skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally agree with the author, but his timeline is completely wrong. Silicon Valley as an ethos and as a concentration of free-wheeling globally-uniquely-great-at-their-jobs engineers in aggressive, innovative companies has been dead since at least the late 90s.

Naming Musk as a key example of innovation just shows how far we have fallen. Contrast with SGI, Sun, 3dFX, Nvidia, Cisco, maybe Google, etc. Yes, many of these are unglamourous or dead now, but their lives are totally different than the Teslas (heavily reliant on government subsidies), the Ubers (mostly just matchmaking playing chicken with regulations), and so on.
No, most sections could be summarized as "We don't know that Soylent is doing things right therefore it shouldn't be called "healthy"."
Hey thanks! Got this feedback from a couple of other folks as well. The overall digest format has been improved significantly today and you should see better digests tomorrow onwards. Thanks again!
For sure. But I lost weight, a lot of it, by moving more or less the same and eating a lot more "caloric content" (switching from mostly carbs to mostly fat), which many people consider "violating thermodynamics", which is nonsense.

If you don't change the ratios of your macros, and you don't make your expenditure vary much throughout the day, then -- yes, eat less, or move more.
or how about stuff that just can't be, you know, VERIFIED? Unless you take Tucker Carlson at his word and that this proof did exist, he just lost it. Oops.

Greenwald seems to have gone way off the deep end, what the heck happened???
I was on the relational side (I worked for MySQL) when MongoDB first sprung up, and IMHO it was to some extent a knee-jerk reaction.

MongoDB claimed far superior performance for web-applications simply by not persisting data to disk. MongoDB offered one thing that was very useful to web-developers: a good API for storing JSON data directly into the database. Not having transactional semantics was of course a terrible idea once critical data was stored into the databases and the systems started to have crashes, but it worked for small applications and while developing the applications nothing looked amiss.

Since web-developers are not database experts and many did not have experience with deploying large-scale applications, it was of course very appealing to have both performance and simplicity. But as the downsides of not persisting data started to become a real problem, many applications moved away from MongoDB and into other systems that offered transactional capabilities and durability of data. At the same time, MongoDB started to implement transactional support, which of course affected performance, but allowed applications to remain on MongoDB.

All in all, I think the takeaway is that database APIs matter to developers (not really very surprising) and it is important to have a good API to the database, but transactional behavior is important for real applications and it is essential to have that as well.

With JSON being added to PostgreSQL and MySQL, I think that some of that simplicity that MongoDB offered is available in PostgreSQL and MySQL as well. (The API is still an SQL API, but at least you can easily store and retrieve JSON documents directly from the database.)

I think the main problem during that time is that the issues of performance and API was conflated and a general assumption grew that NoSQL also meant high performance, which is not necessarily the case.
Some emails don't even get to the spam folder. Well idk if gmail works like that, but I know some systems do.
I think you'd be surprised at how common this is. Not just for programmers -- it's the norm for executives, marketing people, sales people. Personal connections and professional networks are vastly more effective than spamming resumes out and applying for jobs. It's human nature -- we prefer to deal with people we know, and we trust referrals from people we know.
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Cool thing is, this is not a special property of 1/7. 100 / 7 is 14, with a remainder of 2, therefore the series starts with 14, multiplies by 2, and divides with 100 in each iteration. For instance 10 / 7 is 1, with a remainder of 3, therefore 1/7 is also equal to 0.1+0.03+0.009 etc. And 1/8 is 0.1+0.02+0.004 etc.
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Of course it was censorship. Censorship can be narrowly scoped - in this case, to Fox.
There are lots of opinions about his censored story in this thread. But no actual links to it. Is it published yet? Or are we all just speculating here?
>If the editor concludes that it's a garbage story dropped a few days before the election in an attempt to influence the election, you don't run it and then "let the readers decide who is right".

Occhams razor:

Glen Greenwald is one of the most respected journalists on the planet. the man is a modern day Cronkite. his character is beyond the pale when it comes to accurate journalism so it begs the question: What is Glen reporting that an editor finds so 'garbage' as to risk their entire future career on censoring this man?
Everyone will notice but it may take time to recognise the root cause. We can expect desperate people do desperate things meaning that those with the lucky tickets may not get a break to enjoy it.

Ask Europeans how much fun it is to have civil wars in the neighbourhood.
> you think it's not necessary for books to be transferrable to kids?

Where did I say that? Obviously it is nice to be able to hand things down to one's children. But what I am questioning is whether the envisioned scenario (children of the future being enamored by dad or granddad's old books) is really likely to happen.
This story is specifically being released now to influence the election. Presumably the people who got the email had it for a year, they could have released it earlier. The fact that these emails have no headers and are impossible to verify strengthens the possibility that this is literal disinformation aimed to affect the election.

