skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Twitter wants Musk to honour the deal, does it mean that they'd have to maintain whatever terms they can, e.g. not materially changing their operations (assuming Musk loses the "hiring and firing" part)?
15 year old looking for internship at SpaceX
Anyone know of anyone who works at SpaceX?

It’s my nephew’s dream and passion to work there. I don’t think he needs to wait until he’s an adult to make his dreams come true. He’s 15 but he is mature and can add some value to SpaceX.

SpaceX might already be hosting contests for youth and he could pitch SpaceX for an internship to help them host their youth events. Event contests aren’t anything new. Companies do it all the time.

He’d want to work part-time remote as an intern. Thanks in advance for any help you can give!
This is yet another article indicating there is a signed merger agreement that has no mention of bots or spam accounts.

How is Musk expecting to get anywhere with this?
> If you need to rely on stats for Google search terms as opposed to observing real life, then you can safely say there isn't a rise.

We don't "need to rely on stats for [sic] Google" to, though.
Horror stories about the lines these days, unless you buy the extremely expensive passes that let you skip them, are why I'd hesitate to go even for free. I don't get why people pay for it. 55 minutes in a line for every 5 minutes of fun is a shit deal even if it's free, IMO. Sounds like hell.
But we have at least measured the curvature of the observable universe and within experimental error the result is that it is flat. Which in turn would imply an infinite universe if this flatness is exact and general, i.e. not something exceptional in the observable universe.
Last time I played with WebGPU on macOS it was a buggy mess.
So if an account was active in your system and is active no longer... do you soft delete it (even if that means UPDATE ... SET active = 'f') or hard delete it?
Formatting. Sigh.
> All appear to have an upward trajectory today.

They might have an upward trajectory, but they're not posed to break well beyond their respective records. With the possible exception of Python, how popular a language is at age ten is a reasonable rough indicator of how popular it's ever going to be. At its current growth rate Rust would reach 1% market share at age ten. Again, there can certainly be surprises, but I think it's weird to say that actual current evidence clearly points to success for Rust. On the contrary, to become a success it would need to buck the trend and be quite a surprise. So it could happen, but I don't see much to support the claim that this is what's currently happening.

> With rust looking to get integration both into the Linux kernel and GCC, that points to some pretty positive things for the language's penetration.

I agree that it shows that the language is taken seriously and isn't dismissed as a possible option, and that that's very good. That indicates that the language isn't an immediate irredeemable failure, but I don't think it's an indicator of future success.
They are tasty in chili.
> how to check if an article was peer reviewed or had harsh response from academic sources.

This is a different problem than the issue of a central repository for all peer reviewed articles. Some journals allow you to see the trail of the actual peer review (questions raised by reviewers, responses & changes made by authors, etc) but this is far from the norm. The standard practice is to only offer the final version of the article, and to not release the trail of peer review to the general public.

pubpeer.com does allow people to raise concerns and discuss individual publications for technical issues/plagarism, and its typical for the authors to come on there and provide further information or clarifications. Pubpeer however is a third party site distinct from the peer review process that journals do before publication. It's also not uncommon to see papers pulled due to concerns raised on pubpeer.
> the gases used by AC units are extremely powerful - up to 750 times the greenhouse effect of CO2.

They are sealed systems. They only emit gasses when breached. Or when not properly disposed of.

> And of course, the AC unit itself heats the city

A few watts - whatever power it requires to operate. Say it uses 1.5kw. That's the max it will heat up the city. It will of course move 4x this amount of heat(maybe more!), being a heat pump. But the 'new' heat is only what's imported by the power grid. The rest of the heat was already in the city.

It's also worth noting that it's often quite sunny when it's hot. If you power AC units with sunlight, you are actually not introducing any more heat to the system at all. That sunlight would already hit your city and be converted into heat, if you use some of it to move heat around, you are not increasing the overall heat level.
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Emergency use != load following.

The fact that sometimes energy needs to be dumped != system cannot be throttled. And a huge number of nuke plants are already on the coast so, they have just as much water as a sub (not that this really matters).

And I suspect size isn't really a factor here, its more about time variance, which I suspect is higher on a ship than its is on the grid. The grid wouldn't be swinging its power usage as drastically or completely as one would expect from propulsion onboard a ship.

