skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Hard to draw many meaningful conclusions from a single, extremely simple query without much explanation?)

Graph shows PostgreSQL as taking a long time, but doesn't say anything about configuration or parallelization. PostgreSQL should be able to parallelize that type of query since 9.6+, but I think they didn't use parallelization in these experiments with PostgreSQL, even though they used a bunch of parallel threads with QuestDB?

So would be good to know:

- What version of Postgres

- How many parallel workers for this query

- If employing JIT'ing the query

- If pre-warming the cache in PostgreSQL and configuring it to store fully in memory (as benchmarks with QuestDB appeared to do a two-pass to first mmap into memory, and only accounting for the second pass over in-memory data).

etc

Database benchmarking is pretty complex (and easy to bias), and most queries do not look like this toy one.
> since there is no other comprehensive archive after Google's purchase of Dejanews around 20 years ago

Was I naive in thinking that The Internet Archive would have long archived this type of thing?
Sure, but as far as I can tell nobody in this comment thread is proposing a generalization be derived. We were both sharing how we felt about people having worked in the porn industry.
I really like this idea. I'd prefer a more traditional or minimal looking watch, but I like some of the extra functionality I get from my Apple Watch. I would love something more in between the two.
Most corporations don't even support Macs and very often also don't support iPhones for mobile device management. Even in the IT department, you are very lucky if you can be "on your own" and use what gets the job done best/ you are most comfortable with. Oh and Bring Your Own Device isn't much of a thing here in middle Europe.
Ask HN: Is the The Pragmatic Programmer worth reading in 2020?
I've heard a lot of mixed reviews on the book, and I'm curious if you would still recommend it in 2020 (as well as why or why not).
Historical Voices of Famous People (2017) [video]
The issue is is that a web page only lasts as long as its funding does: private sites are great, but someone still has to pay for the server and, when they die, it’s probably going to just vanish, unless the internet archive got it.
I don't think your understanding is up to date.

10x deadlier than the flu would require it to have an IFR of 1%. Even the US CDC, which has been over-exaggerating the dangers from the start, peg it at much less than that, more like 0.3% and many studies are putting it even lower, like between 0.08% (low end, Denmark) and 0.36% (Germany, Heisenberg).

But those IFRs are also calculated using the standard definition of a COVID death - someone who died, and was testing positive.

If you look at Italy, early on they realised there was a conflation going on, and so they did proper studies of some sample of COVID deaths to see why they really died. They concluded only 4% of the patients had no other medical conditions, and I recall reading (but don't have a link right now) that they concluded about 12% had really died of COVID. The rest all just happened to be infected when they died of something else, which would make sense given the first stat. So you can cut a digit off most of the reported death rates.

All suggestions of undercounting are based on the assumption that all excess death is caused by COVID, and nothing else, even though in some countries e.g. the UK many excess death certificates don't even mention COVID, and in other countries like Germany there basically isn't any excess death:

https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Cross-Section/Corona/Socie...
There is a federal eviction moratorium in effect on federally-subsidized and federally-backed housing [1]. Many states and cities have more-comprehensive moratoria in place.

As I said, the problem isn't the US isn't throwing money at the problem, the problem is that there isn't a cohesive plan being articulated for how to get out of this. We probably won't have millions of people driven from the homes, penniless and living on the streets now that moratorium you linked to has ended (it's end is in fact what prompted the OP, btw). But these measures look haphazard and temporary - and just looking haphazard is enough to create a sense of panic in people (good leadership both is organized and clear and appears organized and clear).

You're wrong in that European aid programs in total are larger but that's not the main point. The point is that Europe and all most industrialized nations have dealt with the situation as a crisis during which people will get help and be somewhat guaranteed safety and a crisis, which once it goes away, people can return to normal from. The messaging the US has been a spew of confusion - the "opening up" a month ago was disastrous both in terms of spreading the disease and in terms of casting US leaders in total as confused incompetent morons, and that won't make it easier for them to lead.

And leadership is key here. What people are told to do is as big a factor in spreading the virus or not as any particular measures. And that goes for the situation of landlords and tenants. As the article correctly points out, leadership is needed to protect landlords from themselves. The current situation gives the impression everyone is on their own. Even if some aid does arrive, congress makes a strong showing that no one should count on that aid and that doesn't cause people to behave well.
Google also has a limited list of upcoming features for their primary G Suite apps (although there is a NDA'd roadmap for partners as well)

https://support.google.com/a/table/7539891?hl=en
Van Gogh: Postcard helps experts 'find location of final masterpiece'
None of these cards need any additional driver under Linux, unless it's extremely obscure hardware made by some Chinese company. Damn AMD has even rewrote its entire Linux graphic drivers from scratch, now they are fully open and work fantastically out of the box. I bought an RX 580 specifically because now I can just install Linux and have everything working perfectly without caring about even installing a single package.