There are things that are legitimately news now (as in were discovered recently, are now published), this isn’t it.
This breaks my heart for the world, but it increases my respect of Glenn.

Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi are my only two journalists I really seek out and follow. Glenn especially.

I was of the belief that The Intercept was a valid source solely because of Glenn.

I believe Glenn. I will follow Glenn.
I dont even see it as an opinion. I consider it as a fact.

There are possibly trillions dollar worth of revenue around the world relying on Excel. And one reason why other office software couldn't match MS Office. Even if you promise 99% compatibility with Excel, no one wants to risk 1% of messing it up just to save a small amount of money on MS Office. Especially when MS now offer it as subscription which fits most business P&L better than a one off purchase.

And that is a reason why I see a small possibility of MS one day open sourcing parts of Windows.

Unfortunately Excel on Mac isn't as smooth / performant as Excel on Windows.
I am not saying he would pardon Snowden out of morality.
> I'd be skeptical

> When "leaving Earth civilization" becomes conceivably

> it will happen.

You're less skeptical than I am apparently. Leaving the solar system and terraforming planets isn't really comparable to crossing an ocean in a boat. What you describe would be a best case scenario and for now it is pure sci fi.

> forcing the entire world to address some contemporary issues (like overpopulation, for example) might be more difficult than just accelerating the production process that makes space colonization possible (thus solving the problem).

Yeah it might, or it might not, by the time we'll figure it out it'll be way too late to revert. It's the "move fast and break things" mentality, it's fine in software but we already know how it ends up when you apply it to other systems...

We just don't know how fast and how bad it'll get if we continue, you have to be extremely optimistic to think that ignoring the real world, already existing, problems to focus on hypothetical non existing solutions is the way to go. (and we're not even focusing on solutions, we're focusing on shitty half assed money making gimmicks such as electric cars and autonomous vehicles, which aren't solving anything on a global scale)

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/06/SR15...

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/natur...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
Can you be a bit more specific on what you believe to be so important/surprising/relevant about this story that would make an entire journalistic career? What is the story that is not being told, and actively being suppressed? I have been following this quite closely and can't see it.
Sure. By the way, when did you stop beating your wife?
> If you have years or decades of experience you should have a large network of colleagues to get leads and jobs from.

This is where it gets harder to move to a new town as you get older. Companies aren't looking at you as a young hungry dev they can take a chance on. If they want you at all, they probably want a known quantity. Which probably dovetails with your comment about freelance. Contract work tends a bit more toward known quantities, although there are certainly exceptions (some of the places I've added the most to my resume have been 'consulting' roles)
It's generally thought that the demographics of people who don't vote tend to match one party over the other -- poorer, less white, more recently immigrated, less likely to speak English. Registration campaigns also double as get-out-the-vote campaigns, which are thought to affect similar demographics.

And yes, Rock the Vote was thought to have a similarly partisan effect. It didn't face this kind of organized governmental opposition, because Facebook is seen as being far more influential. But RtV did draw criticism from party officials for its efforts.
> they describe certain aspects of reality with some accuracy

What point are you trying to make with this statement?

Most of physics that is well understood and agreed upon has been verified to the limits of the instruments that we can currently create. See, for instance, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200409100338.h... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_special_relativity
I hope they don't suffer the same type of problem that caniuse has had since incorporating the MDN data. In that case, source data sets that were each well-regarded and, particularly in caniuse's case, well-curated on their own became overwhelming and harder to use than before once combined. The slightly different styles for each source and the partial duplication often seem to obscure the information I'm really trying to get to in the search results now. If MDN is now going to be community-led, I hope they manage to find some arrangement where there is still decent curation and not a Wikipedia/SO-style free for all followed by heavy-handed mod over-reaction.
There are more reasons to junk a story than just fact-checking. It could be that the story has already been covered sufficiently. That there is nothing new it. That it is only of interest to a certain group of people who just want to wallow in that same story every day. He hasn't actually published the story yet so nobody knows for sure, but if it's about Hunter Biden then I think it's probably in this category.
This isn’t any just negative news, it’s a PR campaign of epic proportions. I see plenty of legit coverage of Biden gaffes and corporate influence. Media outlets are wising up to publicists’ tactics about getting them to cover things and are making risky editorial decisions about what to run. We’ll see how it plays out.
Exactly. I clicked through because I thought; "oh, shit. I cannot even get work done without two. Sometimes I use three!". I've been had!
You are far too late on this one, sir. It's been thoroughly adopted by both sides of the aisle.
The poster makes no claims that the story is garbage, only that the editor though so.
Perhaps the argument here is that the censorship is not being applied equally to both sides of the political spectrum.

