skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a previous contributor to MDN, I hope this change adds stability if nothing else. I stopped contributing after several ID/auth backend changes, thereby losing my credibility and contribution histories... repeatedly.

New people besides Wil would come in and have absolutely no respect for community contributions.
There's a large tradition of data analysis/BI tools using visual programming/ "no-code" tools, think Talend, etc. They're popular since data analysis typically contains a number of people without coding backgrounds. Even among data science teams, many don't have the engineering background of data engineers (and certainly there's a segment of data scientists who don't care as much about building the data pipelines and the cleaning that's necessary).

Low code tools _can_ (but not necessarily will) effectively empower data teams.
This site is kind of an ad/content marketing for Cilium[0], a container networking solution for container orchestrators (most notably Kubernetes).

But then again Cilium's main differentiator is utilizing the advanced support for eBPF[1] in the kernel and it was launched by a Thomas Graf (a kernel developer)[2], so it feels appropriate. From the QCon description:

> Thomas Graf is Co-Founder & CTO at Covalent and creator of the Cilium project. Before this, Thomas has been a Linux kernel developer at Red Hat for many years. Over the more than 15 years working on the Linux kernel, Thomas was involved in a variety of networking and security subsystems. For the past couple of years, Thomas has been involved in the development of BPF and XDP.

Nice to see kernel developers getting something for their thankless hard work. I haven't given Cilium a try on my own k8s cluster, but I hope to give it a spin soon. I don't think I need the majority of the features but the inter-pod communication speedup and cluster-mesh features are attractive to me.

[0]: https://docs.cilium.io

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Packet_Filter

[2]: https://qconsf.com/speakers/thomas-graf
Isn't it just a build flavor with a few different defaults and produced from a different commit?
Or, given the capacity limitations of the boring company thing, just build a segregated bus lane. The main advantage of subways over trams and fully segregated bus lanes is capacity, so if you’re not doing that...
This article[0] talks about how locals were shooting at it, although it doesn't mention the berms (talking to the sheriff must not have worked out). I think a hyperloop could avoid this problem by not locating in Louisiana.

[0] https://www.225batonrouge.com/article/good-vibrations
Score Voting notably defies Arrow's Paradox.

Score Voting (= Range Voting) is where candidates are given a score from, say zero to 99, and an average is taken. Effectively the same style as in figure skating. Yes, a once-every-four-years global aesthetic athletic event is the only place to get voting right.*

*what do you mean by "right?" Well, there is something called Bayesian regret and you can minimize it by having Score Voting (=Range Voting) or by having the magical harry potter wizard hat choose the perfect candidate. Other voting systems have more Bayesian Regret and the current First-Past-the-Post voting style has quite a lot, actually. https://rangevoting.org/BayRegsFig.html
20% of vehicle crashes in the US are caused by motorcycles, and the 479kmi number includes those. The statistics have always been misleading for Tesla to use those numbers to compare vehicle safety. When comparing just luxury cars, Teslas have far more fatalities than other cars in the same price range.
The first Hyperloop will probably never be built. It's an absurd technology, for a great many reasons.
What was it that POTUS could not undo and that SCOTUS did?
Palantir plans direct listing for September
I despise touch UI everywhere (at least in its present incarnation). The only things it's good for is saving space on a small device, or simulating the experience of having no nerve-endings in your hands.

The industry could sell another trillion mobile phones, and it still wouldn't change reality: (a) it's uncomfortable to hold your hand hovering in midair for more than a few minutes (b) fingers are opaque and block screen real estate (c) to use a finger with precision requires tactile feedback (edges, textures, nubs) (d) a hand can't comfortably and quickly manipulate a screen larger than about 10 inches.

I look forward to the day when I can use a touch UI able to feel and sound like buttons, keys, sliders, etc. Until then, I will favor devices that don't use it.
Yep, absolutely.

Here's a blog post outlining our general approach, which applies type-specific compression based on a column's datatype. (While m3db only supports floats, TimescaleDB supports a whole range of 40+ data types.)

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-columnar-compressio...

For example, by default we employ:

- Gorilla for floats (+ some optimizations for faster decoding)

- Delta-of-delta + Simple-8b with run-length encoding compression for timestamps and other integer-like types

- Whole-row dictionary compression for columns with a few repeating values (+ LZ compression on top)

- LZ-based array compression for all other types

And the architecture is extensible to support new/updated compression algorithms for different data types. The above are all lossless algorithms; obviously one could drop precision to achieve higher rates.

We also wrote a post describing these various approaches in a bit more detail for folks interested in learning (although a summary compared to the Facebook paper): https://blog.timescale.com/blog/time-series-compression-algo...

