skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of my comments stem from personal experience; the assumption is that you are comparing someone who makes a similar amount of money here.

> I take 6 weeks off (vacation) per year to sail in the Mediterranean and to SKI in the French and Swiss alps. This is fully paid and it would be highly abnormal if I did not take this time off.

Americans differ from you in this aspect, but it's a cultural difference. It is very common for people to take 2-week vacations, and somewhat common for people to take two such vacations per year.

> My wife was paid her full salary for 6 months to have a baby. The government would have mandated a minimum payment term if that did not happen.

Again, America has a cultural aversion to paying such generous benefits. I've seen people take 3 months off after having children. I have also seen new mothers come back to work part-time while transitioning to working full-time over the course of an additional couple months. Overall, it's comparable.

> I never have to worry about healthcare, it's just there and it's available all the time regardless of employment

If you are employed and making 174k in the USA, you are in the same boat: you do not have to worry about healthcare costs as you are covered.

> None of my children have ever participated in an 'active shooter drill'

Elected representatives who are meeting constituents do not get stabbed to death here. Stabbings in general are somewhat uncommon compared to shootings. America is more violent, but it doesn't generally affect people in the wage bracket that we're talking about here. A lot of violence is perpetrated by poor people on other poor people, usually in connection with narcotics.

> I went to a top tier University and only paid 3000 GBP per year. The government gave me thousands of pounds without expecting repayment. The government gave me thousands of pounds and said they will write it off if I can't pay it back before 25 years and they won't ask for a single penny if I earn below a certain amount. When they did start taking repayments, it was a small amount extra on top of my income tax. The interest rate is also very low to the point of it not really mattering.

America has fallen behind the other rich countries in this regard. But America also offers a much larger menu of choices in what kind of school you attend, and what type of experience you have. All that choice comes at a cost, and the high wages for computer science grads makes the increased college costs moot: you can earn it all back without superhuman effort, and student loan burdens rarely cripple the lives of people who get lucrative employment.

The amount of choice available to the American consumer beats anything the UK can offer, hands-down. This is true irrespective of how much you make: this type of variety and plentifulness for everyone is unprecedented outside of the US.
FTA> don’t accept responses that don’t answer your question

You can do that twice, after the person you're talking to tires.

One of my helpful questions when people have hard time to measure something, I ask with power of 10. For example

Me:"how long to have an approval for project X?"

X:"Dunno, really, tough question..."

Me:"A day ? Ten day, 100 days"

X "no, not 100 days, yeah more like 50"...

Somehow it helps people to think about it even when they don't want to answer.
why is the mensa test timed?
> For me and my friends, "let's play contra" doesn't take longer than maybe 10 seconds from intention to the start screen.

But how would they know you have Contra and think to play it? The presence of a physical cartridge or recognizable console sparks the spontaneity. I think Analogue's consoles do this in a way that RetroPi does not.

> The Analogue OS doesn't say if it supports TV output or controllers

To be clear, I'm not talking exclusively about Analogue OS or the Analogue Pocket, but their other existing products the Mega Sg and Super Nt.

> And TBH if that format is best for you, why not just spend your money on a real console instead? It'll definitely be cheaper and will ALWAYS boot faster than anything else you can buy.

Unfortunately this isn't the case. Especially given the recent retro gaming boom inflating prices. You also have to consider that retro consoles are borderline unusable on modern TVs (even if they have composite input) and you'll need to purchase a quality upscaler (or hardware mod), which can run anywhere from $80 to $500 depending on what you get. If you don't mind having a CRT you can go that route too, but nice CRTs are also quite expensive. Then if you're interested in playing ROMs that's unlockable via a jailbreak on the Super Nt vs paying $80 - $200 for a flash cartridge.

So here's what I want:

1) Play on a modern TV via HDMI

2) Play original cartridges directly

3) Native support for original controller hardware

4) Support for additional accessories that worked on original hardware

5) The option to play ROMs if a particular game is inaccessible physically

The Super Nt/Mega Sg provide all of these things at a much cheaper price than trying to get the equivalent on original hardware.
He's wrong. Contempt will always beat love. Humour will always beat logical soundness. Pithy arguments will always beat correct but intricate arguments.

I dont have any hard proof of course, but this is how it is. No one cares if you're right if the opponent can be witty.

As proof Ill try to leave you with 2 videos, hopefully they are bipartisan enough:

1. https://youtube.com/watch?v=ErZCMcoC8X8
2. https://youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
Yup, but this always made school so fucking boring for me. Get it the 5 first minutes the teacher explains, spend 55 other minutes wandering in your mind about other stuff while the teacher proceeds to drill it into your peers memory repeating it ad-nauseaum until they sing it like fucking gospel.

