skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Timescale Cloud indeed comes with PostGIS installed by default.

Regarding distributed (Citus) and columnar (Zedstore):

- TimescaleDB's compression actually takes a columnar approach (including that it only reads the individual compressed columns that you SELECT), and so combines both row- and column-oriented data. [0]

- TimescaleDB 2.0 also supports distributed deployment, and Timescale Cloud will (very soon) offer one-click deployment of fully-managed multi-node TimescaleDB. [1]

[0] https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-columnar-compressio...

[1] https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-a-distributed-time-...
Will it? I didn't know that rpi had any HW support for AV1.

Last I checked, there wasn't any player capable of doing HDR10 HEVC either, but maybe that has changed.

I like the rpi but I don't think its as capable as people are making it out to be.
I mean this is cool and all but this is literally double lock in. Notion can't be self hosted and neither can this. Why would you depend on either of these for your website.

Not to mention using Notion as a CMS means you're limited in what you can do, zero extensibility, etc.
And Bill James did a lot of his Sabermetric writing while working night shifts as a security guard.[0]

He's not Einstein, but he was way ahead of his time in a particular area and it's fair to say he's been hugely influential in the baseball community for nearly 40 years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_James
Yes, DMs are for bitching and personal information. Everything else should be in channels.

Edit: even some bitching should be rephrased constructively and put in a public channel!
State governments are supposed to represent the people of the state. The people who designed the system just didn't trust the masses. And people can disagree with the design.
Surely O(n) for checking whether it is sorted?
New NIH Statement on Misinformation about SARS-CoV-2 Origins
Russel Napier: Investing for Inflation (Feb 2021)
Research if you can get rich in your country with cs. In The Netherlands you can’t, unless you’re top of the 1% in the HFT space.

I did cs for the money. I was also mildly interested in it. A few things I have noticed.

1. CS is not math, I suck at math but am ok at CS, including datastructures and algorithms

2. It’s a lot of step by step thinking. I didn’t know that beforehand and I like step by step thinking.

3. It’s also wrapping your head around a “world”. Example: I had a lot of difficulty understanding what servers were. In part, it’s because I am Dutch and “server” sounds like “waiter” and I would then ask why a computer needs to be a waiter. The better you are at English, the easier it is. And god forbid that I understood what caches are. I am so thankful I learned about geocaching (a game) on HN. It made it a lot more clear.

4. Following HN while learning cs makes it a lot more fun

5. Hacking is not cs. Try it, you might like it. Also, reverse engineering feels really different to other forms of hacking
Tesla's 'full self-driving' rolls back its privacy protection of trip videos
local to where? there is "fix" and "flink" which both mean quick, so it could be a portmanteau.
Disingenuous and chock-full of the same type of moral panic (directed squarely at one side of the American political aisle) it claims to debunk. How did this partisan hackery make it to HN?
I haven't worked out the cryptographic mechanisms but my ballpark assessment is that it should be possible to work out a mechanism that protects your identity up until you accept to exchange exposure for ability. The business model is probably more of an issue, as you pointed out.

Oh BTW, it doesn't have to be a legal identity, I think. It could be some kind of identity that you build, it costs something and can be identical across platforms. The "costs something" doesn't have to be money, something that forces you to have just one practically. The NFT folks advocate for something like that. It could be a Instagram account with substantial number of followers(this one is problematic). Basically, something hard spawn without effort and consequences, something that you built on over time and you don't want to risk it by being a dick to someone.

The government ID is a good one as the govt. acts as reliable identity provider with significant identification infrastructure but I don't like that much because a government can abuse it as they can generate ID's without significant effort.
Nonetheless, IQ correlates to life outcomes like income really well. Averages are by no means destiny, but on average IQ makes life easier.
Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, and Rachel Maddow have all used "No one could honestly believe that what we say is really true" as an argument in legal proceedings against them.
Anonymity is more important that ever. I'm glad most of the things I've written online and on message boards were under total pseudonyms, because if those messages were retrieved 20-30 years later, I could be "canceled" for anything, depending the social mores of the time of retrieval.
I wore the Razer Zephyr mask out in public and I don't think I can pull it off
Same problem in industry. It often matters more that you have $prestigious_school or $prestigious_company on your resume than how smart or hard working you are. Not to mention having the "right" people in your network or the right parents. I wish we wouldn't attach so much signal to these vanity attributes.
Concerning Clickhouse, yes it does - exactly the same thing e.g. as when you have 2 compressed files containing each 100 sorted rows, when you merge those 200 rows into a single file, sort them and compress them, the result will be smaller than the sum of the 2 separate files.

