skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Single-node VictoriaMetrics can easily handle 1M metrics/sec

yeah sure but then what will you be posting on Linkedin with buzzwords? "I have installed a boring software on a single machine because it works, performs well enough and it's cheap" ? what are you going to say, "I take daily snapshots of the vm because 1-day rpo is fine for me"?

How will you get them likes??

(this is an ironic comment, before anyone starts a flame)
Many of those are filled with even more fringe stuff like conspiracy theories, precisely because they wouldn't be allowed on YouTube. That makes it convenient for normalising public opinion, as anything on these alternative sites would be associated with even worse misinformation.
Oh I see. The right axis doesn't render properly and I assumed it was just some kind of glyph: https://i.imgur.com/t4CeS1u.png
this reminds me about a show I saw at some point where someone had put a jet engine on a motorcycle. super dangerous but super fast. asked why they did this, the answer was: "because we can!!!"

seriously, you have the actual data, you have the store procedures and you have the code. Each has their own version. I have never seen this work in a production environment. It's possible that things evolved and there is better tooling since I last tried performing this stunt.

If it works for you that's great and maybe you should write some sort of blog post (do people still blog?) describing the setup and allowing others to either 1) replicate and use it 2) poke holes in it.
> There were hundereds of millions of courses administered world wide

Except that the doses involved are way lower than what's being speculated about (on flimsy evidence) as a possible COVID-19 treatment. And this drug has severe side effects at such higher doses. There's no way in hell that this stuff is ever going to be safer than mRNA vaccines, let alone more effective.
Why can't a library be stateful or have a data store?

If you're using libpng to edit an image on your disk you are working with both state and a data store. Yet plenty of applications do this every day without feeling a need to call it over a network.

And if you have to set up and migrate a client/server DBMS for the library, wouldn't you also have to do the exact same steps as if it was running as its own process somewhere the network?
Agreed. I’m working on one such tool: https://trove.to/
no you don't. the queue system gives you a bunch of primitives and you build on top of them.
Sure, Purism puts in a lot of effort. But after a year of the PinePhone drawing on Purism's effort, the community can plainly see that it a drop in the bucket of what needs to be done.

Everyone I know working on something PinePhone-related is concerned about the small size of the dev community.
That sounded great until the 'wealthy small business owners' part..

So the mega rich get off again...

Aannd of course, govt's are already trying to carve out provisions for their local pet industries in the G7 15% corporate tax talks..
Because competition is good, and monopolies are bad. It’s just that we don’t actually have any monopolies in the tech industry, and people who say we do are wrong and/or pursuing an agenda that has nothing to do with market competition.
Poverty in the US certainly isn't new, but in many ways it's worse than it used to be.

Labor unions were very effective at increasing wages for blue collar jobs. Particularly ones not easily outsourced, like construction. Businesses have lobbied to systematically attack organized labor for around 100 years. The few unions left are relics from an earlier time. Businesses have made it neigh impossible to form new ones.

The "gig economy" is a new form of exploitation. Technology has enabled a new breed of job that barely skirts employee regulations. This has undone decades of worker protections.

Importation of foreign workers has been good for foreign workers, but in the US is mostly a tool to suppress wages. You can get away with more law breaking when your employees are wholly dependant on you. Job Visas are indentured servitude.

The US has regressed in every income inequality metric over the last 50 years. To out it simply, the ultra rich own half the country. You don't see this same wealth concentration happening in Europe.

If wages kept pace with worker productivity, the average worker would make something like $150,000 a year. The productivity gains are real, but all this money has gone to the people at the top. Tax law is just a small part of why the median American is getting poorer while the average American gets richer
"The (very slim) majority may feel that such taxes are not the best way to deal with climate change, "

You have no way of knowing that.

It could be that they simply don't support fighting climate change, or deny that it exists, and could possibly want to claw back other related programs.

"the false choice of wealth redistribution or climate change apathy"

Actually that's a false proposition ... because Taxes are not Wealth Distribution.

If they were taxing to give to the poor, somehow in the name of 'climate change' then maybe. But taxing travel to reduce usage - or - to pay for offsets, or to use to invest in climate programs - that's not 'wealth redistribution'.

"There are other ways of looking at this, which I don't think are captured by framing it as them having rejected climate change measures. "

They voted squarely against measures which were designed to help meet the Paris Accord targets. While there is obviously more nuance to it, the editorial framing is close enough that it's fair.

It is what it is.
Why. They could just hire or repurpose a few engineers and build a competitor. This is just dumb.
The neo-Hindu view of the Buddha is indeed misrepresentation. Buddha couldn’t have been a Hindu because “Hinduism” as they understand it simply didn’t exist at that time. But your view isn’t any better.

