skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take my salary down to 50k and everything remains true on that list except my holidays will be at cheap family resorts on the Mediterranean rather than in 5* hotels.

That cannot be said for the average American:

that may struggle with massive medical bills,

lack of strong worker protection,

kids doing active shooter drills, (three people from my clients have had their kids do this in the past few weeks)

maybe 1 week of vacation per year,

Crazy student loans where some people end up paying back thousands but still owing more than when they started - you could argue this is their own fault but the ability to dig yourself into that sort of hole doesn't even exist here.

no law to mandate maternity pay etc etc...

Can you elaborate on some of the news I've watched? I don't understand that reference and I don't often read news out of the US unless its global headline grabbing.
> See also above, where YouTube doesn’t contest Roku’s core claims when given opportunity to do so.

You are unhappy that a blog post from April does not respond to claims made today?

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
It depends on the scale though right? Plumbing a city has different problems than plumbing a bathroom.
I'm asking what makes you feel that way? Google is actively releasing new Android versions (Android 12 announced yesterday) full of new features. In what way does that make you feel that Google has lost interest in Android?
Not so much - to steal from marketing, recorded music is a top of funnel acquisition activity. Live performance is bottom of funnel conversion.

And, in fact, there are plenty of folk who go to live music events because they want to be at a live music event, not caring too much about who is performing. This is particularly true at the bottom end of the market: go to any show in a major city in a 200 - 400 cap venue and you'll have an audience of people many of whom are more interested in instagramming and being able to tell their friends that they "saw this really cool band in this totally underground venue".
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> The democratisation of the public discourse haunts and frightens the ruling classes to their bones.

"democratization" does not exist in social media. Algorithms designed to maximize profit rule what people read and watch. It's not a meritocracy, and you even can buy credibility of you want. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dum0bqWfiGw)

So, be careful on thinking that no rules means that everybody has the same opportunities.
Ah, I missed that, thanks. Was too distracted by the bizarre text in the pdf.
They are not illegal migrants, they are people who live there and don't have paperwork and are being pushed out by a Hindu nationalist led government.

If your definition of government success is a lack of terrorist attacks which are already insanely rare I fear for democracy wherever you live. People often trade security for freedom and find out the result of that decision far too late in the process.
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Howdy! We provided all of those details in the post and you're welcome to join us next week when we live-stream our setup and test!

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/what-is-clickhouse-how-does-...
Google to Slash Fee It Takes from Subscriptions on App Store
We need to mine in space.
Building an Emacs Lisp VM in Rust
Bastion Secure is a fake company setup by FIN7 Hacking Group
> Are we entering an era

We've been in this era for about 4 decades now. There are mainframes which do payment processing that, if they were to fail, would cause substantial harm to the global economy almost instantly.
The Post-Dispatch needs to act to force the State Police investigation forward, or the whole incident will shortly be forgotten, except for the allegations. Perhaps a daily column with updates on it. Perhaps a libel case?
> I think this is largely just lag between orders for new xen parts and the capacity coming online.

That may be a piece of it, but I think there's a little more.
AMD released the first generation of Epyc processors in June 2017. They didn't see much adoption for years.[1]

[1]: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vono9miWH83ZVeqRfE9CCV-970...
Are you familiar with open courseware platforms like coursera [0] or EdX [1]? The lectures are prerecorded, but there are weekly assignments, discussion forums to current students, etc. While the access to courses is free you can pay to get a "certificate" which is a form of commitment.

I've been successful with some courses that have kept my interest. Some courses didn't fit what I was looking for so I abandoned them.

[0]: https://www.coursera.org
[1]: https://www.edx.org
Who is MarkLTX?
A better analogy would be:

> History is littered with examples of eugenics programs, but that doesn't mean we should ban eugenics.

To which I'd argue we should absolutely ban eugenics because of the history of eugenics. Just like we should ban arbitrary political entry testing because of the history of exactly that.

I'm not making an "apples Vs. oranges" comparison, I'm making an "apples vs. historical apples" one.
In my mind there are multiple types of "not real" business. Two obvious types:

i) A business where the true state of it is being hidden to raise money to keep it afloat and it's not sustainable without raising said capital. Enron did this, raising lots of debt financing. Theranos did it with equity.

ii) A business which isn't sustainable over any time period without external money to keep it afloat. It need not be fraud, it could just be stupidity on part of investors, executives. Many internet bubble businesses were this type of "not real".

