skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My post is about InfluxDB IOx, which is the project this thread is about. You're correct about InfluxDB having HA and clustering under a closed source enterprise license. If you read the post, I even mention this as a shortcoming of the project. One which we're hoping to rectify with InfluxDB IOx.

So some parts of Timescale are under actual Apache 2 and some parts are under a proprietary source available license. I'm not sure what the LOC of which is which, or how it's actually organized in your repo. I'll leave it up to your potential users to try to figure out which and disentangle what parts are actually open.

As I recall, AWS very publicly forked Elastic because of this very same type of confusion. The difference is that if AWS were going to fork your project, they'd just fork Postgres, which is the real open source software that you're benefitting from.

If I were building an developer focused analytics, monitoring, or data analysis product, I wouldn't do it on top of Timescale because some parts of your codebase most definitely prevent that through your license. But that's me.
M1 Macs Not Compatible with EGPUs
You caught me! I was actually employed by George Soros and Hillary Clinton to infiltrate the election process, send Trump voters home, and win the whole thing for Biden.

1. We're all volunteers. And human.

2. I've asked precisely zero people wearing MAGA hats to remove them. So much for your crack legal theory about violations of California election law.

3. The one time I've asked someone to remove campaign material in the several years I've done this was when someone was, unluckily and completely by accident, throwing a Biden victory party literally right next door to the polling place.

Kindly go troll elsewhere.
For the record, my gf finds your cause hilarious and pandering at best ;)

My "cause"? I don't know what that is supposed to mean.
I like slim Linux machines and I several times considered to remove or at least disable accountservice. I has never been clear to me why you need such service as long as /etc/passwd is world readable. So from this article I learn

* calling mount during installation(?) when there is no user. Makes no sense to have the daemon running later

* providing a user icon. Exactly the type of functionality I like to throw out

* providing a user specific language setting. I can see that this is useful for some users

So how is dropping privileges done correctly to avoid getting killed by the user? Running as another user is one way, but I guess that is not always feasible if you want the daemon provide services for the user. On the other hand accountservice is there for multiple (human) users. So as which of them is it running? Not at a machine right now...
Whilst this is high risk for a flamewaresque HN policy violation I'm going to attempt a response.

When a very important email never arrived I suddenly realised I hadn't been receiving email for two days. Jumping onto the migadu site I found a brand new UI with all my regexes gone and my email ingestion broken. So I patch it up quickly and send a support ticket.

In short the response to the ticket was: "we had a storage layer failure [...] we could not serve all the requests [...] The catchalls and aliases have been a consequence - hence no announcement" (announcement is a reference to me asking why I wasn't emailed to tell me).

Unfortunate things happen, I get it. However. When they do, notifying clients should be a high priority.

Combine that with some previous and subsequent tickets that were closed without resolution and I have a pattern of behaviour that is completely absurd for the provider of a vital service.

The account that given in your post is at odds with what I received from the support team - this is even more evidence to me that migadu is not the right company to be responsible for my mail.

I also feel its important to highlight your claim "we have never had an outage where mail was lost". When an email responds to a sender indicating that a user does not exist the result is the email being deleted. Many terrible systems in business do this silently. The fact that migadu allowed this failure mode without a mitigation (and in your example, deliberately) is assuredly mail loss. What else could be done? It could be rejected but still saved (bulk disk writes with simple metadata - anything) so that intended receivers can be notified which senders now think they don't exist.
What's the difference nowadays?

The vast majority of people need a social media, word editor, reminder list, chat machine.
I did not vote for Trump in 2016. Yes, for the past few months I have become a Trump supporter, ever since the fake impeachment attempt, I have supported the president. Supporting Trump for a few months after not supporting him for years is hardly some great evidence that I'm lying.

EDIT: Oh look downvotes at me explaining my very plausible change of heart on trump. Apparently HN knows my ballot better than me!
Why do you think that jobs no longer require skill? Most startup interviews are 100% based on merit. I have worked at 2 startups where we have people writing code that never finished a CS degree and they where some of the most valuable members of the team.

I am not telling you to smile and be happy. I was just trying to understand your thoughts in your comment. At one point in my life my wife and I had our cars repossessed and were a month from being on the street. I had a job for 9 months where I drove 300 miles a day to get to because we lived so far away (with family) and it was the job I could get that paid the bills for my family. We all do what we have to do. The world is not fair.
> The implication of working coronavirus vaccine by end of October was that it would be available for use (you can find quotes from the Trump administration saying they were working on distribution of hundreds of millions of doses by the end of the month), not that there would be a preliminary report from a still ongoing trial indicating that the vaccine works.

