skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Additionally, I think it's pretty obvious that the journalist knew this and the editor picked the clickbait title.
I've really enjoyed working with tsdb, we are using it in conjunction with hasura and it has been amazing how productive we feel.

Best of luck from a happy customer.
The term "差不多 (chabuduo)" could but is often NOT used with a shoulder shrug in day-to-day communication. The actual meaning, just like any other language, depends a lot on the context.

For questions asking for a mount of something ("How much ... would you like?"), it is common to answer that with 差不多兩匙 (about two spoons) or 差不多那樣 (that's about right). In this context it should translate to "about" or "about right".

When someone is being annoying, people in the northern part of China would often say 差不多得了, which means "that's enough, stop it".

Of course, there would be mediocre people use this phrase with a shoulder shrug. The problem is the attitude, which as you said, is not culturally specific to Chinese.

> It's an attitude very prevalent in Mainland China

Mainland China has a huge population. Even if just 10% of them having this attitude, that is still a lot of people. There is a good chance you have met some of them, as I did myself, unfortunately.

There is also bias. Cheap products, regardless where it is made, has a higher probability to fall apart after a few months. You will only hear it from the news if a building collapsed or there was a terrible incident; if everything works -- as it should -- it won't make the headlines.

There is also a term for poorly-built projects, 豆腐渣工程（ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu-dreg_project) and people are furious when they read about it. People cut corners because they have the incentive to do so and they know they might be able to get way with it by paying a relatively small penalty to the potential gain.

It is not a "chabuduo", it is actually about taking a precisely calculated risk. The flawed system is giving the people the wrong incentive, that's what holding China back from its full potential.

> I haven't encountered this in Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, or even Hong Kong.

That's probably just because you haven't stayed in those place long enough. A quick search in Spotify gives you:

* 差不多姑娘 by G.E.M, a singer in Hong Kong: https://open.spotify.com/album/28sxY4WxuFLQ5wMeugtyAp

* 差不多先生 by MC HotDog, from Taiwan: https://open.spotify.com/album/7xEo9EqHb4X52fA7DGiDPg

* and so on...
Very nice, I appreciate the minimalism. Thank you for sharing!
He was bragging about sexually assaulting women. That is a very bad and very mean thing, and has nothing to do with the "democrat" protests.
Thank you for naming this. I've always struggled with how to convey this to people.
For reference the video is available on this article and makes for quite disturbing viewing: https://metro.co.uk/2021/04/18/child-filmed-being-dragged-un...

Fortunately the child was able to escape in this case, but it's pretty easy to see how people, and children in particular, could be injured or worse by these treadmills.
Whenever I've used a Peloton in a hotel they have SPD pedals. It's almost like they use Deltas to push people to buy their shoes.

But yeah, my wife and I already had SPD shoes from doing spin together for awhile, so I bought pedals and never used the ones that came with the Peloton.
Have you looked at Real-time aggregates in TimescaleDB? It might help address the problem you are facing:

"With real-time aggregation, when you query a continuous aggregate view, rather than just getting the pre-computed aggregate from the materialized table, the query will transparently combine this pre-computed aggregate with raw data from the hypertable that’s yet to be materialized. And, by combining raw and materialized data in this way, you get accurate and up-to-date results, while still enjoying the speedups that come from pre-computing a large portion of the result."

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/achieving-the-best-of-both-w...

(You would then just need to query / point to the Continuous Aggregate to get the new and aggregated data in the same query)
Hah, pretty arrogant of Zuck to claim the whole domain for his internal bullshit.
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Just communicate that setting a _priority_ for a bug is fine, but a timescale isn't, as you don't know what you don't know. Then let them know what resources you need to figure it out as quickly as possible (maybe it's just space and time, maybe it's people, maybe it's expertise).
> It doesn't compose with other abstractions

But monads don't compose with each other, do they? I thought you needed something more (monad transformers, algebraic effects, etc.) to get things to compose. Or maybe you meant something else by composition.

> I can't use this for my own abstractions

Yep. But Java doesn't even let you overload addition afaik, so being able to overload ? is pretty much a pipe dream.

> Do you mean that, because you don't see people lamenting, it's not a useful feature?

No, it's just that if something "backfired" for Java, I'd expect to hear people complaining about it.
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That doesn’t make the two equivalent.

Also, hopefully soon you will: https://urbit.org/
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gym equipment should not be shared in household rooms with children or pets.

