skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> TimescaleDB is purpose-built for time-series workloads, so that you can get orders of magnitude better performance at a fraction of the cost, along with a much better developer experience. This means massive scale (100s billions of rows and millions of inserts per second on a single server), 94%+ native compression, 10-100x faster queries than PostgreSQL, InfluxDB, Cassandra, and MongoDB – all while maintaining the reliability, ease-of-use, SQL interface, and overall goodness of PostgreSQL.

WITH the links to back up their analysis/comparisons. I think I was first sold the hardest on Timescale when I read the InfluxDB post.

Timescale also releasing their hard work over the last ~3 years with a very permissive, surprisingly business friendly license[0] which was previously discussed on HN[1].

This is pretty huge -- personally one of the things I'm really looking forward to is using Postgres as a backing store for Prometheus now, which timescale actually worked on[2] already. If you look really closely, there's actually a way to get all your observability data into Postgres (i.e. zipkin/jaeger, logs, and prometheus for metrics), and Timescale is going to make all of those things easier to scale and maintain. For those following along at home, postgres already has some not terrible full text search[3] and ways to integrate with elasticsearch like zombodb[4]...

[EDIT] - Just to make what I'm hinting at a little clearer, I think you might be able to build a Graylog[5] type system really easily with just Postgres these days. Imagine deploying a single binary that only needs a single database to do everything it needs to do.

[0]: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-open-source-busines...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579905

[2]: https://github.com/timescale/promscale

[3]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/textsearch.html

[4]: https://www.zombodb.com/

[5]: https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-server/
Knowing Greenwald, what he describes as "censorship" is what a news editor would call "fact-checking."
Seems highly redundant.
While I admittedly would benefit from skipping a few meals, I get very surly when hungry; not a good thing either at the workplace or at home. Dunno how people overcome that.
> [Y]ou need to accept [that] everyone on Mars [will] live in relative poverty for generations.

I think this point is by far the easiest one to address. Historically, there have always been people willing to do dangerous things (ie exploring the Arctic / Antarctica). I don't think you'd have any trouble finding people willing to give up their Earth lifestyle for a chance to explore the "frontier" even with the knowledge that they couldn't come back.
Well i can't disagree with people having opinions, only with their opinions, and even that might be a useless endeavor. I disagree with the "the internet is like outside", the "the internet is like a tribal village" and with the "corporations are like people" metaphors.

But to answer your question: I believe that the constitution must limit the data, which government agencies and private corporations can legally aggregate and process. Our european constitution says that personal data belongs to the person, and refers to the concept of consent for limitation of processing. So to answer your question: no, if people are well informed and freely share their data with a corporation, i would not restrict their freedom to do that.

I do however disagree that this is what is happening right now. Corporations behave like its a gold rush and the one whi mines the data owns it. In my honest opinion the relationship between the data aggregating corporations an the data subjects is highly abusive. Many people have little to no understanding who collects their data for what and many of those who understand say they have no real choice but to let it happen.

This is where the "like outside" argumentation happens: well you can't prevent your neighbor seeing you leaving the house. Sure that might be true in some way, but this neighbor installed a surveillance camera and makes photos every time i leave the house, then follows me to the store, takes notes what i buy and tries to hold a microphone into my conversation with the clerc. That is why i split between the spy and the clerc in my analogy, the agents work for a "Lead Intelligence Service" or similar adtech entity.

Lets look at facebookistan with its population larger then the USA. In the anthropomorphic village metaphor, who is this "Facebook person"? For many it is an every day companion that is present in most of their interactions with other people or companies. The person they go shopping with. Facebook is not a clerc or a neighbor, but a clingy spouse that is also trying to sell you stuff and is gossiping about you behind your back. And that is too positive, as it lacks the asymmetry: FB throws your stuff away if it doesn't like it, rats you out to the government and hands you a divorce without ever having any feelings for you at all. Also almost everyone in the village is married to this one person, who can be in all living rooms at the same time. And not being married to FB has serious downsides, like being the only one who does not go to church. FB is not like the village clerc, at all.

The Anthropomorphism is an illusion.
>You can't trust a self driving system with abduction though

All wetware based self driving systems on the road use heuristics in their wetware system.

You can't hope to have self driving without heuristics. That's what deep learning is.
> Public transportation in the US is at best, tolerable.

I think this is very dependent on where you live, in both DC and the Bay I think public transportation is good, but expensive. To me, the problem more appears to be an American cultural aversion to intermingling the working class and the "professional" class of people.

> 2.) Bicycles are awesome, but you have to contend with precipitation, sweat, and theft.

Every mode of transportation has some downsides. You could say 'Cars are awesome, but you have to contend with about ~40k people dying in crashes every year.'