Trump said there would be news of a vaccine. Obviously, it won't be available by November. If you listened to Trump or Pence, you'd know that the US arranged for a working vaccine to be delivered by December or January, not November.

> The question was whether it led to improper behavior on the part of Joe Biden. That email proves nothing. It's entirely plausible that Hunter Biden got this guy an invite to some social function where shook hands with the Vice President.

And indeed, that would actually make Joe Biden's claim that he had no involvement with his son's business dealings a lie. Biden could have been honest and said, I met a few of my son's friends but we never discussed business. However, he didn't. He unequivocally stated that he had absolutely no knowledge of his son's business dealings and had no interaction with anyone from Burisima. That is a lie.

> The prosecutor was fired for not investigating the company that hired Hunter Biden.

Then why did the new prosecutor immediately drop charges and investigations against Burisima? if this was the reason he was fired and replaced, shouldn't the new prosecutor then take up the charges?

Sorry for the late reply. Hacker News has partially shadow banned me for not toeing the party line.
Would anyone happen to have an ELI5 of how the M1 chip achieves greater power efficiency?
That post quotes Ian and refers to him in the third person -- I'm pretty sure it's someone else summarizing the situation. Both the Reddit user and Ian (in the quoted text) appear to be taking a level-headed approach to the situation, though.
This time it is different. People really are doing their jobs without ever visiting the office. They may not readily shift back.

As for San Francisco, some would argue that the "end of San Francisco" already occurred because of the tech industry. People are obsessed with the idea that tech will leave town because they preferred the way it was before.
I am curious - my 2017 12" MB is an absolutely awesome machine (fast enough for casual use and light development while absolutely quiet and lightweight), but 30+ degree summer day is enough for it to get so close to it's thermal envelope that it throttles down to cca 1 GHz during normal (browser) use soon.

So, the sustained performance might make quite a difference for pro use.
Hah, good to know. However, unless you are talking to people from the same domain, it's usually a better approach to spell out things instead of relying on terminology. Concepts and ideas translate much better across domains than terminology.
Seems like Apple is relying on MacOS's (arguably good) memory compression and fast ssd swap performance to get high margins from the 8gb ram while still not cripping regular users' light workloads.
Maybe or maybe not. Taking multivitamins with iron as a man can be harmful so be careful.

I think a better idea than taking an all-in-one is taking only what your body needs. If have a stable diet and you know what you're really putting in your mouth, it shouldn't be difficult to know what supplements are good for you.

I take vitamins B, C, D and K and magnesium and zinc. I have never left better than now. I don't need coffee anymore to have energy throughout the day, I just feel good.
I really don't follow. It's OK for the other commenter to want to live in Washington state; it's OK for you to want to live in Silicon Valley; it's OK for me not to want to live in the USA.

We each care about where we live, and we each have different preferences: that's OK.
What would you do in that situation if it were you. I would personally choose to fail and not be apart of a system that does this, but it sounds like you embrace it?
Buck up, he's got two politically active children! Maybe its genetic?
If the survey results is true: what's the point of "required intake per day" of nutrition?

Whether you reach the requirements or not doesn't affect your health, then it's not "required".
Wonderful write-up, great step by step descripting and some more insights on the underlying problems. There should me more write-ups structured like this!
> A government could obviously do it. A medium-sized corporation? Not likely.

A medium-sized corporation can be an Internet provider. Or have a deal with one.

> Those other governments can just outlaw encryption then entirely.

If the EU criminalizes encryption, people living in those other countries wouldn't be able to use private communications (to hide from their oppressive governments) in the popular chat apps which usually target US and EU markets. Whether their governments outlaw encryption or not.
dang has already mentioned the original Arc forum but I'd be remiss not to mention Anarki[0], the public fork. It's diverged quite a bit from Hacker News though so don't expect feature parity.

[0]https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
Thanks for posting this. Startup DevOps with 24/7 on call is brutal, especially if you're a very early employee.
From the article:

Buggy kernel code will crash your machine. The kernel is not protected from a buggy kernel module. I think people assumed that this is just how things are; that's the price to do kernel programming. eBPF changed this dogma. It brought safety to kernel programming.

"It brought safety to kernel programming" , if you use eBPF and don't expose bugs in the parser, or checking or validation systems. (These have already happened).
There are plenty of things that people do online without really understanding how it works, but they still do it.

Online voting could be done securely over the network and could be authenticated with a certificate associated with one's voter registration that's anonymized in a way that doesn't reveal any information about the voter other than whether they have already voted.

Also, it can be an option in addition to voting in person or by mail (like you can do now with taxes).
It’s “atypical” because it’s a 30+ year old superseded model and there are more efficient designs available. KLM, a flag carrier, was flying them up until just a few years ago. If it’s certified for carrying passengers, it’s certified. There are no special concessions made to airworthiness regulations for aircraft that sell few in number.