That sounds completely impractical - good luck keeping a child out of a room. Perhaps the devices should be safer, rather than passing the buck from the company to the individuals?
Yeah, agreed. And it’s super annoying when people use the fact that a subsidy isn’t as efficient as a carbon tax (or some other broad measure) as justification for ending it (without a carbon tax replacement). For instance, Virginia (a Blue state) passed a usage fee on EVs (that’s actually higher than the typical state gas tax would be for the same distance traveled in a regular vehicle) in order to “compensate” for the fact that EVs don’t pay gas tax. Therefore turning the Pigouvian gas tax into an anti-Pigouvian fee for acting on the desire to use more efficient and lower emissions transportation. (Not to mention you ALSO were taxed on electricity and the battery... plus personal property tax for the battery... just to add insult to injury.) I guess because of the (false) perception that only rich f**ks buy electric cars. “Oh, but it’s JUST for paying for the roads!” Yeah, like the Pigouvian aspect didn’t matter and as if the state gas tax is solely used for roads.
> ... If after a certain time...

Why wait? I'm quite aware of the various downsides of nuclear. Yes, it's currently expensive. But one way or another, every functional nuclear power plant displaces several natural gas and coal plants.

It's really that simple.

If we assume that CH4 and CO2 emissions have a strong chance of being an existential threat to our civilization, then we can make no other option but to embrace nuclear ASAP, even with all of its problems.

At the same time, pour funding into research: there's all kinds of fission technologies that show promise in safety, cost and in minimizing byproducts.

Even more important, pour funding into batteries and other energy storage technologies.

As far as renewables have come, we they have hardly scratched the surface for base load requirements. Except for hydro in some locations.
Realistically they'll probably fire up a copy of ILSVRC to recognize objects and a dated Wikipedia tarball to interpret their contemporary history.

Either that or they'll shrug and melt them down in the hopes of finding trace metals for bronze/iron age weapons.
While people are entitled to their view of the CEO, I find many of the comments doing nothing more than insulting the CEO.

As a South Asian, I think there's more meaningful discussion to be had on the "bamboo ceiling" and, in particular, how Chinese collectivist views interact in increasingly global economies. This core tension between the two views isn't going to go away. Perhaps the Eternal September is upon us?
Yeah doesn't really strike you with confidence in his leadership abilities.
There are just so many instances of left-leaning politicians inciting, encouraging, or supporting criminality, that there's no defense for the one-sided enforcement of moderation by Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon, and the rest of them. I have a list below of articles I dug up from just two minutes of web searches. There are substantially more instances than just these as well, but none of these people are banned, nor is their content censored. We see the same one-sided enforcement with fact-checking, which has been slowly degrading into partisanship as well. These days I often see fact checks with the label "missing context", that aren't really a "fact check" but cast doubt on a claim typically from a moderate or right-leaning voice.

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All the times Democrats used the word "fight": https://nypost.com/2021/02/12/trump-team-plays-videos-of-dem...

Chuck Schumer (and others) inciting/supporting rioting at the Capitol during Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings: https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/03/chuck-schumer-used-viol...

Democrats claiming the 2016 election was stolen and inciting violence against Trump: https://defconnews.com/2021/01/11/all-the-times-democrats-in...

AOC justifying rioting: https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1334184644707758080
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_W._McConnell is a constitutionalist. vaguely republican.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A1s_Saj%C3%B3 is a human rights judge.

there is of course the ex editor of the guardian as well, who wouldn't be my first choice to have on board.
This is inspired by the recent Signal blog post. [1] Took the prompts they have and made a meme generator. It renders text character by character onto a canvas in order to get the letter spacing close to what is used in the blog. The canvas is used because it allows export to image. It's probably going to be hit and miss on mobile.

1. https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see...
If you go to your mechanic and tell them "car won't start", does your mechanic have idea how long it's going to take to fix or how much money it will cost? Realistically, you will be charged a fee to figure out what is wrong, and another to fix the problem.

When you have a bug, you are still figuring out what is wrong.
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I have no idea why you put the riots in quotes when that's what they were _at best_. Trump was talking to an audience immediately before the same individuals surrounded and stormed the capitol. His speech was at best divisive and contained many euphemisms, if not straight calls to violence by using words like "fight."

Why are you playing this "what about x" game? The comparison is apples to oranges, and yet here we are.
It's also important to remember that one person is not the whole employer.
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Getting visuals while looking at a computer screen can definitely happen at small doses. You might not see any visuals looking at the space around you, but black text on a bright white screen will bring it out.

And mixing up the dosage is insanely easy with LSD, especially if you are using tabs since the LSD isn't evenly distributed throughout the paper. Also, you never really know how much LSD is on your sheet or in your vial, you just have to trust your source.
That's basically the same as paying people less.
Feels like it would be very weird to ask someone if they are a recent immigrant (there are millions of African Americans who immigrated to the USA post 1965 or are children of those immigrants) or an ADOS to decide whether you should label them “Black” or “black”.