> 3.) Living close to city centers is abominably expensive

Hm, maybe if we could densify cities by removing some of these large paved spaces that people are supposed to stay away from.
Is there a scientific study that backs up the “huge benefits” claim ?
Correct me if I am wrong, but I have an issue with "liquid" food.

My concern with products like Soylent and Huel is whether the nutruients they claim to provide are actually absorbed by your body.

Solid food that has been liquidised is not the same as solid food: nutrient absorbption is affected by rate of digestion - more solid food, especially if it is fibrous, gives our bodies more time to absorb nutrients.

It's the same way a fruit smoothie is actually worse for you than just eating the solid contents (disregarding the insane sugar content you would consume).
I would withhold any opinion that it is a "garbage story" until actually reading it...
A property management company and accountant can solve these issues and pay for themselves.
Funny that he marked the comment section subscriber-only. Regardless of the validity of the story, optics sure look like a ploy to kickstart his new SubStack with an engineered October surprise.
Liquidity. You can list your apartment in Vancouver in the morning and accept an offer by the afternoon. You try that in middle of nowhere-ville and you might have a property on the market for a year. Plus these investors aren't living in them. They don't give a shit about how many toilets there are. They just care about it being an asset.
When this was discussed earlier, someone shared a link to a repository hosted on Darktea, an instance of Gitea provided as an onion service.[0]

[0] http://it7otdanqu7ktntxzm427cba6i53w6wlanlh23v5i3siqmos47pzh...
Exactly. This looks much more like Greenwald trying to capitalize on hype. The entire spectrum of details around the Biden emails has been roundly debunked and there is tons of evidence to suggest it’s illegitimately sourced by agents directly directed by Trump, from sources with active incentives to try to damage Biden.

It is responsible to decline to run this story. It only serves to feed conspiracy theories and drive disinformation opportunities right at the time of an election.

I am really disappointed with Greenwald here.
Because taking a drink from a bottle is perhaps a bit more crowd-friendly than opening a can of sardines when you're at a grocery store, hospital, gym, etc.
Why would Substack solve this? It's just a more refined Medium with better monetization opportunities. Being on Substack doesn't mean the author is trustworthy, only that they have content that people will engage with (and potentially pay for), which is still the same KPI you're referring to.
Hosted with whom? Some private company no doubt that could be pressured to censor if a big enough twitterstorm came along.
Happens regularly. Another example is what happened to Chris Ott and some others at Pitchfork.
I think it shows courage for a non-PR employee to participate in a conversation like this.

Thank you!
>If the editor concludes that it's a garbage story dropped a few days before the election in an attempt to influence the election

Nobody disputes why this story was dropped at the time it was dropped. It's a common tactic that has been practiced for decades by political campaigns and even media outlets. Heck, there is a reason why the Kavanaugh story broke when it did. There is a reason why the NY Times published Trump taxes when they did.

What's different is that all of center-left/left news establishment decided that they are going to get Biden elected and protect him from any negative news.
That's good to know. At least that does ensure it's an ASIC, not an FPGA.

Besides lack of V extension, I'm sad about the seemingly artificial limits (8GB RAM onboard instead of slots, so you can't easily make a workstation out of this) and the still outrageous price.

I think that it has its market niche (developers working on risc-v ports), but most of us are better off trying RISC-V cores on an FPGA or emulator.

I'm hoping China will solve the cheap RISC-V SoC situation by releasing some cheap chip SBCs can be built on, at some point soon.

Lowrisc used to be all about doing that in an open hardware manner, but it seems the moment they got some funding, they got distracted into experiments (e.g. pointer validation stuff) that have little to do with achieving the original goal.
This headline is clickbaity, esp for a HN audience. The article clearly states that the problem is consuming multiple media sources simultaneously, which AFAIK is more or less _completely_ unrelated to having more than one screen.

Having more than one screen is something you need _when the one thing you are working on requires too much relevant information for a single screen_. That's the opposite.
I know that when I eat a portion of leafy green vegetables. I am eating something "healthy."

Maybe we're going too far into a discussion on epistemology here, but I don't think it is FUD to call out that we cannot clearly say the same thing about Soylent that we say about a serving of cruciferous vegetables. One is healthy and the other is unknown and ambiguous.