That's the education I experienced at least, maybe someone else had better luck, but once you've to slowdown to the slowest of 30, and you're the fastest, things get pretty slow.
I feel ya friend. Part of the irony is that an unarguably superior FOSS competitor to GitHub hasn't shown up. (Can you imagine if Linux were worse than Windows? Egad!)

FWIW, I like (and pay for) sr.ht even though it doesn't have feature parity with GH.
Usage sort: About sorting a sequence of numbered books while you are picking books out of the sequence when you need them and insert them in afterwards (moving the books in between). What is the best strategy for where to put the books back? for a discussion see: https://www.iwriteiam.nl/Dpuzzle.html#usagesort
> I guess its not much of an oversight board then!

FB's "oversight boards" are to check a box saying they have oversight boards, nothing more.

I have no insider knowledge here, I'm looking at FB as a black box whose insides can only be deduced by the inputs and outputs, mind.
Perhaps that's true when you're writing performance-critical code.

For most code, readability trumps micro-optimizations.
Of course. PG's kind of obsessed by this and even republished the talk on his own website, for some reason:

http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html
You're buying the final product, not specific components when you place your order. As long as it functions as advertised and meets warranty requirements, it is what you were sold.

At least in the case of my Model Y, I was given the option to decline my order as it was placed before the vision transition [1], so there is disclosure and the ability to opt out.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/support/transitioning-tesla-vision
That should work fine - the CPU would scan / energize each row independently and then check which columns are connected.
Plus or minus 25 years depending on the environment and maintenance. But I would disagree that 75 years is not so long.
The specified (rfc7235) syntax of the Authorization header is that it starts with an authentication scheme, followed by the parameters for that scheme. "Bearer" is one of those schemes. "Basic" and "Digest" are others.
Such trolling isn't new, its just the causes for which its used change
This seems to be a tech generational issue. Blogs are the .plan files of today. Just as John Carmack now tweets and has abandoned his .plan, Twitter is the medium for thought sharing, increasingly if they are very long.
>I'm proposing a system where platforms lose their ability to censor people if the people in question are ready to bear the personal responsibility of their actions.

It is an interesting idea. However, there are some serious issues with that approach:

1. The old adage, "If it's connected to the Internet, eventually it will be hacked/compromised," applies, potentially exposing the links between accounts and the identities of those who operate them en masse;

2. The business models of most of the big platforms rely upon knowing who you are, so they can pretend that they can "target" advertising effectively. As such, those platforms would never go for such a solution;

3. I go back to the question I initially asked you -- Who decides when someone is 'causing problems' that would trigger the requirement that one give up their anonymity? If the management of a platform is controlled or influenced by governments or powerful special interests, important conversations would likely be stifled by such policies.

I'm all for cryptographic mechanisms (providing data integrity/non-repudiation) to identify individual actors (cf. stuff like this: https://pgp.key-server.io/ ) and validate that they are who they say they are.

However, forcing folks to use their "legal" identities to do so is a big mistake, given the propensity of others to harass and verbally/physically attack those with whom they disagree.

Giving centralized platforms the ability to force doxxing if they don't like the content of a particular post is problematic at best, and life-threatening at worst.
Exactly which step of this hardened wood process uses glue? I didn’t see that anywhere in the paper.
I believe smartness is rather contextual. For instance a person might be smart at a specific job like troubleshooting hardware but he'd not be so-smart in some other areas of life. Was Einstein smart in most areas of life? I highly doubt that.
This (contextual) smartness is build-up with time. People who have screen-facing jobs tend to get smarter about gadgets/software. People whose jobs are dealing with other human beings gets smarter at soft skills like persuasion. It all boils down to giving enough time.
Slightly off-topic, the article was fine except for one nitbit...

I wonder what the author, "hilariously" making one sorting function print "<val> sent to gulag" and calling it "stalin-sort", would think of "hitler-sort" which prints "<val> burned in oven"?

Please don't normalize mass-murderers, even for memes.
That's the stuff Rust needs more of!
Ok, I see what you are saying now. We were just speaking past each other.

I thought you were saying there is a formal definition of strong demand. Ie, there is a formal definition of demand, and a definition of "strong" in that context and thus a formal definition of strong demand. What you were saying is the definition of product market fit is having strong demand.
Study compares electric vehicle charge costs vs. gas and results were surprising
Roku ads take up the entire right half of the main launch screen, visible every time you turn on the TV or change apps. They've recently started displaying branded ads that are even more intrusive, taking over the entire theme + wallpaper (I recall they did this for Mandalorian, Soul, some other big movie launches).

YouTube ads help fund content creators. Roku ads are being displayed on a stand alone device that I already paid $100 for.
On that note, I recently found out about a term “Tittytainement”, coined by Zbigniew Berzinski, a national US security advisor in the 90s.

Message was that due to globalization, a 20/80 split in the job market was inevitable. So there needs to he work done on placating and nursing unrest by distracting people with movies, sports etc..