How much you save is again exactly the same as when dealing directly with files: it depends on the data and on the compression algo.
Anyone else loving age of darkness
I'm thinking to add this game to my website. I started playing last weekend dame it's addictive anyone else had a go at this pretty awesome title. Australia Devs I think very well done
>'The Left' absolutely does this as too.

Remember when Biden claimed that COVID-19 was invented by the Republicans to make his presidency look bad?

Remember when Obama refused to acknowledge that Trump won the presidency and when CNN aired nonstop coverage from conspiracy theorists claiming that the entire election was fraudulent?

Remember when Obama claimed months in advance that any election in which a Democrat lost was necessarily fraudulent, and then incited a mob to take over the US Capitol building during the electoral vote count? And then when Obama refused to authorize the national guard to prevent US senators and house representatives from being taken hostage?

You're damn right -- they're both totally the same.
Some ways new ideas form:

1. Noticing hundreds, thousands, of details and how they fit together into a larger whole.

- Example: When someone is so deep into an industry they understand every role, action, problem, and solution, and the shortcomings, and use that information to spot out the most important problems and tie them together into a new business idea.

2. Having an intuition of how something should be, and digging out that intuition through the act of creation.

- Example: Artwork that is trying fully express the most ideal form of beauty, nature, violence, grandness, etc.

3. Noticing "bugs" / paradoxes in real life - things that don't make sense - and having the curiosity to debug it.

- Example: Einstein realizing a paradox - "If I pursue a beam of light with the velocity c (velocity of light in a vacuum), I should observe such a beam of light as an electromagnetic field at rest though spatially oscillating."
>my favorite part about non-anonymous accounts is being able to find their employer if they say something that's annoying.

An excellent (sarcasm registered and understood, BTW) point.

I am a practitioner of BDSM[0], which is, in some circles, quite controversial.

Despite the fact that my activities are always consensual and never cause harm to anyone, if my employer, clients or others with whom I have unrelated interactions with had negative ideas about such things, I could suffer serious repercussions.

I generally don't discuss such things online (or offline, if those I'm around aren't trusted), but if I did (as I am now), forcing me to link those discussions with my "legal" identity, could inflict real damage on my life -- even though nothing that I do is illegal or harmful.

As such, Vangelis is 100% correct. My private activities, unrelated to my work, are none of my employer's (or anyone else's) business, nor is it a danger/threat to anyone. If I didn't have the veil of pseudonymity here, I would never even hint at it.

And that's the problem with de-anonymization.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/BDSM
This comment talks about this idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28947131
What I see (and am glad for) as the narraritive being challend is not just the simplistic "our ancestors were dumb", which some people may have, but this other one, that's so widespread that it's often considered "common sense" and seems more "objective":

ALL hunter-gatherer societies/culture are fundamentally the same, because the main components are somehow a necessary consequence of being a hunter-gatherer (which is a stable category, which applies to a variety of human cultures throughout history, that can all be summed up as being more or less the same), and therefore we can tell how ancient "hunter-gatherers" lived by looking at contemporary people we call "hunter-gatherers".

No, no, no, no, and no.

And, in fact, human culture always has and still is various, diverse, and with many possibilities. From the review:

> Above all, it is a brief for possibility, which was, for Graeber, perhaps the highest value of all. The book is something of a glorious mess, full of fascinating digressions, open questions, and missing pieces. It aims to replace the dominant grand narrative of history not with another of its own devising, but with the outline of a picture, only just becoming visible, of a human past replete with political experiment and creativity.

> “How did we get stuck?” the authors ask—stuck, that is, in a world of “war, greed, exploitation [and] systematic indifference to others’ suffering”?
Yep! The blog post includes data and graphs from both large (5000-15,000 rows / batch) and small (100-500 rows / batch) sizes. Please see the section "Insert Performance". Thanks!

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/what-is-clickhouse-how-does-...
Not sure if I agree. Tesla would have run out of money essentially trying to make the 'tech work' i.e. a truly viable electric car for the masses i.e. right price point, range, quality etc..
I'm surprised that no one mentioned that twitter at least qualifies as bad hypertext whereas the web (and thus blogs) don't.

In particular twitter has (primitive) transclusions: by manually breaking up your writing into awkward ≤ 280 char chunks you basically allow other people to quote and comment or reply to them, recursively. Although tweets can and frequently do get deleted, that is the only form these transclusions break; they don't silently and unverifiably change content.