Enron had a lot of businesses under the corporate umbrella. Some of them were real (they owned hard assets, pipelines, energy generation assets). However, a lot of the revenue from other businesses was fake - derivatives revaluation accounting tricks (like, "hey this derivative contract is now worth $50 mill more because of some analysis we did, up goes revenue"), debt hidden via special purpose entities, and other similar things. The "not real" part of Enron was so big that it's debts brought down the rest of it. The chapter 11 process sold the real assets and the creditors got some money back and some employees stayed with those business.
> There was a saying what goes Missouri so goes the nation.. this will never be true again.

Actually, that might explain a lot of things.
What do you call it when party A and party B were strongly in favor of the Iraq war and the opposition (C) comes solely from protestors who have no political representation?

A is "the left" to most people.

B is the right.

C is (apparently) a logical fallacy represented by 3 congresspeople and a senator.
> This suggests that fasting might have negatively affected the health of the mice, to cause less benefit than simple calorie restriction at the same body weight did.

This doesn't make sense. He's comparing 28% lifespan increase on calorie-restriction vs 11% on fasted, and then wildly jumping to "fasted is NEGATIVELY healthy"

Fasting is a helluva lot easier than calorie-restriction, and I'd take a gain of +11% lifespan increase.
We're using TimescaleDB to store log events - so each row has a timestamp, some properties, and a log message. And a lot of that is actually in a JSONB column.

Not the archetypal time series use case, but TimescaleDB is still really useful.

TSDB's compression means we can store a huge volume of data in a fraction of the space of a standard Postgres table. You can achieve even better compression ratios and performance if you spend time designing your schema carefully, but honestly we didn't see the need, as just throwing data in gets us something like 10:1 compression and great performance.

TSDB's chunked storage engine means that queries along chunking dimensions (e.g. timestamp) are super-fast, as it knows exactly which files to read.

Chunking also means that data retention policies execute nearly instantaneously, as it's literally just deleting files from disk, rather than deleting rows one-by-one - millions of rows are gone in an instant!

And best of all, this all works in Postgres, and we can query TSDB data just the same as regular data.

All that combined easily justified the decision to use TSDB - and if you're familiar with Postgres, it's actually really simple to get started with. Really, we'd of needed a business justification not to use it!

Much love for the TimescaleDB team!
>It's to extract more value from them. It's for more ads, more dynamic pricing, etc.

Yes, this is a good point. But in my mind this is more of an incidental convenience, not the primary reason.

>Meanwhile, the enlightenment was specifically when a wide variety of viewpoints started getting published.

Exactly! And when was it easier than now, or even possible, to get access to practically the whole variety of viewpoints? Everyone can now play an active part in the conversation with barely any barriers at all.
holy shit the future is bleak. Scam Altman up to another trick.
We just migrated to Clickhouse. We collect monitoring data. So response times from 20+ different location. We are not super duper big but at least 100M+ individual metrics per month. We want to give our users a snappy, interactive dashboard that lets them explore aggregates of that data over time: averages, p99 etc..

That is where a time series DB is very handy
There are a handful of states whose constitutions (ostensibly) “test” a for morals by requiring candidates for public office to believe in god. This, despite the federal constitution clearly stating:

> No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
Has the internet degraded along these lines over the years?

In the beginning, largely unknown (essentially anonymous) people discussed technical things. The net felt like a cool place. I was enlightened by it.

And then as more people showed up, news outlets pivoted more and more to keep us up to date with what was happening via the internet. Families took to keeping family blogs to share news with each other.

Now days, it's largely a platform to build and promote cult personalities.
Minor point: I assume the author's rationale for carrying only liability insurance is that he has enough money to comfortably self-insure the risk of an at-fault accident. For businesses that approach makes sense - big companies self-insure most or all of their fleets, because buying third-party insurance costs more than the actuarially fair cost of risk. But those businesses also have teams of people to deal with the giant hassle that is the claims process, including dealing with the other party's (or parties') insurers, determining fault, and suing and/or negotiating a legal settlement as needed.

For individuals that service is largely inseparable from risk transfer, i.e., you can really only get it through insurance. Lawyers can handle a subset of the process, but not all of it, and besides, relying on lawyers for it is probably at least as expensive as the non-risk-transfer component of insurance in expectation.

In general, if someone's wealthy enough that they can effectively self-insure, even if they're completely risk-neutral, their time is probably valuable enough that they'd be better off buying insurance just to avoid having to go through the equivalent of the claims process themselves. So unless the author's rationale is wildly different than I'm thinking, in that example his insurance agent was right and he did make a stupid decision.
Many of us probably have stories like this from school days - admins overreacting to their lax policies.
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When Greta talks to the public sphere about government failing its climate responsibility, this is the kind of stuff she’s talking about.

It’s easy to assume we “just” need subsidies and incentives (or the ending of same) for “green” solutions, but the problem is much larger than that. We need to be operating “sustainably” at every level, in between departments, across legislation.

