skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get your point - but when we're talking about suffering, the amount matters. It doesn't matter if we reduce pollution if we're still causing global warming - things may be better, but that doesn't mean they're good enough.

> A peasant in the dark ages had to deal with starvation, black death or invaders. These were actual threats in the sense that an average conversation will be like: "Last week Martha got her head chopped off by a barbarian and Bob died of starvation. "

To even suggest starvation doesn't exist is...I don't even have the words.

Did you hear about the Nigerian farmers who were executed last week by Boko Haram? Not very different than a barbarian raiding a small village.
Data engineer's role in the future of groceries
Their math is incorrect.
The M1 scores about 300K in Coremarks and has 8 cores => 37.500 per core. M1 consumes about 12W => 1.5 W/core and thus: 37.500 ÷ 1.5 W/core = 25 K Coremarks per Watt.
But this company (or Andy Huang) is claiming M1 has 100 Coremarks per Watt!
Why don’t people check their math if it sounds far off?
One minor nitpick: "strongly typed" is not very meaningful. "statically typed" (or just "typed") conveys the intended meaning much better, since it has a clear definition.

Anyway adding proper support for TS sealed the deal for me - Svelte itself might never reach mainstream adoption but the idea of having a framework-compiler is something that I hope will, since it retains all the advantages of alternative approaches without introducing any significant disadvantages.
We've made every effort to be open about all of the testing we do and many people outside of Timescale contribute to TSBS.

As an aside, we tried to solicit help/feedback on both Twitter and Redit groups. One AWS employee reached out and offered to pass it to the team (I was upfront about what we were doing) - but we never heard back.
Now that it’s been around for some time, what’s the general thought on it?

Anyone use it then go back to the traditional frameworks? Anyone love it and still think it’s the next big thing?
I didn't say I was homeless :D I have a home base, but I spend 6 months or more outside of my home country.
There's a big difference -- that's how the PostgreSQL community works. 2ndQuadrant (now EDB), EDB, Citus (now Microsoft) all add value to open source Postgres, contribute back to the community by bringing new features, new life, usecases, and of course committing changes upstream where possible. Timescale is actually on the more open side of that balance, with the licensing and the community version feature matrix.

Also, in this case, Timescale actually has a pretty forgiving license[0] as long as you are not a add-nothing-aaS-provider, perhaps more than it should be, which I've asked about before[1]. Even before that change was made, running just the community edition as a add-nothing-aaS-provider would have been an improvement on the status quo, given how soundly it thrashed some other solutions in the past (ex. Influx[2]) and what you can do it (promscale[3]).

I know it can't be all roses, nothing is, but I don't think they've put too many feet wrong so far.

[EDIT] - I should note that on the scale of "contributing" to Postgres, the scale heavily tips in favor of 2ndQuadrant, EDB, and Citus as obviously they have the most committers and core team members. All those companies are to be commended of course, they're making postgres work as businesses and keeping it free while also improving it.

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

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24585564

[2]: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/timescaledb-vs-influxdb-for-...

[3]: https://github.com/timescale/promscale
Isn't laptop enough? What the phone does?
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- https://angel.co/jobs is a great source
- Another is https://turing.com/

All the best.
Maybe he is referring to the fact that not all of the lotteries have the same structure? Idk it still seems like a good estimate to me
This is beneficial for both the owners and the homeless especially in these trying times and also as the pandemic makes an already terrible housing crisis worse.
There's a long and rich tradition of scholarship on what constitutes a "good king" in medieval English history that is important (but missing) context for this article. Usually, scholars rate kings in terms of their effectiveness as rulers, rather than according to modern conceptions of morality in order to avoid anachronistically imposing a modern mindset on medieval rulers. So taking an English king and assessing his success and failures according to what his contemporaries would have considered success and failure. Often that consists of some version of these: maintaining a secure and prosperous realm, keeping fractious nobles and peasants in line, acquiring new lands for his followers, building up the church, screwing over the French and Scots, and securing a smooth succession after his death, ideally to his own male child.

The article's title (though less its content) challenges a common generalization about English kings: the more pious they were, they less effective they tended to be. A certain minimum of respect for Christianity was expected (e.g., when Henry II was forced to prostrate himself before the church to beg forgiveness for the murder of Thomas Becket), but on the other extreme, some notoriously ineffective monarchs devoted themselves to Christian worship to an extent that it undermined their ability to engage with the pragmatic, worldly concerns of ruling. Henry III and Henry VI, and to a lesser extent Edward II come to mind as the most obvious examples. Henry III and Edward II spent too much money and time building beautiful churches, neglecting the management of military and more pragmatic fiscal affairs. Henry VI was literally insane, and spent most of his time praying rather than ruling, which directly caused the first of the Wars of the Roses.

