skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to followup on this and say InfluxDB is fantastic -- with the caveat that you know exactly what you want, and use it with that in mind. It's great at storing some metrics with high volume, but I've found the OSS version falls over hard in some circumstances (high cardinality in tags absolutely murders performance, making it nearly unusable).

I'm in the middle of doing a test-run of vmagent + victoria-metrics as a mostly-replacement (see: not replacing the cases where it's known exactly what's wanted, and used explicitly for that), and victoria-metrics fully support telegraf pushes which is a big bonus.

Also they're apparently going to be dropping InfluxQL entirely, for Flux, which is weird to me? The docs don't outright state this, but InfluxDB 2.0 has only Flux examples in the docs I can find. It's a better language, however the learning curve is not trivial.
Being European also, I honestly am not in favour of it. The amount of public money that flows into these ventures without well defined purpose in a time where we're hitting 20% unemployment due to a pandemic seems grotesque to me. There's a lot more things to fix on this planet.
You can carry 14 people in a typical Caravan EX.
It isn’t about anyone’s individual risk, but the risk to the entire community, including nonmembers.
Just use a fake name with them. Like the one you would get from a generator.
Splendid isolation: a surreal sakura season – How To Spend It
Building a moon-base or mars-base would be an interesting experiment for humans.

1. Have a backup of our species in case something happens to Earth.

2. A great experiment in anthropology! It could help us rethink how we organize life on earth. As far as I see, a moonbase would be a "greenfield project" on land that doesn't belong to any nation, where they have to build everything from scratch. How will they organize? Will they need to work or will robots be doing everything for them? Will they be paid & will they have their own money? They will need to reject racism & nationalism to get their goals accomplished, for sure.
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>> current minivan

"Current" would actually be a good model name for an electric vehicle.
> It simply boggles my mind all the things US did to Japan when they were booming and were supposed to go past US and the fact that we don't really talk about it much.

Well, you have to realize that MITI (at the time, now METI) was absolutely doing a number on American businesses (some of it deserved--see US auto manufacturers) with its subsidies. It damn near killed the US semiconductor industry.

If it weren't for the US government and VHSIC, the US semiconductor industry would have died.
I agree fairly strongly with your sentiments. I wanted to know more about what the pilots think of it.

In an article[1] a month ago, Bob said "I don’t think I’m going too far out on a limb to say that the right answer for all flying is not to switch to a touchscreen, necessarily. But for the task that we have and to keep ourselves safe flying close to the ISS, the touchscreen is gonna provide us that capability just fine."

Doug explained "The difference is you’ve got to be very deliberate when you’re putting in input, relative to what you would do with a stick. Because you know, when you’re flying an airplane for example, if I push the stick forward it’s going to go down. I actually have to make a concerted effort to do that with the touchscreen, if that makes sense."

So it sounds like there's more cognitive overhead to use the touch interface for flying. I did think the touchscreen was perfect for the procedure checklists shown extensively in the middle console during today's flight.

In the on-board media event a few minutes ago, he pointed out "One thing that does get lost is there is an extensive button panel down below."

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/04/this-is-certainly-differen...
When I was an engineer in the ol' valley, I always wondered why my peers couldn't see obvious things. Now I realize they had no clue about 99% of things. "Humans into orbit," what a joke. Stop masturbating to hentai, nerds, and go outside and look at the supposed ISS - or a number of other phenomena that prove your ignorance of this Hollywood drama they call "space travel."
Yes, as it follows E = mc², but it would be so incredibly tiny that a speck of dust would weight more than the difference it would make between charged and discharged.
I think they will. We won't be back to "normal" that soon, but when we are, it will be amazing how much we've forgotten about the recent past. We're usually living in the now, not in the past, and adapt and will fall back into the same patterns.
The Imperfect Alibi: Murder at Rising Daughter Baptist Church
I think the floating aircraft with electric propulsion and solar is the way to go.
There are a lot of more XML parser than HTML5 parser in the world. That's an argument for polyglot markup, if you like the open web and HTML as an API.
An observer outside the event horizon has to accelerate to avoid falling into the black hole itself and in the resulting frame of reference of this observer the horizon of the black hole coincides with future infinity and therefore everything falling into the black hole only reaches the event horizon infinitely far into the future. You can watch Leonard Suskind's lecture on that [1], falling into a black hole starts at about 53 minutes, but depending on your background you may want to start earlier, maybe even several lectures earlier. Looking at those Penrose diagrams is probably the easiest way to see what happens even if it will probably still not make intuitive sense.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdYtfYkdGDk&list=PLpGHT1n4-m...
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And here I was thinking the same thing about Facebook and Republicans.
The person's logic is wrong: Clearly

