skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why you'd want that. Unless Reddit has made changes to the search in recent years, a Google search limited to Reddit tends to do a better job at surfacing the most relevant posts.
Thank you for putting it into words. I've noticed this trend as well on HN. I guess it's the result of any system that gets large enough. Also systems that reward those who spend the most time on them.

People with the most time to spare often have very good reasons why they have a lot of time to spare.
Caste based discrimination is not a meme. It’s deeply rooted in more than half of the Indian population and has taken root in the United States along with migrants who brought it along with them and teach their children these “values”
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/21/915299467/how-to-be-an-anti-c...
The argument is also entirely profits and "keep opportunity in America" based, a mindset sourced in scarcity and selfishness.
US States complain feds' data system is holding up vaccination effort
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- Bezos invests billions in covid vaccine supply chain (see source [1] below).

- The news publication Bezos purchases promotes vaccines & asks why intelligent, critical thinking populations such as those in Japan aren't getting vaccinated

- I'm here wondering... How much American "news media" is consumed in Japan. Hopefully very little-- as it's mostly propaganda benefiting owners of "news media" companies (i.e. uber mogul owners, entertainment industry & government [2] mouthpieces).

"Bezos vowed to invest Amazon’s anticipated $4 billion second-quarter profit into adapting to the demands of the coronavirus" [1]

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/amazons-coronavirus-...

"Operation Mockingbird is an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early years of the Cold War and attempted to manipulate news media for propaganda purposes." [2]

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

(by "news media" I am intentionally using a positively sounding euphemism for what I do not consider to actually be informative)
Even taking every potential legal/regulatory consequence out of the equation I think it was a terrible strategy. Their target market is healthy, wealthy millennial/Gen X people who don’t have a lot of free time. Parents don’t have a lot of free time and wealthy people who aren’t parents usually have pets. I would venture to guess 95% of their customers have a child, a pet, or both. To risk being seen as a company that plays fast and loose with the one thing their customers love more than anything else in the world is foolish.
Hello, I had just sent an email to you in regards to this opening..please feel free to check it out thanks.

--K
Timescale Co-founder here. Happy to address your concerns!

1. Monetization strategy

This funding round is actually a sign that our business model is working really well.

To quote Redpoint Ventures, who led this funding round:

"The [Timescale] team capitalized on their significant community momentum last year, with their cloud business being one of the fastest-growing database businesses we have seen in the past 20+ years." [0]

2. Licensing

Most companies (including open-source companies) actually have both open-source and proprietary software, but the proprietary software is often hidden inside private repos. The difference with Timescale is that we have made the source code for our proprietary software available (on Github), even allowing users to modify it (eg "right to repair), and made all of our software free (ie no paid software features). [1]

3. Public product roadmap

We aim to be transparent re: product roadmap via Github, blog posts, etc, but I appreciate the feedback that we could be more transparent. Thanks!

4. Version compatibility / broken APIs

Could you say more? AFIAK the only time we "broke" (ie changed) some APIs is with TimescaleDB 2.0, and when we did so we explained why we did that (mostly to improve user experience based on feedback). We take this topic very seriously and even the decision to do so in 2.0 was not something we did lightly (and it was also made after a lot of discussion with users). More about this decision here in our docs: [2]

5. Commercial support for on-premise

We offer free support for on-premise instances via Slack (where you can often find our engineers, support team, CTO, and myself). [3] However, if you would like a higher level of support for on premise (e.g., commercial SLAs), please reach out to us directly (e.g., via the form on that same page). [3]

Hope this helps!

[0] https://medium.com/redpoint-ventures/building-a-next-generat...

[1] https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-open-source-busines...

[2] https://docs.timescale.com/timescaledb/latest/overview/relea...

[3] https://www.timescale.com/support
Peloton recalls treadmills after 6-year-old’s death, CEO admits “mistake”
In the case we’d need a little context of what the map, filter, and find operations are, but if map is multiple by 2 and filter is less than 200 you can just replace the filter and map with a single if in the for loop that performs the multiplications and check and return immediately when you find X. That’s pretty obvious, always takes only one run, doesn’t reallocate, and doesn’t add concepts, which is of course adding complexity.
I used to think this, but this book convinced me otherwise:

https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Making+Climate+Policy+Work-p-978...

If we treat all industry as spherical cows, a common carbon price comes out as a great way to incentivize industrial change.

However, once we get into the particulars of different industries and the varying levels of difficulty they have in decarbonizing, and the very different levels of lobbying power they have to influence that price, and the difficult of enforcement across different sectors, a common shared policy across all sectors starts to be far less efficient than tailoring the solution to each industry.