I’ll say whatever someone prefers though. Capitalizing “w” in white is a bit creepy to me though and has echoes of promoting the idea that all “whites” are the same.
For the specific application of carbon capture (CC), electricity intermittency is not a big deal; just cover a square mile with PV panels and capture carbon while the sun shines. (Assuming you have a viable CC technology in the first place.)
Yes, if you care about privacy both the large Chinese services and the large American services are bad.

If you use Facebook or Instagram assume that the NSA has all your data, and that someone might try to manipulate you. If you use TikTok assume that China has all your data, and someone might try to manipulate you. You either choose your poison, or you stay on services that aren't in the limelight
Opportunity cost is simple. It’s a calculation of what your money could have been doing if you put it to use doing something else. The easiest to estimate is the market opportunity cost.

If you spend $10,000 on a solar installation that is $10,000 you could have put in the market. After 15 years you saved $10,000 in electricity, and you’re supposedly profiting. However, that $10,000 investment would have grown to $24,000 at a modest 6%. So you’re actually still in the red, and you’ll likely never catch up and break even.

If you took out a loan it’s the opportunity cost on the payments. There is actually a theoretical break even here, but it’s not 15 years.

If you’re doing it for some altruistic reasons then it doesn’t matter. But if you’re making a payback calculation, you should do it properly. Opportunity cost is a real thing.
Just because you’re powerful does that give you the right to be more difficult?
We totally hear you that usability and the developer experience is super important, especially when starting out.

One project we launched earlier this year "Timescale Analytics" actually seeks to address exactly this, e.g., bring more useful features and easier programmability to SQL [1] and you can see (or add) to the discussion on github [2].

Also informed by some of the super helpful functions we've seen in PromQL. And by the way, if you are interested in PromQL, we have 100% compatibility with PromQL through Promscale [3], which provides an observability platform for Prometheus data (built on TimescaleDB).

[1] https://blog.timescale.com/blog/time-series-analytics-for-po...
[2] https://github.com/timescale/timescale-analytics/discussions
[3] https://www.timescale.com/promscale
It's really frustrating how often whataboutism is used whenever China is criticized, particularly towards the US.

Yes, we know other countries have similar issues, but we can't excuse the blatant wrongdoings of the CCP by pointing the finger elsewhere.

It often feels like the work of bots or government shills anytime it happens, but good luck getting to the bottom of that.
Holocaust didn't happen because the people who opposed rounding up people demonstrated as part of their private lives but didn't bring up their objections at work.

Pretending that THIS is "literally" why the Holocaust happened borders on anti-semitism.

The Holocaust happened because enough peoole there were willing to accept bad things being done when they were done to unpopular groups. The lesson to be learned from it is that even if someone is unpopular, we need to be strive to treat them with humanity.
Periodic reminder that deplatforming is like democracy the least bad option we currently have.

Weaponized speech (which is actually an unholy marriage of data driven sentiment management, which would not unreasonably be described as still incompletely successful stochastic mind control) represents a threat to our society culture and government not unlike asymmetrical nuclear or biological warfare. Against amoral bad actors, there is no plausible defense.

In such an environment we have no better tool currently than a zero-tolerance shut down of actors who have demonstrated bad faith and ill intent, with respect to the system itself.

We do have worse tools, but they are mostly much much worse.
I’m not sure how you twisted it:

the OP said “harassment isn’t acceptable.”

you said “why is that in the discussion?”

I said “bec some ppl here think it is.”

you respond by quoting free speech case law.

We’re not arguing about the merits of how the SCOTUS rules on the 1st amendment. It’s a discussion of the appropriate response to encountering someone you disagree with.

You calling my employer now and telling them they should fire me is not an appropriate response no matter whether or not it’s protected by the first amd.
Were there damages reported? Low population density areas give low odds of collisions, plus free metal to be scavenged/recycled

Article here mentions metal found but not damages.

https://www.newsweek.com/chinese-rocket-rained-metal-ivory-c...
Peloton just announced that they are making significant investments in their just ride the bike offerings. I don't know if it will get to the level of zwift or those others, but they recognize that there is an opportunity there to improve their offerings.
> Considering nginx is really just good at serving static content(maybe CDN uses it a lot) and the rest are all proxying

The English is a bit broken in the top-level comment, but both static content and proxying are clearly mentioned as "nginx things", which is entirely fair. If you don't consider proxying to be included under the term "serving" (which is entirely reasonable and not uncommon) this is entirely true - the only kind of "serving" nginx is good at is static files, the rest of what it's good at isn't "serving" but proxying to other servers that render dynamic content - PHP-FPM is one such server (it just happens to not speak standard HTTP).

