skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes, we'd love to offer Timescale as an extension, but still waiting for buy-in from the Timescale team on this.

If we can't manage we'll eventually do something else for timeseries data - eg, we could do a Foreign Data Wrapper to Clickhouse tables
> I don't think he wants to become a politician. He wants to enact political change. These are two very different things.

No, they aren't. Well, one is an action, and one is the description of a person in a position to do that action (not every politician enacts political change, but everyone who enacts political change is a politician.)
It's the exact same image, too. Feels like a ripoff, at least make your own dirty image!
Just plant more trees
I've seen office buildings and higher-end apartments apply drywall on top of the concrete or brick structure of load-beating walls. The reasons are usually adding more noise insulation, and the ability to route power / network / video cabling and have recessed sockets wherever the tenant demands, not where the concrete has a planned cavity.
Oh, fuck. Sorry. I even knew that, but the test suite had finished running and I had to hurry.
Given that people are going to drink I want to know when the medical community is going to work on finding a way to reduce the damage it causes.
Gherkins: A better way of writing user stories
Faster shortcuts:

https://deletefacebook.com/

https://deleteinstagram.com/

It's probably by design, but from experience most people will need non-trivial discipline/hacks to get around the 30 day window and avoid reflexively logging in. Would be curious to know how many people who try deleting their accounts follow through to the end
Crazy idea as it is I feel like it's an interesting social experiment which I want to enter. Make smart contacts so that in case of non agreement the mutual deposit goes to Green Peace after some time and it almost starts to make sense.

But what is new about "web3" that wasn't part of the original Ethereum idea?
Bandcamp: Artists have been paid $812M
I can control them almost perfectly on my linux box: the bios set the speed as a function of the temperature, so if I want to spin the fans up, I just need to fire up some intensive computation. A power virus easily bring them to top speed. Very convenient. When I want a quieter computer I just need to kill every single process, although powering the machine off seems to be the most reliable.
I think I should have added the caveat "with the typical information we give it".

I suspect that if we made enough effort at the schematic stage to properly annotate all the nets and define the types of signals flowing around the board, an autorouter could do a superior job to a human (from an RF emissions and trace current sense).

I've never seen a schematic with that level of annotation though. So as long as the person doing the layout has to use external knowledge of what they're laying out, autorouters will struggle.

In theory you could make EDA software which incorporated a full circuit simulation which was then fed into the autorouter to provide a layout optimised for low-EMI and high efficiency. That would be nice!
Are you vaping by any chance?
I'm just pointing out the shortcomings I found. I've been using it and keeping tabs on resources for Plan 9 and Inferno since 2014:

- https://taoofmac.com/space/os/plan9

...so I do know a lot about it in practice. It's just that, also in practice, nearly ten years of tinkering with it have been mesmerising, mostly fun, but not useful enough for my particular use cases. YMMV.
Oh yeah of course, twitch is probably a minority of her earnings. But what I think is more interesting is that Twitch's moves to make it easy for advertisers to opt out of streamers like her doesn't seem to have hurt her earnings all that much if she's still that high. Ofc it could be that ad revenue went down but sub revenue was way higher, which, again, is telling. Also could be that ad buyers didn't blink and continued paying for the hot tubs category. I think it points to a more plausible future for softcore streaming - there might be a market for stuff that's less explicit than camgirls, especially if that makes it easier for kids to access it. (I don't condone this, just think it's interesting.)
That depends a lot on what you mean by politics. Plenty of things are unctroversial in polls of the population, but either controversial or uncontroversial in the opposite direction in political discourse (medicare for all, war in Iraq, to give two examples).
You define some test-unit cases, input-output pair.

You define some elementary blocks like in scratch (Blockly). And you try to randomly assemble the blocks so that they respect the type constraints. And you score your program based on the number of test case it got right.

For this simple problem, naive random search was all that was needed. (less than 100k programs evaluations)

But for more advanced cases you could use something like Genetic Programming with Koza's Automatically Defined Functions where you build an intermediate library of useful blocks.

Now one would use deep learning and produce source code directly with some tool like Copilot and run it until it passes all tests. Or if you want to get your hands dirty, you can re-implement the old school methods and use a neural network to make the pick decisions instead of a random pick.

