skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, as I say our use case may be too odd to be worth supporting, but effectively we're trying to add a basic metrics (prom/ad-hoc) feature to an existing product (using Postgres) with an existing sort of opinionated "ORM"/toolkit for inserting/querying data.

Because of that and the small scale required, the choice of table-per-metric would be a tough fit and I think a single table with JSONB and maybe some partial indexes is going to work a lot better for us. It would just be nice if we could somehow code in our schema mapping and use the supported extension, but I get it may be too baked-into the implementation.

Anyway, overall we're quite happy with TimescaleDB!
> The core statement "Lee opposed both secession and slavery" is too poorly defined to have an objective answer

... ?

Doesn't the burden of factuality go the OTHER way though? It's an objective-sounding statement of what purports to be a fact. But it's belied by other obvious facts about the man's life. It makes him sound like a union abolitionist and not a slave-holding confederate, which is misleading.

I suppose you might (barely) get away with similar statements. For example "Lee opposed secession prior to the war, and claimed to oppose slavery later in life." That still leaves out context, but at least hints at its existence.

> Does placing the warning imply that the inverse is true and "Lee supported both secession and slavery".

No, it does not. But other statements might be: "Lee owned other human beings" is a clearly factual statement. "Lee fought against the United States" is another.
Are you really claiming that a deposit account is NOT an asset for its owner or that a bank's deposit book is NOT considered a liability? That's what "doesn't actually reflect how it works" is suggesting to me?

Yet to contest these two simple facts makes no sense since they are trivial to verify?

Do you own any deposit accounts? Do you consider the money in them to be counted among your assets?

And if you look at Bank of America's balance sheet (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BAC/balance-sheet/), and drill into the liabilities list, you'll find the value of all their deposit accounts.
My high school history books always used watershed moments. The beginning of a chapter was a big event, then some explanation of the fallout of the event, and then some context on the buildup to the next big event and then.... next chapter!
I don't really understand why they add this complexity. Supposedly it's to avoid breaking backwards compatibility, but they break all kinds of backwards compatibility on every release anyway.
Important (Go) Reading
Ask HN: Popular publishing app that doesn't copyright my writing?
Medium, Substack, etc, they all retain certain rights to the things I write on their platform. I find it unfair.

Do you know of any other publishing platform (either blog or newsletter or both) that does this?
Any tax tips? That's an interesting observation.

(Thank you!)
Ancient Rome was very military driven. They also had classes of people, which I'd argue is about as selfish as you can get. They could absolutely land on the moon with enough time.
For fuck sake mate. How many times do I have to repeat myself to make you stop replying with "It's not the most efficient/productive way, so it can't be capitalism"? That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

What are you not understanding? You seem to have completely made up my "Central Argument".

I'm NOT arguing, and have never argued, that slavery must be more productive and/or more profitable than non-slavery.

I'm NOT saying, and have never said, that Capitalism must exhibit slavery.

I'm AM saying that in an environment where slavery is socially acceptable, as it was in the US South during that time, the incentives of Capitalism will make it flourish - and it obviously did.

That Capitalism exploits people and resources, if it's socially acceptable (and often even if it's not), it perfectly obvious and the historical record of it is indisputable:

* Slavery

* Colonialism

* Child labor

* Horrible working conditions

* Environmental/Climate destruction

etc
etc.
True, but there is also the skills you learn, which are in unlimited supply.

Different fields have different balance between these two things.
> well known for totally missing the boat on India's IT boom.

There's two different Reliances. When the old Papa died, the two Ambani boys divided his empire into two. The older one kept the oil etc, and the younger one got telecommunications etc. There was some agreement of not competing for X years. The younger brother's telco failed miserably and had to be bailed out by the elder. After that the elder went ahead and start his own telco. That's why he's a little late in the game.
At what speed to you expect the Tesla to be engine-power limited rather than traction limited? (I certainly didn't intend anything like 100mph, but I was thinking like ~40mph.)
“player skill is assumed to be normally distributed”

I would think player skill level (at best; there easily can be cases where P typically beats Q, Q beats R and R beats P) is an ordinal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_data), so one can’t say “player P is twice as good as player Q”, “player P is as much better than player Q as player R is better than player S”, and certainly can’t prove or disprove whether skill is being normally distributed. It is customary to assume that, though.

Also, if one assigns numbers to skill levels, those can be normally distributed. It probably is possible to design an ELO-like system that, given enough games, guarantees that the set of skill level numbers of all players approaches being normally distributed.
That looks like a great creative app. I wonder how much work it would be to build realistic-looking replicas of modern cities using this - I guess it would need almost as many styles as there are buildings.
You can do this in virtually all games. But requiring you to do so, and failing to offer skill based matchmaking is not what most players want.
This one hit met pretty good a while ago. I had to know if we are running on Windows 8 or Windows 10 and it turned out to be very difficult finding that out.
Life as a Verb
NCSU isn't on this list regardless.
It's a complex thing over that sort of timescale. You can get a feel for what I do at my site - http://isaacforman.com.au/ - I've had a basic web business since 1998 that chews up a lot of time for often-meagre returns, then various side projects beside that along the way. I've often wondered if I would've been better off just having a job all this time, and I worry about guiding my kids from my experience.