It's more than just this one example. It's basically all of the censorship efforts over the past few months aimed to slow or stop the spread of information (true or not) that might be damaging to Biden. Twitter and Facebook actively flag posts that "fact-checkers" deem to be misinformation. There was the recent high profile case of Hunter Biden stories being actively suppressed.

Can you point to recent examples of misinformed anti-Trump articles being fact-checked by Twitter/Facebook/major news sources? As far as I can tell, those "bombshells" always spread unimpeded like wildfire.
I guess its https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim
This is great news. If peripherals are the same or similar to those in their existing ARM SoC chips, we'd be close to full support on release thanks to the linux-sunxi project efforts[0] and similar efforts in netbsd.

[0]: https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort
I mean using Clickhouse for time-series, of course.
I understand your point on adding a new feature to your already existing Postgres solution.
It's kinda what I do by using MySQL engine and dictionaries with Clickhouse, I assume.
Why would they waste time verifying it when Joe was cleared by two administrations and the intelligence community?

Seems like you’re searching for proof of guilt rather assuming innocence.
I generally take the view that the SJW identity politics plague was born due to nominally left-leaning people striking it rich in SV and wanting some way to feel 'woke' without feeling guilty over all the money they've acquired.

SJW identity politics is left politics made safe for the California startup equity/VC/IPO crowd because it pays utterly no attention to economic inequality at all.
> In what sense? The media has always censored information that can't be verified.

If that was the case, we wouldn't have been involved in any wars in the past few decades.

> Nytimes doesn't publish articles about flat earth theory.

Of course not because lies about "flat earth" doesn't serve their interests. But lies/propaganda about "incubator babies"/nayirah testimony and yellowcake to start wars serves their interests.

Tons of unverified nonsense gets published. And tons of truth gets censored. Media, like the nytimes, are in the business of propaganda. They exist to sell wars and benefit the elite, not to peddle nonsense like "flat earth theory".

If a topic is important (nationally/geopolitically) and it's in a newspaper, you can be sure it's pretty much nonsense. The more respected the news agency, the more likely it is a lie.
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It also has a mobile app and a Firefox addon
I read this and assumed he got heart palpitations from Soylent. The closest I could find was this article https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/04/the-man-w... that mentions that he had heart arrhythmia -- but while developing Soylent early on and _deviating_ from the USDA recommendations (specifically with the amount of potassium). From that he concluded that Soylent should adhere to the USDA recommended values, which it does.
I will reserve judgement until reading the article. Greenwald has certainly had his share of garbage takes, but also can have a quite refreshingly honest perspective.
I'll have to listen to the podcast, but I think you're way off in thinking this kind of story makes careers. Journalists take their credibility very seriously and this story doesn't have it, at least not yet if it ever will.

Going with a story that hasn't been vetted marks a serious journalist as a dupe for the rest of their lives.
Good catch. Currently we only support constant propagation for literals. Here's a working example:

$ semgrep -e "not_exec('somestr)"

will match

foo = "somestr"
not_exec(foo)

Here's a more complete example: https://semgrep.dev/s/ievans:const-python

In your example, we don't propagate exec because it's not seen as a literal -- that's a TODO for sure. See https://github.com/returntocorp/semgrep/issues/1645 for a longer discussion!
Those issues could be addressed in the article. In open debate. That's the way the first amendment works.

There are reasons to not think its purely garbage storage, as many have pointed out. Not to mention a business partner, and someone who was sentenced to jail who has released their gmail account to the public.
The system set up by people ignorant to its effects many many years ago has succeeded in making everything a choice between two factions. It's no longer just guaranteeing you forever get two parties, two candidates, you now also need to join a side individually.

It's silly watching from afar because as is highly likely, both choices are bad so embracing one of them so wholeheartedly just comes across as uninformed and plain mental. Not much more needs to be said on Trump but it also doesn't take a history diploma to know Biden wrote the 1994 "tough on crime, law and order" bill.
You're right that it's not how this works. Media organizations are not interested truth or accuracy of their stories, but simply how many ads and subscriptions the stories can sell. And that's not the say they are motivated by greed - even worse, they are often motivated by missionary-like zeal to promote a cause. So of course it would follow that they have no interest in publishing anything disagreeable to their readership.

However, Greenwald's argument definitely should be how it works if a media organization cares about truth and open debate. In this case, it seems very hard to believe that a story -- written by a credible journalist, with a long track record, who literally founded the organization -- was garbage.