For example, steel is pure commodity, very difficult to eat any cost from stranded assets, and has far less ability to call up capital to solve the problem than, say, natural gas. So the price will have hugely different consequences for steel than natural gas production, and there are different tailored industrial policies that will make the transition happen much more time- and cost-efficiently.
Hi @spmurrayzzz thanks for the feedback. (Timescale person)

Always strive to do the best and fairest benchmarks we can, and for that reason, all our benchmarks are fully open-source for both repeatability and improvements/contributions:

https://github.com/timescale/tsbs/blob/master/docs/mongo.md

We also really did spend a lot of time investigating approaches with MongoDB, so you'll see our benchmarks actually evaluate two _different_ ways to use time-series data with MongoDB (culled & optimized from suggestions in MongoDB forums). But always welcome to feedback:

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/how-to-store-time-series-dat...

Thanks!
Biggest difference between US and rest of the world is that in the rest of the world it's more accepted to bribe normal people.
You might want to look at some basic Android automation tools. I'm pretty sure I've seen some before but I don't know any off the top of my head. It was really simple to write the iOS Shortcut, all I did was:

* Accept a URL as input

* Expand the URL to the full link

* Find the "?" in the new url and snip everything after and including it.

Originally I looked for ".html?" but some TikTok links don't have the ".html" anymore so I had to switch to just "?". Tasker for Android [0] might be what you are looking for but I can't be sure. You might want to ask on the subreddit [1] for help or search there for something similar.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch....

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/tasker/
Thanks, i'm using iTerm2, which seems to have an experimental feature for repeat previous character escape sequence enabled by default, but doesn't really work that well, I suspect it's the touchbar escape key that doesn't play too nicely to the hold

edit: I'm dumb, that was for iTerm, I got it working!
Maybe they all mean different things in different context and the language is evolving to incorporate such items.

Eggplant and the one hundred emoji have well known meanings now that I'm sure the creators were not thinking of when they were designed. I'm sure someone somewhere complained about having vegetables and numbers in the standard at the time though.
I wonder how long it'll take for psychedelic use to cease being stigmatized in our society.
I wasn't commenting on evaluating politicians. I was commenting on evaluating things they are involved with and do.
He didn't exactly make a small dosing mistake, though. I can understand accidentally taking 50ug by accident if you're not careful.
But he was peaking on much more than a light dose, here!

Zhu looked at the screen and saw numbers and images swelling and shrinking, making them impossible to discern.
His body felt as if it were melting away, he says

That is far from a microdose. This is showing up extremely drunk to the office.
As an occasional LSD user, and I can only speak for myself, but I don't ever get enough visuals that I can't read a screen without taking way too much, or without other drugs being involved that have a synergy with LSD.
It takes institutional knowledge and experience to make a safe and reliable product. Even if you had a whole team dedicated to it, it's not much use if the rest of the company doesn't care or do their part.

It also takes money. But why bother protecting the consumer or even the company if you're not legally or financially liable yourself?

There's little incentive to do things right. And when there is, most people will only ever learn the hard way.
It is not as though the Fukushima operators were blindsided. They knew exactly what would happen if they could not restore power within a certain period of time; they could not restore power and the disaster proceeded as anticipated. What makes modern reactors different is that the worst case is not a catastrophe, and a loss of power does not cause a catastrophe. With older reactors the design philosophy was to make the worst case sufficiently unlikely; with newer designs the philosophy is to not have a catastrophic worst case.
I've never really been a breakfast person. I'm not usually hungry in the morning until around 10 or 11. I've tried over the years to push myself to eat breakfast more but it never really sticks. These days I mostly wait until lunch to eat or if i get hungry I'll have something light in the morning. But breakfast in general has never really been something I worried or cared about.

I also don't really like most cereal. It's either way too sweet and sugary or bland and unappealing, It also doesn't really satisfy your hunger for longer than half hour or so. It seems pointless to eat it.
There’s also a tendency to think: “I don’t need this, so neither does anyone else”. I know that guilty of applying that logic more times that I’d like.
> Major apps and OSes put a "choose your race" message on their UI (and very strongly direct people to make that choice).

Eh? Never having set it, I went looking for the setting in Slack. It's so discreet that I had to Google it. I still have no idea where it might be in MacOS.

The idea that this is being forced on people is kind of absurd.
It's not about anyone getting the benefit of the doubt. It's about whether there's substantive discussion here or just cynical riffs and dismissals.
Interesting. I know nuclear power is far safer than it's general reputation.

Is nuclear really safer than solar?