(0*10*10*)*10*

can generate two ones next to each other (choose * = 0 except for the parenthetical, where you add pairs of 1s).

However the problem also seems completely broken.

(0*10*10*)*10*

can't generate the string 01, which is clearly in the set of binary strings with an odd number of 1s. It misses the entire set of strings that match 0*1, in fact...
Enjoy tomorrow's docking.
Because the browser standards are defined by ad and spying companies who require it and because in the past it wasn't what it is today: dangerous.
> A skillful programmer looks at the problem and says, hey, why don't we build an abstraction layer to make it more flexible?

No he doesn't
That's what I meant to say (with the additional info that Boeing claims they laid off fewer workers from the commercial division because the company claims some of them were transferred to defense). I'm sorry if my wording was confusing.
Risking Your Life for a Selfie
So is it not interesting that the US went to great efforts to keep the same corrupt government in place that attacked them just because the alternative was socialism?
Thanks so much for that observation. The tweet doesn't say "contact tracing apps", it says "contact tracing." Those might be entirely different things!

I'm still interested in how exactly they're doing it, but it might be as simple as asking the arrested people, running background checks on them, or digging through their phones and possessions.
Came to say this. This is likely a misunderstanding of the tweet, which I don't consider very trustworthy to begin with (people all over twitter are calling bull on "Every single person we arrested last night, I'm told, was from out of state").
Wasn’t today Falcon 9? Presumably Falcon Heavy’s cost per seat is higher. Falcon 9 is 24 tons or so I think.
Those kind of vehicles are fairly popular in Europe.
>> After you get over the romantic narrative of space, it really doesn't sound any more appealing than the oil platform. I mean, sure, I'm curious. But I wouldn't want to live there.

You are already living in space. :)
SLS and Orion were developed in the 21st century, when there was no need for new basic science research, and their development costs are staggering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System#Funding_hi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(spacecraft)#Funding_his...
Selfie Culture Ruins the Great Outdoors for Everyone Else
Save the false apology, I don't need it.

Clearly, for you raw milk is not a scientific topic related to human health. Perhaps it is a mystery, or a thriller, or something else. For the rest of the readers here, Sanger's message is perfectly clear.
very nice, can you share the tool that you used to create the images?
nice post for data quality integration with https://github.com/lyft/amundsen
I don't have any way to confirm, but yes, this is what I interpreted from the article.
> Interfering with religious practice can cause irreparable harm to persons. It is up to the person and the religion.

Growing up in a Christian home I'd say allowing religious services to continue is more likely to cause harm to people.

Still, it sounds like you think physical religious gatherings are some kind of human right.
> Recycling aluminum is more energy efficient than making new aluminum.

But building these bikes didn't magically skip the making part.
Andrei Alexandrescu's post, linked at the top, is a great read as well: https://dlang.org/blog/2020/05/14/lomutos-comeback/
The Evidence Against Her
Maybe just transfer to a school that has great online courses for lower cost?, and if you really want to, you can try to then transfer back
"I’m strongly in favor out stronger gun control but find your argument here reasonable."

A few genuinely curious questions.

First, would you rather there was just no 2nd Amendment at all? I can understand that point of view.

