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Very happy to see Timescale making more features available in the community edition.

We first started evaluating time series databases a month or two ago, some features like continuous aggregation (rollups) were enterprise only. Perhaps their strategy is to drive adoption and letting people try their feature out, hoping that some of these adoptors will end up using their managed solution. I checked their pricing, and the delta between their pricing and the underlying AWS instance seems quite reasonable.

We ended up testing Influx first, because it seems to be a safe choice with wider adoption and extensive documentation.

With Influx, it was very easy to put together a prototype quickly. But once we started throwing some real workload at it, it would lose writes under load. But it makes sense that it failed, because according to Influx's documentation (https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.8/guides/hardware_si...), we would need cluster to make it work. Influx is very transparent in their documentation that writes and queries will fail immediately when a server is unavailable without cluster.

This isn't to say that Influx wouldn't work for other use cases. But at least in our use case, their open source offering isn't suitable for us, and it's unclear how much better the cluster version is.

Timescale, on the other hand, was able to handle the same workload under stress. As we are unable to backfill some of the ingressing data, it's quite vital that the system can degrade more gracefully.

For my use case, one feature that still need some work in Timescale is their real time aggregation. It is currently impossible to define a rollup on top of another rollup, which means that if you are ingesting a lot of data into the raw table, and you down sample into a wide time bucket (e.g. a day, or week), queries against these wider buckets will potentially ended up having to query a lot of data points, slowing the system down considerably. Granted, it is a new feature that just got released about a month ago. Hopefully, with multi-node nearing completion, continuous aggregation will get a bit more love.

I spoke with their engineers about this over Slack, and their suggestion was to manually modify the rollup materialized view to aggregate over a combination of the materialized buckets (currently handled by the continuous aggregation) + real time aggregation from a higher resolution bucket.

We are still testing out Timescale, of course. But so far, it's been holding up its end of the bargain. The fact that Timescale is "just an extension" built for Postgres also makes it a less risky choice and offers a lot of flexibility; if Timescale doesn't work out, we could still work with Postgres, and that IMHO is a very nice thing.
The Chrome reload gesture also gets in the way sometimes. It's especially infuriating when there's a link you want to click on the page (that's still loading), but additional content causes the content to scroll down as you're tapping the screen so Chrome misinterprets this as you wanting a page reload.
>The most similar is definitely Italian

Funny how even though I'm fluent in Latin and can understand a third of spoken Spanish (having never studied Spanish), I can barely understand 10% of Italian regardless of the accent I'm listening to or which city the speaker is from. It's also funny that several other fluent Latin speakers (and some professors) I've talked to agree about this.

>Also, you're referring to "cives romani" and obviously a person that didn't live in the city of Rome wasn't a roman.

No, not obviously. Romans thought of themselves as a separate ethnicity with a distinct language, culture, and religion from Italians. They are descended from a distinct tribe that settled the city. A Roman family who had lived in Gaul for generations would still be called Roman. An Italian family who had lived in Roma would still be called Italians and cives Romani. Romans settled throughout their conquered territory, which included Italy, Hispania, Britannia, and Gaul. Like it or not, those regions have as much demonstrable Roman blood as modern day Italians whom are mostly descended from Italic tribes, not from Romans.

>it's not my job to educate you

Thank heavens my education of the Latin language and Roman history doesn't depend on you.
> luna-lang

Whoa... had to do a double take there.

Great to see luna seems to be alive yet again - now "enso lang" per github [i]. A git commit just days ago... so here's hoping! It is such a great concept.

[i] https://github.com/luna/ide
There is a document called "the zen of python".
> I report my credit cards lost once a year and get new ones in case those have been unknowingly compromised, kinda like changing my password.

I do this with most of my cards every quarter, staggering each card by about 2-3 weeks. Even ten years ago this level of opsec was practically impossible but nowadays I just log into the bank's app, tap a few buttons, and my digital wallets are updated with the new credit card instantly. I've got the process automated for 2/3s of my cards and worst case scenario, I have to walk from a store that doesn't support tap to pay to an ATM or major retailer for cash back.