I am not rich compared to my peers but I wouldn't ever trade my life for any of their lives. I couldn't handle having to ask for leave. I get by with less and travel more (which is something very, very important to me). A lot of the best things in life like being outdoors, hanging out with friends and family, are effectively free.

That said, if I were having to buy into the housing market now rather than 15+ years ago, the mortgage stress might be completely different, and doing it without a regular pay cheque could be a serious challenge.
I’ve never heard it used to mean 1 in 10 either. I wonder if GP is a native English speaker
He could use the stock as security for debt. That's a fairly standard practice by individuals who own a lot of stock in a company but don't want to show distrust by selling any.
Yea but, who cares about Unicorns. Their investors. The rest of us would prefer smaller companies and more competition.
From my position this narrowing of the term AI to refer only to ‘real intelligence’ has always seemed like little more than an attempt to control the narrative against an astonishingly successful trend of connectionist architectures doing incredible things. Nobody complained when Pac-Man's ghosts got called AI, but now it's political.

All of what I mentioned are neural networks.
> Sure, my point is just that the developing world is going to use a lot of petroleum in order to develop.

And mine was that it doesn't need to. The only reason it needs a ton of oil is if it wants to emulate the US obsession with private transportation, which even the US is getting away from. It's not like Civ 6 here: they don't need to invent the internal combustion engine for themselves.
>> so nobody is directly on the hook for blame when things go wrong

>Usually the poor guy who broke the unspoken rules is to blame

Sure. I could have phrased my point better as, "Even if someone is blamed, nobody in leadership will be blamed for 'bad process' decisions."

>the people informally "in the know" do gain the undue influence

I could argue that this is a feature and not a bug. The inefficiency of the null process means that the "informally in the know" group will need to be much larger, on average, than the feasible power groups in efficient organizations. A group composed of 25% of the employees would probably be less likely to end up making radical decisions than a group of <4% of the employees.

>This also lowers the bus factor of the organization

By the same measure, having a larger power group and the null process would seem to me to greatly increase the bus factor. There would be more people each specifically focused on smaller areas, and/or possibly also overlapping in knowledge due to inefficiencies/redundancies in the null process.
The application icon is Ardour's.
We'll just conveniently ignore that while prattling on about Adam and Steve. \s
Most ideas in history were laughed at.
Technically it and iOS are MacOS.

And all three are NextStep.

And Mach.
Maybe in German. I personally regularly curse the fact that I was born a human when I am confronted with uniquely human problems: having to cook, sweating my behind off, having to waste time using the bathroom, experiencing strong emotions like anger or jealousy or envy. These are the things that make us human, but they often times I find them highly annoying and wish my ancestors had evolved out of some of them.
submitting your contact form without any filled in details throws a graphql mutation error :)
An example using formulas (as javascript lambda functions) would be cool.
The post argues for turning images off. Period. Because they are not useful and break the author's ideal "uniform" web page. He then mentions he might turn them on for sites that are useful (like wikipedia). He even explicitly states that he thinks that his view will be a giant controversy.

How would you possibly know if the images on this page would be informative content, or advertising attention grabbers, when they're all turned off?
Doesn't work for me in chrome.... because it seems to break with Ad Blockers... that could be a real killer for you.
Could the Spanish have known at the time that they carried diseases that would nearly wipe out the natives?
I really like Dillo, it's my main browser on an old computer I still use. It feels very fast. However, it has some issues with SSL. Can you click trough duckduckgo results, for instance?

I also miss a slightly more useable interface for bookmarks. And touch compatibility (to use it on my PinePhone).

I really like the js-free experience. I've also used elinks in the past, zimbra works quite well with it, and pressing F4 to edit my emails in vim is a breeze :)
It is a somewhat simplistic view because light isn't just a particle bouncing off walls, its a wave. What happens is that the fiber creates a 'waveguide'. This will gently curve the wavefront around the fiber.

I barely understand this myself. But the way I imagine this is essentially as a water wave running through a trough.

Lets consider a simple sinusoidal wave originating at one end of the trough. Lets call a wavefront any line across the trough that follows the peak of a wave (really it can be any fixed phase, but peaks are nicer to visualize). What happens to these wavefronts as time goes on? They bend around the corners. Essentially the water just in front of the wavefront is going to be pushed up next, and when this happens has a lot more to do with distance from the current wavefront than whether the actual water particles are bouncing off the wall or not.

