skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> rather that you're failing to empathize with others

Spot on, I don't get it.

> It is extremely useful to be able to identify someone interesting in a crowd/party, and it is optimal to spend the majority of your time with people who interest you.

The latter part of the sentence, sure, the former part, no. Having a fancy phone/expensive says precisely zero to me about someone's capacity to be interesting.

> there are many symbols and flags one might be interested in...

And with all that, you've just embedded my sense of bafflement! I have little and the things I care about are ephemeral but not tangible. I guess I'll have to thank you for trying but must concede defeat.
`jq` started to click for me after watching this introductory video[1] closely and playing with some examples as I went.

The slides are linked in the video description and at [2]. You'll need them because unfortunately the video is produced in such a way that the speaker video window often obscures important parts of his presentation.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZTibHotSew

[2] https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/btiernay/jq-json-like-a-bo...
One of the main reasons https://postgresql.conf exists is precisely to provide as much information as possible to understand how to tune PostgreSQL's configuration. If generating a config would be as simple as filling in a form, this wouldn't make sense.

It's tempting to think it may be a good starting point. Unfortunately, it might as well be a bad starting point: form-based configurations may be totally counter-productive. For instance, max_connections is a parameter that may cause outages or very bad performance if not properly configured. And its value depends, if anything, on having or not a connection pool. work_mem heavily depends on the types of queries that you run. Plus I disagree with some of the other choices made by pgtune's default behaviour.

All in all, I'd recommend to do a deeper study of the parameters, or seek some expert help, specially for production environments.

Disclaimer: I'm part of the team behind postgresql.conf
MDPI is suggesting to its authors that they become spammers
Honestly, this sounds like it could be ergot poisoning. It's about the right era -- the last major outbreak of ergot poisoning was in 1926.

Ergot is a type of fungus that infects rye and other grains, and has a ton of negative health effects, especially if consumed for a long period of time. However, acute ingestion leads to powerful hallucinations. Lysergic acid is the precursor for a ton of ergoline alkaloids, and of course, LSD.

All their descriptions sound an awful lot like a mushroom or acid trip.

tl;dr: IMO they were probably high on wacky loaf.
Whoa, matlab has vhdl? I never knew, that's cool.
Most criminals are criminals because of the circumstances.
Circumstances can be improved but they'd rather spend 5.5 billion (the one after the million) € on Eurofighters than make away with poverty.

We could go back and forth and it would change nothing at all because no one from the EC will see it and as an EU citizen I can't change the resolution, because the EP can't do anything about it.

And just because there are "criminals" doesn't mean that I have to live behind steel bars in my house and let every letter be seen by some policeman before I read it.
We're also not talking about criminals, we're talking about some guy who's country was attacked, maybe his family killed. Who knows what his motives were? I don't.
US, EU, Russia, Turkey all waged a proxy war in Syria.
If not for that war maybe he would not had done what he did.
If not for 9/11 there would be no ISIS.

Why does the US have to plunder other countries? Instigate wars in other countries? If anything we should send to refugees to the US because they're to blame for it all.
Something I’ve always wondered about ANC and never been able to find an answer to. I have Airpods Pro, with ANC, and since iOS 14 my phone displays a safe heating indicator with the dB hitting my ears from the pods. This level does not change when ANC is activated, but intuitively I’d assumed that it produces extra noise.

Does ANC actually cause destructive interference, meaning no noise is in fact reaching my ears?
Looking at political decisions as being as simple as just going with yea/nay opinion polls is overly simplistic. Those polls don't distinguish between voters who really care about an issue and hardly care about an issue. They don't distinguish between undecided voters and card carrying party members. Plus you also have to account for the almost obligatory attack by the opposition that somebody legalizing drugs is involved with them and/or obsessed with trivial matters.
> If I was iSH developer and I wanted to fuck with Apple I would make iSH run in WASM

Seems Apple is on the WASM-banning track already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25028733
Of course it does, filters like scale, crop, pad etc come to mind
You said face unlock provides security against "the state". But biometric authentication doesn't provide protection against the state, because the state can legally and physically force you to biometrically authenticate to your phone.

Then you said you can protect against this by activating a password. But that's not biometrics, that's a password. The biometrics aren't helping, the only thing providing security against the state is the password.
This fact doesn’t change the price of what he has been proposing. Also, I wasn’t only referring to health care. He has a lot of ideas. Free college, guaranteed free housing for all, medical debt and student debt forgiveness for all, free child care for all, increased social security, etc.
Digital Nomads Did Not Prepare for This
Does it also clean induatrial pollutants most people smear throughout their spaces?
GPLv2 vs. v3 seems to be more a matter of inertia. Yes, a few have concerns about the TiVo-ization language. But a lot of it is that projects like Linux were already under GPLv2 and Linus wasn't interested in changing--and, absent copyright assignment, doing so would have been at least somewhat controversial and would necessarily rely on legal theories not everyone would have been on board with.
Legislation in most countries does not come from elected officials, it typically is drafted up by lawyers. That's not a good argument. With the commission a lot of what ends up on the proposals is lobbied by citizens and it's the MEP that vote on it before becoming law who are elected.

