skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Likely much lower than the value and developer time savings, but (a) that's usually the case even with licensed software (nobody buys Microsoft Office nearly the amount of "developer time savings" coming from not having to reimplement an office business suite) and (b) by setting up your project as open source, you're essentially saying that you're not interested in capturing any of that value anyways, so I don't really see how it's relevant.
Maybe it is just the gearheads in my area of the northeast, but no one drove on tracks and everyone wanted to drag race down the highway after meeting up in a grocery store parking lot late at night.
It is possible to make a knife out of lignum vitae: https://www.solidsmack.com/fabrication/lignum-vitae-ironwood...

So I guess the achievement here is that commonly available inexpensive wood can be made as hard as rare expensive wood.
What a cancer. These guys are already ultra rich, but it’s never enough. Sociopathic greed. And of course they spin it as some benevolent humanitarian effort. Tax these shameless parasites back to reality. I love HN, but we need better.
Run it for as long as you want and look at the output state.

How do you the a value out of a person?
Oh wow, yet another pseudo-intellectual, navel-gazing snooze fest in 8pt and 90% white space. I have been biting my nails waiting since the last one.
I mean. When folks use the term luck they often just use to express gratitude. Whether that’s to the void or to their god.

It’s weird to point out the usage here. Sure someone can say “I’m grateful the insane probabilities of every small detail that led to today collapsed on me living a good life”, but it’s easier to just say “I’m so lucky”.

> There’s no sense in which “you” could have been anything except what you are.

Perhaps yea, this feels tangential to the argument there is no free will and the universe is 100% deterministic. Maybe I’m reading too much into your comment, but for my lived experience. It certainly doesn’t feel that I was 100% destined to end up here. Im sure others feel the same way that their circumstances were never predetermined.
Ridiculous. The cost is less than half unless you only charge at overpriced kiosks or live somewhere with exceptionally costly electricity like an island.

Where I live 62kWh is under $10 at home and yields about 230 miles of driving. Doing it at kiosks is about twice that cost at most. Gas is almost $4/gallon or almost $40 for similar range on a typical car. Super efficient hybrids do a bit better.

So home charging is about 1/4 the price.

You also have a tiny fraction of the maintenance and there are far fewer moving parts to break. The Nissan Leaf (mine) has a fixed gear transmission and requires like one maintenance visit a year. No oil changes, no complex transmission to flush or fix, etc.

Note that the results may differ if you buy a very expensive high end EV and amortize it’s cost, but that is only a fair comparison if you compare to a very expensive luxury or sports ICE car. Comparing TCO of a Porsche to a Honda Civic is not meaningful.
Basically any modern, turing-complete, and non-esoteric (eg. Brainfuck) language fulfills the "at least adequately" part. So it comes down largely to preference and style of the language itself. I can't stand C# code or that the language uses Allman style over K&R because I truly find Allman style more difficult to read. I shouldn't - the difference is very minor - and although I work with a C# codebase in my day-to-day work I always struggle parsing the code quickly compared to languages where K&R style won out.

Now "optimally" is an entire can of worms because there are some aspects where you need to make mutually exclusive choices. You can optimize A or B but not A and B for multiple sets of A and B. So you'll end up with multiple languages or multiple flavors of a single language where decisions were made to optimize for varying sets of A and B. A and B can even be simple things like "How easy is it to footgun yourself?". Should you make code that is more boilerplate/difficult to write in order to prevent people from footgunning themselves or do you expect your developers to be more experienced and allow them to write more succinct code but having to be aware of and avoid potential footguns themselves? There are a lot of domain-specific languages for precisely the kinds of trade-offs are made that certain fields want/need. For example, mathematics domain languages tend to be 1-indexed instead of 0-indexed.

By the way that language is LISP.

[0] Just in case anyone is unfamiliar with Allman/K&R styles mentioned you can see examples on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation_style
I think it should be split into two graphs, practical and moral.

Practically, we all have to pretend we have free will. Hard work, diligence and deferment of the present for the future should be encouraged.

Morally, we shouldn't judge people who struggle with the above. "There but for the grace of god go I", etc etc. Society should try to be kind to all, resources permitting.
Right! that's what is so tiring about it. Maybe some people legitimately feel the way OP does, but more often than not it's just the ever-moving goalpost. It's impossible to tell the difference until you've wasted all your time.

Once the goalposts are moved back to the point where you're practically begging, they'll turn around and try to assert dominance by calling you weak for trying to reason with them like a perosn.
Latin gets upvotes in HN, but that's pretty much it.
That's a completely separate architecture-specific micro-optimisation.
'AI' as a term has been used by people in the industry for decades even by early computer science pioneers reffering to incredibly simple applications - it was hollywood that appropriated the term to the likes of skynet - not the other way around.
> Can someone give me a real-world example of a scenario where they actually need a time series database

Large scale infrastructure monitoring?

