skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
pgloader [0] is one example.

Interestingly, it was originally written in Python, but the author decided to rewrite the entire thing in Common Lisp due mainly to Python's poor performance and the lack of native thread support. The result Common Lisp version is 30 times faster than the old Python one. More info can be found in the author's blog post [1].

[0] https://pgloader.io/

[1] https://tapoueh.org/blog/2014/05/why-is-pgloader-so-much-fas...
Why is it not the default for desktop where responsiveness of the UI should be the priority.
A scathing critique of software pirating.
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Ask HN: What to include in presentation about STEM to high school students?
I recently volunteered for an opportunity to speak to local high school students about engineering and our company at a STEM-related class. I was wondering if anyone had some examples of good presentations or some ideas of interesting things to highlight about engineering in general?

I'd like to make the presentation engaging and fun and hopefully encourage some students to pursue an engineering education! I had a few ideas of things to include:

- Engineering is a flexible and well paying career with good work life balance

- You get to work on new things every day

- It is fulfilling to see your work in products that people use in the real world (sometimes, if the project isn't cancelled ha)

- Many skills are useful outside of work, knowing how things work in general
Author here. I addressed those 2 points in another blog post: https://danielvassallo.com/only-intrinsic-motivation-lasts/

In short, no I'm fully cognizant that satisfaction is not dependent on how much I spend or earn. And I did my best to keep my standard of living abundantly within my means, even when my income grew 10X over the last 9 years. However, when you have other people living with you, it's not as simple to disrupt their life by moving somewhere else, or making drastic changes. We never eat out, we don't go on expensive vacations, kids will go to public school (in preshool now), and we have no extravagant hobbies. Nevertheless, just our housing and insurance costs are $84K/year in Seattle. That's before food, utilities, etc.
NO.

The very notion is for slackers.
There isn't a metaphor in my post.
Does the electricity burn? Or the battery?
> The implementation will be in C. (The author of this PEP would like to make it known that he is not able to write the implementation.)

I hope this is for a reason other than the author being unfamiliar with C. Otherwise the author is cheating themselves, because adding functionality to an existing code base is probably my favorite motivator for learning a new language.
Same in Turkey.
To address your last question, I think they are proposing (but have not yet demonstrated) that the human neocortex works this way, and I imagine the motivation for being more biologically realistic (beyond its usefulness in learning more about the biology) is that biology is still outperforming AI in these tasks.
I disagree, I think the future still holds separate data layer, but even less math because of how much easier it will be to reason about programs with DSLs built on solid foundations for distributed systems and how much harder it will be to keep doing things the old ways. Imagine a new language for databases, like SQL, but that can actually guarantee convergence and coordination freedom, where there are no transactions and weird behaviors with weird consistency violations and slow complex buggy implementations, but where everything just works and all you have to do is just be a bit more creative in mapping real world problems into that model. Not that the model can't be too expressive, it might even be able to express directly a lot of traditional non-monotonic stuff.
People aren’t poorer than they were 20 years ago, they just have an expectation of more things in their life. 20 years ago we barely had mobile phones let alone smartphones. Far fewer people had internet access. Many people didn’t even have a computer of any type.

We’re probably drinking more coffee, buying and consuming more passive entertainment, games, flat screen TVs, and disposable everything.
downvotes instead of rational arguments? On HN? Either pigs are flying or it's Wednesday again.
Thank you for your feedback. It means a lot to me.
He probably would have died in the gulag or at the very least not achieved what he did. Stalin was not fond of the aerospace industry so the guy who's at the leading edge of designing rotary winged aircraft would likely find his name high up on the wrong list and if he escaped that fate the money wouldn't have exactly been flowing his way.
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I find it odd that people are fine with Musk drawing attention with his antics but then aren't happy with disproportionate media coverage. Tesla as a company feeds on that coverage and it is not surprising that there is some bad mixed in with the good.
yeah, i've noticed that, as well. every time i try to make a joke in a comment, it gets downvoted almost immediately.

HUMOR? HUMOR HAS NO PLACE HERE! THIS IS A FORUM OF INTELLECTUAL DISCUSSION!
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The author is inflexible in his conviction that he has no intention of retiring. (and never will!) In 10, 20, or 30 years he may change his mind, what then?

He points out that he's willing to make the trade off of working in exchange for money (even if he doesn't need it) -- but what about working for other reasons? Taking a job at a non-profit that can't possibly pay what you're "worth".
Author here. I didn't mean it's the only measure. Or that it's a perfect measure. But if you were to give me your hard earned money for something I do to you, it's very likely that I provided something useful to you.
Ask HN: Where can I find a job that matters?
I’ve had this nagging sense over the past couple of years that the things I’m building have the mission to change the world but not necessarily for the better. I make over 200k writing code (more money then I thought I would when I was in college) and my quality of life is great. But at what cost?