This is more about whether its possible to run the reactor at say 50% rated capacity for long periods of time, which AFAIK naval reactors can do, and to a certain extent so can some civilian plants, rod placement controls not just criticality but in the end heat generation, which translates to power output.
I can totally appreciate that. That pricing for Publish is way out of whack for my goals. My particular vault se case might only update once or twice a month (it's all already written), so nearly $200 a year for something so static just doesn't make sense.
I read once that a headline that ends in a question mark is almost always a no. I think the thought is that positive answers to a question are shared as a statement. Much like you shared. It saves me a few clicks?
Also I'm sorry but the UK bloody loves a bit of weather melodrama. Climate change is a big problem but the specific effect of it on the UK in particular has honestly not been very bad at all yet. Tarmac has been melting in the heat here longer than I've been alive, which makes me suspect we use weak, crappy British tarmac. This was a little bit hotter than previous heatwaves, which is bad, but felt about the same and has also been really short - not sure what to make of that. However we scarcely get a weekend here without some "most (x) ever in (y)" fuss and haven't in 40 years which is really getting quite tiresome and making it harder to respect the real problems. I'll worry about it when I'm done drinking gin in the rain.
Taking a picture and drawing on it. Yeah, I should have clarified that it wasn't a proper noun.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/iuo9vjmb76d8kmx/8360%20Low%20Band....

Here's an example to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses. The biggest weakness is that it doesn't support prose very well, so it doesn't double as a blog post or as a full lab notebook that can communicate the story of what is happening to someone who doesn't already know. The strength is in the sheer amount of stuff I am able to document with extremely little effort: physical layouts, circuit structure, instrument setups, probe configurations, and results across a bunch of devices ranging from the 68000 era through x86 and ARM. Consider the number of diagrams I didn't have to make, the number of screenshots I didn't have to schlep, the number of measurements I didn't have to export, import, format, and describe. I just point my iPad, tap, and scribble.

Making a proper lab notebook for this little repair exercise would have doubled the timeline. In academia, the need to communicate would have justified the time investment. For someone who just needed to generate a 2GHz pulse modulated clock and had a broken signal generator, quick & dirty won the day.

Needless to say, I'd like to have the best of both worlds, but at the moment I regularly put up with the weaknesses of snap & sketch because its strengths are so important to me.
You glossed over the implication of your logic. Insta, FB, etc are incentivized to make money. Whether that is good or bad is a fair debate. But TikTok is incentivized by the CCP to spy on dumb Americans and to make them even less intelligent. Easy to create the “perfect” viral product when you don’t care about making money.
Oh don’t get me wrong, I like surreal gen z humor videos I’ve seen recycled as YouTube shorts. I just can’t get the TikTok algorithm to match me with them? It basically just shows an endless stream of young women lip syncing (not that there is anything wrong with that in the abstract, just definitely not personalized to me)
RiderFlow for Unity
Working Copy works as a mobile app interface to a git repo, including edits to files in Markdown (for some approximation of easy-to-use).
Pushing changes to remotes does require purchase.
>[Oracle] 2 IPv4 for VMs, 1 IPv4 for load balancer

I've definitely used 4x IPv4s on an unpaid account.

>redislabs - Free 30MB redis instance

This runs on GCP btw, US east1 from what I can tell, so super low latency in that combination
As someone who has done development work with Class A data and specifically in the realm of justice, soft deletes aren't simply a good idea, they are required by law.

Most of these downsides are easily mitigatable issues as well. As many users have stated, something like views solves the issue of forgetting the 'deleted' clause.

Lastly, I'm not sure the issue with foreign keys/stray records really resonates with me. I'd be hard pressed to be comfortable allowing a developer or DBA who isn't fully comfortable with the data model to be hard deleting records, let alone flagging them as soft deleted.
on the other hand there's a video of a guy planting one tree per minute here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbA-hoIuHM4
and the blockchain.
> (...updatable view...) WHERE deleted_at IS NULL

This is the way. Also, save record creation timestamp, and you can have very flexible "time-machine" selects/views of your table essentially for free.
You ended with a question mark, so I must assume it doesn't save you a few clicks.

I'll take my downvotes now.
I agree with the author that a separate table is the way to go, but I go one step further than the author and use database triggers to manage that second table. Alternatively, a combination of database views and triggers can do the same thing without having an actual extra table to manage.

Either way, it allows you to have soft deletion and/or full activity logging functionality without the application having to know about it.
Even the Dalai Lama is on board with that sentiment.

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view.

He is well aware which side of the bread the butter's on.

That said, the scientific method is not without its gargantuan biases and filters. It looks through a pinhole.
South Park did a great job making fun of Matt Damon, Larry David, Reese Witherspoon and other celebrities who were hired to push crypto. Unfortunately people do listen to celebrities, and celebrities apparently are not above sinking pathetically low to earn that paycheck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park_The_Streaming_Wars_...
> that's what you wish Mueller had written.

Pot/kettle/black

https://www.acslaw.org/projects/the-presidential-investigati...

- Special Counsel Mueller declined to exonerate President Trump and instead detailed multiple episodes in which he engaged in obstructive conduct

- The investigation “identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign” and established that the Trump Campaign “showed interest in WikiLeaks's releases of documents and welcomed their potential to damage candidate Clinton”

- Russia engaged in extensive attacks on the U.S. election system in 2016

- The Special Counsel investigation uncovered extensive criminal activity
> The USA is a democracy.

I'm not sure it is as black and white as you suggest.