Once you have programs that pass all test cases, you can try to prove correctness (that's more something like HOL-Light would do) and whether or not they are equivalent (and equivalent to a formal specification) and optimize them further by transforming the program.
You know it ;)
That's fine. You can still work if you want (for yourself or someone else) on the fifth day. Just allow others to have the possibility to "not work" (although, in my case, I would spend the fifth day writing, reading, coding, running... it's not like I will lay on bed all day).
I think overall they generally are harmful to US interests. What is the CIA most known for? Overthrowing countries and supporting dictators because of their past anti communist paranoia. What have been their major successes? I would say the regular intelligence work they do, collecting intelligence from various agents around the world and in general HUMINT. It's their clandestine and paramilitary work that's caused the biggest problems in my view, and not just in a strategic sense, but in a ideological way too, you can excuse regular spying in a free country because it's obviously necessary to maintain accurate information on any potential adversary, but coups in countries that go against US interests is a lot harder to justify in an ideological sense, especially if you want to say that one of the core American ideals is "freedom". This is something in my view that the US shouldn't do at all, and hence the need to purge the CIA of bureaucrats and others would push for this kind of action because it's what the CIA is historically known to do.
There absolutely are major questions about that.

Most of the research and claims you see about bots manipulating people on social media fall apart when examined. For example they often rely on a badly trained ML model that labelled nearly half of Congress as "bots". This sort of thing is never admitted in the media - if you don't double check for yourself you'd never realize.

Here's a talk that goes into a lot of detail:

https://archive.org/details/hopeconf2020/20200726_2000_Peopl...
I read it as a joke, the entry ends with "You know what they say in SV: every good startup breaks at least a few laws…".

Edit: also, the page has the following subtitle "Proposals for new technologies, businesses, startups, satirical or serious.
". I think it's clearly satirical.
Is there a joke or double entendre to the misspelling of 'counterintuitive' in the HN title (the article title is correct) that I'm missing?
Guess it depends on who is defining “very”.

A persistent connection is antithetical to the design of kubernetes.

Persistent storage is hard to get right in kubernetes and puts a lot of pressure on the cluster being perfect, which is something a good ops team will tell you is hard.

If your application is stateless http services then kubernetes is great, but there are common things that don’t fit well, and forcing people into a solution which may require a complete rethinking is not very pragmatic.
UKIP went from having a 3% share of the vote in 2010 to 12-13% in 2015. People constantly downplay this to make it out as if it was only an internal Conservative party dispute. However there was growing pressure to have the referendum.
> " In Rwanda, nude photos of 2017 presidential candidate, Diane Rwigara, surfaced on the internet. She said the images had been doctored and were intended to discredit her."

This is the crazy part. Why bother "hacking" when deep-faking is such an easy option? At the same time, this allows for plausible deniability even if the photos are real.
It's the same language used by gambling companies. "Take a break" rather than "Break your cycle of addiction by leaving us for good".

Not entirely surprising.
> Boeing's initial response to the 737MAX crashes comes to mind as well.

Truth be told, Boeing's response to the 737MAX crashes was to blame people working for other organizations, thus the blame would not fall within neither Boeing engineers/technicians nor the Boeing organization. That's a total and complete cop out.

Pinning the blame on a company employee at least implies that the company itself has some responsibility.
What might this have to do with the topic? Does what you vape or how have an effect?
Analyzing the attack surface of open source projects
I'm reminded of Terry Pratchett's image of the row of mugs (with cute little sayings) owned by the torturers of Omnia's Quisition.

This is a generally hard problem but it's as significant now as it was in the aftermath of WWII. I'd say it speaks to the reality of human subjectivity, and it never goes away: I can only wonder if the same will be true of AI, and whether it's possible for a thinking being to really internalize the concept of hard limits to their perception, and build that into their model of the world.

You could say the God concept is a way of trying to internalize the limits to perception: 'something is vastly significant and it's not me, and my understanding does not and cannot encompass it'.

With OR without this concept we as humans are exactly as evil as each other. That's the secret. There isn't a qualitative difference between 'us' and history's great monsters. It's about the choices we've made and how we've acted on them: the rest is rationalization, which we are all subject to in one way or another.

Grappling with this is the Nuremberg moment: the question is 'never mind whether you feel you've been good, what have you done?'

So, what have they done?
Haha. I have a cordless brushless impact driver. First time I used it to put a screw in a wall it went in so fast I didn't stop in time and it stripped the head :D
Inferring Tax Compliance: Evidence from Airbnb Tax Enforcement Agreements
Working Remotely in the Middle of a Forest
I'm not sure what your point is. I'm just explaining that the law explicitly allows you to both

1) have the car serviced outside of the main dealership network and the manufacturer is not allowed to void your warranty due to this.

2) fit aftermarket parts, and the manufacturer is allowed to void your warranty only if they can prove that the part contributed to the fault.

The whole conversation started by me saying that with cars, you can buy original OEM parts without having to obtain the blessing from the manufacturer - with Apple(and other electronics makers) you can't.

>>That still sounds like a lot of work for the potential savings of a few hundred dollars on repairs and parts.

