skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DuckDB is incredible for large stats projects using R. R can't really handle large datasets and simply runs out of memory if you load everything. You get around this by splitting your data into a bunch of RData files but there's quite a bit of overhead maintaining those, recreating them when you need more variables, etc.

With DuckDB you can just load it once into the database then use dplyr/dbplyr to transparently access data with the queries pushing down to the DB afaik. And it runs anywhere and doesn't need local admin (like most database servers).

(SQLLite can't handle many columns without a custom build)
Argh, it's been archived already :(
I disagree. Every product has a user, whether that product is in your web browser or a command line script. The way your user interacts with your product is its interface. I believe the author is suggesting that you must understand that interface first before you go off designing architecture.

If you are a security researcher designing a virus scanning algorithm, you need to understand how your users will interact with your scanner. Can they pause and resume? Can they tune the parameters of your scanner? Which parameters? etc. The way you answer these questions will invariably affect the architecture in some way.
What a time to be alive, definitely watch past the initial grainy CCTV footage for the HD drone closeup of the cable supports snapping.
I think the problem is a little different in Colombia. The cartels are big enough that the government can't fight them. This results in 0 regulation and a lot of exploitation of the people that live in the regions the cartels settle in. As long as there are people on Earth that want cocaine, Colombia will have this problem (because they produce most of that cocaine).

So unless Colombia's military can get a lot stronger over night and a lot less corrupt, this problem will continue to exist. They've been trying to fight with force for the last 50 years while the cartels have only grown stronger (by a lot actually). So maybe it is time to change strategies and rethink the problem. Because clearly this one hasn't been helping (and many think it has made it worse).

Edit: I'm not saying the cartels are more powerful. I said the government is ineffective at fighting them. Guerrilla warfare is difficult.
Arecibo scientists reported creaking and cable fraying from days before. These videos took their sweet time to surface, given that the observatory was likely monitored close since it was deemed too dangerous to salvage.

The first day we had a picture of the dish and some dust, the next day we had a video that was blinded by the sun, basically just audio. I didn't expect drones, but I'm grateful for that closure.
What's bottlenecking TSMC? The availability of more ASML equipment? The production of silicon? Literal floor space in the foundries? The ability to get stuff in or out of Taiwan?
> You don't get to declare someone else's "resignation" for them

I think you are arguing that this is more straightforward than it really is. If we suppose (in absence of her actual email) that she declared "...make x, y, and z happen or I resign", that certainly reads as a (conditional) offer of resignation that can be accepted by the other party.

All of this is likely to end up in court and we'll get a decision on whether it was a resignation or firing.
> the leaker was also fired

Really? I never heard this, and I followed the Damore drama very closely at the time. It's an interesting detail; do you have a source?
I don't necessarily disagree with your point regarding letting a disgruntled employee go (and do agree with both grandparent that mentioning resignation was a dangerous negotiating tactic and parent that this seems like Google attempting to quickly revoke an unhappy employee's access to internal information that could paint them in a bad light) I do think its important to note that the email documenting her demands was only sent to her managers and wasn't a group email. Based on the responses to her tweets about this her team was blindsided by her being let go.

Also important to the discussion is that her managers (and thus Google) appear to be framing this as "accepting her resignation" as opposed to firing her (tying into GP's point) which likely has consequences with regard to separation benefits and lets Google frame this as not being their decision (or at least would be if it weren't for Twitter/articles like this).

It seems like Gebru did things correctly with regard to reporting her unhappiness to her management team but made the mistake of mentioning possible resignation in response to a lack of change which Google jumped on as a method to protect themselves by immediately removing a possibly disgruntled employee in a way that allows them to avoid the downsides of firing her (that simple description alone not meant to imply any judgment).

Its a rather murky situation to untangle though when combined with Google's firing of employees participating in organization and other events over the last few years giving the general impression of Google "becoming evil" I does seem like the bad PR this will cause means Google's handling of the situation was a bad choice.
I faintly recall an interview with one of the developers not too long ago, maybe a few years ago or so, where they said Sweeney still touches some 80% of the code base.

Also, there's always this old gem that HN should get giddy about: https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced...

I just think JC/Abrash/etc have an aura/cult of personality that doesn't seem all that impressive when you get someone who is a powerhouse of tech and business acumen like Sweeney next to them.
My brain can easily misplace the thought in that time. Especially if I run into problems or am frazzled. I usually just open a note app since it limits the risk of a memory-shattering distraction.
I am about zero percent surprised that this is named after something that happened in India. Our entire country is built with layers upon layers of incorrect economical/political stimuli and their unintended consequences.