This was during the 1995 World State Forum. I tried to look up any more material whether that any concrete actions were taken place but couldn’t.
It’s perfectly fine to “self-censor”, and 100% of living adults do it. You don’t need to tell your father-in-law that he gained weight. It’s not the kind of information that wants to be free.

The only actual censorship that’s happening in the US is actual laws by actual first-amendment-bound jurisdictions making it illegal to mention the possible existence of a concept called “racism”, all under the immoral panic over “Critical Race Theory”.
This should be the headline on every single news source but it’s not. Only right wing sources are covering/reporting on it.
>Nextdoor has had enormous racism/bigotry problems.

Could you provide some concrete examples? I've used Nextdoor regularly in three major US metropolitan areas, and I have yet to see anything like an "enormous racism/bigotry problem." If anything, I see sanctimonious neighbors calling each other racist at the drop of a hat.
Ah good point. I forgot about states with income taxes. But I still think the “50% of my income” number is wrong - he either doesn’t understand how tax brackets work is being willfully misleading to make his argument look better.
Why not just require whether or not it is going through apple to be prominently displayed, and you can only use the apple App Store then, and allow other people to use other payment processors if they trust them?
Does anyone think the SEC will take similar actions against elected officials? Given there have been plenty of stories about this happening it seems like it should be up for consideration.
they could easily find a social circle and likely a workplace too where their views are accepted or even celebrated. why don't they?
The upcoming midterms are extremely important because the out of power party is likely going to take back the House, and all signs are pointing to them not affirming any winner of the 2024 election if that person is a Democrat, which will directly lead to the utter breakdown of Democracy in the USA.
Thank you for your prompt response!

I think the most important thing is Clickhouse is NOT designed for small batch insertion, if you need to do 1000s of Inserts/sec you do queue in front of clickhouse. And query speed can be impacted by batch side a lot. So have you looked at query performance with optimal batch size ?
Like other PG posts, I feel like he misses the elephant in the room, opportunity. You can be intelligent or highly creative, but unless you have the opportunity to use your abilities in some fashion, neither will do you much good.

Like so many others like him, they probably miss opportunity being such a big deal because it was so abundant for them. This is not to say they didn't also have to be intelligent and work hard to get where they are, but they also had to have things align for them in their life, that were outside their control, to get where they are.
Yes, that's why planting trees to offset carbon emissions is not really as good an idea as it seems, trees can live a long time but they're not immortal, and when they die they release their carbon back into the environment.
> The woke movement could be the next great U.S. cultural export — and it is going to do many other countries some real good.

More cultural imperialism, yeah, precisely what the world needed.

> Does that make you feel better or worse about wokeism? I say better. Again, keep the bigger picture in mind. It doesn’t much matter who controls the English department at Oberlin College. But it would be nice if the Saudis moved to allow more rights for women.

> Note that it is not necessary to approve of all U.S. cultural exports to view the spread of wokeism as a net positive for the world. I do not like either Big Macs or Marvel movies, for instance. But at the end of the day I think American culture is a healthy, democratizing, liberating influence, so I want to extend it.

It's very weird to defend the woke movement without being able to step back and see how advocating for more American influence is almost contrary to what wokism is about. Why is it so hard to just leave other countries alone? Can't they focus on fixing their issues?

> Wokeism has passed a market test that has been going on for decades. That should give pause to anyone seeking to dismiss it.

So did colonialism and slavery.
I use this tip as well. People don't read... until they do.

This is a bit of a tangent...

My incident reports are a good example of the reverse: giving good answers.

* The first two sentences will explain what happened, the scope of impact, when it was fixed, and a plan of action.

* The next paragraph or two has the important details.

* Everything after is a detailed timeline (down to the minute if that information is available.)

This allows anyone reading the email to read as much as they want without having to read everything.

Effective communication is hard.
No. It's qualitative not quantitative. You measure quantities; you can only measure aspects of qualities (and that's not advised as it's incredibly dangerous).

But as Paul says here, creativity is probably not the best word. I would describe it as "understanding".
Yes, exactly like “cancel culture”.
Well it didn’t involve any epoxy, just a chemical bath in readily available chemicals and a pressure step. The energy requirements seem significantly lower than steel processing.
It would be awesome to combine the following things:

* PostGIS

* Timescale

* Citus

* Zedstore

This truly would be the relational DB to end all relational DBs. Unfortunately, we run into a couple problems:

* Managing multiple extensions is a burdensome task, which should be in the wheelhouse of cloud providers, but...

* Timescale and Citus are are open core, holding back features for customers. Their primary revenue channels are their cloud offerings. Unfortunately you can't get Citus and Timescale in the same cloud offering, cause you're dealing with two separate companies.

* PostGIS has multiple cloud providers, but none of them have Timescale or Citus available.

