skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Those are great, impressive numbers. We certainly don't claim to be all things to all people, but the benchmark was run using single instances mostly because that is what most other benchmarks published by others have done.

With a multi-node TimescaleDB cluster, ingest does literally scale to millions of rows/second and we have a numerous users achieving great numbers. One Fortune 100 company has a 25+ TimescaleDB cluster backing their network monitoring stack and loves it for their use case.

At some point, when we can, I'm sure we'll start to do more with multi-node benchmarking too to give some input to the conversation.
I was not trying to bait you - thanks for a clear answer.
The tragedy here is that MOST people would not accept modus ponens if presented it in the abstract.
(TimescaleDB co-founder)

Thank you for the feedback - it is conversations like this that enable us to understand how we can continue to make TimescaleDB better.

And some of the ideas you are discussion are on our roadmap - if anyone wants to help, we are hiring :-)

https://www.timescale.com/careers
This has been posted in multiple threads today
I believe this is mostly due to the switch to LLVM 13[1].

[1]: https://twitter.com/ryan_levick/status/1443202538099073027
> Or make me choose between a job or some unnecessary medical treatment. the goal posts on vaccine metrics or herd immunity are constantly moved

You know what goalpost doesn't move? Not having ICUs at full capacity with people who could have just taken two shots 6 months ago.
The French are quite particular about that, referring to herbal teas strictly as 'infusions'.
I absolutely think Ubuntu's update cycle is a big part of why PHP 8 doesn't have a higher adoption rate. The PHP webapps I write are all served by Ubuntu servers (on 20.04 LTS) and there isn't an official PHP 8 package yet. Even if you're running 21.04, PHP 8 still isn't available as an official package. Ubuntu 21.10 was just released and finally shipped PHP 8 packages, and PHP 7.4 support ends in roughly a month. Anyone sticking strictly to LTS releases won't get official PHP 8 support until ~5 months after PHP 7.4 support ends.
You will get taxed 50% on the amount you make over X is what you mean, not that your total tax rate will be 50% - if that were actually the case. The top bracket is $400k for an individual and the Build Back Better or whatever it’s called act proposes to raise that tax rate to 39.6% I believe. I’m curious where you’re getting 50% from.

Vaccine mandates are a pretty normal requirement at a lot of places. I worked in healthcare - flu shots were mandatory with very rare exceptions. When I was a kid I had to have MMR, polio, whooping cough, etc, vaccines to be able to enroll in school. This sudden “but muh freedom” crap doesn’t really hold up to scrutiny when the same party saying vaccines should be optional because it is a personal medical choice is the same group saying other medical procedures (that are potentially necessary) should be banned (abortion, in case that wasn’t clear) - even though they are also personal medical choices and nobody is trying to even mandate them.
Based on the fact that the URL leaked, and that people were able to signup before the site launched, I'm gonna say that Trump didn't hire the best people for this job, and now I wonder if they are even going to get paid for any of the work they put-in
This has been "red team" strategy for a long time. Be insufferably stubborn and immoral, force the "blue team" to talk and talk and talk until they stop making sense or get frustrated, then point out how incoherent/irrational/emotional the blue team is and declare victory.
Sure, but someone has to pay for that work, and many places don't have developers in-house, which means someone has to feel motivated enough to do a request to finance.
Mononucleiosis actually takea advantage of DNA damage response for reproduction, which is why it leads to drastically higher rates of autoimmune disorders and immune/bone cancers
That's because they are mostly the same language. Brain can't be fooled by manifestos.
I switched from super.so and I absolute love the instant update. Used to smash the refresh button quite a bit to get things to update!
As an immigrant from a country where we generally believe that science made the US what it is, it's unbelievable the stance the Republican party has taken with regards to science. To the extent that under Trump, there was an overt push to "take science out of the EPA". How is that even acceptable in a country like this?
The Beast – The ultimate fanless PC
This is a bad take. This new breed of Republicans thrive on personal attacks and ignore policy entirely when voting.

Of course it's anti-science. You don't think this governor has advisors that told him the reporter looked at source code that anyone can look at it and it's not hacking?

He's grandstanding for his constituency. Why? Because he knows his constituency won't understand nuance and won't hold him accountable, because he's attacking science, not guns.
There was a time, maybe 2008, when this way okay. 2016 was a little iffy, but understandable the way things went.

But after 2020? There's no plausible deniability left. That the loser of the last election used imagined fraud as a basis to launch a coup attempt, and the subsequent attempted memory-holing and normalization of that event by the Republican party have changed everything. It's clear what they are doing now. Namely:

1) take away independent control of state election processes and install a partisan election process that will "determine" whether any particular election result is "fraudulent". The result of the Arizona audit by the "Cyber Ninjas" reveals the playbook:

- use the audit to kick up a cloud of dust (we are investigating reports of paper ballots from china containing Bamboo!)