Example: Some measures taken in the 60s and 70s to increase grain production caused groundwater levels in some states to deplete alarmingly a few decades later. To protect the groundwater levels, a law was passed in 2009 that now, along with the original measures, causes the pollution level of the national capital shoot through the roof (pm 2.5 > 500) every winter.
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1. Timescale sells a fully managed service offering running on AWS, GCP, or Azure. So you can get started with 3-4 clicks and have a database running in 30 seconds. (We actually don't sell "software" at all - that's all free to download and run yourself.) We're fully aligned that cloud services often have lower TCO in the long run =)

https://www.timescale.com/timescale-signup

2. Beyond operations, your team probably already knows how to use much of TimescaleDB, if they know SQL and PostgreSQL. AWS Timestream, on the other hand, introduces a bunch more of strange gotcha's, as evidenced in the blog post (even from the weird SQL hoops that you need to jump through.)
So, out of curiosity (this is now completely off topic to the original thread) I searched for a bit and found that it needs to be at high elevation in order to thrive, something between 500 and 2000 meters is optimal. This, combined with a very humid one season equatorial climate makes it very hard to achieve in other parts of the world. I guess this is why cocaine production hasn't moved to other parts of the world despite the huge demand.
Does it spoil faster with wax paper since it is open to the outside air and oxygen and microbes that are about?
Sure, that could happen. Are you trying to argue that an employer should have a 100% right to have a union-free workplace?
Why would they have to? Tech workers at FAANG are on average paid probably in the 2x-3x range of average in their industry.

I suspect if amazon paid 2x average box packer wages and gave good breaks/benefits, unions wouldn't have much traction there, either.

The parallel isn't crazy (the economics might be, I haven't analyzed)
Do the things that don't make employees want to form a union...such as paying and not overworking them.
Key points:

Findings In this 16-week randomized clinical trial, a low-fat plant-based dietary intervention reduced body weight by reducing energy intake and increasing postprandial metabolism, which was associated with reductions in hepatocellular and intramyocellular fat and increased insulin sensitivity.

Meaning A low-fat plant-based diet is an effective tool for reducing body weight and increasing insulin sensitivity and postprandial metabolism.
IIRC it was a total loss by the time the first cable broke. With the collapse, at least the structure is now safe to approach and begin scrapping/full deconstruction.
If US big bussiness makes a killing on weed in a year or two, US foreign policy will do a complete 180 by two more years after.
Because fighting it has been doing on for decades with 0 progress and the only winners being a massively powerful black market cartel.
> Anyone who wants to get cocaine, will get cocaine

I never thought this was a good argument against making something illegal, because there are definitely people who only-kinda want cocaine but are deterred by the law. Those people could have ended up as addicts if it was legal (and easier) to get.

Why is murder illegal? Anyone who wants to murder someone will do it. At that point why is anything illegal?
Man I remember, whenever we needed to update a cloudformation template that triggered an ElasticSearch modification it was horrible. And of course, after waiting 1.5h, some dns change failed and it had to be rolled back and you just wasted half a day.

Fun times.
I have no experience with Plastic SCM, but I will point out a couple of things you should research before settling on a non-Perforce SCM.

1. Huge files - a distributed VCS will not handle versioning them in a space-efficient manner without hacks like LFS. Plastic SCM says they handle huge files, but you want to investigate this closely.

2. Locking files - Game assets will usually be binary and non-mergeable so you need to be able to lock them so that only one person is able to edit at a time. PlasticSCM seems to have this handled according to their website.

3. Disk space - Watch the pricing for disk space. 5GB is nowhere near sufficient for a game of reasonable size. Seems reasonable at $20/month up to 100GB, but make sure you understand what you'll get. They allow for a local server, which might be useful for a company (or if you don't mind setting up your own servers).

If you're a solo or small-team indie, you can probably get by using anything. git, plastic, svn or perforce. perforce even has a cloud hosting solution.

There is a reason Perforce is widespread in the gaming industry and it's not because we're a bunch of mouth-breathing morons stuck in 2005.
I can't understand the fascination people have for coke. It's a terrible drug, and consumed in a filthy way through the nose which damages it and adds extra mucus. And as for the effects - it just makes your heart beat faster and makes you loquacious/chatty. But that's about it. For me it doesn't make me feel 'buzzy' or even trippy in any way, just makes me feel like I had a good running session, but without the effort of running (even with purer/strong coke). And it was even an ingredient in Coca-cola until it was eventually removed after cocaine became widely prohibited. For me adding lignocaine[0] to a bit of caffeine produces the same effect. I just don't see the allure and fascination. Anyone else think it's a shitty drug?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidocaine
I’m talking about the stack as a whole, which happens to be built on PostgREST.