I don't know why you assume this is any work, you just have your car serviced elsewhere, if any warranty work comes up then you just say "I had the car serviced at a VAT-registered garage, as allowed by the statutory consumer rights". Done, works 99/100 times. Do some dealers try to wiggle out of it anyway? Sure. But dealers try to wiggle out of warranty repairs even if you have done everything "by the book" anyway. That's just what they do. In that case you also have to either start involving experts/solicitors/courts to actually make the manufacturer honour their promise to you. Whether it's worth it to you or not, is a different matter entirely.
Oh, they do.

Concrete has great thermodynamic properties for living comfort. It cools at day, warms at night, transfers from cold parts of the house to hot ones, etc.

It is there on purpose (and not too difficult to drill into with a "Bohrhammer", rotary drill(?), i.e. the ones with SDS(+)).

Actually, the brick-walls we have (hollow bricks with flimsy thin walls) were harder for me to figure out. They need really careful drilling with the right tools, otherwise the brick shatters and nothing will take grip.
PWM headers on desktop mobos work fine for me. I assume the author's problems are indeed specifically with server mobos as they say, not "Linux" in general.
There are such picker/chargers for the electric scooters available in many cities.
I've actually found Inferno a lot more interesting than Plan 9. Dis is very, very neat, and I sort of wish we had modern runtimes for it.
I think a more relevant question would be something like: Does watching rape porn make people more likely to rape? Does watching porn make people more or less likely to rape? Or something similar to that.

I'm sure there are places where porn has been illegal but later become legal, looking at how it changed the rape statistics might give some weak evidence (though correlation is not the same as causation of course).
I don't think I'd call that Clintonite/Thatcherite. Thatcher was quite confrontational, and also hawkish socially conservative. Not dispositionally centrist, consensus oriented or antipolitical. Blaire is probably the PM you're looking for.

That "consensus" happened when the centre left accepted structural changes made by the previous "generation's" new right, Reagan & Thatcher. Economic issues became non-ideological, and technocratic rather than political from that point. This is even more of thing in the UK than the US, where the right wing still focused on economic conservatism rhetorically.
That's worded to tip toe around the truth which is that in other countries FB is increasing polarization, that FB knew about it, and tried to ignore it - from the third^ file:

>In Poland, the changes made political debate on the platform nastier, Polish political parties told the company, according to the documents. The documents don’t specify which parties.

>“One party’s social media management team estimates that they have shifted the proportion of their posts from 50/50 positive/negative to 80% negative, explicitly as a function of the change to the algorithm,” wrote two Facebook researchers in an April 2019 internal report.

>Nina Jankowicz, who studies social media and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe as a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, said she has heard complaints from many political parties in that region that the algorithm change made direct communication with their supporters through Facebook pages more difficult. They now have an incentive, she said, to create posts that rack up comments and shares—often by tapping into anger—to get exposure in users’ feeds.
The Facebook researchers, wrote in their report that in Spain, political parties run sophisticated operations to make Facebook posts travel as far and fast as possible.

>“They have learnt that harsh attacks on their opponents net the highest engagement,” they wrote. “They claim that they ‘try not to,’ but ultimately ‘you use what works.’ ”

>In the 15 months following fall 2017 clashes in Spain over Catalan separatism, the percentage of insults and threats on public Facebook pages related to social and political debate in Spain increased by 43%, according to research conducted by Constella Intelligence, a digital risk protection firm.
Facebook researchers wrote in their internal report that they heard similar complaints from parties in Taiwan and India.

^ https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-algorithm-change-zucke...

Add to that the revelations from yesterday's^^ hearing regarding FB's role in violence in Myanmar and Ethiopia plus repression in PRC and Iran and there is no other interpretation than Mr Zuckerberg is lying.

^^ https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/05/world/meanwhile-in-america-oc...
My company switched to a four day work week for most people, 4x10 though.

The longer hours take more of a toll on mental health, rather than less.

It's a pain for childcare, trying to socialize with folks on a normal schedule, making up hours etc. Everyone else is working the fifth day, so can't really socialize then. My doctor and dentist don't work that day though, which means can't use it for appointments.
Doesn't every book have one of these in it, or a library specific RFID tag? https://www.gresswell.co.uk/date-labels.html

Just stick "for reference only" on there.
Bytesize Architecture Sessions
The ecosystem churn is ridiculous. Absolutely know the basics and trust that you can learn whatever it is you need when you need it, but do nothing more. Doing it in advance like you are trying is a recipe for a bad time.
Not only did America have the Civil War over slavery, but the losers are still trying to fight it today, they can't face the reality that they lost the last election, and they even tried to pull off a violent insurrection, breaking into and defecating and urinating and marching through the halls of Congress with a Confederate battle flag.

https://theconversation.com/the-confederate-battle-flag-whic...