I think Glenn hoped to create a media entity that regarded truth as the measure of merit of a story vs. how well it promoted a cause and ads/subscriptions. Now that the experiment has failed so obviously, good for him for moving on.
I can assure you it's certainly an ASIC, and so was the Unleashed. Their very early development version from ~2017 was an FPGA costing about $3-4K.

Qemu's RISC-V emulation is excellent and if you have a fast CPU it's a reasonable enough development environment.
This is an oversimplification. There's a difference between rocking someone else's boat and rocking the one you're riding on.
What matters is whether the story is true or not, not who planted it. If China digs out more on Trump taxes or business dealings, I'd want to see that, as well.
The authenticity of the underlying evidence matters at least as much as the source.

No one has denied the underlying documents' authenticity to my knowledge.
Don't many countries (such as France) actually have such a mandate? From my understanding it does work fairly well. That being said, even if you don't entirely stop, there should at the very least be a higher bar for fact checking, not a lower one. This story doesn't even pass the normal level of fact checking done by almost every single publication in the US.
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For anyone unfamiliar: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping...
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That was the only reason I went there. There podcast also went off the deep end over the past few months and has been terrible I used to love it and listen to it regularly since 2016ish.
Who determined it was misinformation? Nobody on the Biden campaign has said that the emails are false. The media has just decided that it's "Russian misinformation", which is increasingly looking more like a justification for not investigating valid news that may paint their preferred candidate in a badl ight.
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> One thing we continually hear is that the familiarity, trust, ecosystem, maturity, etc. that folks love about Postgres is a huge boon and one deciding factor for their adoption of TimescaleDB.

Yeah, I think this is huge, I also personally like that you get the extensibility of Postgres as well. Right now custom table access methods are still "cooking" but I think being able to combine a true postgres-native columnar access method with Timescale's benefits would be a game changer. There's also zheap which is still being worked on but if/when it lands postgres will be even better at OLTP workloads and possibly an even better base for Timescale to stand on.

> Just to clarify: those benchmarks about InfluxDB vs. TimescaleDB were fully redone just 2 months ago (August 2020) with the latest versions of both, so should be quite up-to-date. In fact, since the ~year since our last benchmarking, TimescaleDB's performance _relative to InfluxDB_ only significantly increased.

That's fantastic to hear -- I am already sold on Timescale since to get close to a purpose-built tool with a solution built on top of a more general platform is already very impressive, but I will be re-reading the article closely to get more details on the exact trade-offs.
To me, it's the fact that Joe Biden didn't put a stop to this immediately. Regardless of the emails, Hunter Biden is/was a drug addict with no skills, being paid upwards of $50,000/month to be on a Board of Directors of a known corrupt company.

What skill does he possess that is worth $600,000? The only thing that makes sense is his connection to Joe Biden. It's obvious they were paying him money to be on the board because of his connection to Joe Biden, and Joe Biden should have put a stop to it. That's the crux of the issue to me. The fact that the media is forming a wall of silence around this issue really does show the vast biases they have.

This doesn't mean Trump isn't corrupt, by the way, which he is and I believe he is unfit to be president and nothing about the laptop or these emails stopped me from voting for Biden. But every tiny issue with Trump is magnified and overanalyzed by the media, but this rather big issue on Biden is swept under the rug. The media is just as corrupt and biased but the only losers are we the people.
if that meant that we had to force the slate clean and start over with proper journalistic standards, i'd kind of be okay with that. if it also means that we could eliminate network talking heads opinion shows from being listed under a News banner, i'd be even more okay with it.
Supposedly it gets better when you're used to fast, which actually might be a reason to try it ?
There was a time when journalists cared about the truth, and what the truth requires is the disclosure of facts and objectivity. The proper way to publish this is to describe the evidence, and the reasons as to why the evidence may be falsified, and do continual reporting as the story develops to keep the public informed how likely or not the information is false.

The alternative of suppressing it based upon supposition and a "gut check" says very, very clearly: we don't trust the public to make up their minds, or, worse, we think this might be true but it would run counter to our interests if people knew about it. Saying something like this is "misinformation by the Russians" when it is not denied nor has evidence been presented as such is what we used to call "believing in conspiracy theories." Sometimes conspiracy theories are true, and the facts prove them. But journalists shouldn't make publishing decisions based upon conspiracy theories without evidence supporting those theories.

In any case, both of those behaviors run counter to the principles of journalism, which is predicated on the idea that preferring to share imperfect information, accurately described, is ultimately what leads to an informed citizenry, even if some of that information turns out to be misleading or wrong in the end.