I vote liberal parties in my country and that has done jack shit to prevent shitty laws to be passed because the majority seems to be electing the types of people who absolutely adore surveillance.
Looks good! I submitted an open source project that I'd been working on.

One suggestion would be to allow other OAuth providers such as Google / Github rather than just Facebook for the signup.
The thread is talking about VCs though.
Sorry for the confusion. As pointed downthread, the idea is to provide help and information about postgresql.conf parameters.

This is important feedback for us. We will fix this landing page soon to include a search box, like search engines landing page, just for parameters.

There's also a significant new version coming soon, with capabilities to manage postgresql.conf configurations. Stay tuned. Hope that would become clearer.

Disclaimer: I'm part of the team behind postgresql.conf
The EU is worse than any terrorist organization. GDPR, Upload Filter, Encryption Ban, etc... United States shouldn't rescue them from soviet union in WW2 and let it fail and be completely destroyed by the soviets.
Sorry for the very late response...

> they use a 3rd degree poly to remove the noise it seems... not to fit very well

They are not trying to fit the noise, they are trying to fit the hidden smooth signal that if hidden by the noise. In some cases it is difficult to make a formula for the real signal, so you can approximate it locally with a polynomial.

The idea is that after you subtract the smooth part, you get only the noise. So you can calculate the expected noise level.

And if the "noise" has a big peak, you can guess there is something strange, like a big absorption line.

See also my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24985680
> Most Americans are just brained spendathon morons with money. Look at the money people donate to streamers!

I don't agree with this statement.

What you and I see are those with the means to do this. I knew quite a few techie types who used to spend fairly enormous amounts on strippers.

However, the system itself is rigged against those who are barely scraping by. Here's my anecdote from the system:

I had a car seized over a single $44 parking ticket (parked longer than 3 days at the commuter train station terminal--which you can exceed by being a couple hours late after the weekend). Once it was towed (instant $200 fee tacked on) and in storage for a couple days, the fees were worth more than the car!

And they auctioned the car before the time to contest the ticket had even expired. I would have had to cough up several hundred dollars that I would not get back just to contest the ticket. "Innocent until proven broke."

If your institutional superiors yank your slave chain and you have the temerity to not show up immediately and say "Yes, massah!"--you will get the whip.

As someone in tech, this was just stupidly annoying and I'm probably going to save money--my insurance went down by almost the value of the car.

However, they swept almost thirty cars with mine. And were laughing about it.

At least one (I would actually estimate probably about half) of those belongs to someone who can't afford to lose that car but can't afford to get it back now that its been towed.

I can absorb losing a 25 year old car. Most people driving one cannot.

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
> We expect privacy in "unencrypted" phone calls, but seem happy that law enforcement can eavesdrop on 4G when they have to.

Don't assume that "we" are happy about that. You might be; others are not.

Unbreakable encryption should be available to everyone, and straightforward for everyone to use, and used by default rather than only for "sensitive" information. Unbreakable encryption should be so widely used that the thought never even occurs to anyone to associate it with wrongdoing. Communication using unbreakable encryption should simply be "communication".
We are not talking about human habitats that are supposed to be transitable by design. We are talking about lockers within this habitat, that remain secure even if the house is burning, because you don't want thieves who arrive before the firedepartment to have access to your guns. It's a civil obligation.

"really locked" is using a wholy misused modifier. Neither are we talking about royal priviliges, nor the distinction to virtualized fantasy. The necessary capability of encryptian is effectivity. The effectivity of regular locks is indeed a matter of concern in the security industry to begin with, as lock picking sessions at Defcon make clear. But, if the fireman's axe shreds the frontdoor, at least there will be no denying that you have been literally hacked.
I think a lot of this depends on where your political position is, what is elected in your country and how the the EU is currently pointing. For instance for me as an Austrian citizen my country is significantly more leaning towards surveillance that I'm more worried about what we would be doing if we were not protected by the EU lawmaking process getting a lot more scrutiny and visibility.
Zig doesn't prevent memory errors, or data races at compile time, but Zig does handle undefined behavior better than C/C++, and has options instead of nulls. So you get some sized step in the right direction on correctness, without adding the complexity of a borrow checker. Zig compiles faster, Rust is more mature of an ecosystem. Zig is a simpler language, Rust is featureful/more complex.
Wow. Rest in peace, Mr. Trebek.