>The Confederate battle flag, which rioters flew inside the US Capitol, has long been a symbol of white insurrection

>Confederate soldiers never reached the Capitol during the Civil War. But the Confederate battle flag was flown by rioters in the U.S. Capitol building for the first time ever on Jan. 6.

https://nypost.com/2021/01/08/rioters-left-feces-urine-in-ha...

>“Congressional staffers saw feces in the hallways,” the source said Friday.

>The vile vandals apparently took dumps in bathrooms and then spread around their poop, a Schumer insider said.

>“It came from the bathroom and they tracked it around,” the source said. “There was an intentional effort to degrade the Capitol building.”

>Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) of Brooklyn also reported that some members of the mob urinated on the floors during the rampage.

>“There was urine. There was clear desecration,” he told WNYC on Thursday.
Link to the leak: https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/83691438

Top 10k Streamers by Revenue: https://pastebin.com/LjmaPNam

Contains the following data points:

'ad_share_gross', 'sub_share_gross', 'bits_share_gross', 'bits_developer_share_gross', 'bits_extension_share_gross', 'prime_sub_share_gross', 'bit_share_ad_gross', 'fuel_rev_gross', 'bb_rev_gross'

(TTS donations, 3rd party revenue like OnlyFans, Patreon, Amazon Gifts and sponsorship deals... are not included)

Total gross payout in the leak (2019/8 to 2021/10) was 4.2 billion dollars across 344k users. (based on data points above alone but could be wrong since it's annons on 4chan.)

PS: Make sure to change your Twitch (and possibly Prime) password. Twitch is already prompting users to do so based on Reddit posts.
> usually reveals cosmetic, as opposed by structural, errors

I agree, science has become a form of writing and the peer-review will most likely figure out if you are familiar with that form.
I wish I could up vote this twice. Text handling on the iPhone is incredibly frustrating.

I'd add to the list of issues how hard it is to trigger the spell checker for underlined words and how poor its suggestions are when you finally do trigger it.

There are whole websites devoted to embarrassing errors caused iPhone text handling. I can't see why Apple don't bother to fix it. Even small iterative improvements would be OK.
77+33 is not 100 and that's quite saddening.
I recently shut down a small business and have been having nothing but trouble trying to remove it's presence online.

Facebook made me wait two weeks before giving me the option to delete it and now it's just stuck on "deleting". Bing emails me weekly saying I need to update my listing yet I've tried 3 times to mark it as closed to no avail.

The only one I've been able to remove it from has been Google so far. It's quite frustrating.
Eclipse... Sun... how did I go all these years without noticing this!
I experimented with fasting almost a year ago now, from OMAD all the way to 6 day fasts. My only motivation was to lose weight and I figured working from home was the best chance I'd have to actually go through with it. I lost around 35kg and I'm finally at a healthy weight for the first time in my life. Of course I'm very happy with the results, but I didn't experience any benefits people mention concerning mental clarity or more energy. To be fair I also didn't feel much worse than usual after a few weeks of starting.

What did give me more mental clarity and energy was eating well and exercising regularly, something that I had to come to terms with when transitioning back to a more traditional diet else I'd just end up putting the weight back on.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
I wish this was something that was a universal right. Not just for social media but truly have a right to privacy.
Your plasterboard/drywall looks different to what I'm used to. Here in the UK we have plaster with a thick paper surface. The photos in that advert imply to me that you have a woven surface of some sort in Japan.

Staples would be unlikely to grip sufficiently in our plasterboard. I suspect that shear would not be a problem but moments will almost certainly be a bit of a problem. The failure mode here would not be the telly crashing to the floor vertically but gradually loosening from the top of the mounting and then swinging forwards off the wall.

I use at least eight, six inch no 10 screws here for TV mounts into brickwork, with decent plugs. Into wood, ie stud wall I'll use shorter screws. I also sometimes use extra washers - depends on the load. I've never had a TV mount fail!

A decent hammer drill/driver and a decent bit can drive a 8mm hole in a few seconds. By the time you've stapled in a hundred staples, I'd be watching the News! I would certainly not be trying to explain to the Boss (wife/partner) how the TV is held up 8)

That said, those staples look like a very clever solution, given the right circumstances. Not everyone is happy with a hammer drill.
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It's federated by centralized hubs. Go try to run your own matrix server and lmk how far you get before just using another platform. Oh btw, that really toxic server keeps raiding everything they find.
That's what I did. From there they asked me to execute and build a team. 2.5years down the line I am still the CTO and vested in a startup. My salary is nothing crazy, even below average for CTOs.

Only issue I see here is "Founder approaches". It's not just gonna happen from nothing. Either you will have to approach or someone will have to connect you. In my case it was a friend of an employee of a non tech founder.