However, if we still want to call this FUD, I'd argue that maybe FUD is necessary when thinking about what we put into our bodies. I'd also practice FUD when thinking through whether I should approach a mountain lion, and I'd encourage everyone else to do the same.
The revolution devours its own children
exiting vim with just q is heresy!
By way of example, his description of PRISM was factually incorrect to the point of making the people who read his articles more misinformed than people who hadn't. There is nothing ideological in what is a statement of fact and what is not, and Greenwald gets in trouble on that basic point.
If that’s the case, why not just use GitHub Actions? It’s more integrated and requires no setup.
I don't use soylent, but use a similar product in the same space.
I hope very few people are using these to replace _all_ of their diet. But as a tool, I find meal replacement mixes to be useful in multiple contexts:

- when traveling somewhere and I expect the options which meet my dietary requirements to be limited

- when trying to fit extra calories to gain weight

- when the other low-effort option would be snacks I won't feel good about (this used to mean the office)

Especially if you have a dietary restriction and a metabolism that requires a lot of calories to avoid unintended weight loss, arranging to always have nutritious _real_ food can require a lot of effort and planning, and I can't always be bothered. If the other options are eating too few calories, eating crappy snacks, or picking something at a geographically convenient restaurant, a meal replacement shake can quickly become best easy option.
Any video tool that can export .mp4, resolution 640x480 (or square video better).
But no problem, when you submit I'll take a look at the file, and check it for you!
Author here - I wrote lurker as a simple way to browse Hacker News from the terminal. It is a single Bash script with minimal dependencies and is installable via Homebrew with `brew install wcarhart/tools/lurker`. In addition to reading submission threads, lurker can also summarize text articles so you don't have to open the link in a web browser. It's just a passion project, but I figured others on HN might like to use it - let me know if you have any feedback!
What would be a decent graphics card for this? I'm thinking something half height with no fan. Put that in a small enclosure. Could be a great dev/demo box.
Right; but this turns out to be pretty tricky in practice. I've attempted to do this for even relatively straightforward code (libsodium--complex in implementation, though not in API) with libclang and it was not particularly pleasant.

Some prior art for reference: https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp/issues/51
> Denial is the only way to cope

I disagree. We can accept that we have a feeling of impossibility and still continue engaging in behaviors we predict to have a more positive outcome than any others. After all, have you ever been wrong? I have.

Occasionally the bulk of our actions create emergent shifts. It seems we will have to make adjustments and there may well be horrid consequences but the severity of those remains under our adjustment.

I'm surprised to read this on Hacker News, one of the homes of "impossible" successes.
You've got a hard full of emails, texts, and nasty pictures, people on the receiving end of the emails that have verified some of them, the head of one of these companies Hunter Biden set up to do business with China coming forward on the record, and the Bidens haven't even denied that the emails are real. This is mountains more evidence than ever existed for Russia or Ukraine or all the other nonsense that has passed for news during the past four years. This bizarre dodge of saying "it can't be verified" is nonsense. There's plenty here for a journalist to do some journalism on to try and verify.

Its not that it can't be verified, it's that mainstream news doesn't want to verify it and be blacklisted by their peers for taking out Biden. They value their standing in their fancy social circle more than doing their job with integrity. It's pure corruption.
Was that the specific mandate? Nothing critical of Joe?

Or was it that all the sections in the article critical of Joe were unsubstantiated.
Thanks for the in-good-faith response! I'd say that covers DDD pretty well.

I do still feel that the link between that and your suggestions in the initial comment are still tenuous and vague 'management-speak', but still, thanks for the response :). Obviously I don't know the exact details or how you're running things, so the best I can do is poke at it (in good faith).
Except it wasn’t news.
That sounds like a wasted opportunity. Drop a note into the bag with the food. 'hey cut out the middleman call us directly the prices are better!'
I love me some Pham Nuwen, but in A Deepness in the Sky the giant, intelligent spiders were the coolest characters in the whole damn book.

That book will give you a new perspective on the term "weaponized autism".
The problem is that it's also not free money. The students who get their degree but can't use it have to pay the money back just the same as students who got the degree and get the high-paying entry level job.

So getting a degree is a gamble, because you either come out ahead or you get hobbled by it for the rest of your life. Whereas if you did indeed get free money to get a degree it would eliminate the hobble and produce a class of well-educated people who could afford to work for PD wages.
I think some of the context is lost here. The GP was talking about banking jobs with CS applicants not really passionate about CS. The majority of banking jobs are in NYC, so there really isn't really a huge choice. If you're applying for a CS job (not IT) in banking, almost the entire job market is in NYC.

My argument was that of course students are not passionate, they are worried about student loans, homes, rents. (Fun exercise go to the same Zillow link and try to find homes in NYC max $250k. Then, on what you find, look at the transportation options are into NYC.)

I'm glad you brought up NC because it has a decent sized banking sector but also offers great QoL.
I actually left NYC and took a super-interesting job a bit north of you in Virginia. Homes are affordable, QoL is great.

There is a catch though: there arent all that many other interesting jobs in tech (as there were in NY/SF). The startup scene is tiny. There are few FAANG jobs here though Amazon is supposed to come soon. There are some awesome CS research-type jobs, in govnt labs.