1. There is no reason to believe the Pali Tripitaka represents the authentic words or teachings of the Buddha. He would have spoken Magadhi as his mother tongue. Pali was a Western Prakrit and moreover a trade and literary language not a popular one. Also the Pali Tripitaka was composed and edited by the Hinayanists several centuries after the Buddha’s life and expresses doctrinal developments that would be anachronistic in that era.

2. There is no particular reason to believe that Buddha and early Buddhism was against caste except in the general sense that they are against worldly behaviors of any type. You won’t find anything about it in the Aryan eightfold path (Aryashtangamarga) for instance. (Aryan is usually translated as “noble” in this case. Did you ever wonder why?). The ten major disciples of the Buddha were all either Brahmanas or his royal relatives. The first major historical Buddhist ruler Ashoka in his rock edicts exhorts his subjects to respect both “Brahmanas and Shramanas”. The Ashokavadana, the earliest Buddhist hagiography (and canonical in Theravada) states that a Buddha can only be born in a Brahmana or Kshatriya womb.

3. Buddhism is against karma and holds that liberation is from Jnana only. Animal sacrifices are mentioned a lot because they are particularly vivid examples of the negative consequences of karma but the Buddhist critique applies just as readily to lighting a ghee lamp for worldly reasons. The Jains were more consistently for non-violence than the Buddhists. (No predominantly Buddhist culture is predominantly vegetarian). Jnana only is the position of Advaita Vedanta too. The difference is Smarta Hinduism developed a modus vivendi where karma was acceptable for householders. There was no lay Buddhism during its Indian phase only the sangha so the question could be put aside.

4. Yes Astika philosophers and saints contended against Buddhist counterparts (and each other) but it is anachronistic to bring those disputes back to the time of the Buddha himself. By the time of Shankaracharya there were several mutually antagonistic Buddhist sects. (Actually three is generous. Traditionally there are said to be eighteen.). That is what he is referring to. They can’t all be “the true teaching of the Buddha” unless he was incoherent.
> Who are you to say otherwise, should they pursue policies that go against their interests to satisfy foreigners?

One should be able to criticize policies that directly affect them, for example those on climate change, whose effects go well beyond a country's borders.
It's worth noting that my extension is far from perfect – it turns out that determining whether a specific page has been submitted to Hacker News is far from a trivial problem to solve. In general, this is because multiple URLs can map to the same page.

Direct string comparison of the current URL to previously submitted ones doesn't work because there are many ways for two identical web pages to have different URLs. For example, the URL fragments can differ (the part after the "#" that may or may not be present). Also there can be tracking parameters (often—but not necessarily—prefixed with "utm_"), which don't change anything about the page. But the URL parameters can't be entirely disregarded because sometimes sites, forums in particular, rely on them – consider pages that use an "?id=..." parameter for different pages. Thus some parameters should be removed, but some shouldn't. The same website having different domains (or domains that change over time) further complicates the situation.

My solution was to "canonicalize" URLs by transforming them into a simplified form using some pretty rough heuristics for common sources of noise. The Python code to do that is here: https://github.com/jstrieb/hackernews-button/blob/master/can...

All of this to say that even though I've used my extension for months and have been quite happy, there will inevitably be false negatives.
> Whenever the topic of, as you call them "out-of-band" treatments arose, the look on their faces would silence the topic. So, if you feel adventurous, I would suggest to cross-check your opinion with someone in the field.

Let's agree that "the field" is not exclusive to US medicine with all the associated malpractice litigation risks. That might be an explanation for faces turning sour in your personal sample of acquaintances.

> They are called protocols and not algorithms for a reason.

> Every patient is different and the doctor has incomplete knowledge, and the protocols are in the end just that: Guidelines.

> we are talking here about deviating from the guidelines without good evidence or without a procedure to gain knowledge from it in a structured manner

I think you are taking a very elastic view on what protocols are. They either demand adherence or they are mere guidelines. Either evidence is required before straying out of protocol or doctors are expected to operate under incomplete knowledge.
In that case, could you please expound upon why increasing the human population by X% increases our technological advancement by X%? I must’ve missed where you supported that assertion with facts or evidence.
Some past threads:

Ask HN: What can a technologist do about climate change? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25436237 - Dec 2020 (47 comments)

What can a technologist do about climate change? (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23153043 - May 2020 (32 comments)

What Can a Technologist Do About Climate Change? (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20520183 - July 2019 (12 comments)