If you run a data center with 10K machines in it, whitebox monitoring of these machines and what runs on it generates tons of timestamped data.

These time series can be used to inform an automated alerting system (eg using trends to forecast bad things before they happen).

They can also be analyzed in batch mode to figure out how to optimize many things (power / cooling / workload assignment / etc ...)
Can you share that hypothesis? You are obviously contributing to this thread in a balanced way and in good faith and I really want to hear it.

I know two anti-vaxxers.

One is not political at all but isn't that smart. Very nice and generous person. Bit prone to conspiracy thinking and bought into fake news on Rumble or something.

The other is very conservative and it's a team/tribe issue with him. He has a strong distrust of institutions that he thinks are run by leftists and would distrust anything they say.
Care to explain how that isn't exactly what was being said?
If you use Aiven for a cloud PG instance you can do both Timescale + PostGIS installed.

I also really wish ClickHouse would prioritize PostGIS support - IIRC it has been on their roadmap for a while but keeps getting kicked around every year or so. Same thing with CockroachDB - PostGIS support kicked down the road every year.
I'm having a hard time believing that you have a history in retail computer sales AND thought the Apple sales rep was the trouble maker in this scenario.
Dropping by to second this statement: it really is a good example of RAD (rapid application development) for desktop software, since it supports a variety of platforms, has a UI toolkit that just works across them and doesn't need to depend on many components on the target system either, or a particular version of a particular runtime. The language is also pretty simple and doesn't feel that much worse than Java, whereas the Lazarus IDE just reminds me of NetBeans - it's no JetBrains product, but it's also perfectly passable and has everything you need.

The compile times are also excellent, the compiler itself is decently friendly with its error messages and the runtime itself lets you write code that feels safer than C++ in most cases. Oh, and it really comes with "batteries included" - you'll find components for everything from UI elements, to database access, to working with events and such.

Here's actually a large list of all sorts of software that has been created in it: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Projects_using_Free_Pascal

Now, the bad things. It's basically dead.

Sure, there are contributors who keep working and they do have a roadmap here: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Roadmap

However, there is no hype around Pascal, many people disliked the language for a variety of reasons. No one also seems to care much about its advantages for some odd reason, instead people are talking about Electron, JavaFX/OpenJFX, .NET MAUI/Avalonia or other new technologies that attempt to do what Lazarus did many years ago, with varying degrees of success.

Sadly, to me it seems like technologies live or die by how much hype there is around them and how many thousands of man hours people are collectively willing to put into them to create brilliance. And Lazarus doesn't have that anymore. Compare both the IDE, its approach to things, as well as Pascal nowadays with the likes of Rust - the latter gets hundreds of libraries created for it, thousands of tutorials and will have developers that literally grow up to like and use it. The former feels neglected in comparison, you won't be doing web development while utilizing super popular libraries that attempt to cover most concerns like Rocket (https://rocket.rs/) does. You also won't be interfacing with the likes of GraphQL, or even RabbitMQ, due to a lack of interest in developing libraries for those, as well as many other technologies. It might be a similar story for something like YAML or TOML. Nor will you find many good books and tutorials, maybe apart from this nice piece of writing: https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal_introduction.html
I find this to be an odd essay.

It's trivially easy to come up with new ideas. Just take any existing idea and perturb in a random direction. With high probability it will be new.

Drugs and some mental disorders make it very easy to do this. The problem is, new ideas aren't very valuable. What is valuable is intelligently generating new ideas that take into account what came before. And for that you need intelligence and education.

There is a kind of folk psychology in tech that emphasizes tinkering and working on projects. But almost all projects are bad. The reason tinkering produces results at a population level is because you have N agents randomly searching the terrain.

That is fine if you're interested only in population effects, like VCs typically are. Then you can just watch for the random ideas that catch on and bet on them.

But if you're going to decide whether you'd rather be smart or be a random-walking tinkerer, the choice is obvious. It's vastly better to be smart because most tinkerers fail and never have anything to show for it.
I read the linked article by Michael Hobbes which is responding to Anne Applebaum's piece. Michael's response gives a pretty clear picture of the basic contours of Anne's thesis. Certainly enough for me to have an opinion about it.

If the bar for commenting was to read the OP article AND all of its longform linked references, there wouldn't be any comments on Hacker News.
Don't worry, I have checked it, this is a link to pdf hosted on GitHub :)
You mean like how women and people of color are CONSTANTLY despised for the incidents of their birth?
Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of https://logtail.com, ClickHouse-based hosted log management platform.

PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, and ClickHouse are all impressive pieces of software. We use both PostgreSQL and ClickHouse at Logtail.

ClickHouse shines for true OLAP use-cases and is very hard to beat performance-wise when configured properly.