Obviously, your compression rate depends heavily on workload, but the number 15x comes from median performance that users see in the field against their real databases, not just a synthetic or single workload.
And, crucially, no-one cares about the economics. Dubai has never paid too much attention to that with mega projects.
Because of the potential aerosol transmission, I'd say we should wear masks when indoors regardless of whether anyone is nearby in the moment. People may occupy the same area later.
ok for those who were as obsessed with this as i was... I took the base SVG and cleaned up the CSS to try to understand what was going on with the animations

minimal repro: https://svelte.dev/repl/7eea2eba3707414aa62c9ea53b92ad2d?ver...

quick youtube discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wKnZNjdpp8&feature=youtu.be

I didn't get everything bc you can only get so far looking at the output CSS - he used Stylus here to generate most of these https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24138573
TikTok found to have tracked Android users’ Mac addresses until late last year
No, it doesn't. Parent commenter has been macOS stock Python instead of the Homebrew one.
I worked as a dishwasher at a restaurant -a couple differences between the dishwasher there and the one at home- it had a couple tanks of liquids (once for the cleaning cycle, a different one for the rinse cycle) - and the water got seriously, seriously hot at high pressure. Also - still didn't work with baked on spaghetti - still had to clean those by hand.
This is absurd and disregard for the inalienable right to freedom. Your don't dictate what people must do to protect YOU - that's your responsibility. This narcissistic logic is the same that would dictate you lose weight and ride yourself of other comorbidities to protect society as a whole from viruses at all times...

If you're fearful, then get yourself a sophisticated portable air filtration system.
Personally, this list would be far too big for me. Search query length is limited, and I run up against the limit semi regularly while trying to exclude domaine and irrelevant topics.
Specious argument.
Obviously that was a sign of the times, so people found a way (people moving amongst semi anonymous crowds and policing not having caught up).

I think we are missing something in that today this kind of action would lead to a case in favor of the "people" (ie the complainant). But there are so many things that can be better handled by people defending themselves without having to fear a case against them. Like a home invader suing homeowners for something)

Obviously in a civilized society we expect people to behave so we have these tools of justice available to us, but in some cases, like these, I think this kind of action would serve to better deter uncivil behavior.
I tried a few of these DIY dishwasher detergent recipes a few months ago (random things I did during lockdown) and the results were ok. I usually use all-in-one tablets, which in my country all come individually wrapped in a plastic wrapper which I was looking to avoid. The main thing I found my DIY detergent didn't clean was tea stains in cups, everything else came out pretty good, although sometimes they were a few limescale stains on glasses.

Recently my supermarket had a promotion on dishwasher powder, so I decided to try that. If anything it's worse than my DIY detergent. The all-in-one tablets clean perfectly every time, so I'm wondering what else they have which gives superior results. I regularly fill up the salt and rinse aid (even though this probably isn't needed with the tablets).
Yes, I think so. There are many git clients which offer superior UX already, but they only provide a subset of the functionality available with the data structure. I'd personally love to experiment with showing and editing the data structure more 'directly', instead of relying on a battery of CLI commands and options.
SMIC head recently said the roadblock was talent not hardware or sanctions, implying obstacles like ASML EUV is surmountable. I'm not expert enough to judge, but China is graduating an Taiwan's worth of semi specialists every 15 months while poaching whoever they can, stealing whatever they can to catch up. The various anecdotes / sentiment from industry experts do not seem super doom and gloom. There's get tons of frank appraisals from Chinese analysts about how _massive_ the military gap between Chinese and US is in specific domains, but so far Chinese semi success seems to be like forgone conclusion. Kind of like ballpoint pen situation, which ppl misconstrue as lol China only learned to make ball point pen recently, when really it was Premier LiKeqiang politicized importance of precision manufacturing for national security, and 2 years later Chinese industry figured out how work with tungsten carbide for advanced munitions. But here's a cute ballpoint pen article to distract laowais.
> Mattheij hasn't looked at what's happening in Belarus, in India/Pakistan, and what happened during the Arab Spring when governments decided to use the power at their disposal to shut down on the people's ability to freely converse with one another, even about Unapproved Topics, even with Officially Illegal Opinions.

For an example that's less dramatic but closer to the western world, take a look at the Croatian (an EU country) authorities arresting a journalist over some tweets: https://www.total-croatia-news.com/politics/38478-duhacek-jo...

Journalists are also regularly getting sued and fined on the count of "hurting someone's honor and reputation", mostly by politicians and (seriously) court judges.
Define worst hit. Because this statement is blatantly wrong when factoring in population size, death rate, demographics and a bunch of other factors which exist in the real world and not your FUD bubble
Our subway system in Montreal runs at a frequency of anywhere from 2 minutes to 7 minutes. There are even faster ones.
Couldn’t agree more. That’s the main reason why simple and accessible projects are praised most by general people.
So did factories not exist prior to the internet? How on earth did people get paid, coordinate shift changes, or ask their boss for time off back in the 1950s?