- muddy the waters (we are definitely going to find fraud, it's astounding)

- find no fraud (The results show Biden won, but we have a list of concerns we will focus on instead of the actual count)

- declare there was fraud anyway (Trump's statement on the result: "We won on the Arizona forensic audit yesterday at a level that you wouldn’t believe. They had headlines that Biden wins in Arizona when they know it’s not true. He didn’t win in Arizona. He lost in Arizona based on the forensic audit.")

2) Use these fabricated claims of fraud to send your own choice of electors to the Congress to select the next President.

3) The Democrats will object, because of the obvious fraud

4) The process, being contested, will follow the Constitution and eventually a vote will go before the House, where each state delegation has 1 vote

5) Because Republicans control more state houses than Democrats, they can just choose whoever they want as President

6) Any court challenges will end up at a court stacked with Republicans, 3 of whom were appointed by Trump, 5 of whom were appointed to the court by Republican Presidents who lost the popular vote their first term in office.

That's how Democracy ends in America, and Republicans are setting up that exact scenario in 2024. If you wake up in November of that year and the person elected (read: appointed) lost both the popular vote AND the electoral college, well don't be surprised. That's the literal end of elections in America, and it's not hyperbolic at all. That's their stated plan: see the Eastman memo.

If you are voting for Republicans post 2020, you are voting against democracy. I'm sorry, there's no other way to put it. This whole effort is anti-democratic and against the rule of law. I mean, it's fine if you don't believe in democracy and want an American dictator in the style of Putin (complete with the associated corruption of the rule of law and the neutering of elections as a method of self governance), but just be honest about it.
At the end of the day the discrepancy is my point, it doesn't matter which browser is the worst culprit.
Lots of fun points in here. I would add that willing to be wrong 100% of the time and being open to constantly fucking things up will get you very far all on its own. As long as your intentions are good and you can limit the blast radius, these efforts are usually rewarded in time. Ablity to disregard shame and the scorn of others is the superpower in this context.
They were taught, through teachers but especially through the peer community, that there's an established, unarguable set of world views that shouldn't be questioned or challenged, and the scope of that set only grows larger.

I believe it really stems from a belief that they are collectively special — that they're wiser, more moral, and more 'perfect' than their ancestors, their less-educated fellow citizens, and so on. They encourage people to become 'educated' on issues that they themselves aren't particularly educated in, aside from reading Instagram graphics. They seek to 'cancel' people who present other world views.

While most people I know have been through all that and eventually come to a place of humility after college, easily half of the students never did. They continue on, unfazed, with a radical belief in their own moral superiority.

I'm sorry for the length and vagueness of this — it's really incredibly hard to describe as it's so pervasive throughout everything, and generally it's something people only understand after going through the system. You've got me thinking of how to articulate it better!
Imagine your comment being made in a meeting I got pulled into.

I brace myself. I'm going to waste your time. This is super obvious.

Here it goes: so uh, why do you continue to work with incompetent idiots instead of finding a workplace where people know what they are talking about instead?
> the tests are pitched as objectively "measuring intelligence" when in reality they measure a confluence of factors.

"The first practical intelligence test was developed between 1905 and 1908 by Alfred Binet in France for school placement of children. Binet warned that results from his test should not be assumed to measure innate intelligence or used to label individuals permanently."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence#Early_IQ...
The goal of most politicians from either party is to pit Americans against each other instead of against the corrupt system. This way the politicians and the actual ruling class (billionaires and corporations) can keep their power all while making it seem like the other team is the true enemy. Unfortunately Americans are buying it hook, line and sinker.
That’s crazy - just switching the wheels it goes from May -> August.
I think they talk about Brooks specifically and institute he works for specifically.

He is not just random conservative with unknown politics within spectrum of conservative voices. He is active player in politics and economy.
I wouldn't call them moral values, because the values expressed are so context-dependent.
Some people here learned, mastered and thoroughly forgot more languages and technologies than other people have started with yet.
This study disagrees with your claims. https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/pdf2012/fpl_2012_dagenais...
Tangential, but instead of making DC into a new state, why not just absorb it into Maryland? Virginia already absorbed the part of DC rhombus west of the Potomac.
This is literally the definition of an anti-science attitude from a camp that has demonstrated anti-science and anti-intellectual attitudes on a plethora of subjects for the last several years but even going as far back as 20-30 years ago. Heck Regan planted the seeds of anti-intellectualism in the (R) party decades ago and they have done nothing but take hold and flourish.