Sometimes Edward the Confessor gets lumped in with this crowd, because he was famed for his piety and he failed at the most essential task of any medieval English king: ensuring a smooth succession. Which in turn invited the Norman Conquest and thus the Harrying of the North and a near genocide of the Anglo-Saxon people Edward ruled (and failed to protect by not ensuring a smooth succession).

Ultimately, the generalization is probably flawed anyway (too few examples to identify a real trend, and too many confounding explanations like piety being an adaptation to severe mental illness), but this article does a bad job challenging even the lesser premise that the general rule applies to Edward the Confessor.
I love the experience and performance. If more adoption happens it'll just get better as more languages are supported.
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Yep, yep. Makes all the difference.

Liking to write helps a lot with keeping in touch.
I'm really excited to see further development and use of Svelte. I develop both Vue and React front ends (both have their strengths and weaknesses) and Svelte is a breath of fresh air. I'm not saying Svelte is _better_, but I am enjoying It's approach a bit more.
WebAssembly support is there, but it needs SIMD and threads to really be fast. That could happen soon, now that there’s some consensus on the standards for both.

WebGL2 support is just about ready in Safari. They are just about fully moved over to using ANGLE as the WebGL backend which includes WebGL2 support. I tested it out with my app on the Safari Technology Preview and it was flawless (as expected from using ANGLE in Chrome).
That's seen by some as a naïve view. Those with money would get services; the masses could get little or nothing. No interstate highway system. No commercial code. No free commerce between states. Police paid for by the rich (and crooked in many cases). And on and on.
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Of course. Or at the very least, she herself could have trained the model on a "Senegal" dataset and make the findings public.

My only point around her feud with LeCunn is that she threw a fit because people including LeCunn pointed out that it is not necessarily a race thing, and she wanted to give it a race spin without confirming that it was actually the case.

And I am not at all commenting on all this drama around her resignation/being fired without getting a look at the contents of the two emails: the one she sent to Brain Women and the one with her demands. But I know this: if I were to issue an ultimatum to my employer, I am treading dangerous waters and should be able to digest the outcome of that, including being fired.
I understand the social aspect, but I don't see anything good stemming from forcing a kid to stay in a class learning about things he's way ahead of.
Thanks for this link. One of the entrepreneur suicides that resulted from the Downtown Project was a friend of a friend, but I hadn't made the connection to Hsieh until reading this. I strongly suspect that Hsieh's repressed emotions were a causal factor in recent events.
Haven't used it personally yet but this recent podcast episode with Rich Harris & Evan You had many interesting thoughts on state of web dev & svelte

https://undefined.fm/radio/vue-vs-svelte-with-evan-you-and-r...
Universal Basic Income: What We've Learned
FAA officials should face consequences, but boeing purposefully misled the regulator and got away scott-free.
Sure. Find some way to break up CO2 from the atmosphere and bond hydrogen to the carbons. It creates a relatively safe, easy-to-use hydrogen storage medium and it reduces greenhouse gases at the same time. The cars would just need to break the carbon-hydrogen bonds to release the energy once again, and the process is GHG-neutral.
We've switched to Svelte for new projects at work, from React. It feels like a significant improvement, especially regarding unnecessary complexity and verbosity. The UI component libraries for Svelte are still lacking in maturity, that's the one drawback I can think of.
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I’m pretty sure he read it right, the smile at the end indicates he was joking.
Where do wine and liquor bottles have a bottle deposit? Around here is only soda and beer.
I want this to succeed. I have been searching for a while for a search engine which is independent from Google or Bing.

First searches have been relevant and also refreshing different and new from the big ones. Battle-testing will tell.
Facebook to police anti-Black hate speech more aggressively than anti-White
Here's my take on this, from a few months back:

https://materialize.com/lateral-joins-and-demand-driven-quer...
I guess the only reason this happens is due to price, but we could force a "plastic tax" on those types of products unless they came in something that was biodegradable.

Seems like a solvable problem, but only if we make it harder to pollute; otherwise price will dictate.
yup. my town in java have 1.6 millions people :)
Their math is off by a factor of 250 x, thus, their claim us strange because they didn't check their math, before publishing wrong figures!
> You can’t just build a better developer when a single mistake is end game.

Why not?