Second, let's assume there is a right to bear arms, and that it's not going away. Do you think all of the little half measures are actually helpful? Stuff like how you can buy ammo, or what models of guns are acceptable, or what kind of grip or stock a rifle can have?

Third: rifles. Not many killings happen with rifles. They are lower than knives, and behind even fists/feet[1], even in states with very permissive rifle laws. What do you think about removing pretty much all restrictions on rifles (and accessories, including suppressors[2]), and instead restricting pistols more heavily?

[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

[2] For most rifles, a normal suppressor just reduces the sound from "instant permanent hearing damage" to "louder than a jackhammer and you still probably want hearing protection".
Show HN: Let's all work together and get better wellness as we age
These articles reliably confuse art with craft and technique.

Art is about giving other people rich, engaging experiences that distill and/or highlight some element of relatable human emotional, psychological, and/or sensual experience.

The more unusual, original, and insightful the experience, the more interesting the art.

Doing something difficult with elegance is not art. Solving problems is not art. Complex but comprehensible systems that have "beauty" are not art.

If there's no emotional or sensual content, there's no art - just technique.

There's nothing wrong with technique, and art isn't better or worse than technique on its own terms. But they're different languages with different goals.

Calling software abstraction "art" is like watching someone who has discovered a for loop trying to persuade you they're an expert developer.
The Covid-19 Recession May Change the Way Americans Spend Forever
I was really hoping for a little more than some general platitudes. This seems very much targeted at consumer products. Products I work with are not generally the sort of things my friends or family would use - or even understand the need for.

This feels very reductive and not useful advice for anyone who has come to HN knowing anything about the principles of “doing a startup”.
Cheers! let me know if you need any help with the setup

good luck with callstop, the landing page looks neat.
I won't debate your interpretation of scripture, but it's not relevant to your last sentence which seems disconnected and unsupported to me. And palpably absurd.

Trying to convince me is definitely not worth your effort. To act like you care what I think is an indictment itself.
Like me, you can pin your hopes on the 2022 VW Microbus:
https://www.caranddriver.com/volkswagen/microbus
(2003 – Spacex) Entrepreneur Tries His Midas Touch in Space
As much of a dick move as it is, it's not uncommon for homeowners to band together and work through local government to take down sources of noise that long predate them. When the source is a small airport or a local racetrack they often win.
Thanks! I used https://www.figma.com/ to create all diagrams.
Of the three compilers I've worked on in-depth, only one of them had a "normal" memory management scheme.

One of them was unburdened by any thought of freeing stuff, and relied entirely on the application exiting for cleanup. This was very convenient to work with, and never ended up posing an issue.

Another used a series of allocation arenas, where certain arenas would be cleared at certain points in the compiler pipeline. This made for both speedy alloc/freeing and avoided leaks, since you weren't at risk of "forgetting" a data structure. It was also a major headache to keep track of exactly what the longest lifetime of a long-lived datastructure might be, and to pick an arena that won't be cleared in the meantime. Unfortunately the programs compiled with this compiler were large enough that we certainly couldn't have gotten away with just leaking memory; we sometimes OOMed as-is!

The third used standard C++ memory management. This compiler was quite simple, and the vast majority of its data used stack-based lifetimes. For a more complex compiler this would've become a headache.

I think that all of these compilers chose the correct allocation strategy for what they were doing. "Good practices" aren't as universal as we might like to believe, they depend entirely on the context in which a tool is designed to operate. And yes, we can guard to some extent against that context changing, but for the most part that's why we keep getting paid.
I agree. It’s definitely very cool. It really highlights the mass energy equivalence. I’m not at a level of full intuition of relativity, but it’s one of those things that made a lot more sense once I understood mass energy equivalence.