The MD-11 has been certified for air transport since it was introduced, was flying in revenue service until 2014, and as far as I know, that certification has never been revoked.
You are right, and it is a very good thing they do, but all that information is not something that at least as significant minority of students are going to know ahead of time. For those students, there is perceived stigma going to the administration for help, and that prevents people from asking for it, even if that perception is not reality.

Why make people ask for accommodations when we can just setup the infrastructure to make it unnecessary to begin with, at least in a wide variety of cases.
Show HN: Prinvoice – End-to-end encrypted invoicing
Hey all, Prinvoice is a simple way to create and track invoices. You — and only you — have access to your own invoices.

https://prinvoice.com

Invoices are encrypted locally using your password, before being sent to the server for storage (thanks to Userbase, a super simple tool to add user accounts and persistence to a static site https://userbase.com).

The goal with Prinvoice is two-fold:

1) Get a feeler for how much interest there is in end-to-end encrypted financial management software.

2) Demonstrate a sample app that uses Userbase for auth and storage (I'm also a Userbase dev). A kicker, if you check the dev console in the app, you'll see SQL statements in action.

Screenshots + source code on github: https://github.com/j-berman/prinvoice

Bonus, you can download the app and use it as a native desktop app: https://github.com/j-berman/prinvoice#download-and-run-the-a...
> One recent estimate suggests a 50th percentile OnlyFans performer takes home a mere $43 a month.

I worked for a large cam site (on the tech side of things) a while back and this is something I wish people realized. There really are a some models bringing in tens of thousands of dollars a month, but they are few and far between. Often times these girls (I say girls because I never saw a single male performer come close to that amount) were either super niche or mildly famous before joining the site and in either case they treated camming like a full time job.

I've seen people talk about girls on OF making hundreds of thousands of dollars a month and while I'm sure some are, I wish people would understand how few are actually making that amount. In the same way that it's possible to "move to Hollywood and get discovered while working tables", it's technically possible, but it requires a lot of work and even more luck. Also, similar to freelancing sites, you're competing with (and being undercut by) people from around the world. A huge number of the women on our site were from South America or Eastern Europe earning what would be below average wages in the US, but more than enough for them to live off of.

Personally, I have zero problem sex work (clearly, based on my work history), but we still live in a time where many people do. I just want people to be aware of what they are getting themselves into. What goes on the internet stays there forever and you are extremely unlikely to make enough money on these sites to never have to work again. I doubt many people on here are planning on getting into sex work, but I think it needs to more publicized how much of pipe dream "earning $10000 a week" is on these sites.
No Putin doesn't. But much of the facebook astroturfing was vaguely similar. Just cause it's agitprop doesn't mean it's wrong :D.
RStudio, interrogating a ~0.5 billion record dataset. A 192G Ram machine.
> Im struggling to see how you imagine a crackdown on voluntary sex work would make that better, except as a way of draining more resources from everyone (itself making more people starve) to guarantee that fewer people could make a living in voluntary exchange (making even more people starve.)

I'm "struggling to see" how you interpreted my post this way.

As long as we're both struggling here, please explain how sex work doesn't entail massively imbalanced power relations. I wasn't just talking about OnlyFans: the post I responded to says "sex work is stigmatized way more than it should be". But even if we're only talking about the internet, I think you're extremely naive if you think physical separation means there's no coercive power involved. The money comes from somewhere. And don't forget, there's a middleman between the performers and the audience.

> Sure, I think with genuinely left policies, there's be less people who felt that sex work that lots of people not doing it find unacceptably degrading was a net win, and so fewer people choosing to voluntarily engage in that; capitalism naturally is economically coercive that way. But there's nothing particular about sex work here, fewer people would accept agricultural field work at current wages, absent economic coercion, too. The fix for the problems capitalism creates index work has everything to do with capitalism and very little to do with sex work.

I can't parse this. I don't claim to know how to solve this problem or "the problems of capitalism".

I think that general revulsion toward capitalism has very little to do with Marx and much more to do with unfairness (perceived and real), cutthroat competition that seems to reward dishonesty, the dispossession of the losers in that competition, and crass materialism. To me, all of those things clearly apply here.
As pointed out earlier, Microsoft has really butchered the proper nouns of their offerings.

If you read a dozen blogs posts about the background for the decisions and are able to hold all that information in your head while you need to make a decision, it is possible to attain clarity for a few moments. But it is not fun.