I bought a WiFi + Bluetooth PCIe card last month; it was one of those cheap Chinese no-brand cards that consist in an Intel WiFi chip slapped on a board. It worked instantly without installing anything, with just the drivers shipped in the Linux source tree that every distribution has.
My mouse is a Logitech mouse with 5 buttons and it too works out of the box.

How long has it passed since the last time you installed Linux? It has changed a lot in the last 10 years; lots of things work flawlessly now. I haven't had to meddle with any driver since at least 2010, when my shitty ATi Radeon X1600 still only worked under FGLRX or when I tried to use a crappy Chinese WiFi dongle whose drivers were only distributed as source on a CD (damn you realtek)
Chess GM Hikaru Nakamura Playing Minesweeper
To generate more clicks
It's possible you're getting down voted even by people who hate Trump. Keep in mind, he lost the popular vote by 3 million and has never had decent approval ratings.

How is it hard to feel sorry for us? We didn't _all_ bring this on ourselves. Certainly not the majority of us.
> It's important to point out here that what you're reading about is people being tortured to confess on the purpose of a watch.

It's important to point out that you have absolutely no evidence of anyone being tortured to confess to the purpose of a watch. The interrogators could have just asked.
Well, category theory is pure subversive stuff, just check the Lawvere-Hegel link or Grothendieck giving lectures at the Hanoi jungle to protest Vietnam War :)
> The key is probably this sentence: "In the future, we are also planning to support suspend to RAM."

A distant future. A Purism employee (who will probably show up here since he takes part in each HN thread related to Purism) said nobody is working on it. So don't hold your breath in the near future.
Yeah regex101 is probably the best one I've found so far. It allows you to provide sample text and shows the analysis and output you'll get including captured groups.
There's worse things in life.
Direct link to the stream on (yes!) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBFDQvIrWYM
What was the issue?
It's been deleted
You'd be wrong, I worked in public sector, for defense and other corp related gigs and it's never been an issue.

What I've learned in my years at Pornhub is invaluable and has made finding a job stupid easy.
What credibility do the RAINN numbers have?

The Wikipedia article [1] leads to [2], a RAINN page which links to
itself (quote: "Please visit
https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system for full
citation."), and also (Footnote 1) to the following 'three' alleged
data sources [3, 4, 5]. Note that [4, 5] are exactly, letter for
letter, the same (!) in [2]! Why? Does that sound like serious science to you? Anyway, the RAINN page [2] then claims:
"This statistic combines information from several federal government
reports. Because it combines data from studies with different
methodologies, it is an approximation, not a scientific
estimate.". Let's look at the methodology in [3],
starting on Page 17:

> "The NCVS is a self-report survey that is administered from January
to December. Respondents are asked about the number and
characteristics of crimes they have experienced during the prior 6
months [...] . The survey collects information on threatened,
attempted, and completed crimes. Te survey collects data on crimes
both reported and not reported to police. Estimates in this report
include threatened, attempted, and completed crimes."

Of particular interest is the subsection "NCVS measurement of rape or
sexual assault", starting on page 19. I cannot see any meaningful
attempt at scientific rigour here. Can you explain to me why such
figures should be taken seriously? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence! There is no evidence in any meaningful sense here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape,_Abuse_%26_Incest_Nationa...

[2] https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system

[3] Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of
Justice Statistics, National Crime Victimization Survey, 2010-2016
(2017).

I think this is https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv17.pdf

[4] Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Incident-Based Reporting
System, 2012-2016 (2017);

[5] Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Incident-Based Reporting
System, 2012-2016 (2017);
I do wish they were holding a slightly higher quality bar on each release, yeah.

My tiny example was the release of statuses. It included a pop-up to tell me it was there -- everyone knows developers find those obnoxious, just let me discover the feature myself. Plus, the feature just isn't relevant to me as someone who isn't actively participating in open source or looking for a job right now. The little animations were also slightly janky, and the button didn't feel like it was in a neat and orderly place - just sort of tacked on so that it'd be seen.

My hunch is that this comes from organizationally overemphasizing shipping something splashy instead of something amazing. Is the company celebrating "discerning people find this to be uncompromisingly good" (even for small or old features) as much as "this thing was noticed by a lot of people and then this other thing was noticed by a lot of people too"?

Overall I feel that under Nat, GitHub has walked this line quite well - just feels like it slips a little sometimes as a natural pendulum swing
Try disabling smooth scrolling in about:preferences
Who pays journalists? Companies that depend on ad revenue.