I feel like I should be contributing to society in a more meaningful way because there are real problems to solve in the world.

For example, since 1997 the costs for
- Hospital services is up 200%
- Child care up 125%
- College & textbooks up 175%
- Housing up 55%

Things that are cheaper:
- TV’s (-90%)
- Software (-75%)
- Toys (-75%)

Meanwhile wages have only increased 80%.

I can’t shake the feeling that something is wrong here and if we continue this trajectory my kids will live in a dystopia at some point in their lives.

I’m not necessary looking for a non-profit job, or to go after the problems above, but there must surely be companies out there who’s mission isn’t to make the founding team and investors rich by solving hard problems that don’t really matter.

It would be interesting to be a part of a company like Tesla in the early years for example.

Anyone know where I can find jobs that are going after hard problems that are trying to make the world better?

(Posting from a new account because I don’t want the people I work with to know I’m looking.)
I understand but I think I wasn’t clear. Let me make an analogy to be clear.

We are here to see the painting. Not the frame design and not the museum. If the frame has a cloudy glass with fancy ways to open it, with flower patterns stained on it, it takes considerable strength to unveil it, and it makes you mad when opening it - it gets in the way of enjoying the painting.

UX/UI presents the content. In this case : Google’s art experiment is about using ML to discover new insights about NASA’s programs. That’s the content part. That’s the painting.
Ask HN: Any good resources for generating a privacy policy and terms of use?
I’m curious to know if there are any solid reasources available for generating a privacy policy and terms of use for online services. Something that falls between copying from a similar service and hiring a lawyer. I’m looking for something legit enough to pay for (obviously that is popular), but that isn’t as expensive as hiring a lawyer.
To take a counter view, you could argue that not travelling is the ultimate expression of narcissism. An unwillingness to see beyond your own small environment, to expose yourself to different views/culture/people.
Because those in housing already want the rest of us to pay more for less.
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Amazon is about to take more of your money, and you won’t even notice
By why is UTC a Molotov cocktail?
Times have changed. Nowadays, when you talk to a random person about car repair, you're probably talking to someone who has never so much as changed their own oil or brake pads! They see auto repair as arcane wizardry that only government-licensed professionals can do safely.
If anyone is interested in some foundational reading Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee published a fantastic book in 2004 called "On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines".

There is also an audiobook version if that's your thing. I enjoyed it very much. Happy to see more progress from this group.
A big part of the problem it needs more than "any government" but really an agreement between all governments to go along with something like a carbon tax or carbon pricing. I think it's possible though. You'd have to get the major blocks on board - at least the US and the EU and then probably use the trade system to arm twist the others - free trade with us if you implement the carbon stuff or high tariffs otherwise.

There also quite a few questions as to how to do the accounting as illustrated in a recent HN discussion on Norway paying Indonesia not to cut down rainforests. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19215934

I think it should be possible though and is probably the way to go in the present situation.
I would definitely encourage the girls to pursue science and math careers. Tell them about some great woman in the STEM fields.
This is a false dichotomy. When I travel to new places, I like to see the standard tourist stuff, but I also like to walk the back alleys and go "off the beaten path". I'm not unique in this either.

The gatekeeping people have around the right kind of travel is amazing.
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Yeah, I've been scratching my head, too. Oracle's P/E ratio implies the expectation of great growth, but to me Oracle looks kind of floundering with competition from F/OSS databases and all the failed acquisitions / new lines of business such as "cloud".

I would short Oracle if the overvaluation wasn't so old and stable. Hard to guess if or when it will end.
It's like that one time we decided to do a rewrite... without tests.
But you can have the initial key show a notification that describes the possible keys to press next. Then if you forget a key combo, you can always look it up.
Why would you be offended by the science of a scientist? Let alone their opinion? Why does he offend you so much? I would put this person in the "has issues" category. Not saying that is bad. But it doesn't make you right. Instead, we should focus on the issue. What about what offends you so much? Btw there are plenty of videos of him confronting exactly this.

Nothing is indefensible. Challenge him all you want.

His views are his views. Most of his lectures are about other people's work. When he draws conclusions his logic is sound and his premises are transparent. Talk, think, debate.