The web has absolutely no facility for quotation and commenting or even for pointing at some particular content in a way that ensures any continuity of content between the time of link creation and perusual. It is thus an abysmally bad medium for any form of discussion.
I think it is worth noting while Clickhouse is often used for time series store it is not particularly designed for this use case, but more for storing logs, events and similar data. VictoriaMetrics would be interesting comparable which is inspired by Clickhouse design but Optimized for time series store in particular https://victoriametrics.com/
"Launching a new global currency by giving a free share of it to every person on Earth is an enormous challenge." - https://worldcoin.org/

This strikes me as a good problem to solve. Giving a free share to every person is exactly how a new global currency should be launched, no?

How would you solve it differently?
Jacob Collier is an interesting example because the general response I've seen to his music from music fans is that it is too "smart". It's impressive and novel to music academics (and apparently the Grammys) but hardly interesting to fans of the genres he favors (soul, pop, R&B). Common complaints being lack of emotion, lack of taste, poor songwriting, over production. But any negative review will also acknowledge that he's immensely talented and has massive potential.
But if we take the simplest example, f(x) = sin(x + c*f(x)), we can solve it, (numerically). If I run it up to 0.5π for c=0.5, I get something that's (obviously) very close to the function with a short delay. So I take that as the possibility of direct feedback, although in a electronic circuit, feedback also has a minute delay.
> Although you can work out in the gym and increase the size of your biceps, that doesn’t mean your children are going to inherit those characteristics.

Our evolving understanding of genetics show a less black-and-white picture than this sentence does. We can trigger certain genes through behaviours, which would otherwise remain dormant, which in turn can be passed onto our offspring.

More info: https://www.science.org/content/article/parents-emotional-tr...
title should be 'Memetic Evolution'
OMG, PFIC is a nice pitfall.
That was because their iOS API wasn't ready for public consumption. Web apps were a stopgap so they had something to ship.
Oh, the M1 is a great chip, no question!

But I think it’s maybe twice (three times tops?) as good as the competition on a power/perf basis, not the 10x some people keep claiming when they compare the 10W claimed by Apple against the 100+W TDP of similarly performing AMD/Intel CPUs.

Incidentally, assuming the benchmark they’re running is Geekbench (seems likely at this point), I’ve just run a pass of both CPU & Compute GeekBench5 benchmarks with iotop running in the background & neither did any disk IO of any significance during the run. I think the peak throughput I saw was 150kb/s and that might have been something else on the desktop (I didn’t bother killing anything). Most of the time there was no IO at all.

So, if it was GeekBench they were running (seems plausible) then I think we can assume that the SSD is idle & that the Compute benchmark is really a GPU benchmark.
it kinda is :) - 10 years in, we're just getting started!
That's the luck, happening to be who you are. Other people happen to be who they are, and that's their luck.

Luck = fate
It's nice, when doing actual work on a language you have zero experience with, to have a clear intuition about what to expect and what to search for and to feel confident that you'll be able to get things done based on having done it with so many other languages before.

If it's not too unusual, it feels similar to other tools you've picked up before. If it isn't it's interesting.

Something like:

"Oh, OK, Swift has a switch right? Yeah. Does it require me to explicitly break? Yeah. Can I give ranges or patterns?

That's cool, they use named parameters in Smalltalk style, probably comes from Objective C, right?

Nil! charming, like Golang or Pascal.

What do you call these ?. and !. 's? Reminds me a bit of ?. in JavaScript. It's nifty: you can enforce a value not being nil or specify a default..

Hmm, these guards are interesting, how do they work...
Etc "

So obviously you need to get someone to check for footguns in your code, but after enough playing with toys you tend to get to a place you can write solid code in a new language very quickly, and where getting to a solid level of competence is relatively quick.
Just no.

Before woke, it was normal that for example a black person was a person, same as anyone. Even questioning if a black person was different at all would've been heretic, bad, simply wrong, by itself. Also, we didn't have to consider if s/he was gay, or whatever. Now, it's not like that anymore. People are defending blacks. Why? They fucking don't need to! They are humans!

Now it's just the exact opposite. We have to consider race (fuck, what? we're humans), gender (why?! our generation had already overcome this!) and so on.

My wife recently said: thanks, now I'm just a woman again, after all. It's just so depressing.

I understand if this gets downvoted. Sorry for being frustrated and having been raised to the standard that anyone being equal, and believing in this.
PyTorch Add Dimension: Expanding a Tensor with a Dummy Axis
African Elephants Evolved Tusklessness Fast
Southwest's service meltdown cost it $75M
I don't want to start this discussion thread yet again, but I am a firm believer that edition system only appears to work right now because:

1 - Rust is still quite young and doesn't have 30 years of accumulated editions

2 - There is still only one major Rust compiler

3 - Editions are designed only to work when compiling the whole project, including 3rd party dependencies, from source code within a single build

4 - So far the editions don't have semantic breaking changes across editions, where behaviour changes across the edition border

5 - There is no plan to ever have editions work across ABIs

So "The edition system keeps old stuff working without any effort." might not be true when Rust achieves an adoption scale similar to C and C++, in about 20 years, with several accumulated editions, and a couple of compilers in use.