Combined with Privacy.com linked to a secondary bank account for digital transactions, I'm feeling secure for the first time since I discovered online shopping.
The abstract mentions "hazard ratio for death, 0.70; 95% CI, 0.47 to 1.04." Should a confidence interval for a ratio metric be symmetric about the estimated value, or is that just a coincidence?
There's more than one producer. Wouldn't any one of them benefit from breaking rank?
We get Zoom, we used to install Java (remember when it was bundled with crapware in hope you'll forget to uncheck a checkbox?). Companies routinely strong-armed users into getting malware. And I doubt popular game mods are all that strongly reviewed by security experts, but are quite popular with tech people.

App Store policies are a poor replacement for collective action, of course, but let's not pretend we can just become immune to hostile by sheer force of will.
Seems like an unfortunate decision. Opt-in would have been the more respectable move here.
pxe boot?
It could just be the golden rule.

It could be canny business sense.

It could be both.

in a similar vein, Ikea umbrellas are discounted when it rains.
Tailscale - riding on the wireguard wave - https://tailscale.com/

Also Wireguard - https://www.wireguard.com/
I've been doing software development on macOS/OS X for quite some time now and the consumerization aspects don't bother me. I install almost everything I need via Homebrew, from software libraries to desktops apps, and the fact that there's an App Store isn't particularly relevant (although I do use it for consumer apps now and then).

I'm trying to think of how macOS is so different from 10/20 years ago. What's missing? What can I not do now? Maybe my brain has just been consumerized and I forgot something important.

I was going to switch to Linux 10 years ago when people were talking about the iOSification of OS X back then, but that never happened.
Google kept scam fishing license ads up for months
“Ah I would like a cup of coffee but that weirdo will talk at me”
I recently came across dip, which implements a similar approach: https://github.com/bibendi/dip
1. Wing - Drone Delivery (https://wing.com/)

2. Nanorobitics for dentistry (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3723292/)
Sometimes when on the freeway behind a construction truck with flashing lights.
According to your link the situations in which decompilation is legal are extremely limited. For example, under EU law, (1) "a person or entity must have a licence to use the program to be decompiled" and (2) "Article 6 prescribes that the information obtained through decompilation may not be used for other purposes and that it may not be given to others."

Anyway, I'm not saying that the Super Mario 64 decompiled code project isn't cool, because it is. It just probably infringes Nintendo's copyrights in the code, not just in the assets like levels, graphics, and music.
Without the Mongols no one would have discovered the new world to this day?
I'm probably much less well-informed than you, but I can't understand the arguments about the disposal of the panels at the end of their life. I throw away a wheelie-bin worth of trash every single week, that's 1040 wheelie bins over a 20-year panel lifetime, yet those panels are probably equivalent to about two wheelie bins. It's a microscopic volume. What is in solar panels that is such a disaster compared to household trash? In 20 years I also expect to go through ten phones and five computers (although admittedly I'd chuck them into the local electronics recycling bin).
>or that the labour costs are too high (also true for Germany, which has a thriving manufacturing export industry)

Germany can get packaged cheap labor from East of Europe when they need it.

Infact, a lot of German companies have their labor intensive units in East.

Only highly automated manufacturing and management/finance and R&D work in done in Germany.

Australia doesn't have the same advantage which Germany have had for years now:

http://conradbastable.com/essays/the-germany-shock-the-large...
PSA: iOS 13 AppStore bug temporarily preventing apps like YouTube from launching
Strange comment on a free forum (HN), with multi-industry fame.
Maybe, but, depending on how it's implemented, these profiles might technically be "public" but not indexed by Google or have easily guessed URLs. In any case, it seems like the only information this would leak beyond what would be on a LinkedIn profile is the fact that you've taken a TripleByte assessment and done well. That seems pretty innocuous.
We are not a democracy nor were we supposed to be.
On driving? I would posit that most humans are vastly overrated.