Doctors got better with more training and better strategies towards medicine, and that's a game where a single mistake really is "end game".
And McDonnell-Douglass were/are true masters of building deadly aircraft.
The novel is from 1908. That's before Russian Revolution.
Very said, another project bites the dust durring Covid-19 pandemic. Phalcom will no longer be a php extension, but yet another php framework. Kind of like Laravel. But moving to Zephir was a wrong move from the start IMHO. Lets hope phalcon as a php framework will have the same quality of features as its good old php extension.
successful socialist country

Does such a thing exist?

What do you count as success? Just a few years earlier, and driven by the same socialist expansion
strategy, another developing state turned socialist, Cambodia, with
active help from Moscow. Is this what you have in mind as success?

Wasn't Sankara a charismatic leader, and military man who came to power by a coup d'état? Have you looked at the track record of military coup d'états in history ...?
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This seems an unfair summary - there is no reason to evaluate a period 1000 years ago using contemporary sociological mores; and the author presents their conclusion - as expected - in summary.
Massively complicates cmos and the financing engine behind mortgages
It's a good question, but you'd have to ask them I think. Tamas (from Itemis) and I were in touch for a while, mostly shaking out why DD was out-performing their previous approach, but I haven't heard from him since.

My context at the time was that they were focused on doing single rounds of incremental updates, as in a PL UX, whereas DD aims at high throughput changes across multiple concurrent timestamps. That's old information though, so it could be very different now!
Not OP but here is my version:

- css is not scoped by default. Predicting the effect of adding a new rule is very hard if you are not using scoping solutions or if you are not constently writing new class names with a strict convention

- because of the first point, css is never refactored in most places. It becomes an ever growing monster of a code base

- css selectors are build to write css that depends on html. A lot of webapp should be writing html that depends on a small set of css rules in order to get a consistent ui

- the initial "semantic html approach" is counter productive for most webapps. This blog post is a very good read about this particular point: https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and-separation-of-...
I was able to get as far as building the half-adder, but then didn't have the means of figuring out the full adder as that seemed massively more complex.
Why is acne associated with higher grades and educational outcomes? In theory, having acne may reduce attractiveness and feelings of being socially accepted, thereby reducing time spent socializing and increasing time spent studying.
Sure there is no silver bullet, because it's not tasers that taser people....
Predictive Linguistics Is Dead
Stress Testing ECS Fargate with AWS Distributed Load Testing
Well that is the whole point. The entire controversy could have been cleared up if the original researchers or even Gebru would have trained the model on a "Senegal" dataset, or a dataset diverse enough to their own liking and then make the findings public. That, to me is research. Throwing a fit on twitter because people won't buy that the outcome of this model is racist is not research.

I am not sure why the wording around this has to be so abstract.
> And make no mistake, TCP head-of-line blocking is a real issue on high-loss networks like the outskirts of wi-fi and cellular networks.

On high loss, and high speed networks. Think of wifi, or lte, with a very fat pipe after it.

On really slow network, there is not much difference.

Google's "real world" telemetry, and benchmarks shown HTTP2 as great, but it wasn't.

Opening multiple TCP connections may well be cheaper than dealing with all of that.
Full title includes a summary of benchmark results for the lazy:

Timescaledb achieved 6000x higher inserts, 5-175x faster queries, 150x-220x cheaper

Benchmarks open-source, methodology in post.
"I'm not convinced that if [the UK] had been part of that European buying programme they'd have had quite the speed and flexibility to do it." -- Hugo Fry. (Pharma head, who happens to be a remain supporter.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20201203131008/https://www.teleg...

What leads you to such confidence in what looks like an uncertain matter?
Yup. My sister in law is from, and lives, in a south-East Asian country and she had an interesting story.

She needed to register for her identity card so she went to her local police station and filled out the forms. Gets a call a week later - “oh sorry, one of the forms was filled out incorrectly, can you come back and fill it out again?”. Sure, no problem.

A week later “oh, one of the forms filled out was the wrong form. I have the right one now, can you come fill it out?”. Well this is silly, but ok.

A week later “it turns out you need a form from the district as well, please fill that out and bring it in”. This is stupid, but she does it.

A week later “oh, that form had the wrong stamp on it, you need to fill out a new form and get the right stamp”.

A this point it was obvious - she went to police station, explained that the stamp was the correct one and oh, yeah, by the way, I know you’re working hard so let me give you some coffee money ($10 USD in local currency).

She had the identity document the next day.
Perhaps in companies intelligent enough to understand which part of their workforce drives actual revenue: in my job I can say for a fact that there’s more redundancy in management than in engineering, and I don’t think that’s because of intelligence on the company’s part, but rather an engrained culture and assumption of how necessary managers are, often linked to already per-company arbitrary objects like departments or projects.