What can a technologist do about climate change? (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19259106 - Feb 2019 (46 comments)

What can a technologist do about climate change? (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16505675 - March 2018 (10 comments)

What can a technologist do about climate change? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10622615 - Nov 2015 (289 comments)
Hi Ted, thanks for responding. The extension API is similar to the kernel's driver API, with the same caveats -- you can use it externally, but you need to track upstream for breaking changes, because upstream is always going to need to have the ability to refactor and deprecate things, otherwise they get stuck maintaining deprecated/crufty APIs forever. And yes, I am suggesting that making a stable extension API for the shell would probably be about as difficult as making a stable Linux driver API. There is not really any consensus on what a GUI shell is supposed to look and act like, as you can probably tell from all the arguments all over the years.

If KDE has a solution to this problem in the works, I'd love to hear about it, but AFAIK this is not solveable with code, because it's a headcount problem, not a technical one. Otherwise my suggestion would be the same as the kernel developers say to someone using out-of-tree drivers: either get your extension upstreamed, and deal with the long review process from the shell developers, and be prepared to explain in extreme detail why you need 2d workspaces and why it's worth it to have upstream maintain that... or just don't update your shell until the extension gets updated. This isn't really a Gnome specific problem either if you ask me, I haven't seen any desktop compositors for Linux that are active and offering a fully complete and stable API, because turns out it's not an easy thing to do.
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

I can't resist mentioning this book. It's not fiction, but it reads like fiction - it has all the ingredients for a compelling fiction story: oversized characters, delusions of grandeur, deception, giant egos, and so much more. But it's not fiction, it's all true. Hollywood wants to make it into a movie, and when you read the book you'll know exactly why.
Tangent, but there has to be a better way to measure population density than taking total area as the denominator and headcount as the numerator.

Something like 'median density': sort citizens by local density, find the median, and report that. My guess is that California would have a higher number than Florida by that measure. I don't know about Switzerland vs. California, but that's the question I'd like to answer here!
Good questions. I imagine listened somewhere between one and ten minutes. At the hospital I remember nothing except that my arm was tied to a bar above my head for long enough that it hurt, and I had to plead to get them to restrain me some other way. I don't know whether I received a bill. Neither does my mom, who probably would have paid for it, as I was making peanuts.

I wish I'd kept a diary. (I actually did a lot of writing that year, but it was of the creative sort. I held onto a box full of it for years. I went through it once and thought it was dumb, but kept it still. The second time I did that, years later, I confirmed my earlier judgment and decided it wasn't worth keeping.)
>Also, we're all the same person or being.
>
>Weird day.

Not that weird according to Alan Watts' "Book" AKA "On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are". This is the main tenet, and it can briefly be described as a God who plays hide n' seek with Godself.
I disagree. I miss Geocities, and, more recently, Myspace.
Both let YOU, the user, customize and design your "home".

So what if it was hard to read with 20 blinking GIFs and an autoplaying music player, it was YOURS.

The worst things about Facecrook are not it's monopoly, ok that's the worst, but I rather dislike that blue boring nav bar, 5000 friend limits (their graph DB can only handle that many or what's the bottleneck? cheap bustards!) and the generally lame mainstream design of the whole building.
Like, who approved "pokes"?
Even Friendster was hipper than Facehooked.
Some past threads:

MS Paint IDE - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24290834 - Aug 2020 (9 comments)

MS Paint IDE - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17958021 - Sept 2018 (34 comments)

Coding in MS Paint - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6589881 - Oct 2013 (4 comments)
> What else should scientists do than challenging the status quo?

Sure, and I rather suspect there are all sorts of venues that scientists could use to communicate scientific reasons challenging the status quo, ones in which there'd be a process of discourse with other domain experts capable of independently evaluating claims.

YouTube is significant mass media. But the idea that it's a crucial early stage link in the scientific process is one of the most ridiculous things about this conversation.

When you deal in mass distribution, the dynamics and responsibilities are different than when you're in conversation/process with other domain experts. If you can't build up a decent threshold of support within circles of expertise first, it's likely your counterclaim won't have real value for a mass market. Or worse.

And if you want access to a mass market anyway without having to face those challenges first, it's possible that what you're about is more personal privilege than substantial contribution to the marketplace of ideas.

And given how ridiculously diverse and incredibly free the online marketplace for ideas is right now, considering how it has never been easier to get mass distribution of even pretty questionable ideas, it's a pretty weird time to take the posture that we're actually suffering under an oppressively censored discourse regime.
"They voted against the costs. "

First, it's hard to know that and second, meeting Paris Accord targets will have 'costs'. So if you're voting against costs necessary to meet a specified objective, well it's effectively the same thing as meeting the objective.