The OP’s goal was to simplify their stack, which they did do. However, they cannot run this stack without managing a database, as the database and REST API are run in the same container. My point is that another way to lower a project’s required effort is to offload database management.

Sure, OP now only has two layers in the stack instead of three. But now they are locked into managing the database entirely, including updates, backups, and scaling.
If I'm in high demand then I don't need any help finding leverage; other, potential employers are leverage enough.
The claim about people with "A+ credentials" not working in crypto is off base.

Look at the founders of crypto companies from top-tier VCs like a16z: https://a16z.com/crypto/#vertical-landing-portfolio
The post shows use of ztcp, but zsh also has zsocket:

http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Zsh-Modules.html#The-...

The difference seems to be that zsocket works with Unix domain sockets and, only for incoming connections, sockets already opened and with a file descriptor. I suppose this latter one can be used for any kind of socket if opened before exec'ing zsh.
"Cannabis is legal"

Not only is cannabis not legal in the Netherlands (it's "illegal but tolerated"), but in recent years the conservative Dutch government has been successful in closing down a lot of coffeshops (ie. shops that sell cannabis).

The Dutch used to be a lot more tolerant in the past.
Yeah, you sound credible/s
I’ve managed to get my hands on a 5800x but I think it’s simply because it’s by far the worst value proposition in the new lineup and demand is probably not as high.
No apologies necessary - like I said, typoes get the best of us, and their presence is no cause for shame.
There's no constant supply of cryptocurrency, there are new types of coins created every day.
Ok, I misread the parent comment.
Rocket League used to have Linux support before he came along. Now playing it in Linux can get you banned from their platform.
Alcohol consumption is legal though. If you made hard drugs legal as well, likely consumption would increase, and thus the ill effects they cause.
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It’s pretty common to handle employee departures this way. I wouldn’t call it “firing” - the employee says they will quit, the company is just deciding the date the quitting happens. Usually it happens when the manager thinks the employee will be disruptive at work during the last couple weeks or so. I can’t speak to this specific situation - perhaps a Google manager is making a poor decision in this case - but in general this is motivated by considerations internal to the company and the team the employee is on, so you can’t really tell from the outside whether it’s a good idea or not.
Well did he email his management with a list of demands they weren't willing to meet, saying that he'd resign if the demands weren't met? Because that appears to be what Gebru has done.
I haven't done Svelte but in general I find native is easier than web UI. The tools and libraries just did more for you 20 years ago than any web framework does today. Web frameworks (Svelte included) just keep reinventing the wheel without giving you a second one.

I'm a web developer and I like the power and flexibility it has compared to native GUI development but I think a big problem is we now have an entire generation that doesn't even know what they're missing.
If you want to get a piece of DeFi, but don't know which projects to speculate on, you can buy DPI on Uniswap which is an ERC-20 token that tracks the top 10 coins in the defipulse.com index.
I thought (but don't know if I ever actually say this documented) that -git and similar meant "latest git commit" not "build form a git repo".
There's that saying about the "flap of a butterfly's" wings initiating a hurricane. In this case it's the prop wash from a drone.
Alcohol is entirely legal though and is in ubiquitous use. Not sure it's a good argument for hard drugs legalization.
Read: her concerns about entrenched privilege are actually valid and you fully condone them?

Great stance to take bruh.
"I heard Donny got both kneecaps busted after he passed out a union flyer last year" said the manager conveniently holding a baseball bat from the "baseball club" he just so happened to be involved in.
What a perfect posting for Hunter Biden in the new administration!
I agree that different drugs have different danger thresholds.

However, I noted that Columbia's already legalized personal consumption of cocaine, so in terms of personal danger I don't think the proposed law changes anything. On the other hand, that doesn't mean the effect hasn't been problematic. If anyone has any good studies at their fingertips I'd be curious.
This is an important point. Those that choose to use will get wrecked regardless of legality. However, the ripple is small. Illegality drives all sorts of huge ripples: tax money sinks (police, courts, prisons), post-prison felony limits life improvement, unrelated victims of violence, are all just a few issues. Users even stuggle with getting help because of illegality.
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> Heroin is not cool at all, nobody does that willingly.

People with chronic pain?

> Coke is a bit more common in certain scenes like big business.

It's really common in many other circles as well, I think you might be surprised.

> Legalising is not suddenly going to make people want to use them.