My explanation of wavefronts moving forward doesn't quite explain why the wavefront 'rotates' in a curved waveguide. I would guess something about path interference being different on the inside of a corner than the outside. Someone who actually studied this stuff probably knows a lot better.
I'm sorry to hear about your wife, that sounds awful. I also had post COVID issues, I couldn't get out of bed for a month and was very low energy for three. The doctors did nothing for me but luckily I have now recovered on my own. I tried eating lots of vegetables and lean meat (as per official nutritional recommendations) and it made me worse. I remember building up the strength every day just to chop the vegetables, eat and go back to bed. When I told my Doctor they dismissed it. I recovered on a diet of fatty red meat (1-2lb per day), milk, cream, eggs and fruit. The diet could be a timing coincidence but on the other hand maybe my Grandmother was on to something feeding me beef stew when I was ill as a kid.

There will be a law suit over how CFS patients are currently treated:
https://www.virology.ws/2020/07/15/trial-by-error-nice-on-ex...

You might want to follow it. I will be.
Also Berkeley has two CS programs. One in the school of engineering, the other in Letters and Sciences.

https://eecs.berkeley.edu/academics/undergraduate/eecs-cs-co...
My First Crack at the “Composer Continuum”
An Essay on Man
How can you be so angry at history that even an article that plainly exposes the huge population declines and gives pointers to causes (disease mostly, not agriculture) bothers you?

What should it say instead to appease you? It's a really good excerpt, interesting and by no means whitewashes anything. If it did it wouldn't give you the figures.
> he seems to be pretty okay with sexual assault, sex with minors, objectifying women, and so on.

This is extremely uncharitable. If you would ask him if he is "pretty okay" with anything of what you accuse him, he would likely be shocked that you think that about him. And if I had access to every internet discussion you ever had or mail you ever sent, how much "problematic" stuff would I find?

Scanning Stallmans political notes page (which is going back decades) Stallman comes across as consistently anti-authoritarian, leftist, pacifist and, yes, feminist:

https://www.stallman.org/archives/2020-may-aug.html

RMS comes from a different libertarian and egalitarian world, which is sadly vanishing, the world of electronic bulletin board systems, usenet, the early internet culture, where you could discuss anything freely, sometimes playing advocatus diaboli to explore interesting discussions or line of reasoning. This online culture is changing (or already changed) sadly and political correct feelings are counting more now than logic and arguments.
There are 2 issues being solved by "newbie suppression".

1) Cases where the ranking of the opponent is not well known. Either because they are on a new account, or recently had a massive change in skill level (say, practicing on a different account; or not playing and loosing ranking points due to the decay mechanic).

2) Inconsistent play. Ranking systems generally assume skill level is mostly static, with gradual changes over time. In practice, people have bad days. Limiting the influence of any single game reduces the noise introduced by inconsistent play at the expense of making convergence a slower process.
Thank you for the list. There something that bothers me a little. LMMS seems very much like commercial DAWs, but Muse was more of a notation+sequencer program. I remember Rosegarden much like that, but it was too long ago. The rest no idea, but it would be useful a brief commentary adding some additional info to the DAW and sequencer categories, since they seem very broad.

Of course, if someone can share opinions here, it would also be nice.
That’s true. Yoga is most famous for it but as you pointed out not the only one.
Printer dialogs in browser [_we hates it_].
Halo: An Infinite Franchise – Rumours and Lore
Personally I have an offset account against my mortgage and stockpile funds there. Then live well within my means so I can handle tax when it arrives. Someone who doesn't naturally live within their means could estimate in advance and push money to a separate account to isolate it.
Is there more that can be read on this somewhere? How it's taxed, what're the implications, how is it structured?
Lack of Typescript support was the main reason I didn't switch to Svelte for my personal projects. Other than that it was a joy to use, and a breath of fresh air in it's approach.

I'd recommend any front-end dev to give Svelte a try, even just spending an hour or two messing around, to experience a way of developing web apps that's likely a bit different to what you're used to, but feels familiar enough that it doesn't require a big mental leap.
That's HN's anti-flamewar mechanism kicking in to get people to slow down and stop firing off comments from the hip.
How? Their understanding of disease was surely rudimentary?
Besides the obvious risk pooling, does this also help founders (esp. first-timers) with negotiating terms? It seems like the other pool members would stand to gain a lot from that.
I remember a bit back the Go server that I play most of my go these days [OGS](https://online-go.com) changed their ratings from Elo to Glicko-2.

You can read their rationally for it in this forum: https://forums.online-go.com/t/ogs-has-a-new-glicko-2-based-...

The key takeaway is this:

> Most of the shortcomings [of Elo] can be traced back to the fact that the system is too slow to find a player’s correct rank, and too slow to adapt when jumps in strength occur.