Example:

> Poor inserts and much higher disk usage (e.g., 2.7x higher disk usage than TimescaleDB) at small batch sizes (e.g., 100-300 rows/batch).

If your consistency requirements allow, you could use the Buffer Table Engine to get blazing fast inserts:
https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/engines/table-engines/special...

Horizontal scalability and compression are also unbeatable from what I've seen, to name a few.

There's a hefty price tag, however: ClickHouse is quite ops heavy and its observability has a seriously steep learning curve. Only go for ClickHouse in production if you really know what you're doing :)
Flat earther trolls that I saw didn't look sincere or stupid, they looked ironic.
We are more aimed at sharing your information depending on the situation and allowing users to create separate cards containing what they want to share with people. A bit like multiple business cards they can share depending on who they interact with. Each card created on the app has its own alias that can give a direct view of it.

For example, if "johndoe" creates a card for his everyday business and gives it an alias of "business", he can share it with his business contacts using "johndoe-business" as the alias. "johndoe" could also create a card for his followers with all his social media account and call it "social" and share "johndoe-social" with them.
I'm still amazed that anyone buys into the idea of internal oversight. At best it's a bunch of well intentioned employees who may find things and make the company more ethical who will eventually be axed by executives for doing their job (see Timnet Gebru).

Useful oversight has to come from external sources, particular by those most affected by your actions. Doesn't have to be entirely cut throat but god how often do schools let kids grade their own homework?

Big companies only make things like these so they can avoid external oversight. Then the Senators they buy off can say "Oh we'll step in when needed but it looks like they're trying."
Benchmarks which were done a while back did not use compression for TimescaleDB but also did not use new compression settings for ClickHouse too.

https://altinity.com/blog/2019/7/new-encodings-to-improve-cl...

In particularly low_cardinality() for strings and time series specific compression many be very valuable
> Compression is seriously impressive

Does this effect your query performance ?
I really appreciated both the technical descriptions (esp. those lookup tables) and the historical portions saying where the DX-7 was in relation to other Yamaha FM synths like the 4-operator ones.

I originally got very interested in this when discovering the YM-2151 chip that made 80's arcade game sounds was also found in pro-audio keyboards. They used a very similar YM-2164. This got me to explore the whole DX line including DX-7, DX-9, DX-27S and that keytar that's still popular for bass and talkbox, the DX-100.
For the record, the poor lady suffered 6% third-degree burns. The "over ten percent" includes more minor burns. A small detail, but it raised my suspicion that the author was putting his thumb on the scales to make his point stronger.

And it was a terrible verdict, by the way. It's common knowledge that coffee is brewed with boiling water and very often served immediately thereafter. The supposed "moral panic" story only had legs precisely because every reasonable person knew that the jury had been buffaloed by some (apparently, very good) lawyers in the unfamiliar context of a courtroom. One does not need to hold a brief for McDonald's to understand that.
SmarterEveryDay on Internet Privacy [video]
On any modern system it really isn't[0,1].

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16967675

[1]https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
I don't think this is a "feelings" thing. Being openly contemptuous of the people I'm trying to help raises legitimate questions about my motivations and honesty. If you see someone go around cracking homophobic jokes all the time, is it worth carefully considering their policy ideas on LGBT issues?
I don't know about the biological definition of "herbal" but in practice herbal is used as a catch-all for tisanes, teas that are made without the Camellia sinensis (tea) plant. It's not a hard rule, e.g. rooibos teas are generally listed separately from herbals.

In any case, there are a lot of different herbals and the perfect water temperature might be different for all of them. When I drink herbals (rarely) I just use boiling water.
Most of my friends are politically and socially liberal, whereas I'm liberal on some issues, conservative on others, and have a decent number of views that are hard to categorize on a liberal/conservative spectrum.

One thing I've noticed about the friends who are dyed in the wool liberals is that they seem to be more susceptible than average to pseudoscientific practices such as reiki, crystals, homeopathy, etc.

And that jives, I think, with historical trends. Go back 100 years and G.K. Chesterton was chiding the liberal upper-class socialites who were taken in with this stuff.

Of course, my own observations are just anecdotal, but I would be curious to know if anyone else has noticed it.
Sure, if a professional struggles with it it's by definition not easy. It was however easier then the complex part: I was moving between states separately from my spouse when we were both working full time. This could not be properly handled by any online service available (yes, I tried at least 4 different) and I ended up with filling forms manually by myself. It should not be this hard in first place. And yes, likely there are a lot of pros who can file it easily but finding anyone who is good in what he is doing is not easy.
The issue is Truth Social is using Mastodon without attribution and claiming in it's terms of use that Truth Social's code is proprietary which is probably in violation of Mastodon's AGPLv3 license.
I would construe your belief to be summarized by "all life has value and should be protected/valued".