After all, it's almost always about money.

The editorial framing is fair.
It doesn’t have to be the way you’re describing.

There was a bill a while back to force bill contents to be narrowly scoped (I.e. no pork barrel spending). It failed, but that doesn’t mean we can’t push for its passage in the future anyway.
Sounds like a fantastic trip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_Men

Set in 2021, BTW.
How is direct democracy worse than the non-direct one in this respect? By enabling the politicians to not hold to the promises that got them elected?
"Let's solve the problem."
Seems very similar to Racket's Scribble: https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/index.html

I quite enjoyed working with Scribble for my ridesharing side project. If you want examples of how it looks, just browse the Racket documentation. Very pretty and (dare I say) easy to work with.
One small past thread:

Skribilo: A Scheme-Based Document Programming Framework - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8453884 - Oct 2014 (2 comments)
Agree. Some people have modeled this, and attributed emissions back to household consumption:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289373031_Environme...
How is it a bad trip that set you on a career path you like?
To each it’s own Eternal September
Unfortunately, outside some particular environmental conditions that are far from trivial to reproduce most places, seeds don't last indefinitely. The gemination rate tends to drop off fairly rapidly as a factor of years.

They're designed to survive from late summer to spring, not years or the decades that would be needed for that sort of thing.

Now, there's a ton you can do with seeds - work on optimizing various heirloom varieties of plants to your local climate (as opposed to the "one seed for all places, apply energy to the field until they behave!" approach that is widely used today), and trying to keep some genetic diversity in the seeds you use, but I don't think "random seed capsules" are likely to work over the likely timeframes involved.
The Pizza-Making Contraption – Joseph's Machines
Slash dot? That’s not a name I’ve heard in years …
That's an interesting one because when it began, it was much closer to the 'loosely affiliated states' but over time, it has become more tight-knit under regulatory and leadership frameworks. That's not to say there isn't a bunch of internal disagreements. IMO.
>Usually when you join a religious order that requires a vow of poverty, your stuff goes to to the order.

Do you have a source for this? I know that a vow of poverty means you have to give up everything, such as your friend's house. But I doubt that it has to be given to the order. Also there might be a distinction between things you give away before joining (what I think this thread is about) and things you gain while a nun (such as inherited stuff) that you have to give away.

> I think you can give them to your family. [1]

> When you make final vows, you can give away your possessions (e.g. to family/friends) or donate them to the order. [2]

> Possessions can usually be given to family or friends or sold and donated either to the order or a charity of choice. In the case of inheritance, you can either ask to be left out of the will or accept it and then turn it over to the order or gift it to another. [3]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/comments/9zaegz/curious...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/comments/grtzu1/advice_...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/comments/grtzu1/advice_...
I am not exactly sure what you are trying to prove here. As far as I am concerned, Google and Facebook have not been broken up into pieces of YouTube and Instagram yet. How does this in any way demonstrate what would happen if we broke up big tech? Sounds like further evidence they need to be released from their mismanagement.
I'll write a crawler and get this done for CGA docs (Compute, Graphics and AI).

Thanks for the tip.
We don’t know this.

Our understanding of nutrition is closer to none than to complete.

The more deeply you research this, the more true my statement will seem.
Yeah, something along these lines is how I've explained it to co-workers as well. Tossing in "git log --all --oneline --decorate --graph" so they can actually see the graph also helps a lot.
My father had a lifelong ticket to fly anywhere. Then they took it away (2019)
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/03/22/stand-there/
The picture look like maybe the labels on the right axis are rendered with too thick fonts so that they are unreadable.

Do you have the raw data from which the graph is produced (without JavaScripts or pictures)?
I avoid smart crap as much as possible, but now my parents were hit: they've had the same TV and cable box thing for many years, and this month it started showing ads on everything: the menus, paused movies, past recordings. Unskippable ads as well.

It's just so tiring, I dread the day I will need to buy a new car and they will all have touchscreen internet connected gimmicks and ads.
The problem is that this does not model the situation accurately; there is no known malware available for download on the App Store to my knowledge. Any apps that actually do get past review unfairly (by using private APIs or otherwise) are quickly removed. Your model implies that Apple is willingly letting malware stay up on the App Store, which is not the case.
I'm so sick of git.

Yes I know what a directed acyclic graph is. No I don't know what 'checkout' will actually do this time when I run the command.

It's been 10 years. It's still confusing people. There's still article after article, book after book written on a tool that should be getting out of a programmers way.

Let's try something else.