> The problem of slow moving ratings is a well-known problem with Elo implementations. In response to this, Prof. Mark Glickman developed the Glicko, and later Glicko-2, rating systems which address this problem very well and are fairly widely used

A few weeks ago they then made an update to their implementation of Glicko-2, where—during the announcements they summarized many interesting statistics on how the system has panned out for them: https://forums.online-go.com/t/2020-rating-and-rank-tweaks-a...
This is what I do. Is that normal?
Won a place in the software stack, alongside traditional software approaches, much like the GPU won, and became a second pillar of computing.
Additionally, they have all of GP's suggested functions.
No, people that fixate on low rates of money supply growth whilst their asset halves in value over a very short time period are the ones confusing monetary and price inflation. Price inflation matters; it's what your money pays for in future [and what economists refer to when they say 'inflation]. 'Monetary inflation' matters only inasmuch as it influences price inflation, which turns out to be surprisingly little.

The original thread was about benefits. Fixing the money supply growth rate isn't a benefit if your asset's purchasing power drops over 60% in two and a half years. And money supply growing quite considerably turns out not to be a drawback when prices grow predictably and slowly and the system allows for the money supply to contract again if prices overheat.
3/4 places I've worked have an external API. It might not be "public" but often enterprise customers want to pull their data for their own mangling.
I may sound like a grumpy old man, but I really really dislike this non-stop influx of complexity into every level of the stack. This is a clear case of an abstraction leaking. Microprocessor vulnerabilities should never lead to changes in a high level application protocol like that.

The work needed to implement an HTTP server is growing and growing and growing. There was some speculation a few days ago on why this is happening, and why big companies are benefiting from this. I don't think there's any conscious conspiracy anywhere, just a lot of people try to make a name for themselves. (There was a discussion on this a few days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23833362)

But I just hate this growing complexity everywhere. HTTP can and should be much simpler than it's becoming.
> I also don't understand how cross-origin has anything to do with it either. Either your sandbox works, in that case cross-origin isolation shouldn't matter, or it doesn't work, in which case cross-origin isolation is not a real protection.

It doesn't work in general. It kind of works if you're putting each sandbox into its own process. Assuming there aren't any undiscovered microarchitectural attacks at the moment.
> I was puzzled throughout why "a uniform experience" is something desirable.

Because using a very consistent UI (e.g. everything on terminals) takes less cognitive load.

It is known that having to continuously switch your vision between different fonts, font size, colors and other visual patters across different applications is more tiring.

It's one of the reasons for having an extremely consistent style on aircraft dashboards and similar.

I've noticed the difference myself many times when spending a long day on a bunch of uncluttered terminals VS a heterogeneous mix.

Furthermore, using a mouse requires a continuous feedback loop between hand and eye to aim at buttons. You don't need that on a terminal.

When doing "change management" ops in Amazon the first step was always to unclutter the desktop.
What’s win 9? I thought 9 was the internal version of 10.
Ugh this is so tiring. Internet avengers tirelessly looking for justice and posting their portfolio of links against Stallman.

Everyone made their minds already on this one. Please move on!
I maintain a set of text files some of which I refer to many times hourly to either read or write to

here are the more frequently used text files

- work specific
- software specific
- general todo with daily entries
- general purpose knowledge
- vacation related with top tips per country
- nyc specific

within some of these files are top level categories with subentries

I have search tooling to probe the files ... sometime as simple as

cat file | egrep --color=auto -B20 -A20 'some string'

which will color highlight matches and show surrounding lines from the file

I find note keeping a critical skill everyone should adopt to varying extents ... my main software note file contains over 90,000 lines of text so is the keystone to my approach ( yes that's over 1600 pages ) ... as the complexity of my note keeping expanded so did my ability to organically do local searches so I am not in want of any outside tools ... all I use is vi and various flavors of grep

additionally I have a few directories with subdirs which are either project or topic or tool specific

having organizational skills when working on complex research projects which span months or years pays back in spades and note keeping is just one aspect
Ethereum 2.0 Client: Security Assessment RFP
Gcc these days compiles with -pie (Position Independent Executable) by default. This makes the text section position independent and able to be relocated, like a shared library.

You are correct that the main TEXT section used to typically not be position independent.
My understanding is that you can sell stock (that might pose a conflict of interest) tax-free when you take a government role. I presume that a hedge fund manager such as James Comey would have significant unrealized capital gains that he could sell prior to taking his government position.

Gary Cohn, Trump's chief economic advisor did exactly this[0].

"The chief economic adviser was required to sell his Goldman Sachs shares -- and he did so tax-free and with perfect timing"

[0] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-rich-gary-cohn-got-even-...
They blacklist Cloudflare for petty reasons