our opinions.

It's not "immoral" or "unfair" to say, "You're making money off of me, I'd really like you to change your behavior."

I don't know why or how you jumped all the way to "regulatory hoops."

Have you seen people advocating laws in this discussion? I haven't.
A big issue when you’re the platform is not competing with the developers who write apps for said platform. If MS included a lot of great apps as stock, it would impact a lot of vendors. Just look at how much the anti-virus vendors complained about Windows Defender and the removal of APIs those tools used.
There is a general consensus in the open-source type community around the SIL Open Font License: https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id... It’s what most of the fonts on Google Fonts, including such widely-used families as Adobe’s Source Sans Pro and Google’s own Roboto family, are licensed under, and something I imagine the creators of Optician Sans would be comfortable with.
> Is this not just a classic example of HN looking for the negative in every positive?

No. Google has the monopoly on search (outside of China). Avoiding anti-trust is a huge concern of theirs. Look at MS and IE in the browser wars - they were forced by the EU to build into Windows links/ads to the other browsers - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu#/media/File:B...

Whilst DDG has huge momentum by now, duckduckgo.com is still an ache to type - that's why ddg.co has existed for years, and why you use "DDG" yourself ;) duck.com is way more memorable and even faster.

Not a lawyer, but given DDG's brand recognition, I'd imagine they would have a strong case in an ICANN dispute given that Google are not using it. Google are proactively avoiding at least this bad PR by doing the right thing (this week).
As technical people: We generally understand that data science works in the following manner:

1. You collect and annotate data (This is probably about 90% of the work here)
2. Someone has a goal of something to find or query
3. Develop models that can solve that goal, or redefine
4. Use the output

For the results of data science, you are always going to get generalized approximations of segments (groups of people) That's just how statistics work. (It's also how medicine tends to work as well.. but I digress)

> Criminal justifce reform

The consequences from are a lot higher. We've seen this over 1000+ years about some of the conerning court cases. That's why we have ideas such as "spirit of the law," human judges, juries, and appeals. Additionally, this is why the law is so complicated and murky. Computers are very bad at this.

I'm especially hard on this individual because she's using her position with WaPO to try to publically "humiliate" those tech companies.

> Giving feedback

This is where some of the techincal literacy comes in a well, she doesn't seem to understand that the feedback requires human understanding is not something that is "intelligently" accounted for. Systems like that do not exist. The ad platform isn't something that is designed to accomidate her needs. (which is why I used the word entitled) It's a bit like being upset over those same ads being shown on TV. (media literacy covers, those are ads they may or may not be targeted towards you and those do not have to reflect your reality)

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As far as the data privacy bit goes: We should have control over the data that is collected about us and have the ability to remove it later. At the moment the strongest thing we have is the GDPR, but that's for European Union citizens only.
If we want to be really specific, hasn't only NVIDIA equity lost half the value. I'm pretty sure other portions of the capital structure are largely unblemished.
I am a little torn, too. I built a new machine recently and went with the 2080 (Stepping up to the 2080ti when they become available).

On one hand, there is the appreciation for the technical achievement of something that seemed unlikely for a while (real-time ray tracing), plus as you mention, then increased die size. They look to be pretty good for ML applications, as well.

On the other hand, there is the increased price and, frankly, underwhelming results. The only game that uses the RTX feature suffers substantial performance penalties for turning on the RTX feature and most people (including me) just try it out for a few minutes and then turn it off. Is the quality better? Yeah, the reflections are shaper and more consistent when changing views (ie, aiming down a sight), but they aren't game-changing and are definitely not worth the performance penalty.

This generation of cards is worth skipping if you aren't building a new computer.
Social media companies are incredibly clear about what information they gather and how they will use it: everything and however they want. Is anyone actually unaware of this? The individuals may not consider the consequences, but twitter has no responsibility to tell you that they'll use your pregnancy post to advertise to you, and what the ramifications of that might be. Advertising algorithms are amoral tools put into this world by amoral entities.

The woman's situation is a use case with an ROI attached to it. It's a PBI for Twitter.

Elsewhere in this thread there's a transgender individual. Their use case is another PBI.

The transgender person's use case will be solved first because the transgender community represents more advertising dollars than a grieving mother.
The cynical part of me thinks they'll end up pushing people towards iMessage, Facebook Messenger, and Whatsapp...coincidentally services owned by Californian companies.
If I start a parking lot business, and want to put automatic gates, am I supposed to pay someone for the productivity of that automatic gate? And why should I have to do that?
California neoliberals and their regressive tax proposals ensure the cost of social programs fall on the shoulders of everyone, ensuring the uber-wealthy are burdened to the same degree as the day laborer.