So a more interesting question I think is: how many companies out there are intelligent enough to go against the axioms of corporate culture and investigate value from the recently so popular term “first principles”? I’m unfortunately cynical enough to believe the answer is “not many”.
I guess every article on password security should have a disclaimer: "If this is more than 5 years old, take it with a grain of salt and look into current best practices".
May be this is the reason I am allergic to Mushrooms;
I really like it. Replaced Vue with Svelte and things have been great so far. Smaller bundles, and much lighter components. Built-in state management is very handy.

The initial pages are Go templates which are hydrated with Svelte components. It took a bit of trial and error to get the flow right so that I don't have to write double the code.

I don't know if it's the next big thing or not but it works really well for me.
Unions are democratically controlled. With extremely high probability, some of them will be mismanaged and abusive. We see the same in democratic government. But we don't tend to then say "wow, that elected leader was terrible - better replace it all with philosopher kings". Unionization at least gives workers the chance to influence the business, even if that chance can be squandered.
My takeaway from this is more to be wary of AWS than anything.

I've also heard gcp can be a real mess.

Is Azure any good yet?
This GitHub repository is just the database, what about the code that holds together their cloud resources? I was not able to find it.

They criticize AWS for making money on Elasticsearch for example, AWS is "taking advantage of the R&D efforts of others". So Amazon is making money on a "serverless" / cloud experience. At the same time, it is known that Amazon is contributing back to Elasticsearch [1]. To that regard, I find their business model really similar to the one AWS is relying upon.

[1] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/aws-contributes-to-elas...
Storing sequences in your phonological loop is a common tactic. Not sure whether it relates to ADHD or not.

You can do it sub vocally without making sound.
Timescale is a freely available PostgreSQL extension built in the open, and anyone can contribute. That's one of the great things about PostgreSQL - it was built to be extensible and allow customization. YAY!

Again, you're free to use it for any project, all Community features, wherever you want. The only thing you can't do is run a DBaaS for TimescaleDB. Seems like a fair tradeoff, right?
On the other hand, and I think more recently, Sean Sayers has gone against this conception of Marx that he proposed a 'productivist' ideology or conception of communist society[0], for which Marx is still (mistakenly, in my opinion) criticized, especially by environmentalists and eco-socialists. The special focus on a narrow, technical meaning of the 'forces of production' used in describing hi torical materialism has also been called into question. Marx may have been an 'economic determinist' (this is less controversial but still worth discussing) but he certainly wasn't a 'technological determinist'.

[0] https://philpapers.org/rec/SAYTCO
Yes, Starship Technologies is the world's leading autonomous delivery service and operates commercially on a daily basis around the world. Its robots have completed over 25,000 deliveries and travelled more than 150,000 miles.
Definitely still in the camp of thinking it's the next big thing. In my experience, Svelte does a great job of just getting out of the way and letting you start coding.

The ecosystem isn't there yet, and I probably wouldn't try to use it in a work project. For my personal projects though, I use it for everything front-end. More than that - I've stopped making desktop apps and just default to using svelte instead.

Happy to answer any specific questions you've got! Bottom line - given the opportunity, I will use Svelte.
> I want to say that things like form validation are faster and easier now, but no

I’d actually say forms are more of a pain in an SPA than they are with server rendering.

You have to track the state of every field so input doesn’t get clobbered on a re-render, which isn’t difficult but can be pretty tedious, especially if it’s a very dynamic form. And if you want native input attributes like `required` to work you need to still do a native form submission, but then intercept it and do your AJAX request or whatever instead.

The only part that’s really easier is handling server-side validation errors, because instead of trying to re-construct the populated form using the submitted input, you can just leave it all on screen.
Fake viewers, fake transactions, big business
You might want to look into this

https://www.amazon.com/Phone-Calls-Dead-Scott-Rogo/dp/042504...
Under what circumstances would TimescaleDB be a poor choice for a company already using postgres at this point?
Probably they should sell the community edition version disassembled.

BTW I have Mobian on mine. Wonder why they never mention it.
SA has been dumping all their oil money on investments for a long time now. They know what's coming.
I think we (like many) stand on the shoulders of giants when it comes to software, but I’m not sure the comparison is quite apt.

Amazon primarily runs and monetizes closed-source, SaaS-only managed services.

TimescaleDB instead is implemented in the open as an extension to PostgreSQL, and enriches and benefits the broader PostgreSQL community by unlocking a new use case (time series). The Postgres extension framework exists very much for this purpose, for projects like TimescaleDB to contribute back without needing to “pollute” mainline with domain-specific features. Most of TimescaleDB’s code (and all development for the first few years) is Apache 2, and all features are free for anybody to self-manage.

(Disclaimer: I work at Timescale)
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