Alienation is exactly the type of thing one should use to combat this. Rationally minded people in the (R) camp SHOULD feel alienated by their intellectual peers when they spew anti-intellectual rhetoric and pass/support anti-intellectual policies or willingly associate, without protest, with people or groups known for doing so. You can't flip the script and say you feel alienated by your intellectual peers (HN) for not jumping with you onto the anti-intellectual band-wagon and/or for calling systemic anti-intellectualism out for what it is. Doing so would be as ridiculous as arguing that you find same-sex couples alienating/offensive/triggering because they tread on your precious sensibilities as an anti-LGBT person. In that scenario, you should feel alienated, because that is the primary societal force that will pressure you into recanting being an anti-LGBT person. Intellectuals are alienating you because they want you to get rid of the rest of your bad opinions, not just the select few you have already shed, before you can take your place at the table.
There's been, for a long time, an intra-party struggle between right-wing populist insurgents and establishment/institutionalists since Newt Gingrich. It was a slow process, but over time it seems the former are winning, the most obvious first sign was the McCain-Palin ticket (Palin being the populist). The scene as increasingly been victorious for the insurgents. Those guys you are pointing out are hanging on by their fingernails.
Outside of STEM classes, the only thing I learned that was relevant to my career was from my Technical Writing course, where I learned that people in charge can be capricious and screw you over in the process. The teacher didn't like me, so he consistently gave my work mediocre scores and couldn't quantify anything about the work or the scores.

Even some of the STEM classes were a waste of time, especially the Computer Science classes where the professor would grade people on attendance and random minutia.

I ended up just learning computer science on my own off of Wikipedia after I graduated since I couldn't get a decent hardware design job with my Electrical Engineering degree. It only took a couple of months, BTW, to get from the point where I was just playing around with JavaScript to where I could pass a coding interview laden with data structures and algorithms.

If I could go back in time for a day and talk to my former self, I'd tell him to just buy some used physics, math, and computer science textbooks, then spend six months couch surfing, partying, and studying on his own. Then he could go find a CS job and start making money right away
Here are some non-obvious reasons why this is a big deal:

1. Regulatory and technology changes are making advertising a less effective business model. It's both more expensive to acquire users and less profitable to run ads. So each week more companies are switching to one-time IAP or subscriptions as a primary revenue source. This change will further accelerate this transition.

2. A lot of apps sell digital content at a low margin. For example, Spotify and other music apps have to pay record labels for content. You can also consider marketplaces for user generated content that have this issue. Apple and Google's high service fees have prevented a large category of businesses from existing on the app store. Yes, they could try to direct users to pay through the browser, but anti-steering policies made this nearly impossible for companies without an established brand.
A few more rounds of variants, and there won't be many anti-vaxxers left.

Evolution: "This is the way."
Ooh, that's a fun one.

Another con: you'd better hope your input contains no duplicates. :)
That's really cool.

I suspect there are a lot of us here in particular who have 'unpopular opinions' in this domain that are more difficult to just try out, because others have invested in the idea of different domains being special and thus not conducive to fusion as in your example, or borrowing ideas whole cloth.

I have, for instance, some opinions on how skills from personal finance cross a whole host of problem domains. Some are obvious, but performance analysis is not typically one of them and people look at me like I have horns on my head when I bring it up. They have few complaints about the outcomes of me applying those theories, as long as they don't have to hear about them. So I mostly just don't ask permission, and save theory crafting for talk over beers when people start pulling out their crackpot ideas to keep the conversation flowing.

It's really no wonder at all to me why so many of milestones in The Enlightenment started over coffee. Caffeine is not as good a social lubricant but it'll do in a pinch and has fewer negative side effects on cognition and - importantly - memory. Last night's epiphany is mostly inaccessible to the drunk.
Thank's for the info with the Carbon battery, I had hoped they are more solid... M1 compatibility is ok for the most things I guess, according to https://isapplesiliconready.com Not sure if it is really more performant though for what I will use it for.
Is no one commenting on the fact that the "hack" was doing a view source on the published HTML file? The people responsible for this should be too embarrassed to ever leave their homes again.
My favorite is still slowsort. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowsort

> It is a reluctant algorithm based on the principle of multiply and surrender. It was published in 1986 by Andrei Broder and Jorge Stolfi in their paper Pessimal Algorithms and Simplexity Analysis.

https://www.mipmip.org/tidbits/pasa.pdf

> The slowsort algorithm is a perfect illustration of the multiply and surrender paradigm, which is perhaps the single most important paradigm in the development of reluctant algorithms. The basic multiply and surrender strategy consists in replacing the problem at hand by two or more subproblems, each slightly simpler than the original, and continue multiplying subproblems and subsubproblems recursively in this fashion as long as possible. At some point the subproblems will all become so simple that their solution can no longer be postponed, and we will have to surrender. Experience shows that, in most cases, by the time this point is reached the total work will be substantially higher than what could have been wasted by a more direct approach.
I found this blog post from January pretty enlightening:

https://alexdanco.com/2021/01/11/why-the-canadian-tech-scene...

Discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25742623
Off, but is that a sock on the mic? Fun. :D
No.

> Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius, 20 and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”

21 “Caesar’s,” they replied.

Then he said to them, “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s,(A) and to God what is God’s.”

Matthew 22:19-21

> It also forced all people, great and small,(A) rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads,(B) 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark,(C) which is the name of the beast or the number of its name

Rev 13:16-17
Yep. People often point at syntax and say "yuk!" but the problem is really not groking semantics. Syntax is just easy to bikeshed.
Presumably the people tasked with overseeing United's decisions are not given misleading information about the extent of United's programs for VIP customers.
Trigger the libs and snowflakes would be another nice example. And not even trying to hide.

Or like, the notion of real Americams and those who live on cost as not counting as real.
I feel similarly having grown up near a computer when I was young. I can't imagine had I grown up busy farming and raising siblings and then children in my 20s I would have been able to accomplish anything at all. Or the fact that I got a rare fever from a tick as a child only a few years after an antidote was invented. The _vast_ majority of the pi-chart other than intelligence is luck.
I thought I was going to pay almost three thousand dollars a month for a subscription until I saw the punctuation. The point is the overall length of the number looks to be in the thousands.

HN, a pretty high quality crowd at the best of times, is confused about numbers now? Fixed point decimals at that! And reacting to that temporary double-take?
The point is the goal of a submarine is to allow humans to traverse large distances underwater, the semantics of how it does so are unimportant. Similarly the ability of a computer to think is moot, its the results we get from that that matter.
I am not sure I understand the goals here. Gerrymandering 2.0?

WV lost a seat in the 2020 census. Would move seats from Maryland to WV. From Blue to Red.

I like to idea just to square off WV's eastern panhandle. It would look nice on a map with a flat top.
This is a brilliant idea and direction. Congrats on launching this.

How do you deal with things like permissions, proprietary information, etc?
I'm born and raised in California and I've never voted Republican in my life.

There's a really good article written about this subject by Jose Duarte: http://www.joseduarte.com/blog/i-was-denied-admission-to-a-p...

I really recommend giving it a full read. The gist is that higher education is very, very clearly biased against particular groups. "Net detriment" is loaded, but "unfairly biased against us" is a not only reasonable, but demonstrably true conclusion. Negative reactions are warranted.

There's a real problem here within education.
Through practice. It can be shown, but learning by doing is the only way.
Ola Bini wanted to build a secure internet. Now he's on trial
Not hotdog!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIci3C4JkL0

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/not-hotdog/id1212457521

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codylab.se...
What departments is this happening under? A lot of people (probably most people) who go to college just learn about some technical subjects and maybe read a couple classic books in gen ed courses. Politics happens on campus, but largely among students and not in classrooms.
That's a good solution. The next problem is that many code patterns, such as state machines, if naively converted from `goto` to `call()` will consume a lot of unnecessary stack space. This might not be a problem with a language/compiler that supports tail call optimization.
These accessories are sold in quantities of one, to consumers, and made in relatively smaller batches. All of that gets a lot cheaper if you can injection mold a plastic housing and buy things in hundreds of thousands or millions.
I am sure of this. I help lead search for Hulu and Disney+ and own a RokuTV. Roku already allows you the option to voice search inside the app you are already in (this has to be enabled by the Roku app developer I believe).

This definitely refers to the universal search Roku offers, and, if true, is an absurd ask on Google's part.
Starship SN20 Assembly Animation
An unusually high quality animation of Starship major components
I don't think this is true. If a scientist follows the methodology correctly, they are not malicious. And if they are not following the scientific method, then they are not scientists. The trick is to figure out which self-proclaimed scientists, aren't.
Some good photos of the process here[1]. The figure that's generally quoted for the time it takes for a mature timber bamboo culm to grow from a shoot to ~20m to be harvested is 3-5yr. Obviously each one is small compared to a large tree, but a stand of bamboo can produce a lot.

1; https://www.bambooimport.com/en/how-is-bamboo-lumber-made
Because one party wants two more uncompetitive senate seats.
Minor correction: It is actually a 40+ node cluster :-)
Anyone know the origin of the name FlixBus? My completely uninformed wild guess was that when the company was starting, they borrowed the “flix” from Netflix as a shorthand for “tech savvy company” without caring too much about the actual English slang meaning.
Relevant SEC filings: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000110465921...
College institutions have to make obvious their choice to pursue justice or to pursue truth.

It can't be both and the veil of ambiguity cannot continue, otherwise support for post-secondary institutions will continue in free-fall.
How's being purposefully obtuse working out for you?