Like where the energy in exothermic fusion comes from: When the strong nuclear force overcomes the electrostatic force, the strong nuclear force increases the kinetic energy (momentum/speed) of the particles. At this point the mass of all particles from their own frames of reference is the same. Once the kinetic energy is lowered (particles are slowed back down to the same speed/temperature of their surroundings) does the mass lower.
That first sentence is vague enough to lose hope.
Let it be. Lay off admins, restructure their loans, Stop building new buildings, lower costs, and use their endowments to fund the difference. And get rid of some programs
I don't disagree with your title. I pretty strongly disagree with your content.

You started with a simple solution that nicely handles the current needs.

You then over-engineered a solution so badly that you haven't even noticed the 'url' param isn't used in the last method you've shown.

You went from simple enough a junior dev can make meaningful changes, to bloated enough the original author is fucking it up.

Don't do this. Wait until you actually have a REAL use case for adding complexity.
No, it's the adherents' job though to consider if bringing something to the Supreme Court is consistent with their beliefs.
I like watching these types of things twice, once with the soundtrack and again muted. Certainly changes perspective more in some things than others and I'd recommend try watching it without the audio first and then with. Wonderful soundtrack.

But one thing that kinda struck me towards the end of this, I kinda had a deja vue of the many fragrance adverts. Anybody else get that kinda vibe at the end and expect some bottle of perfume/fragrance to appear?
Regardless, you should assume that that data can and will be used in a court of law if some bright, tech savvy detective has the brilliant idea to do so. The fact that a certain bunch of id's was encountered by the contact tracing app on your phone (because obviously they have access to the data on other arrestee's phones) will greatly strengthen their eventual case against you.

Frankly, it's an investigator's dream tool. This is why I was never in favor of the measure in the first place. Without an extreme level of discipline from investigators, there is no guarantee they won't use the tool. Furthermore, given what we know of parallel construction as a technique, we're already in waters where we can't even say that there's a good chance it isn't being misused, but having it's misuse covered up.
I'm pretty sure Qualcomm not giving a shit about supporting their SoC is why my Android watches were practically EOL'd within months.
Sorry, what language are we talking about that has escaped line continuations for expressions like that?
Yes...?

It's a lab, used by our nation, orbiting the Earth.
This is some seriously lame backseat HN driving. Zero skin in the game, sat in on zero mission briefs and zero design decisions. Never used it. Never spoken to someone who has.

Yet think it makes for a good HN post to "facepalm" at their decisions.
You can read these other replies, but the shorter explanation is that the AOPA is in all relevant respects the NRA but with aircraft instead of guns, and the owners have achieved cold-dead-hands status with their obsolete planes.
SpaceX had a pretty different record wrt reliability back in 2014. And to be fair I think it's more likely that Boeing was competing against Sierra Nevada, not SpaceX
“Super expensive Avgas” — in Europe definitely, but in the US, JetA is pretty close in price. At Palo Alto Airport, full service 100LL is $4.15 per gallon and JetA is $3.44. In Europe, I think 100LL is something like $15 per gallon or thereabouts. Europe has managed to decimate general aviation compared to the US.
With China making plans towards a potential moon landing, there's a chance of a 2nd space race forming, but to Mars. Not speaking to the odds of that, just saying I could see it developing in the next decade.
It replaces NASA's M113 armored personnel carrier, a tracked vehicle which dates back to the Vietnam War. The fire crew sits in there for protection from an exploding rocket. The vehicle is great for evacuating astronauts.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/mrap-rolls-through-pad-evacuati...

If you want the closest view of a launch without being in the rocket, get some firefighting experience (preferably on an aircraft carrier or something of similar hazard) and then ask your senator to recommend you as a qualified guest firefighter.
They're also only using two of the four seats. And that's on top of taking out seats they originally had planned (maybe they could put them back in at some point?)
The double-booster landing and Tesla launch was more impressive, even if the third core went boom. Once you can safely launch over and over, replacing your payload with a human terrarium is neat but very much an already-been-done thing. Not like they were flying it—I imagine the only thing they had control over was a manual “uh oh” lever. Landing boosters, on the other hand, is some crazy Ray Bradbury-looking shit, and seeing two touch down in sync on land was nuts.
Yes, you do, but here's a short primer.

https://www.dummies.com/education/history/american-history/h...