I suspect if you crunch the numbers, accidents are going to be above normal for a while after Covid-19 reopenings.

Anecdotally, I'm seeing people doing mind-blowingly stupid things on the roadways right now. It seems like people have forgotten how to drive. I suspect the issue is that people rely too much on other cars to cue them how to behave and the concentration is too low.

(It could also be that a constant accident rate cleans off the worst of the drivers with regularity as they get into accidents and then wind up out of circulation. I really hope that isn't why ... that would be really depressing.)
Interesting as another proj
I think you are looking for Pihole. [1]

[1]: https://pi-hole.net/
Love the article. Thank you
Are you trying to argue that HN doesn't make money? Because, I'm sure Paul Graham might have something to say about that. The forum itself might literally be free to users, but the marketing value to YC is priceless.
Dot Net Core (C#/Winforms) compiling to native code.

ReactOS/Wine. Lately I'm getting worried about where the Windows OS seems to be headed. ReacOS slowly catching up, but recent developments seem to be promising. There's still many things I need that are not multi/cross-platform.
I have not. I do it all in yaml still, which I feel like I like. I've seen some pics of node-red graphs and it looks pretty slick though.
Or Holden Caulfield.
My DIY sensors[1] (temp/humidity) are running on attiny84 and 3xAAA batteries, which I really like as they last for about a year (sending updates every ~1 minute and then sleeping).

But because I'm not using a voltage regulator, since that would mean losing the very nice onboard voltage monitor, it's been really hard to find some CO2/PM2.5 sensors that can work from ~5V to ~3.4V.

> Working voltage 4.5 V ~ 5.5V DC

> Operating Voltage 3.3V / 5V

Guess I need to keep looking, but thanks for linking the specific models!

[1] https://ambient.emilburzo.com/#overview
That’s the magic of form. You don’t need deep understanding, you only need rules. It’ll be fine.
If this inspires you to delete your profile, according to the help section, the only way to do it is by emailing candidate.support@triplebyte.com.
Algebraic data structures mostly just means union types.

(That's the + in the algebra. The * comes from bundling multiple values together, like in a tuple or in a C-style record, virtually all languages already have that.)

There's also Generalized Algebraic Datatypes (GADT). They are a bit more complicated. So I don't expect mainstream languages to pick them up anytime soon.

About GC: you _can_ do pure functional programming without a GC. But it requires lots of big guns from more advanced theory. (Mostly stuff like linear typing.) However imperative programming without a GC is comparatively simple.

So it's no wonder that historically, GC was invented for FP first, and GC-free FP was only discovered later.

(And for general CRUD or web programming, or basically anything outside of low level systems programming, GC is more productive in terms of programmer time than other approaches.
At least given currently known techniques.)
My question is, how come these claims of a "decimated used car market" never seem to make it over to actual customers. I'd sure as shit buy a car at 40-50% less than it was 3 months ago.
> Many people give money to ensure that a service is available when they need it.

Netflix, as a service, takes ~10 minutes to set up. This might be the case for a software suite like CC, where you might need to download a massive amount of data, or other software where you pay annually or enter into some kind of contract, but Netflix is strictly monthly and easy to sign up for by design.
Sad even closed like HomePod which evaluates sound in a room and adjust its sound acoustics go nowhere
I would think reporting your cards stolen once a quarter would be likely to get your accounts closed. I'm amazed it hasn't happened to you yet.
It may be hard to remember way back then, but linux didn't have either the market share or the mind share that windows had back in the late 90's.
In India a whole branch of yoga called Svara Yoga has developed over thousands of years that examines deeply into the subtlety of breathing and its related affects [0].

0: https://www.vedicbooks.net/svara-yoga-p-15882.html
(Disclaimer: I just found this book on Svara Yoga in english; I haven't read it myself.)
The future will be personalized pricing for everything.