The state has a property tax freeze on its hands that charges private country clubs pennies to the dollar on what should be their fair share.[1]

1. https://blog.simonsays.ai/a-good-walk-spoiled-with-malcolm-g...
"A dense California Public Utilities Commission report laying out the case for the texting surcharge says the Public Purpose Program budget has climbed from $670 million in 2011 to $998 million last year. But the telecommunications industry revenues that fund the program have fallen from $16.5 billion in 2011 to $11.3 billion in 2017, it said."

So you lied and said it was a charge to help poor people have access to phones and collected almost 25x the amount needed and used it as a slush fund. Now the slush fund is less profitable although still 11x the amount needed and you want to refill the slush fund. How about no.
The coalition clearly did this at the behest of the US and UK to be a 5 eyes beard. Yet this very action locks Australian tech companies out of those countries -- it's threatening my ability to work.

Labor had no reason to kowtow to this crap.
Taxing the line service provider revenue is reasonable. Taxing the people for using it is not.
google analytics is the only 3rd party script I am okay with. Maybe you should add it sometime in the future to get a rough idea about your users, I was talking mainly about the more intrusive analytics and ads scripts that plagued the web. It's rare to see anybody who respect his users to that extent these days :D respect again!
Another type of coding is describing the desired state and let the runtime environment achieve the transition.

Unix Makefile is one of the early examples. So are HTML/CSS etc.

More recent examples are dataflow graph in tensorflow

https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/graphs

and kubernetes

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/release-1.3/do...

A new idea just occurred to me during a technical lunch meeting with a bunch of friends today: since Jupyter Notebook itself is nothing but a object graph, it might be possible to use a "computed" .ipynb for this kind of "coding", i.e., describing desired state.

That would be TDD in another sense.
This is so California. I really hope this doesn't pass.

I also wonder the implications on messaging apps like WhatsApp / FB Messenger. Because if this did pass, as a Californian, I'd just switch to that full time
Wouldn't add up as the spikes are taller than in large cities which would have dense multistorey apartment blocks, and also there's quite a few spikes—they continue in a line along a major road, so I'm guessing they're likely the result of some convoluted story like corrupted gps points in csvs being corrected to the nearest boundary of a polygon by some intermediate processing or some similar craziness.
Not strictly military, but typically it's the FSB that turns up.
If we're talking about data privacy and control, I'm 100% with you on the situation.
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It's definitely better, no arguments here. My point is that Silicon Valley has branded everything it does as 'tech' when in reality, it's just a better taxi company, a better hotel company, etc. unencumbered by the old ways. Like, the reality would have been good enough, 'We're a taxi (or insert whatever industry you want) company doing things way better than before." Instead, it's 'We're using algorithms and this shit is out of this world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
The mental overhead of this is much higher than the concept of “I’m logged in to this remote machine - all actions happen there”.

That’s why I can guarantee Remote Desktop has more usage than these remote rpc calls for ad-hoc work. Powershell is quite powerful but it’s features are more for programmers than users.

Because of its complexity RPC is not a replacement for ssh where you are typing commands directly to the remote machine.
California always wants more and more.
It's a transfer of wealth from the middle class to those who control the funds (bureaucrats & oligarchs).
Michael Bernstein did a great job explaining the context around this work for Deconstruct Conf 2017. It's worth a watch:

https://www.deconstructconf.com/2017/michael-bernstein-ways-...
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Actually, sometimes it can be more efficient to have a water-head, which you keep detached from the engineering, well equipped with perks and who attracts all the game of thrones players, leaving the rest to work in peace.

The problem is, that the politicians expect to have the ability to inflict "great" change upon the company. So you need to pretend to reorganize now and then.
No, with power comes responsibility. If I make an automated car that runs over pedestrians but otherwise runs great. I can’t ethically write it off as “well, it’s just doing what it was programmed to do. There aren’t many pedestrians compared to cars anyways.” These ad companies that presume too much deserve the backlash when they get it wrong. They are responsible for their creations actions good and bad.
It may be unreasonable, but it's exactly how it works today. Look at your bill.
The ex post facto provision is normally interpreted to apply only to criminal laws, not to civil penalties or taxes.
Any person can ask others to change their behavior.

And if they get the attention of the company, the company may change its behaviors.

Whether out of sympathy or self-interest is kind of immaterial.

As users, we'd like the companies to change their behavior.

Companies rely on users' good will. Once they depend on users for revenue, they need to act to a certain degree as though they care about those users. Or users may leave. These are the consequences.
Thanks! I hadn't read that before and it was very thoughtful.
They still make about 9 Billion a year...I think CUDA/CUDANN is probably one of their highest "money making" product. Seriously locks down so many applications that needs to use their card exclusively. OpenGL development seems slow too so I guess Nvidia has a little bit of time before they have to worry too much.