Individuals have agency. A set of persons responds to incentives.
His point is those are the best.
It goes much deeper than "the multiple is key," due to the compounding effects of wealth and privilege. Poverty, for example, is a disease that is very difficult to shake, and it's often generational.
Ask HN: Do you use any IDE add-ons / plugins?
I was looking today at marketplaces for IDE's I use daily (VS Code & IntelliJ) and saw massive amount of different addons, some of them with hundreds of thousands of downloads.
I was interested how many people use those and actively browse that marketplace like you would maybe browse app store on your phone.
I don't really use any addons that i don't need to have my apps building and running ( e.i. Lombok plugin).
It's bizarre considering that the autopsy itself does not appear to contain any evidence of homicide.

Edit: They took the autopsy document down from their website. The link used to be hennepin.us/-/media/hennepinus/residents/public-safety/documents/Autopsy_2020-3700_Floyd.pdf.
I've heard Remdesivir has some major positive effects... like cutting hospital stays by 20% or something like that, and mortality by a decent percent. But it probably needs some additional parts to a 'cocktail' to bring more deaths down closer to 0. I think we could probably get it closer to 10-20% of current death rates w/ the right treatments, but that takes time/studies/etc... I mean HIV while no vaccine is available they've pretty much cut back on death w/ azt/other combo's of drugs.

But it wasn't built in a day, I hope they do get treatments coming soon though, that also address long-term effects of covid and prevent some of those... cause that's my biggest worry, how this affects us all over time.
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Google is becoming worse monopoly trough natural evolution of it's core business. It seems more offhand way. Network effects and economies of scale. Microsoft monopoly grew by planning and plotting. Bill Gates had genuinely sinister motivations and used deception and dirty play.

To fix problems caused by Google, you need to change the principles of competition law. Microsoft was knowingly doing lots of stuff that violated laws. It was just very hard to prove it.
AMD cards now with AMDGPU are vastly more convenient than Nvidia ones under Linux. AMDGPU is fully open source, so everything JustWorks™ without installing anything. Everything is shipped in Mesa and the kernel itself, and it does not require anything else.
I would add to this that not all forward progress is necessarily good or well thought out. If there is value in an old thing that hasn't been unlocked yet, and it is lost to history, we become collectively worse for wear. Things like Lisp are old and pretty darn cool to have as an option.

I second the need to rebuild from the rubble is often overlooked, especially by corporations driven by profit centered goals.
I was skeptical about breathing exercises but turns out focusing on something as trivial as breathing can and does help in relaxation and anxiety relief. (not a substitute for medication/therapy of course)

This is easy for anyone to test empirically -- just YouTube "relaxation exercises".

I happen to like this one from the University Health Network in Toronto, which helps me fall asleep (I've never gotten to the end awake)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj9kLb5gTYg
> Why aren't the social functionality of identity / friends / followers / newsfeed / etc. built into browsers in a standardized way?

Newsfeed is RSS/Atom.

Identity / friends / followers are really one package, and it isn't a thing browsers can solve on their own, because people want the ability to do password resets etc. Also, decentralized identity is somewhat the opposite of this anyway -- people don't want to use the same "identity" for their parents and their friends and their boss.

The best way to do this is for sites to use email as identity, because it's common and gives you password resets, but people can create more than one and separate them as they like.

Which the technology to do already exists, but Facebook and Google made it easy and the free software equivalent takes several hours to get running. Which we could fix, but haven't (yet).
California's only known wolf pack produces new litter of pups
Yea most of the wind about “taxpayer dollars being wasted” is just flatulence but this is a straight up robbery.
Yes, Obsidian has a few options specifically geared towards importing Roam markdown: https://i.imgur.com/eDtRXSX.png

Any existing use of [[link]] style ones will work natively.
Cool! Thanks for looking at it/fixing it.

P.S. The whole split() thing you do is an interesting hack to not have to preserve/rewind so much state. :D I've never quite seen fork() used so...
Sad to see that the biggest missing feature of github.com (and actually a simple one) is not on their roadmap, not even considered in the "future" section...

https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1125
Judaism is a heated topic. If they did not have judaism.stackexchange.com, they would not have the Monica Celio incident.
Sure, but it is a moral duty with so few resources to learn how to meet it.
TFA is a bit suspect all the way through. Why isn't it dated? On any date, this paragraph was always a war media fabrication:

Of course, the watch is not only appreciated by the terrorists of the world but likewise by the people who combat them... Such as the Syrian Democratic Forces which is a coalition waging an anti-ISIS campaign across war-torn Syria.