I just wonder if it will work.

I've heard people say "folks in california are ok with their taxes and paying more for things". Which makes me think of "people don't care about their privacy".

Thing is, people do care, but they can do very little about what is done to them.
Prime does that for me too, recently it has changed from free to one-week-for-£1 now though. The great thing is if you forget to cancel at the end of the trial and they charge you, they will refund you if you haven't placed any orders in that billing period.
Just a few weeks ago I realized I was paying for Xbox Live without having played it for 8 years. I didn't even remember the password.
No, you're mistaken that article is from 2010, that's oh...
I’m Netflix’s case, aren’t they notifying the inactive users first, telling them that they’ll be canceled unless they request otherwise?

That seems like the right way to go.
Apple is not alone in making janky laptops since 2015. Most of them are junk. They all get too hot, have too much brittle plastic, and low rez displays unless you want to pay a high premium. I've been liking the Chuwi laptops for $200. At least if you get a cheap laptop, pay a cheap price.
Speaking of period pieces, the 3rd Edition (1996) has itself become one. The current 4th Edition (2015), edited by Jeremy Butterfield, is also highly regarded.

https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/978019966...

A selected review [not mine, no interest but literary and informative]:

https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/fowlers-dicti...
Not sure I believe that. Even if it's true, it means they include everyone who watched a _single_ thing.

I feel like they are doing the minimum change necessary to try to reduce legal problems. They have actually probably had a lot of people try to sue them for charging them for a service they have not used for months and months, when they forget about it and then notice the charges.
This is awful. And announcing this late on a Friday is what news organizations call “taking out the trash,” publicizing something when people aren’t paying attention.
Hard to find the opt-out button. You have to sign in, go to your "profile builder" [0], and then click the very low contrast "Visibility settings" button just below the top of your profile.

[0]: https://triplebyte.com/candidates/profile_builder
Hahahaha.... I just made it through the article and was trying to figure out the weird taste it left in my mouth. You just named it perfectly.
No one cares, it's the concept that matters. This is on the same tier as saying "haha hey buddy looks like you typed 'there' instead of 'their' haha #rekt".
I am sure I wouldn't use a service that can literally get into each and every device of my private network if they want to or worse, they get hacked. Each and every device in the network automatically accepts whatever public keys and endpoints that get advertised by their servers and automatically connect to them. It's not only an overpriced mediocre product. From a security perspective, it's the most dangerous SaaS service I've ever seen.

My biggest fear is once this company gets tied to WireGuard and the security disasters come out, WireGuard's fate will be tied to a mediocre commercial product that put money above engineering decisions.
The space argument is sort of understandable -- how many people can you get in a space.

But they also lower cube walls, or make them transparent, which goes completely against this theory.
That same video said they trained a CNN to recognize phantoms using purely video feed and achieved a high accuracy with AUC ~ 0.99.
Yes. But that market that is rigged is the housing market in California.

Too much NIMBYism has resulted in a highly distorted market that then spreads to other related markets.
Of course it does and the only force strong enough to counterbalance Zuckerberg would be a Facebook union. This is why organized labor has always pressed to set a floor for wages and other terms. Otherwise, the people who run the places will always try to pit different groups of workers against each other like this.
this has always been the case. the underlined shortcuts in menus are a godsend in non-osx OSes. I am still astonished at the hostility of macos when it comes to Yes/No dialogs - you usually can't hit Y or N! This changed at some point after snow leopard. If I could run HDCP on my old macbook, I'd still be using snow leopard. aesthetically, they have made no innovations of use since then.
This why having a vibrant open-source ecosystem is so important. Firstly, the needs of users is the main priority (as opposed to profit or liability minimization or advertising...), and secondly, users have so many options to pick from. For example, if you don't like systemd, you are free to pick an OS without it.
I've always felt like a bit of an outsider. The idea that my disposition may be a result of mother nature hedging her bets, in case the rest of the swarm is taken down, is oddly comforting.
How is the fact that this forum is free to post on relevant to the argument? The vast majority of sites that support comments (including YouTube) are free to post on.
> a good battery mower may last a very long time