Why hate? He continues to help so many people.
They ask a question that they know has no reasonable chance of being up for debate. It's fine to discuss the phenomenon of people buying houses together, but there's nothing in the article that points to it being on the cards as being the 'future of housing'. It's intellectually dishonest.
Yeah I was a little confused by reading this. I know several people who underwent dramatic weight loss but still had cheat days a few times a month, I don't really think that's uncommon. I mean I'm sure it slows your progress compared to not "cheating", but I've seen enough success stories to know it doesn't completely undo everything (depending on how bad you cheat I guess?)
Your post conveys confusion and suggests a bad actor. Let me try to clear up a few points in good faith:

1: The impact of the united states and Europe is now negligible. They have undergone their transition and have emitted most of the greenhouse gases they were going to. There was a time delay between those emissions and the associated global temperature rise. The incoming transition of China/India/Africa dwarfs that.

2: Atmospheric CO2 is not the only and not the most potent greenhouse gas we are emitting. It is just the most abundant.

3: We are in fact overdue for an ice age. We are experiencing a relatively extremely young climate period called the Holocene[1]. It is a warm gap in the middle of an ice age. This warm gap for the last few thousand years is what allowed civilisations to form. Given what we know about historical trends, we should have plunged back into the ice age right about now. It is entirely possible that anthropogenic climate change is the only reason we are not in an ice age today.

4: We are uncovering new positive feedback effects in the greenhouse loop on a monthly basis now. Whatever climate models exist, no matter how alarmist, are actually turning out to be conservative due to all the new feedback mechanisms we're discovering.

5: We face a double threat. Either a runaway greenhouse effect that turns earth into Venus 2.0, or a natural reversion to the ice age which brings an end to civilisation. The only way we continue to thrive as a species is if we get good at predicting and manipulating the climate of our host planet. One way or another, it will end us if left unchecked.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene
Would expect it means will not sell to competitors. Nothing wrong with that in the US.

Are you American?
I posted on the original story about the FDA panel recommending approval a few weeks ago. In that post, I mentioned that Icahn school of medicine holds the patent on the racemic ketamine (instead of S-ketamine) intranasal formulation for treatment of depression.

I heard about the approval on NPR, where they interviewed a doctor from Icahn school of medicine to talk about the benefits of such a formulation, without any mention of this patent. Is there any way to find out if J&J licensed their patent?

Edit: meant racemic instead of non racemic
Are the batteries being charged in the graphic at the top of the page? Where is it from?
might be worth leaving Android in there though...
>maybe you can try our competitors... wait, there are none? oops...

>Without net neutrality, Comcast can look at the traffic they are receiving from Level3, examine it and say: "Okay, customer, you can have these packets from Google but these packets from Netflix...

You dont need net neutrality to fix this, you need to undo regulatory capture, government granted geographic monopolies, and foster last mile competition. If my mom wants to buy cheaper internet that just has facebook and netflix, and I want to buy "unfiltered" and there are competing last mile services offering both, you dont need more laws telling the isps what they can and cant do, or what we are allowed to buy. The companies that own the lines should be neutral utilities, and the companies selling the service to end users should be allowed to come up with creative business models. At that point netflix could even start offering its own service, upon other companies rented lines.

Every problem you spell out in your post exists because the customer doesnt have the choice to leave a shitty company. Last miles should be be open to any company willing to pay market rate.

The answer to regulatory capture, is not more regulatory capture.
Huh https://newproject2.com/why-zero-fees/
> It seems Tesla is deliberately ignoring or trying to squash the aftermarket/custom-car culture

This culture ("F your emissions controls," "I the lay blue collar know better than the committes of degreed engineers who designed the thing") has never cared about safety, nor has the aftermarket ("fitness for purpose, engineering, warranty... to hell with all that, the only requirement for our product is that some idiot should buy it")

Improperly repaired and modified cars are a detriment to the safety of others on the road, but wishing the problem away like Tesla is doing is not going to help anything, they need to publish and make accessible the documentation like the real car makers do.
But can't we just leave the clocks unchanged and then let people wake up at sunrise and go to work and school as early as they like?
I'm not really sure German manufacturers will still play the role they are playing now in a decade, once EVs really get going. All of their efforts feel rather half-serious which really wonders me because I think it shows that they do not really take this topic serious. Just like the Diesel scandal.

With the budgets companies like Mercedes, BMW or VW have, all they can deliver is the "I got money to burn"-i8, an electric smart at ridiculous prices or some concept studies like the GLC-based electric vehicle that Mercedes is planning to build. (Didn't have a closer look into the eGolf, maybe that one is solid, but as VW did what it did, I think it's dead, at least for me.)