This[1] has some data and estimations for death rates measured based on deaths from accidents and air pollution per terawatt-hour (TWh), which suggests nuclear has 0.07 deaths per TWh, which is marginally higher than wind (0.04), hydro (0.02), and solar (0.02).

So, it's very close!

1. https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
> It was established by Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg but operates as an independent entity, although its wages and other costs are covered by Facebook. It is made up of journalists, human rights activists, lawyers and academics.

So professions that are (literally) 90%+ Democrat? Not even just Democrat—the kind of Democrats that thought Biden was old news and covered him as an afterthought until rank and file Democrat voters shattered their illusions. These are people that make up a vastly disproportionate share of Very Online Progressive Twitter that even regular Democrats often have to distance themselves from.

I’m sure this will go over swimmingly in Peoria.
Yes, making a mistake when writing down the C semantics is definitely possible. The point of the work announced here is to get rid of that risk, so that the proof only relies on the semantics of the RiscV instructions (and the C semantics become an intermediate thing which are proven rather than trusted). It's still possible that they made a mistake when writing down the RiscV semantics, but machine code is much simpler than C so the risk is smaller.
Which version of Python/JS do they implement?

I think part of the problem is that any scripting language rolled directly into Excel will be expected to keep backwards compatibility. Microsoft doesn't have full control over Python/JS, and they would like to avoid issues such as the changeover from Python 2 to 3.

Microsoft could implement its own fork of those languages, but is that what customers actually want?
You summed up the experience well. Many hotels have Pelotons in their fitness rooms now so I was able to try one before buying. It is the closest thing to an in person spin class I have tried, plus the Peloton bike and stat tracking is much better.

The cost seems high to a typical gym membership, but Peloton is competing with spin studios which are stupid expensive. If one considers the cost to be split between at least 2 family members, it's relatively cheap.

You touched on it, but the other types of classes are also very good. I've canceled my normal gym membership and am just slowly building out my home gym now.
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See above, the executive was never charged with thief.
Are there any micro-reactor designs that use non-enriched or minimally enriched uranium? My understanding is that natural uranium isn't really that dangerous, even in a dirty bomb, and then in terms of proliferation it already isn't that hard to get it.
> regional cross-mixing of sources.

This is the part that worries me. If something happened like this even 300-400 years ago, it would probably just wipe out that village.
I would not characterize the [dead] comments (which are #ddd) as "a typical comment". They're designed to be hard to read. If I turn off showdead (which I believe is an opt-in setting), it looks like the lightest comments are #9c9c9c, which is a 2.5 ratio (and of course are also comments which are intended to be less prominent).
Attribution (figuring out where your ads are being clicked) has nothing to do with targetting.
Agreed, a single market Europe is all the US cares about

It doesn't care if its German run, Russian run (as long as it is market based and not marxist based), or “not-German” wink run like today

It would have been tolerable just like Saudi Arabia is tolerable

Liquidity, market depth, and less people to negotiate with is the American priority

The moral highground arguments that it upholds now and in hindsight are just to continue deriving support from its own people, who culturally eat that shit up, but it can successfully package any moral argument for any scenario even if they are complete lies
Yeah, that's utterly stupid. We need to define a value per life saved and apply it across the board to safety regulations. Any safety regulation that comes in cheaper than that is required, no safety regulation that comes in more expensive than that is required. There should be no singling out of industries. All such regulations must include a reasonable description of how it can be done for that cost--which can be challenged in court. Likewise, outside groups can challenge proposals which have been rejected by showing there's a cheaper way to do it. (And this would include companies that stand to benefit. A company that comes up with a cheap enough way to implement a safety measure can get it mandated. While this could cause a monopoly situation they can't exploit it because if they make it too expensive the rule goes away.)
Does health insurance drive up the need for capital that much? I've never considered that. Would love to hear more.
Given the uncertainty of climate effects, we should actually be starting very very very high, and then bringing it down as we have more certainty about the worst case effects. I need to find that paper from financial analysts that say that simpler, more politically achievable schemes with low starting prices completely mismodel the financial risk...
I support not destroying the planet. Whatever gets the job done at this point. Removing subsidies is a political shitshow, and you're effectively saying "I support a decades-long political sparring contest while the planet burns."

I think it's safe to say we're not operating under a democracy/republic anymore, so whatever will appease the coroporate/banking overlords the quickest is the best path forward.
A fun/weird result of this that the interface in the link is in the language of whoever generated the link not your browser’s language
New book contends that "the New book that contends that Catch Me If You Can is mostly made up" is mostly made up
> the blaster seems more effective

And you have to, er, attack the rebels with an army of highly variable talent and training, which contains maybe one or two actual Jedi Ninjas, so maybe it's better if everyone just uses blasters and nobody cuts off their own arm.