If regulation is blocking us, get it changed. If changing legislation is too slow, refactor. We must go faster.
We're supporting Ampere in our own VPS cloud (arccompute.com) but there are some hurtles on getting it working on consumer Ampere gear in the nv merged driver due to changes in the use of SR-IOV APIs - that is to say Nvidia has now enabled SR-IOV whereas before they were doing their entirely different thing to achieve similar functionality. We've got SR-IOV APIs working with our use of mdevType: "sriovdev" in our yaml configuration layer so from our perspective it's already possible to use but unfortunately until the nv merged drivers work with Ampere we won't be able to do a lot on our end.. Right now I think the vGPU_Unlock guys are working on the 3090 and we'll be sure to support it once it's ready. I'll also try to remember to post about it on GitHub once I've tested it out for myself and confirmed our software works with it.

By the way, we're hiring GPU driver engineers and kernel hackers!

Please reach out to me if you know anyone who might be interested. My email is: arthur@arccompute.com
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/covid-vaccines-creat...

It's a little late for that. Phizer has already taken all those billions of dollars.

Not sure the government can afford to hand out a few more billion without making inflation even worse
>If cases matter and eradication is the goal then we should abandon the vaccine for likely more draconian measures.

This reads like "seatbelts and airbags don't stop all auto accident deaths, so we should remove them and stop people from driving if preventing auto deaths is the goal.
And it discredits the press to have them remembered as 'hackers'.
What's the difference between doing this versus just using nicknames like everyone does already?
I've worked in the valley for ~9 years, have ~20 YOE if you include self-taught web dev and game dev work with a commercial game engine in online teams during high school, and this has absolutely been my experience.

The first thing I tell anybody starting out who asks me for advice is to study algorithms. Not because I think it will be inherently useful to programming, but because I think it will do more to help them interview for high-paying jobs than actual coding skills.
for me it's the heat and lack of fan noise. I know that's not something that bothers some people but I thoroughly enjoy (the lack) of it.
You're just describing how nutritionalists help people. You can of course apply the scientific method yourself without them but the reason you pay them to borrow their knowledge and experience to help you minimize the number of experiments you have to do to find "your" diet.
Utility technology become foundational very quickly. Despite it being very new, humanity is already fundamentally reliant on global supply chains, oil, electricity, networks, satellites and many other technologies that we cannot downsize. We could collectively plan and execute decades long exit plans, like we do for oil, but outages will bring daily life to a halt.
> It seems like it would create some bad incentives for open source maintainers/submitters - someone submits a PR to fix a bug, gets rejected, maintainer commits a similar bug fix, claims reward.

Well that would never work
What about them? They will mandate booster shots because the need to protect from COVID still exists. No country exists in a vacuum.

I guess where I'm lost is how the fact that these booster shots are needed is being treated as some sort of trick or "gotcha". The potential for 3rd boosters was talked about early on. This is not a surprise. It seems like people want a magical fix that takes COVID away and there isn't one. The currently available vaccines, perfect or imperfect, are our only practical path forward toward a degree of normalacy.
You aren't wrong, but keeping things to an 8-hour window makes it easy to stay within the right calorie range, especially if you pay attention to macros.
That is a very broad statement, what do you mean?

In India specifically they are a religious minority so there are some very troubling things happening by what looks to be a growing Hindu nationalist state that is tearing down a multi-religious and multi-cultural democracy.
I mean, parent post literally wrote that. Cutting carbohydrates and sugars will reduce calories (unless ones diet consists of psyllium husks and sugar alcohols as the carbohydrates and sugars).
Not sure what to think about this. The title has a negative connotation, which is surprising coming from the founder. But, if they pull it off it puts Mastadon squarely on the map.
I've read in one of previous threads about it that it's for the purpose of comparing different teas accurately. It's not supposed to result in the best possible tea. Instead it's supposed to make the tea's aroma and taste as clear as possible and it's supposed to be used uniformly across different varieties of tea, so that they can be compared accurately without much error margin introduced by the preparation itself. This may be entirely wrong though. After all, it's just something someone wrote on the Internet...
Better idea: make it actually illegal to explicitly threaten illegal state violence against people. The governor should at the very minimum be forcibly removed from power for threatening state violence against someone who has very clearly not committed a crime.
> I agree that Twitter is a poor medium for writing. But Twitter gives you an audience (and retweets).

Does it though? I have a blog and occasionally tweet. My blog gets about 30 hits on an average day, mainly through search engines.