I might be proven wrong, but that is how I see it today.
If you had the choice understand the concept 10 times slower but in the end would come up with twice the amount of connections, would you consider it as something valuable?

Yes I see how it would make life easier, but is that really a meaningful goal?

And how do we know that the reasons behind that it makes life easier isn't just a bias society has towards its own traits? - E.g life is easier for right handed people aswell.
You can make steel with charcoal, which is carbon neutral in the end: https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-reboot-a-modern-civilisation...

What I like about this idea is it's a way to take carbon out of the air while manufacturing something. We are going to have to deal with carbon no matter what, why not manufacture things with it?
This may be off-topic, but it's incredible how Brian Josephson went off the rails with his paranormal quantum theories.

A fascinating read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease

The list is full of people who are obviously 'smart' in some way, but somehow also incredibly full of bad ideas. It's possible that being insightful also requires you to have bad ideas as well - as if they're fountains of ideas, good and bad.

Crucially though, these Nobel Laureates possess a lack of critical thinking to filter out the bad ideas (that are often outside their field of expertise). They're definitely not unique among scientists.
The entire concept of a Facebook-created "Facebook Oversight Board" is a total joke, and I cannot understand why anyone has taken it seriously ever.

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DarkFi: Anonymous DeFi Network
Pretty telling me that he is saying with almost certain confidence that we were going to be experiencing strong inflation back in February when it was not a consensus viewpoint.

Even more so because he's on the record being in the deflation camp since 2012 and only switched back to inflation expectations earlier this year. He clearly has a framework for thinking through this which aligns with reality.
On one hand, announcing one's donations can be criticized as trying to reap extra rewards for oneself for the donation.

On the other hand, it can remind and inspire others to donate, causing an add-on effect which increases donations.
As an aside, seeing the word "tact" used like this is a little disorienting, even if it is a widely used slang form of the word "tactic".

There is the (originally nautical?) term "tack" which means "A direction or course of action, especially a new one.", and it's hard to separate those similar sounding/meaning/looking words.
More evidence of price fixing[1] from Apple and Google's mobile app distribution and payments cartel.

If there was real competition in the mobile app distribution and payments markets, and not just Google and Apple working in tandem to protect their profits, then consumers would benefit from increased efficiency and lower costs when it comes to how they get and pay for apps.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_fixing
I agree with your comments,
In blogging its your own like you own the content plus its for the long term.
On my last team I coined the hashtag #StupidQuestionsEncouraged and used my role as a lead to both ask stupid questions and encourage others to do the same.
He doesn't get hate in India, quite the opposite he has a large electoral mandate.
Oh good catch Todd, sorry about that - updated.

And totally agreed, both products take a slightly different approach and have different strengths and weaknesses, try them both and see which is a better fit!
People can determine order of magnitude much easier than giving a more specific timeline.

For support or feature requests, I use this progression:

- Minutes
- Hours
- Days
- Sprints (2 weeks)
- Quarters

It's a lot less work for people to figure out what category their request belongs in.

Note: In my company, next quarter means planned for next quarter, not ignore indefinitely.
> ETA: DO NOT LOSE YOUR CHILDREN’S YOUTH to work. Just don’t.

100%.

They are young for such a short period of time. (Feels long some days, but it's short.)
Tangentially related, but has anyone here read his other book, "Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention". I loved "Flow" (his main book) so I wanted to read something else from him, but somehow it was just not the same. In the Flow book, I understood which concepts I should understand as a reader and the background of them, including individual stories, was very coherent. I can't really say the same about the other book. I would be interested what others think about this.
“it's a hell of a lot better”

Better for whom? On the whole, it’s worse. Worse for me. Worse for everyone.

“than just thinking about that awesome blog post and then never writing it”

No. Please think about it and never write it. That’s the best outcome I can think of. Am I asking too much?
setjmp() and longjmp() only work upwards through the call stack. They're basically an awkward version of exceptions. You can't jump into a subroutine that isn't already executing with them.
The percentage should be set by the market. The problem is that there exists a rent seeking monopoly at present.
Yep, Brazil comes to mind.
well done india
This one missed by 24 miles. There’s only like 11 carriers. What if they shoot 5 nuclear ones at one carrier group?
I'm not sure an opinion piece in the nyt qualifies as evidence but that same analysis classified tons of other liberal parties as right wing (uk, switzerland etc) which seems more like they have a definitions problem due to a complete lack of clear criteria.