There are lots of interesting consulting jobs to be fair, as well as FAANG SE jobs. There are lots of interesting data-type jobs in Intelligence. There are also tens of thousands of totally dead-end tech jobs where you do nothing all day at government offices. A friend told me he's been waiting two months to get approval to install a pip library on a government machine. Another friend works on ancient systems.

Good QoL - absolutely.

Good home prices - absolutely.

Jobs i'd be passionate about - some, hopefully more coming with remote.

Am I obsessively passionate about the work here? No, i'm mostly enjoying the outdoors.
It's super inside baseball, sorry

Background:

The boost community has managed to lose a large number of very technically proficient people who were tired of dealing with racism/sexism

JeanHeyd came to prominence a few years ago with some stellar open source libraries and gave some pretty good conference talks & joined the c++ committee.

Throughout his continued work in the c++ community, he ran into a lot of... unnecessary, non-technical feedback.

At some point, he got fed up with it all and created this.

Within the c++ community there are people who are known to be particularly toxic, fwiw, and some of this is calling them out specifically.

I think everyone who has attended a committee meeting knows who/what he is talking about.

There's also an additional bit, where he managed a discord server for one of his open source projects. When discussing Black Is Tech, he got racist pushback.

Hopefully this helps add a little bit of context.
I don't think it's too important to understand the details. The tl;dr is that an extraordinary developer, speaker, committee member left the community because he found it to be hostile

That's a fact, and it's one engineers should be reckoning with. Your actions matter.
The New American State
A book about the challenges facing the modern U.S. state and the attempts of today’s rulers to expand the gray area within it for their own or someone else’s benefit.
They are an alternative, but not a substitute for institutional journalism.

News exists to give you an approximate representation of what is happening without having to invest too much effort in actual investigation. It is built on trust. If you have to build trust with each individual journalist you follow a la carte, then that makes the entry barrier to following the news much higher.
Well, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, as they say. It may turn out that the "V" in MVP here necessarily required monetization, for those who see journalism as the search for truth, not the search for clicks, to take the leap of going indie. Certainly if that trend continues we ought to expect larger organization - where solo-indies merge into mini-guilds, and so on, hopefully to the point where these become large organizations comparable to the 'old' media companies before they shifted away from journalism. Certainly Taibbi and Greenwald could be the first "dyad" to collaborate within this alternative media universe, so that might give us a clue of what organizing principles this new world may operate under, with these new incentives.
Blood pressure, bone growth are managed by genetics. Which we (will) have control over soon. So that's hardly a stumbling block.
If you enjoy this sort of thing, you'll probably really enjoy "Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex" [0]. It's quite a fun framing that takes on a lot of the oddities that pop up around sexual dimorphism, mating, child care, etc.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Tatianas-Sex-Advice-All-Creation-eboo...
So many great quotes.

I wonder how the lifespans correlate? Those of the mentioned species I know, the females seem relatively long lived, with in some cases investment in parenting.

Which leads to: Wolf Spiders. [1] These charming ladies are prolific in and around our home and are often seen carrying clusters of babies on their backs. Truly endearing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_spider
"Like-minded individuals" and people who share your citizenship are not the same.

By your logic, liberal silicon valley techies should band together to fire/cancel/censor conservatives who do not share their values. After all, like-minded people need to band together to out-compete the outsiders who think differently right?
Please entertain the possibility for a moment, whether you agree with it or not, that this story was indeed planted by a foreign nation for the specific purpose of manipulating our election. Do you then believe that it is responsible to willfully help spread it and blast it all over every social media site? Aren't you doing the foreign nation's bidding then?

If you do agree there, then where would you draw the line for blocking such information being spread? Is the fact that the reporter at the singular publication in all the the US willing to report on it didn't want their name on it worry you? The fact that the only evidence comes from some random Trump supporting repairman in some random state not worry you? The fact that unreliable (self-exposing to 15yo) people such as Giuliani are attached to the story not worry you? What about our own intelligence services saying that foreign nations have been trying to use said person to manipulate our election?
Thanks for the kind words on my site.

I know the problem, you work at a big company and that constrains your professional network. I worked at Nike and Apple, and when I was there all of my professional (and most of my personal) contacts/friends were also co-workers. Fortunately many of them went on to other companies and worked their way up to hiring authority positions.

My advice is to expand your network outside of the software dev/tech group. Marketing people have been a rich source of work for me. I worked in logistics for a long time so I know managers who move from one place to another running distribution centers, and they have significant pull in those companies.
I think you're part of a minority, though.

You're talking about computers from 20, 20+ years ago and about Raspberry Pi.

It's a personal choice.

You can get a good second hand desktop from 2012-2015 for the price of your Raspberry Pi.
A phrase that comes to mind:

Make Orwell Fiction Again!
Nothing new here. Context switching will drain your brain.