So much money, so little innovation. I don't really get that. They all know how to build solid cars, but they fail, on purpose (?!?) so badly at EVs.

The next car I will buy, or will have provided by my company, will surely be an electric one. Maybe a KIA, Hyundai, or Renault, not sure yet. But I don't see any "German car" really up for comparison with things like the Zoe, Niro, Kona.
I think it was mass transit prior to cars they where talking about.
The real power of Lent is in the discipline we can impose on ourselves, if we choose to. Here is the deep secret of Lent, of faith, of religious observance: it is up to us. We choose to do it, we choose to make ourselves open to the changes it offers; or we don't. God is not in the fast, God is not in the praying, God is not in the ritual, anymore than God was in the whirlwind or the earthquake or the fire that passed by Elijah. But God is present nonetheless (call it "supernatural" if you must).

http://rmadisonj.blogspot.com/2019/03/meditation-for-ash-wed...
Furthermore, the mechanics of flapping flight is complex, of little relevance to airplane design, and not well understood until well after airplanes were invented. What aviation owes to ornithology is mostly from the observation of gliding birds.
Exactly - when minimum wages are introduced, they need to be met with rigorous protections against reductions in working hours.
Seems like an important distinction
The fact that all life on earth could theoretically be snuffed out without warning doesn't mean there aren't more mundane terrestrial factors that we can control, and should, assuming you're into things like comfort and survival.

Oddly, this reminds me of my mild fear of driving. I can't ignore the fact that at any moment while driving, I or anyone driving near me could apply a few paltry newtons of force in a way that causes massive injury and destruction, changing or ending lives. Every time I get behind the wheel, I have to wonder at how casually I'm about to pilot a huge mass at lethal speeds around hundreds of other people casually doing the same thing. There's nothing I can directly do to affect the mistakes of others, but I accept the risk of freak accident and resolve to do what I can to at least reduce the risk of disaster (drive defensively). Analogously, we all accept the (demonstrably small) risk of annihilation by, e.g., gamma-ray burst, and go about our lives.
Is that really a day "on the Internet" though? That was beautiful precisely because everyone got outside, saw monuments and interesting sites, learned about their surroundings.
On iOS as well
The blog post itself says they will sell only to "select partners." The Verge's article doesn't add anything, and it doesn't claim it's illegal.
Its definitely a strong possibility that his talent would have gone unrealized!

Imagine it didn't. Literally the outcome of WWII could have been very different.

Of course "what if's" dont count. Still fascinating to me how much he's accomplished 100 years ago!

Here we are today burning 100's of millions in cash of investors money with "0 results" (really). lol
I think in the US example it would be like people referring to USA congress as "America Congress" instead of "US Congress".

IMHO, implying that there's a political institution for a continent while that's false is weird.
Or with statements like "We are quite familiar with the security of message formats like XML and JSON."
Maybe they won't try to sue you for distributing the documentation and software, then :)
Problem with music sounding bad doesn’t really have much to do with the distributed format: V0, V1, or 320 mp3s should sound pretty much the same compared to 16-bit flac. You can only the difference between mp3 and flac at shitty bitrates no one uses anymore (like 120).

The reason why a lot of recent digital music sounds bad is because of the intentionally terrible mastering. Since everyone is listening of crappy earbuds, they compress the hell out of it and destroy all dynamic range. This is why when downloading music you should avoid remasters (there are some exceptions, like the Beatles mono and stereo boxed sets that came out awhile ago) and go for the first edition presses.

This is also why modern vinyl releases sound a lot better than digital: they are mastered differently since its assumed everyone is going to be listening on good equipment.

That being said, I think flac is generally a good choice for a music collection. You can’t transcode mp3s without killing the quality so if you ever want to convert formats (like for a mp3 player), you should stick with flac (16-bit, 48hz).

The original idea of 24-bit 192hz flac was for vinyl rips, where hypothetically you might be getting more information.
Payments are orthogonal in my opinion. The power a bank has to deny payment services is as relevant offline as it is online:

https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/432692-time-is-long...

As for Google et al., I do not understand the connection. A neutral Internet is one in which a small startup competitor faces one less barrier to entry, so how does NN help Google maintain this so-called "stronghold" in online media? Net neutrality is the reason Google does not have "partnerships" with ISPs to be the sole provider of web search to the ISP's customers, or Facebook being the only social network you can access, etc.
This site does a good job of explaining:

https://qntm.org/abolish

For me the biggest headache would be the date changing in th middle of the day.
Isn't that similar to Google Analytics and Mixpanel, Segment.io and so many other tracking tools?