...in the first place because the vast majority of SDF were specifically interested in forming a Kurdish "homeland". Nothing wrong with that, but it's not an "anti-ISIS campaign". Sometimes they fought ISIS, sometimes they fought the Syrian military (with whom they've since suggested a truce), but now they fight the Turks. [0] SDF mostly served as a fig leaf, so that USA could insert vast quantities of munitions into ungoverned parts of Syria and still pretend we weren't ISIL's primary armaments supplier. Now that Syria, Russia, and Iran have defeated ISIL, maybe we should ask the Turks if SDF and YPG are really "people who combat terrorists"...

The fact that "Батя" doesn't mind dropping such transparently WaPo-approved propaganda into the middle of an unrelated article really undercuts the whole "independent journalism" vibe that "Reaper Feed" claims to cultivate.

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/syrian-democratic-for...
Calling Days of Rage "reporting" is hardly without controversy [1].

[1] https://monthlyreview.org/commentary/fictionalizing-radical-...
Evolution of Financial Exchange Architectures
xPrize to give $5M to creator of cheap, fast Covid-19 testing
The primary display at login time determines the windows system dpi, so will have apps scaled correctly and if they are dpi aware they will appear sharp. If apps appear wrongly scaled on the primary display at login, they implemented dpi awareness in the wrong way. So, if you make sure the external 4k is primary before you login to windows, you should have a better experience.

On other screens with different dpi basically the only apps that look right are the ones using the latest dpi aware api’s.
I think you are right, but it is a sign of a problem: the disconnect from reality for some people. I had a colleague (and friend) that saw the first real life cow at the age of 16 and it was a shock for him because it did not look like what he imagined as size (he thought it is as big as a pork).

The problem is that these people are missing a lot of information about the world outside and they have opinions and vote missing relevant and sometimes essential information. They are most of the time nice and well intentioned people supporting or voting for what can be very bad things.

For example my country has the largest bear population in EU, but we are not allowed to hunt them even if they come in villages and attack people. Why? Because urban "nature-lovers" are against shooting bears: bears don't come in their large cities, they don't ever meet a bear bare-handed (this is the quotes for), so for them bears are not a problem. For the people with damages ffrom bears, they are not enough to make their voice heard and over-vote the urban people.
> Saving a few bucks here and there and building up an emergency fund that can carry you through 6-8 months.

That's easy when your income is significantly higher than your living expenses.

But with constantly rising rents, that's very difficult for people working low-wage jobs. Even when I was a store manager in fast food, after paying the rent, utilities, car insurance, and budgeting about $5-10/day for food, I was left with ~$200/month to either throw into savings or spend on pleasure, and when you work a shit job, you're more likely to want to spend that money on something fun.

But then the alternator dies in your car and it's a $600 repair because your apartment complex doesn't let you do car maintenance in their parking lots, and it wipes out 3 months of your disposable income.
The Fed’s goal is in fact to promote maximum employment, and a non-zero unemployment rate is necessary for that: https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/money_12848.htm

Related to the discussion on insecurity, it is a good outcome to have an economy where people quit jobs and spent months on a careful job search. 0% unemployment means that nobody does that.
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO3HtGLMr0A
And spam. Don't forget that with just base pagerank, all you'd get today is spam.
This story could have ended so many different ways in the thread context here that I chuckled a bit of relief at the end.

But now I gotta ask: you say it was fine until the reveal. Were they pictures of him in the boxers or just a brand he liked-or what did the reveal change for the team?
Conservapedia’s math articles have a pretty amusing history:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Conservapedian_m...
Your story is very inspiring. I wish you all the best with this project.
It feels very unfinished. The "home" page and "dashboard" page don't display anything for me. I like the concept but it's looking very beta, or pre-beta.
In my opinion it would be crazy to pay $50k of tuition for a few zoom lectures per week, and I think a lot of colleges are aware of this. In response, many of them seem to be doing a "hybrid" approach, where undergrads are allowed to come on campus, but all instruction will be online (Harvard for example). This seems to defeat the purpose of not having in person classes in the first place. I think it shows how much of a pickle they are in.
I doesn't make a difference because in the industry they all are the same and always have been. Except when they are worse. :-/
Although it might be done for pure marketing purposes in this case, I think sometimes calling something differently can help losing some "spiritual baggage", and open the topic up to people that would otherwise not engage with it.

Also, "slow breathing" is very descriptive, just reading it I know what to do (even if I might not know how slow), whereas if I wanted to meditate I would have to read up first what I'm supposed to do and which of the many different practices I want to try out.
How to push forward your diversity and inclusion efforts with purpose
True Link taps $35M for financial services tailored t elderly+disabled consumers
Always fun when legislators try and get in the way of reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
They might, because it keeps them in the cohort for next year.

I don’t think a lot of Harvard kids are going to drop out and head to state school, and Harvard knows it.
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