* Citus only has cloud offerings on Azure, excluding the other two major players that often have exclusive relationships with companies.

* Zedstore is really cool and together with Citus could be a massive gamechanger by having columnstore and rowstores in the same distributed database. However, development has stalled, and nobody seems to be able to explain what happened.

Sigh...maybe 5 years from now.
> In reality, their life span is more like 50-100 years, and sometimes less. Building codes and policies generally require buildings to survive for several decades, but deterioration can begin in as little as 10 years.
That's a wonderful narrative, except that Fox News and other conservative orgs have repeatedly been proven to be really, really deceptive. How many conservative talking heads have had to defend themselves in court that they're not really news, but entertainers playing a silly character for laughs? How many right-wing radio shock jocks have died of COVID because they drank their own kool-aid on the subject of Vaccines?

Polls have shown that Fox News viewers believe more incorrect facts about current events than people who don't follow the news at all.

For example:

http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2011/knowless/

After we spend decades hearing about how Iraq has WMD's and was involved with Al-Qaeda, Obama's secretly a non-American Muslim, Anthropogenic Climate Change is fake, COVID is just a bad cold, vaccines are an evil conspiracy, publicly funded healthcare for Americans will result in "death panels" and so on and so forth... is it not reasonable for American progressives to accept that their political opponents are generally either malevolent or suckers?

At some point it's time to stop assuming good faith.
and then it will come down to spec of nodes actual fields and so on etc. Also batch size obviously plays a big role here as
CH is optimized for very large batch sizes and benchmark is not really using that kind of batch size. BTW. I am not involved with CH but any kind of vendor benchmarking their wears will always select params that will make their offering look good
It's worth repeating Mark Kac's famous quote:

>In science, as well as in other fields of human endeavor, there are two kinds of geniuses: the “ordinary” and the “magicians.” An ordinary genius is a fellow that you and I would be just as good as, if we were only many times better. There is no mystery as to how his mind works. Once we understand what he has done, we feel certain that we, too, could have done it. It is different with the magicians. They are, to use mathematical jargon, in the orthogonal complement of where we are and the working of their minds is for all intents and purposes incomprehensible. Even after we understand what they have done, the process by which they have done it is completely dark. They seldom, if ever, have students because they cannot be emulated and it must be terribly frustrating for a brilliant young mind to cope with the mysterious ways in which the magician’s mind works. Richard Feynman is a magician of the highest caliber. Hans Bethe, whom [Freeman] Dyson considers to be his teacher, is an “ordinary genius”.

Einstein was unquestionably a magician. He had an incredible ability to come up with simple ideas, and follow the chain of logic wherever it leads, without prejudice against its outlandish conclusions. Those ideas appear as seeds of 'genius' to those studying his work. I'm not sure if it's 'smart', but it's definitely insightful. I've met clever people, but sometimes, they're not insightful. I've also met many insightful people who aren't clever in many ways. To quote Kac again:

>I am reminded of something Balthazaar van der Pol, a great Dutch scientist and engineer who was also a fine musician, remarked to me about the music of Bach. “It is great,” he said, “because it is inevitable and yet surprising.” I have often thought about this lovely epigram in connection with mathematics… The inevitability is, in many cases, provided by logic alone, but the element of surprise must come from an insight outside the rigid confines of logic.
Changing your remote is a one liner. If you can't be bothered to find the command, the config file is self explantory and easy to find.

Any clone of the repository can function as a remote; and every developer has a full clone.

If a clone is on a machine with an ssh server, it can be accessed through ssh. Doing so immidietly gives you all access control mechanisms present on said server. For simple setups, this is traditional user accounts with tradutional DAC, possibly with public key authentication uf SSH is so confifured. For more complex situations you can use arbitrary PAM modules. Otherwise any remote filesystem would work once you mount it. These are all concepts that any IT department fielding Linux systems will already need to deal with.

As a developer, I have taken advantage of the distributed nature of git without a second thought. No access to the main repository? No problem, there is a clone on our build server, point your remote to that.
> Being even a little clever—and that's the best I can claim—is living life on easy mode

That is probably true about being a little clever, but being really smart is not easy in the general case. Really smart people often share few ideas and interests with others and spend much of their lives lonely and misunderstood.
You'd still need the header that describes the public interface of such a separately compiled object file.

Also, this doesn't work with templates, and modern idiomatic C++ tends to be template-heavy.
LOL, it is almost painful to admit that the current systems may already be somewhat close to optimized in a number of ways.
https://www.theonion.com/yamaha-ceo-pleased-with-current-pro...

> Yamaha CEO Pleased With Current Production Of Jet Skis, Alto Saxophones, Snowmobiles, Power Generators, Scooters, Golf Carts

An all time fav
I recently had the privilege of visiting Bastiat's grave in Rome.