I think the reaction from GP was likely due to a difference in how people interpret the meaning of the word can't, as in some people mean "I currently use the internet because non-internet solutions are inconvenient" vs "It's literally impossible to do my job without the internet or losing the internet would make my job completely irrelevant(such as being a dev on the Google search team)."

I think that even for work from home jobs, if the internet disappeared tomorrow a lot of employers would figure out how to do the important stuff with non-internet solutions, like accepting longer business timelines, couriering paper documents, sending faxes (this might require getting fax machines and landlines for employees, but companies will pay for them if they need to), and having telephone meetings instead of Zoom.

Some employers would probably cut employees/tasks that weren't adding as much value as the effort required to shift to non-internet solutions, but I don't think it would be as high as a literal interpretation of this survey would imply.
So I left a comment on that blog and the author replied that the "weekly review" is the one in GTD.
> "Can someone explain me how Hyperloop is supposed to work?"

1) Mass transit competes with cars.

2) Elon Musk sells cars.

3) High speed rail projects get derailed by people saying "but if we wait N years we could build a hyperloop instead"

That's how Elon Musk intends Hyperloop to work.
In some jurisdictions it's mandatory to wear a mask when out in public. A lot of the definitions are wishy washy (medically approved, for example), is a national forest a "public space"? technically, yes...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dn6ZVpJLxs

This video has most of the points about why the Hyperloop is a ridiculous idea that will never work.
IMO, Unlockable but lost some features is somewhat reasonable restriction. Things like if you install Ubuntu you can't use Windows Explorer.
Bitcoin-collateralized loans coming to Coinbase
..incredibly hard choice of continuing to pump money from the company into C-level pockets. It's time to cut the losses and let Mozilla die, and maybe learn something from this.
The other rule is choose your data structures wisely.
Formally Verifying the Ethereum 2.0 Phase 0 Specifications
You’re sure?
No you’re not. You couldn’t possibly be sure.
Try again.
Maybe she was right
You've got my vote. This is the first time I've heard of either product and to me Element sounds closer to something I would check out than Riot.

I really like the philosophy behind the project and I will check it out. I would, however, recommend maybe marketing it in a different way. Let's say Slack added every single one of these features on the Element home page. My guess is they wouldn't market any of these same features on the home page because they really aren't what you use the app for (which I take it is messaging). While I agree that Element seems much better than Slack in what makes it unique there's nothing telling me that's it's easier to use than Slack. There's really even nothing telling me it's even easy to use, or fun to use, or will help me communicate better with my team.
I see an "add comment" box on the poll, so two relevant stories:

First, on the topic of advertising in specific:

One day I walked into a bookstore and saw a poster for a new book by Orson Scott Card, which I immediately purchased. Thus, I've answered "yes" to the poll. Without knowing that the book existed, I would not have been able to purchase it. Since then, I've been fairly shocked by how little advertising books do.

Second, on the topic of hapless customers succumbing to the invisible mental manipulations of marketers:

One day I went to get lunch at a mall food court. While I was standing in line, I decided that I was thirsty enough to get a soda along with lunch. I expected a question along the lines of "anything to drink?"

But in this case, I was walked through the order fairly aggressively without that question, and I became anxious that I might end up not having ordered the drink. At the very end of the process, the question was asked, and I ordered my drink. If it hadn't been, I wouldn't have, but I would have been upset. (I also would have learned that I needed to order from that place more forcefully in the future.)

But note that this is the opposite of how people normally talk about this kind of thing. I decided in advance that I wanted the drink.
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What do you do when a terrorist shoots a hyperloop tube causing a pressure wave that will kill everyone inside?
Well my company and my other job are both pretty important mission-driven things to me. It's not like I am a founder and then work at McKinsey, heh. That would not be worth it to me. I've been fortunate enough to have full-time jobs that I've mostly enjoyed, well, when I get out of software development anyway.

Both jobs, as you can probably surmise, have significant overlap. So being good at one makes me good at the other.

I think I'll be a good consultant. I actually might teach junior college or high school when I'm all done "working." That'll be a blast when doing it for the mission, not the paycheck.
> A timestamp is the time at which some event happened, which is different than a date/time used for specifying a schedule.

Correct, but that makes this a rule with much more limited applications than many people are going to interpret it as.
Then they are putting themselves against their customers.

They could still just get search placement and make tons and tons of money, enough to develop their browser.
ARM was sold off on the cheap thanks to Brexit, I can only imagine how other UK companies would fare under Brexit Britain + Pandemic.
Is it still possible these days to found a startup and raise funding based on just powerpoint slides? Are there examples of this?
One reason is that having a screen is now required in the U.S. in order to comply with backup collision safety regulations.