Pretty much yes. It's in fact the opposite in many cases. I remember being really interested in drugs (especially psychedelics) in my teenage years precisely because of the associated seemingly neurotic stigma there was (and to a wide extent still is) around the subject of drugs. If there hadn't been any "drugs are bad" campaigns (in school or otherwise) it probably wouldn't have caught my interest in the same way. I knew there was something to it, and I certainly wasn't gonna let laws stop me from finding out what, and I was right.

There are lots you can learn about yourself and the mind with various substances. Individuals experimenting with self-discovery shouldn't be illegal. Criminal cartels on the other hand are a whole other topic of discussion.
Not a rhetorical question. 1 concern with the growing cannabis industry in the united states is the limitations on banking and finance for cannabis.

The harmful side-effect of a state-legal cannabis industry but denied access to banking can lead to holding too much cash on hand and robberies like : https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/11/04/person-shot-by-police...
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And unlike intel they've been using the same sockets for the last 3 generations, so upgrading the CPU in future is actually a reasonable idea.
Appreciating the irony that Columbia's strategy to destroy an industry that not even decades of U.S. military intervention could slow is to buy up the coca crops and turn it into a government monopoly not unlike Canada's wheat board and dairy policies, or Quebec's syrup cartel.

Yes, that is basically how you remove the opportunity from an industry.

Columbia could be wealthier than Saudi Arabia with a legal cocaine industry. Trouble with that is it becomes "resource cursed," as the economy won't diversify, the government and military/police can fund itself from the drug proceeds, and there is no incentive for the govt to implement policies to help citizens, whose tax dollars and consent they no longer need. I'm not against the legalization, but it might not solve the problem they believe.

Consider that all the horror and expense of the war on drugs was still preferable to what could have been resolved with an equally brutal but much narrower and shorter war on public corruption.
It's great Stripe is coming up with new services and changing how we do business online. Most purchases are now happening online, subscription based services are on rise and consumer buying habit is changing as well.

I like Stripe and I use Stripe for my business. What I don't like about Stripe is they stepping on toes of their customers. Stripe starts with API service and later they introduce their product competing with early adopters. A good example is Stripe Billing [0]. Additionally, they position their products top on their partners page, therefore making it "popular". I wouldn't be surprised to see Stripe launching their own virtual bank product.

[0] https://stripe.com/billing
[1] https://stripe.com/partners/apps-and-extensions/collection/r...
Which is even more unenforceable than the 4th amendment.
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It bothers me that you've swapped the coasts of the telcos from their traditional regions.
>And I might be guilty of being elitist, but I rarely, if ever, see founders with A+ tier credentials (Ivy league education, FAANG/Investment banking/Mckinsey et al) starting crypto businesses.
Spoiler: majority of good engineers never worked at big tech companies or went to ivy league schools. Also, investment banking isn't exactly a shining beacon of trust.
I'm a former IBS sufferer and have found that carefully managing my gut health has massively improved my quality of life. It's not the most scientific approach, but generally speaking, your gut is probably reasonably healthy if:

* you do not experience intestinal discomfort on a regular basis

* you can eat a wide variety of foods without getting unexpected diarrhea or constipation (i.e. when eating foods that typically do not do this to a wide range of people)

* your bowel movements are consistent, complete, a good colour, not painful, not loose, not hard

* you are not overweight/underweight

And of course, you can help all of this along...

* basically never eat fast food if you can avoid it, especially shitty McD's ground beef

* avoid taking antibiotics unless you're really sick enough to need them they can wipe out your microbiome and set you back months or years of progress)

take supplemental calcium and vitamin D

* eat a wide variety of foods, including oily and spicy things; you can "train" your system to handle things by eating them in smaller quantities as you get started and then gradually eat more

* but avoid eating too wide a variety of foods in one meal as that's most likely to overwhelm the gut's capability to effectively digest things

* yogurt, cheese, fermented stuff of almost any sort (without alcohol) all seem to be beneficial

* while we're at it, make sure you get enough iron, from red meat and dark green veg!

It's anecdotal of course but you can find any number of studies supporting this stuff. For me, taking my diet seriously didn't mean restricting in any serious sense how _much_ I eat, or even _what_, so much as balancing things to ensure I don't overwhelm the system.

In 2017 I had to take antibiotics for something and it seriously set me back years, I was back to having a horrible time at least once or twice a week from things I had been eating no problem before, and only by late 2019 was I really feeling confident to go and eat, say, spicy Mexican food again. At this point in time I would have to be sick enough that I'd be missing months of work to take antibiotics again.
Or just create a bookmark for https://drive.google.com/drive/search?q=% and type `drive term` or whatever you call it without bouncing through DDG.
Yes, but how are you funded?
> Latinx employees

Is there an affinity group for the overwhelming majority of "Latinx" people who don't use or like this term?