I'd love to work in some super elegant language for my own intellectual betterment, but I really hope my next real-world gig uses something like Golang if there are more than a half-dozen devs... ever.
This is pretty messed up. As long as you meet legal requirements any additional testing should be permissible, caveat emptor.
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An alternative is to build a system on a top of data warehousing technology, but it's very tough, so many stuff built on top of KDB+, I think it will stay for there for next two decades.
Great to hear! This only encourages me to continue writing my book on generic programming with Go (https://gumroad.com/l/generic-golang)
Ah, I didn't realize skin tone was specified to only appear after certain emojis -- that seems rather limiting to forwards compatibility to me, but I'm sure there's a good reason for it.
NASA ODAR reports utilize the 1 in 10,000 language, although those are for debris in general, not launches and the probability is for any injuries, not just death.
This is the high quality, thoughtful commentary I come here for.

Good luck with your job search btw ;)
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People can use the word "dying" in many legitimate ways. A popular product can be dying if it is degrading in quality.
Although there have been some reports of loose touchscreens, that has nothing to do with the event that led to this recall. A child got sucked under the device and crushed to death (they weigh in excess of 500 pounds). This isn't due to poor manufacturing, but rather misguided design.

I think the issue is not that they're old technology, but that gym equipment should not be shared in household rooms with children or pets. Really the entire category is just heavy as hell by design. Peloton’s whole shtick is normalizing gym equipment at home and they're doing it via silicon valley "move fast and break things" strategy, and here we are.
Wow, the US tracking opt-in rate is 4% according to Flurry. That is brutal and I can see why Facebook was scared.
I was under the impression AOM members were paying into a fund for exactly that purpose, but I'm not sure if there is precedence for its use.
The worst thing about depression is how difficult it makes it to deal depression.
It's ironic that the example URLs on the Firefox Addons page are actually tracked by Mozilla via `https://outgoing.prod.mozaws.net`.

I assume this extension doesn't deal with that problem (redirect-type tracking URLs).
If the promotion figures don’t include enough minorities, certain members of Congress get very mad and threaten all sorts of things. This is also why academic and honor standards at the military academies have collapsed.
If you _own_ the company 100%, then sure. Since at that point it isn't really a bribe, it's a discount or a service in kind.

I am reasonably confident though that this Netflix VP didn't own Netflix. As such he was defrauding the company and/or stockholders and/or owners of the company, since they took money that was rightfully the companies.

To a very real extent this is stealing from the company. As a 100% owner of the company it is quite difficult to "steal" from the company, although it is definitely possible to commit tax fraud by pushing stuff through the company instead of through personal accounts.

Note that accepting a bribe and not declaring it as some form of income, either personal or business, is probably illegal in your jurisdiction, since at that point it is an undeclared income stream.
I’m not talking about personal use?

I do use the neutral colors, I just think inserting identity into something is a worse outcome. Generality would be better.

See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27049269

Or this one:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27049517
I wrote a hacky helper for this sort of thing the other day. It takes a vector of values and a vector of functions. For each value it scans the functions until one returns true, and then pops off that function. If either list isn't empty it prints the unmatched items and panics.
Sorry, correction: «which works really well right now».
I still use Graffiti, on Android, as the only keyboard on almost all of my devices. (Exceptions are relevant to technical constraints - no touch, low framerate screens etc.)
That might be. I'm not an expert.

Is it more irresponsible than not removing them prior to operating on someone's brain?
> How do you explain the success then?

A megacorp funding 100 engineers to work on the compiler, libraries and tooling for 10 years
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I didn’t realize how much I hated Word until I started using Pages. For notes specifically I prefer some sort of Markdown editor.
You are misrepresenting my position. My comment was to the effect that they are real people and that you are trying to reduce and dismiss their ethnicities.
> If that was to be repealed things like the possibility of being liable for defamation on the site would level the playing field.

Giving the platforms still more reasons to ban people they deem liabilities? Not sure what your argument is.
(Timescale engineer here). We believe so and we have customers using us for just that. We haven't created our own product for that yet (as we have for metrics -- Promscale) but it is an idea we are playing with. You may want to look at our Promscale design doc[1] for ideas on table layout.

[1] https://tsdb.co/prom-design-doc
Does the exposure of security theater ever reassure anyone?
You would think for such an expensive device, but then again... Guess they spent all their money on software? Most of the best treadmills I've seen have a disappearing belt with a deck wrapped around the end. Having the belt wrap around the outside seems nuts. Anything could get in there! What's worse is I've seen some other companies trying to follow this example.

Maybe the designers decided all the safety junk was too ugly?
Is it only useful for something like a video game?