If I tweet, I get maybe 20 impressions. And those impressions are all that I get, nobody goes back and reads 6 month old tweets and there is no way to search for them.
None of those cases are complicated - your SDF can be defined piecewise so you can have as many control points as you want. There's no fundamental difference between SDF and brep in terms of expressiveness - just breps define undirected surfaces and SDFs define volumes. Whether your tool (based on whichever underlying geometry approach) allows you to do what you want to do with them is another story.
Meaning that it would be obvious what that said maintainer did to claim the reward lol
Or you make use of the preprocessor or if constexpr, and then have the specific code for each language version.
What you are talking about is not anonymity, it is identity protection. There are many pre-digital examples of what it could be: witness protection programs, confidentiality of journalist sources etc. They are all established, well regulated and with lots of precedents of analysis of those practices in courts. Full anonymity can and should be banned, but we need to develop some sort of new professional privilege to protect digital identity, where you can speak as Jane Doe, but someone knows who you truly are. Whether it is an independent identity platform, a notary keeping an encryption key, a government agency or anyone else who can be hold accountable, that can be discussed and established not just in a law of a single country, but ideally in an international treaty.
On the contrary, I think they're being treated way too lenient.
Related to TimescaleDB, there was a blog post which explained their internals and also compared with another similar time series DB. I can't seem to find the link, anyone remembers?
I consider myself a liberal, and i agree with the point that college is net detrimental to society. It makes people waste their best years, teaches them mainly, useless stuff, barely breaks even in terms of lifetime earnings, and makes people bitter because they feel they are not valued by society the way they believe they should.

This world needs a lot more new plumbers than new liberal arts majors. It is the society's fault that people feel compelled to go to college having little chance to make anything out of it.
What is a solid definition of a burnout? Asking, because as a teenager and in my early twenties I was quite sensitive / "self-reflective" and always expected that spending dull days working for other people will kill me mentally, but in the end it never happend. I'm in IT for 10 years already and changed jobs a couple of times, usually when some processes in companies where pissing me off, but I don't think this is what you're talking about.
>-Oversaturated market, learntocode, let's be honest and say for 95% of companies, web devs are a commodity. I don't have an issue with people who are excited and want to learn coding, but the reality is the job market is over stuffed.

It's interesting you say that.

Based on one source [1] there is a 10% decrease in job outlook 2020-2030 for "computer programmers".

Another says [2] there is a 22% increase in job outlook 2020-2030 for "Software Developers, Quality Assurance Analysts, and Testers"

"Info Security Analyst" [3] shows a 33% increase in job outlook 2020-2030

Yet in another another... The annual projected job openings for software developer for 2018 - 2028 is 134,000. [4]

That's 1.34 million job openings over the course of those ten years.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

[2]https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

[3] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

[4] Visualize it: Wages and projected openings by occupation
Domingo Angeles and Elka Torpey | November 2019 -- https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2019/article/wages-and-ope...
Yes. If the only value the library brings to you is that it generates a particular object file, you can divorce that object file from your chosen language version entirely.

If you have libraries that you don't care if they're C or Pascal or a Lisp implemented in raw machine code, then this works just fine and you needn't care about Rust's editions feature. Rust will also cheerfully consume these libraries although of course everything about them is by definition Unsafe in Rust terms.

But most people want their C++ libraries to deliver a bit more than "Here is some machine code, and here are some symbol names that map to the machine code or to raw binary data". Like maybe they want to be able to implement an Interface the library describes, or they want to use a Concept the library names. You can't do those things using language-independent object files.

Rust library A, from edition 2021 can implement a Trait from library B (edition 2018) on its thin wrapper of a type from library C (edition 2015) and then you can consume the resulting type, with its trait implementation, from your Rust 2018 program.
> They were sold as a cure that would allow the person who received the vaccine to go back to pre-covid times because they were protected.

No, they weren't. Perhaps some people chose to believe that's what the vaccines would offer but that's not what was sold in the media, governments or pharmaceutical companies. No one was calling it a cure.

Effectively what some people are arguing is that they assumed that because the vaccines were miraculous (which they are), that they believed that they would offer complete,1 100% protection from infection and that people could return to normal. At some point in time personal responsibility has to come into play. The data has been available about vaccine effectiveness from early on.

Something can be extremely effective but not be perfect. Some people seem not to be able to wrap their heads around that, adn when confronted with it, claim they're being scammed.
There is clearly a difference. You can pretty much tenuously claim that every type of job affects your body/health in some way, but there is a difference between doing manual labor to being literally f*cked in the ass. (Had to use the bad language to get the point across)
Any time. Cargo doesn't use the Milestone feature of GitHub at all, so that's why that's empty :)
Or maybe you are wrong and California's "draconian politics" are being effective and corporations are scared of that.