However I’m worried about the availability of the mower’s battery 5-10 years from now. The battery packs have unique shapes, controllers, etc., which might be discontinued or become insanely expensive to replace in the future. If I were to buy a second mower battery as a backup, what would be the optimal strategy for maximizing the total life of my two batteries? Would it be best to:

- never use the second battery until the first one dies

- alternate between the two batteries

- something else?
Heliogen https://heliogen.com/

Prometheus Fuels
https://www.prometheusfuels.com/

C2CNT https://www.c2cnt.com/
I spend too much time reading HN?
I'm not sure. That statement was paraphrasing what the CBT therapist mentioned when I asked about learning breathing exercises. For the same reason the therapist also advised against my previous coping mechanisms like getting up and leaving the room, in favor for the strategy of simply recognizing your anxious mental state and refocus on the task at hand.
> Illumina has had such a stranglehold on the market - devices start at around 35k and go up into “this is a house now” territory.

You cannot effectively sell this kind of device under $25K--support costs simply eat your profit margin.

This is a constant across industries. You either have a $250 thneed (and you ignore your customers) or a $25K thneed (and you have shitty customer support) or a $250K thneed (and you have decent customer support).
The problem is that if the majority of people who use grill thermometers are using it for meat (probably true), and the health insurance's actuarial tables show that eating meat is associated with higher payouts, your premiums will go up. This isn'tat court of law. Even if you really did use it for grilling vegetables they won't care. As long as they're right in aggregate they'll continue doing it.
I think chess.com has something similar too, but not sure if it's powered by wasm.

If it's not, I'd be interested to see a speed and feature comparison between the two.
I'd echo most of those sentiments, but not all:
+ Support on Atlas is good
+ Set up process is very streamlined and smooth
+ Modifications (scaling IOS etc) are all very easy, but ...
- The Atlas web client had a bug that swapped data types (fixed, but still)
- The database starts off fast, but seemed to get quite slow considering how small it was (fitted entirely in RAM)
- The latest Jepsen report suggests t is still very cavalier with data integrity (http://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6)
Rust is awesome and very eye opening and it's a great alternative for almost any Golang use case, I just hope they prioritize enhancing compilation times if possible.
The Economist did this to me. $5/mo and then auto renewed at something like $250/yr. All my credit cards are just auto pay full balance every month, and I don't check them as often as I should. Noticed the charge last month, found out they had been charging me for years for their digital subscription.
better not turn on it at all, to be extra safe
Afaik CC companies notify companies about CC number changes. I don't know what the criteria is but the last time my CC got replaced because of suspected fraud by my bank, nearly all companies I gave my CC number to had the new number automatically in the respective accounts.

If anybody can register themselves to that service, getting a new number isn't really a security improvement. Maybe somebody else knows more about that.
Social Distancing in an Art Museum Attempting to ReOpen
If I sign up for a gym membership and then don’t show up for months on end, I don’t feel like I’ve been swindled — I knew that’s how it works when I signed up. I’m not confused about what a gym membership is for or why I’m paying for it. I might still never cancel because I don’t want to admit how lazy I am, so each instance of me considering the wasted money ends with me thinking, “I really should get to the gym more. Maybe next week.”

This same dynamic plays out with any service that sells you long-term self-improvement but is burdensome to use. Exercise tracking apps, diet tracking apps, health-conscious meal kits, subscription lessons for music or foreign languages, etc. There are shadier examples for sure, but it’s not always cut-and-dry evil.
I'm not up on the math, but https://electriccoin.co/blog/halo-recursive-proof-compositio... sounded like that sort of thing.
So apparently some machine learning model is secretly judging how aesthetic your photos are. I would have thought judgements of aesthetics would somehow be the last bastion of human subjectivity and human intellect. Apparently I'm wrong.