The missing context is that your argument seek to protect the baby's life BEFORE birth , but after ... generally speaking the (R)/pro-life stance is pretty weak on social safety net, should the child have adequate (free!) health care, nutrition, etc.

Does that life "deserve" these things when they are only an infant? How about when they are 5-10 ... or 10-20 , or ANY age?

Passing laws to force women to give birth, but then systematically strip and reduce the social safety nets available seems highly context-dependent, and weakens greatly the belief that you "value life"
What I found interesting about adopting a diet was how it changed my perception of shopping for food. When I now walk into a modern well-stocked supermarket, it's shocking (now) that the vast majority of their inventory is useless and harmful (or at least to me). Vast isles of delicious utter crap. Crap in bags, crap in cans, colorful packaged crap wherever you turn. Food that will kill you given time enough.

Is there a solution to this self-induced (the market gives us what we want) madness?
How does a creature proactively use tools to more easily prepare/gather foods without "thinking?"

How does a young creature observe an elder doing something, and then copy it, without some form of thought occurring? It seems the elders are teaching the youth, and the youth are learning, but I'm not sure how that can happen without thinking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cp7_In7f88
I'll get it if that's a joke... but I have to ask: is it a joke or is it real? If real, expect me to expect source material:)
The great resorting (strategy and psychology)
Nice. I should assemble some shell scripts or python to do this now.
Are you implying that areas of lower vaccination coverage are seeing higher infection rates? That does not seem to be the case under rigorous analysis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481107/

That's the problem with "reality" - the reality you see is driven by the media that reports the reality to you. Presumably the media you read likes to run stories like "lots of cases in Florida" to score points against the "other team", while ignoring deeper analysis like the paper I linked.
> Anonymity is important because it allows you to have discussions purely based on the arguments and opinions, without the bias of who youre talking to.

Unfortunately often we do rely on the other person’s reputation, giving us information as to their possible biases and an initial estimate of their level of competence on the subject matter, in order to assign the appropriate weight to their opinions - especially when it comes to topics outside our scope of expertise.

With anonymity we often put everyone on the same level thus won’t be able to properly weigh varying opinions and filter out opinions that are the least likely to be of value.
Sometimes a little bit of poison can make a great medicine.

Goes both ways though.
I think emphasizing opportunity is putting the cart before the horse. I believe opportunity follows from initiative, imagination, and boldly asking and exploring great questions.

Game-changers like Einstein differ from other geniuses like Oppenheimer by asking imaginative questions and then independently exploring even when they lead to weird disruptive implications like warped space and time. Einstein never waited to be invited to the party. He created his own.
I'm saying the problem isn't solved by multiple dispatch alone, but it is solved by compile time types alone. You can use both together, of course.
This article almost got my hopes up too much! I'm curious whether Intel's "Ark" GPUs will support the same or if they'll go the same path of Nvidia in locking down virtual function support.
Isn't the whole point of doing this over twitter for the distribution, not the medium? How many people have blogs with 20k subscribers with the built in virality?
Don't underestimate ones ability to adapt and change their circumstances. I am a sample size of one, but I grew up busy farming and raising siblings. It is true that I was exposed to computers in the 80s, but didn't own one. In my mid-twenties I was able to re-orient my life, fail and succeed at startups, work at Be, Eazel, Apple, Amazon and more.

I have spent the last couple of years teaching adults whose backgrounds are filled with shocking adversity to think like programmers, build new careers and improve their lives. I am constantly amazed.

Modern medicine is miraculous. There is no doubt a vast amount of human potential has been saved from oblivion.
One of the examples in the linked article showed the compiler emitting a warning when a variable wasn't initialized because the goto skipped past that line, it's in 31.7. I don't know what compilers will or will not give you that warning, but at least the one used for the article does. So it ought to catch the problem with the initial version of the example above as well.
> thoroughly forgot

I am stealing this phrase
The harmful myth of “Individual Exceptionalism”
> Being even a little clever—and that's the best I can claim—is living life on easy mode.

Doesn't even compare to being tall and good looking.
Bearer tokens precede JWT and it's part of the Authorization header.

For authentication & authorization, the caller sends a bearer token. The format of the token is known to both parties and the server knows how to validate it.

It's better than username password combos because (1) not every "account" has a password, (2) tokens can and generally do expire, (3) it's not tied to the password if the password changes the tokens continue to be valid, (4) the user can invalidate the tokens of their choice, (5) you can grant restricted permissions to a token. You can do more or less things with tokens based on the needs of the application but it decoupling it from password gives you additional security and flexibility.
That depends. Yes/no questions are great when you want to quickly validate something. Open-ended questions are great when you want to get a lot of information. Yes/no are for confirmation, open-ended for exploration. Different goals.