I don't see why people always get mad when this gets brought up - I've always considered that to be a good architectural choice for nginx. Running application code in the webserver process isn't a good idea anymore so the focus on good static and proxy performance is actually what I think made it ultimately "win" over Apache - the industry has moved on from the old ways and Apache fell behind.
ISDN was used a lot in Germany and was disabled just a few years ago. I still remember the agony of getting my Linux PC to work with the Fritz!Card (on the ISA bus) to finally be able to be online for 3 cents a minute on the Internet. ISDN was really fast and extremely stable though.
> Zhu believes his preference to seek consensus instead of shutting down dissenting views or engaging in noisy debates is a cultural trait his investors mistook for weakness—a stereotype about East Asians that academics researchers have cited as a reason for their underrepresentation in leadership positions in the U.S.

Can we just stop for a sec and collectively roll our eyes at VCs (and our own) trope of a “tech leader”? We want some kind of decisive, basically tech bro, alpha to come in and boss people around without any context. We want the startup CEO to be a wunderkind, and magically know the right call to make at any given point. There’s little room for consensus based leadership, which has its own place. How often have you had the “hard charging leader” come in and make a mess because their confidence outstrips their know how?

I’m not saying one leadership style is better than the other, I just hope we recognize good consensus based leadership should be valued as well, and it’s rather undervalued in tech culture in favor of people that sometime make a lot of noise, but end up being completely full of it.
AI is just statistics. Are we really going to make math illegal?
Unfortunately it's super hard to just buy innovation. You can buy the best tool in the world, but it won't do you any good unless you pivot your business practices to take advantage of it. Sometimes a good tool can by the catalyst for that rethinking. The re-imagining can be as valuable as the tool itself.
Generality is not, in general, better - we all communicate with different symbols (including different letters and words, different languages and dialects and subtexts and slang) to evoke different aspects of language and communication.

Identity is extremely important to communication - I, personally, am communicating my opinion to you, personally.

If you want to stick to [what you consider] neutral or impersonal language in whatever aspect, you can. That option hasn't been removed from you.

If you want to impose your preference on others, that is to prevent other people from communicating effectively. I don't respect that.
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Edit: Has been fixed in the latest commit.
The original post also says

> The Pendolino itself is a fine product, with the tilt removed. Alstom uses it as its standard 250 km/h train, at lower cost than 350 km/h trains. It runs in China as CRH5, and Poland bought a non-tilting Pendolino fleet for its high-speed rail service.

I guess this is a reference to "New Pendolino" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Pendolino), one of the most recent versions of the train which omits the tilting.
A WSJ article I read, but the wiki page is almost certainly a better source.
I'm not sure I understand. Wouldn't that mean that steel producers just end up passing on more of the cost to consumers in the form of higher prices, resulting in reduced steel consumption? It sounds like a tax would work fine.

By the way, I'm working on the assumption of a carbon price applied on fossil fuels at the source, such as the Energy Innovation Act would include.
I had a bonded ISDN setup with my company paying half of the fees, back in 1997 or so. I got to work from home, over a rock-steady 128kbit connection, on my home Linux PC connected to my HP workstation in the office. It was a magical time.
You mean a title for those who don't read the article but still vote or comment as if they did? But as far as I know, the purpose of titles is to make you want to get the paper or visit the site and read the article, not fully summarize the topic. .
I'm drawing a parallel to ikea who recently recalled a bib because somewhere in the world the snaps fell off. No one was even hurt.

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/customer-service/product-support/....
But almost all political donations, I would think, are because the entity donating already supports the viewpoint of the elected official.

Is it bribing if there isn't a quid pro quo? I can give a congressperson a bunch of money with a note attached saying "Don't vote for bill XYZ", but there is no promise or even acknowledgement from the congressperson that they will do anything at all for you.
I don't really know how to engage with a claim like this. You could argue a lot of things - but are they true? It seems extraordinarily unlikely to me that Facebook would have banned a President Marco Rubio or President Ted Cruz.
Hey all,

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I made this app because I believe there are a ton of people who suffer from cognitive distortions, but are uncomfortable getting help. Many are unable to afford a therapist, some even feel shame. Others simply find the whimsical nature of many self help books and apps to be "uncool" and therefore won't engage with them.

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I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback - thanks for checking it out!
Similar to DropBox.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863