I can thank Alex Trebek for inspiring the first ever computer program I made and actually distributed - a terrible "Jeopardy" game. Made it myself in Java (that I learned entirely from a paper book), then tried to "convert" the resulting JAR to an EXE using some weird converter, then burned the somewhat mangled result onto a bunch of DVD-Rs and gave them out. One of the most difficult parts of the "programming" process was copying and pasting the same few lines around the whole program, because I didn't yet fully understand scope and variables, hah.
> Businesses tend to require it for ease of processing or because it's legitimate and secure.

No. The prevalence of cars being bought with stolen cash as a down payment is so small as to negligible.

That might be some of the reasons they claim to do it, but the reality is simple: because it makes them more money. Kickbacks (sorry, "commissions") from financing companies, or the interest earned on in-house financing is the motivator.
I'm generally curious and somewhat ignorant on this subject. I would appreciate if you could explain why it is irrelevant.
You bring up a good point, they could consume all the fish. But if we can't regulate them, WE will consume all the fish. We don't need to consume all the fish.
Those 3rd party studies seem like a pretty big joke

>"The test unit was installed in the center of the test chamber with a blade height of 93” from the floor.
The test chamber measured 10' x 10' x 10' (3m x 3m x 3m) and a microbial suspension was aspirated
into the chamber. Air samples were taken from the test chamber once the unit was turned on, and then
at client specified intervals (0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 45, 60, 90 and 120 minutes) over a period of 2 hours and
then plated. "

https://www.bigassfans.com/docs/clean-air/104380072COL-010-i...

A small, sealed chamber were particulates were sprayed into the air once? Test that thing in a restaurant or a hair salon with a dozen people continuously interacting in it and then test the quality of the air
Hardcode the version and it will never update.

Otherwise you can (and should) review the update manually or using automated tools.
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Third parties eyeing and storing your private communication maybe?
The court warrant sounds like it's a good idea, and don't most other things work that way too? Actually End-to-end encryption isn't that different.

It so happens that there's no point in taking out a warrant against the man-in-the-middle, because he has no access to begin with.

You'll have to get a warrant against one of the ends.

What these proposals would end up doing is to force people to weaken protocols and start spying as a man-in-the-middle, just so that they can be targeted by a warrant.

This is just a little bit silly, I feel; and doesn't really help anyone. I don't think that authorities realize that that is what they're asking for. Usually when it gets explained to them, sooner or later they relent. And then a few years later someone replaces them, and it happens all over again.
> The struggle is to not lose the same ability (targeted eavesdropping after court orders) when people switch to e2e from phone calls.

But they haven't. They can physically install a listening device at the location in the warrant and thereby record any conversations you make from there. That gives them the same capability they historically had with landlines.
"Carefully chosen undefined behavior. For example, in Zig both signed and unsigned integers have undefined behavior on overflow, contrasted to only signed integers in C. This facilitates optimizations that are not available in C. "

Whoa, whoa, whoa. UB on unsigned!? Best of luck.
Apart from online personal information (which is still available to governments , so not private) they don't hold high free speech standards as the US does. I dont think there's a perception that EU is the pinnacle of human rights protections.
Thank you for the feedback, we take it seriously.

There's an upcoming new version that will come with something similar to what you say: some "guide" on which parameters to tune, classified by categories, and with varying level of "expertise" (basic, medium, advanced). With specific guidance for those set of parameters.

Would that be useful to you?
I feel it must be similar to owning a private rail line.
Getting friends: Your friend, by default
Most software developers in HN are not in it only for the money.

Software is an essential part of our modern life: transport, communication, manufacture, finance, etc. depend on software.

At least in those areas, we need reliable software and we need device owners to have control over their devices. We need to have a good software infrastructure if we want to progress as a species.

The current software landscape is bad, and Apple is actively trying to make it worse.

If Apple made game consoles, it would be OK, because game consoles are not essential to our society, but smartphones have become essential to our personal lives.
Yeah, sucks. H.264 is usually crap for editing though and transcoding to a intra-frame codec like CineForm is a pretty damn near lossless operation.
RDS takes care of 1/3 to 1/2 of the configurations, particularly around hardware related options. However, since postgres uses MVCC, it has a lot of tuning options around autovacuum and replication that impact performance. This is even more true if you have access patterns that don't take into account postgres' MVCC (are you updating 10%+ of large tables daily, triggering autovacuums?) but which would be fine with mysql
If your connection can be tapped it is not end-to-end encrypted, obviously. If it is possible for anyone to tap into your communication it is not encrypted (properly).
What you are saying makes no sense. Either the channel is encrypted and safe from being listened in on or it is not. You cannot have both.
It wouldn't be an encryption ban, but a ban on operating a platform that enables E2EE messaging.