It doesn't necessarily have to support touch, but once you've dedicated all that space and cost to putting in a screen, making it a touchscreen becomes a lot more appealing.
Have you tried it with a different homeserver (either hosted or some other community server)? Matrix.org has a fucktonne of users (~5 million from memory), and given how little funding they have it's shocking that they can afford to run a homeserver at all. I've run my own homeserver for the past few years and I haven't ever had any issues with performance (even when talking to people on Matrix.org).
Already the landlord hiring a painter example is getting tricky. That is required upkeep of the property. What about hiring a manager? What distinguishes that from hiring a painter?

Regardless, I see you specifically haven't addressed the market maker question. Please articulate a standard by which eBay's on-premise customary work is software development but a gig tech company's isn't. That's literally their regular and customary work of business that is performed on premise at HQ by a workforce that they can actually control (call to work and dismiss). There is no difference between those employees and drivers, huh? None at all? No market maker would have a business without participants doing their own work. The argument is neither thin nor shallow. It gets to the point of whether you can be in the business of making a market for contract labor or services. You seem to argue that that cannot be a business at all, and for what reason exactly?
Smart tabs is halfway there.
as long as the remote branch is deleted it does. Both github and gitlab can delete branch on merge
Free markets are excellent for lifting the baseline level of wealth among a nation's people (Marx admitted this as industrialization rapidly increased the wealth of Western Europe at the time of his coming of age). It does not solve the issue of wealth inequality, and exacerbates it to an extent to the point where an individual's wealth and the labor they expend to create that wealth are completely non-correlating -- you can work four times as hard as a laborer than an investor and not see any return while capital ends up with most of the value extracted from your labor.

Even the most pro-market economists acknowledge this critical, showstopping bug in the free market. Adam Smith acknowledges it. Friedman acknowledges it. Where opinions diverge is the solution, or whether the issue of inequality is even worth solving or worthy of government intervention. If you exit the toxic and obnoxious Silicon Valley Bay Area bubble, look out the window into an actual working class individual's life, I think you'll find plenty of evidence for that answer to be a resounding Yes.

The situation with Uber is similar, and California has decided that it is indeed worth the effort to allow drivers to keep more of the wealth they generate for the company. It's not communism, it's literally the first principle of commerce that individuals providing labor receive full compensation for their labor in return. There is no more a capitalist concept than that.
Another thing, is that anyone that punches a hole big enough in the tube basically transforms half of the hyperloop into a bomb. Energy = pressure * volume. That's a lot of energy smashing through a hyperloop capsule. Basically, imagine if 3% of the tube was filled with pipe bombs, but in reverse.
I don't get it. Subways run off electrical power since the late 19th century. If your grid power is carbon neutral, so are those subway trains.
There's a lot of back-and-forth subsidies that often aren't considered. In Philadelphia, for example, the city public transportation network (SEPTA) also serves the suburbs. In fact, the bulk of its revenue comes from train service to those surrounding suburbs. The local subway/buses in the city will be hard pressed to operate at the loss they are now if ridership on the suburban trains stays low.

The city also has the highest wage tax in the nation >4%, more than half of which is still due if you commute in. Unsurprisingly, these suburban commuters represent a huge line item in the city's revenue - that is gone if everyone is WFH. City schools also receive the bulk of their funding from the state, unlike suburban schools which are paid mostly out of local taxes.

In the Philly area at least, the city would never survive without its rich suburbs.
Specialization trades off innovation for efficiency while generalism/curiosity trades off efficiency for innovation.
This is common in commercial kitchens. They’re brutal.
I don't think this will be remembered "thanks god we gave more power to the police" time. Do we remember anytime we were glad to give more power to the police?
One of the inspirations for writing this book in the first place was reading some of the 'Show HN' experiences over the years of other self-published authors, so thanks for that!

Something I am still annoyed by is the way editions work with traditional publishers and with Amazon—even if you update the content of a book on Amazon, it remains at the old published date for your first version of the book, with no way to change that.

So you pretty much have to use editions to alert readers the content of your book is not outdated. But doing so incurs the cost of giving up store rankings, reviews, etc., effectively resetting your book to 'zero' on Amazon.

Am I missing something in that process or is that just how it is for 2nd editions? It seems like I'm going to have to spend some time trying to get people to purchase the 2nd edition copy, review it, link to it, etc. to be able to get it to show up in search results with similar rankings to my 1st edition.
What work do they do that you consider peripheral? I'm asking from a place of ignorance.
Yah, lye won’t just clean, but also help make new soap from anything fatty!
I use MS Teams for 1 on 1 as well as group chat and audio calls.
Right there with you. It's one of three reasons why I refuse to buy pretty much any car manufactured after 2010, the others being the sheer size of modern cars (why is every car getting so much bigger?) and the increasing hostility to user-servicability.