Ultimately if you can't be bothered to read a short book on the subject, you can just live with your confusion on the subject. The world can't be boiled down to sophomoric sequences of logic that ignore the complexities of reality and human behavior.
> And why are you doing this to them anyway?

The short answer is systemic racism, but it seems that the practical examples of police overreach concern techies less than theoretical concerns about police overreach through surveillance.
In Germany, there's Stiftung Warentest ("Product Test Foundation"), with the best domain: https://www.test.de :-D

They are a non-profit with a 55-year history, a stellar reputation and a track record of calling out any issues found. Their test results are broken down in a detailed way, and they have useful graphs like price vs rating. They actually buy their products instead of taking prototypes or commerical samples. They report the real-world, online consumer prices. Their own prices are reasonable (8€/month for all access, incl. PDF downloads).

Washing machine tests are actually one of their staples. See https://youtu.be/6Oke76VZiRw?t=48 (0:48 long term testing, 1:04: standardized lab prepared detergent, 1:56 standardized test clothing and loading schema, 2:15 waste water analysis, 2:36 analysis of cleaned cloth via light reflection, 2:49 power/water usage, 3:31 acoustic test lab, 4:05 useability)
They might need a dongle.
> rather than at a well-chosen point in time

So, you're saying that "I'm not going to be working here anymore by then... hahahaha" isn't well-chosen?
> I think you are underestimating the challenges they have to overcome to get machines to work in space.

Even if it’s hard, it’s still a lot easier than getting humans to work in space.
The active enzymes in natural milk are substantially destroyed in the pasteurization process. Lipase is a good example, there are dozens of others.
That's their right.
Re: structuring, the most famous example I know of is Dennis Hastert[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hastert#Indictment
Not sure why you got downvotes. You are correct. Tourists drive a whole lot of the economy in many nations and its where many people work. At the moment it might be tourism for rich people, but that's how it has to start.
I read the article I linked again and did not see any indication that Bullseye Bishop was given options to stay open. Where did you get that from?
Legally purchased firearms are rarely used to do something illegal. That would be stupid, they have your name and address. I see no reason why a gun store can’t remain open. Or any store for that matter. It should be up to that business to decide social distancing protocols and mask wearing. If you don’t agree with how that store operates, don’t shop at it. Simple.
Maybe you could ask George Hotz (geohot), as he already has worked closely with him? Both SpaceX and in-formerly Tesla for electronics and computer vision. [0]

> If one Elon Musk can do this what if we had a hundred? Or a thousand? I think world needs to know how to be like him.

The best person you can be is yourself.

[0] https://youtu.be/FIbvt4_InyU?t=224
Noticed those big kneeboards atop astronauts suited knee, with some kind of pen tethered to it, like good-old sign-in clipboards. The surface is white, but does not seem to glow.

Is it real paper and pencil? Or some sort of e-ink tablet. iPad? Kinda bukly, though...

Who needs a space-pen? Got a space-watch? :)
This is an interesting idea, but it would be most efficient if the battery drops were frequent. Maybe every few miles instead of every few hundred. Of course the more modular you make the battery, the more overhead you have in chutes, battery housings, etc.
I recently have been working on setting up a HA Postgres Cluster on K8's... its for a pretty small DB use case and not knowing much about the world of Postgres and Databases I ended up using the Crunchy Postgres Operator which amazingly did all of the work for me... (I honestly don't know much about Patroni other then it manages the switchover to replicas during a failure)... anyway I'd recommend the Crunchy Operator...

As a side note, we've found that it takes quite a while for the initial pgBackRest job to run (like 8 minutes) which seems like a lot for an empty DB, but we aren't using SSDs
Diatoms are a type of phytoplankton (one of the most common).