Similarly in most places you already cannot be an ISP or VPN provider without following some reporting requirements. And there's no simple way for criminals to get mainstream quality networking services that don't follow regulations.

I don't agree with the ban, but I do think it would certainly hurt many classes criminals. I'd say it's generally a pretty bad strategy to oppose such policies by denying the supposed effect on criminals. All kinds of freedoms benefit some criminals.
This is something that should definitely be discussed a lot more.
And in defining this new relationship we should also define the responsibilities of the parties. Like for example who is responsible for recycling. I believe such a relationship is fine as long as it is not confused with traditional ownership.
Apple does the same thing with the ECG feature - it’s frustratingly disabled on my Apple Watch for regulatory reasons based on region.
I remember this! We used to call it “giving a dodgy” as in “dodgy (prank) phone call”! It’s hilarious thinking back to the sentence “dodgy is when ye get in and al come roond” 20 years later!
Here's a music video I made in resolve and posted to YouTube yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BvzlSGGRBU

I'm still a novice at Resolve, but I've seen enough to know that it's insanely powerful. I just wish I would have known I'd get into this 4k video stuff when I bought my computer. I have the newest 13" MacBook Pro, and it can just barely render out a video like this. Lots of stuttering, crashing, etc.

I wonder if I should get an external GPU or if I'd be better off just buying a different computer altogether.
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I recall Toyota saying they'd have solid state batteries ready for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Two swings and misses in one statement.

It is true that a big breakthrough could occur in solid state batteries to close the gap or leapfrog Tesla's plans, but it may turn into the various RAM alternatives like MRAM and the like: they just couldn't compete with a constantly improving technology with billions behind it making steady incremental improvement.
I'm looking for people who want to partner on side projects.

For the last year or so, I've been trying to grow my business almost entirely by doing partnerships with people who were looking for revenue generating side projects. So I love this. And also I've learned a lot about people who are doing side projects.

One of the things that I think makes a side project work financially is having two impulses that are maybe really just the same thing.

One impulse is to launch very early. People have all sorts of ways of explaining what this means, things like "Launch when you're still embarrassed."

But I think the better way to look at it is to have a single "job to be done" milestone and launch as soon as you are doing that job. I mean immediately. You can add billing later. You can tweak the design later. You can add a more compelling answer to a different "job to be done" later.

The reason is that you'll be more motivated once there is someone using your tool.

The other impulse starts earlier which is to filter your ideas by whether you have access to early users. Most people with the impulse to start side projects have lots of ideas. So throwing one idea into the trash because you don't already know someone who would pay for it is no great loss. You'll have another idea shortly.

These two impulses are maybe just the YC motto: "Make something people want."

The thing that then let me find a few side-project-people to partner with was that a lot of them are really just looking for the joy of building and maybe don't want to do that work of filtering or finding customers. So I've been able to talk to someone about the world of things they want to do and then filter it down to the things where I think I might be able to plug in distribution and revenue. Basically, I ask myself, can I grow this to $5-10k in revenue inside of three months. If the answer is at least probably, then that's a good idea. I call these bets singles. They are low risk, with good average payoff and we've managed to connect on about half of them.

Sometimes too, I'll have some immediate need too where I can fund the early development and then we can own the project 50/50 afterward. (50/50 is it's own whole philosophical tangent which basically boils down to not knowing at the start who is going to provide the key value that puts a project over the top and so it's better just to optimize for making it easy to start and launch projects).

I'm just starting to talk publicly about this model so I'm not sure if it makes sense yet. I'm not claiming it's optimal entrepreneurship, but so far I like the tradeoffs of working with partners over employees and then also optimizing for things that are useful over things that might IPO.

I'd be really keen to talk to people about this model, either to actually partner or just to explain how you might adopt it yourself. My email is in my profile.
Sorry, but this is nonsense. Possessing cryptography does not imply the boogeyman will, as a consequence, gain the ability to overthrow the system. On the other hand, there's very concrete evidence governments are the boogeymen.
Next: Law to requires all citizens record every conversation they have for government storage
You can tattoo an encrypyion algorithm. Someone did that a long time ago with RSA: http://www.geekytattoos.com/illegal-tattoos-rsa-tattoos/
If this works, it seems like a short-term substitute for retrofitting buildings with proper fresh air ventilation systems.
Agreed, decision maker seems like a good stand in. A good decision maker is able to take, as you say, people whose

>skills are fragmented into so many specialties.

And successfully organize those people into a functioning unit to accomplish a goal.
Grabbing my popcorn to watch as the apple sympathizing crowd comes up with more excuses