On the plus side, going back to versioning .Net should help for the next few years to come.
Permanence, as in friendship after the fact. And some people might mistaken transactional intimacy for real friendship.
There was a much better (based on more rigorous studies) anti-vitamin piece back in 2014 that made the internet rounds and I think Dr. Rhonda Patrick had a great rebuttal of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0u8UdZeOhc&feature=emb_titl...
Well, it IS different to a rebadged Cortex big.LITTLE solution. They use the architecture but reimplement the CPUs themselves. Further, they have a bunch of their own cores on their chip.
Even more important, what's been happening with .NET/VB?
> HN tends to devalue the individual, and value the content. (E.g. high quality comment by a not famous person)

And yet its measure of quality is karma scores for the individual, not the content.
thanks for a great comment, I feel similar about most of the stuff
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Maybe he meant "reputation for ridiculously bad drivers going crazy fast"?
Last time I checked, my laptop doesn't run the oom killer constantly.
Funny enough their own demo (from the parent article) is on a MacBook Air with built-in Touch ID.
Without taking anything away from this, as a general rule, if you have physical access to the machine, it can almost definitely be compromised.

The flaw here involves access to the GUI, which in most cases implies that they have physical access. (and in most cases would imply it is "their" machine in any event)
> Which one of Cohn's swing state predictions are within "polling error"? If you can't even consider the possibility that the polls were pushed to demoralize, that's not on me.

A normal polling error is about 5%, so all of them are within that except for Florida and Wisconsin.
Actually I'm not sure that my number is correct, so I better won't spread misinformation. It's not clear what those Apple flops really mean and there are multiple characteristics for modern GPUs which are measured in flops with different values: half precision, single precision, double precision, tensor compute, sparse tensor compute.
There is no fan in the Air but there is in the Pro which allows the Pro to run the CPU at higher speeds because the fan cools the CPU.

Even though the 16" MacBook Pro has the CPU as its 15" predecessor, it runs much faster because the cooling system flow is better and there is a bigger heat sink on the 16" model.
Yea... it's so weird how Trump keeps making these, at best, ambiguous statements where he has to explain later - sometimes days later, sometimes never - what he really meant. And really weird that, during that time, neo-nazis, white supremacists, white nationals, and other groups earnestly quote those statements and publicly support him. But I guess the weirdest part is actually anyone who holds Trump accountable for those statements. /s
I'm responding here because your other posts remain dead despite vouching for them. I just wanted to say that your questions about sctb seemed reasonable to me, and yes, your comments for the last year (and probably more) have been high quality. I don't understand your relationship with dang, but without trying to pick a winner, I'll just suggest you not worry too much about it. Keep posting quality things, try to stay civil, and hopefully the rest will eventually work out.
They only measure clinical outcomes such as cancer or heart attacks. "Multivitamins do not cure cancer" would be a better heading. Or even "30% of Americans taking multivitamins report enhanced quality of life".
Legally sure. But is it right to siphon money out of a state and then take somewhere else? I know plenty of foreign families that take money out of America or back into the hands of their home country. Banks gave loans out for the great scam known as college, putting money into the hands of bank and less cycling through the economy.
This editorial stance is a historical bias the NYT has had since at least the 1960s. You always had to read past it, if you chose to read at all. Some very good content wrapped in editorial offal. Made for a few good laughs if you were in on it.

It came out harder (to the point of abuse) on Trump because Trump is from NYC (big plus), major player in revitalization of Manhattan (big plus), big in pop media industry (umm, sort of plus) but was everything the UWS wasn’t (how dare that Republican Queens lowlife). If there ever was a use case for the word “intersectionality”, it would be the NYT view of Donald. And the NYT didn’t navigate those choppy seas well.
For the past few years I've consumed vision health vitamins on a daily basis, and can't say that there was any noticeable improvement in my vision.
On the contrary I did notice that they reduce eye pain. Some weeks I could not afford the vitamins and after hours of exposure to the computer screen, an intense pain would hit the eyes making it very difficult to continue looking at the screen. When I can afford the vitamins, I continue to consume them, with the expectation that they will continue to reduce the pain.
Yes, it's probably a cultural thing and I couldn't even say it's everywhere in the country I come from like I said or just the women I dated.
Thanks for flagging flame trolls like us.

People tend to get carried away in a heat of discussion, but eventually return to the mean of civility after cool-down period.

Other places just impose ban frivolously, which doesn't help long term, bans destroy the community, methinks.

Moderate moderation like yours is the way to go, and I'm not saying it as a kiss ass.

Edit: dang, what moderation tools do you think could be helpful. What part of your job can be automated via ML/NLP?

What is your least favorite, repetitive or time consuming manual algorithm as a mod?
His response to the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibU5KVFCg4Y
That’s true of most states.