If you were to create a time machine and bring an ancient Athenian to the modern day US, the Athenian would not recognize the US system of government as, democracy. With the exception of jury trials and referendums, the demos do not directly engage in governance.

The US doesn't even allow the majority of the population to select those who perform the actual governing. E.g., a person from Wyoming has much more representation in the Senate than a person from California.

And, for the president, the population votes, but the winner of this election is not the one who got the most votes from the population, it is the one with the most electoral college votes. Again, the Wyoming voter gets more representation with one elector per less than 200K Wyoming residents, and only one elector for over 700K California residents. It is how the US got Bush "W" and Trump even though they both lost the vote of the demos.

With all the money in elections, even if there were majority representation, the US would still have moneyed interests dominating politics.

Some argue that the US is an oligarchy:

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
Children who can’t read browse the Internet using visual cues (bookmark buttons, suggested sites, sometimes recent site autocomplete, etc.) All mouse or trackpad based. It’s obviously limited and from my observation, they have no idea they’re missing so much.
> By most readings of the contract, damages for the deal are capped at $1 billion

Src: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/business/dealbook/elon-mu...
Not to take away from your great post, but that jab at the end felt unnecessary and reductive. There are a million reasons why Windows is more popular than Linux, and while user experience is one of them in my opinion, I'd say it's not one of the most relevant.

Either way, this was a very informative post. I'll be googling these terms as soon as I'm at my desk. Thank you.
I think it would be very useful to look at an outlier and know if it's a legitimate measurement that should be kept in the dataset or an aberration that can be safely removed from the dataset.

I am not a statistician, so I don't know under what circumstances outliers are usually thrown out.
As different, presumably, to the gp, I commend you for being level headed and compassionate, even with people you disagree with, and especially around such big topics. That kind of universal kindness and empathy doesn't grow on trees, and takes sometimes hard work; I can tell by your tone you are like that and it gives me hope for our future. Thanks, truly.

Im not sure what 'chortle' is?
I'd be interested in hearing if Cloudflare uses a managed Kafka service like MSK, Confluent, or Aiven. Also would be nice to hear the history and more pain-points in getting Kafka to scale to where they are at now.
I love Elon Musk but I don’t fully get why he would want a slow trial?

Shouldn’t he want a quick resolution to put this behind and focus on more important work?
> SE is not overpaid. I actually think it's underpaid. Above all, the profession pushes for an early retirement.

I don't buy this. I think developers are highly paid because so many jobs are subsidized by VC speculation.

It's easy to get a software job working on a BS product that solves no real problems and eventually disappears. But the money you get paid is real enough in your bank account.

As long as VCs are willing to throw money at any random BS SaaS company that crops up, with the expectation that the losers are going to be outweighed by some unicorn, this will remain the case.

If/when the stock market corrects this free ride is going to be over.

(Disclaimer: I'm a developer, but I no longer work at a tech company)
not every thing is a transaction though, say a deleted piece of ref data that still has FKs to other stuff etc
Well, there are several problems with this analysis when you go very large (>10000 machines):

- For many applications, it's easiest to put the state of the object in the primary key, and thus point reads will fail when something gets deleted. This has other problems though with hotspotting and compaction during deletes. The deleted table doesn't really solve this either.

- For storage systems, GC is critical functionality to implement. Most systems whether they want to believe it or not are glorified storage systems. Garbage collection is hard to do at scale, and I've never seen it implemented as SQL statements rather than code. Especially for GDPR etc.

- For large scale distributed systems, foreign key constraints are rare if impossible to implement with reasonable latency, so they don't exist either way. I haven't worked on a system in >15 years that had fk constraints.

- For large scale restores where you need to undelete trillions of rows, keeping the rows basically pre-assigns the distribution of writes. When you have to re-create the rows, you tend to get intense hotspotting and failures along the way as you attempt to load balance on the keyspace of the writes.

A deleted records table is good for smaller (<10000 machine) systems when latency between nodes can be kept within the same campus. It can really improve performance of your GC if reading by column isn't fast compared to reading by table.
There are plenty of 10 hour ambient tracks on Bandcamp. I personally recommend Iron Cthulhu Apocalypse for this.
SEC issues more than $17M award to a whistleblower
If Twitter seeks to enforce the agreement, yes, they should continue to comply from their side.

All reports of the purchase-agreement contract I've seen imply it's very seller-friendly, leaving Twitter plenty of typical-operations latitude to hire/fire/etc in response to business needs. (Proving a breach by Twitter Inc in those matters would likely require them doing something very drastic and abnormal.)
Interestingly Sony hardware and software to this day (even the PS5) still support ATRAC decoding.
Exponential Smoothing (ETS) for Python
Optimized using numba. 400% faster than statsmodels and 1.5x faster than R, with improved accuracy and robustness.
> This as a mission statement makes no sense

isn't that the case for like 90% of SV companies?

these "mission statements" are so opaque you can't tell what actual product is

often this is used as a marketing catch-phrase to attract hires, eg. "our company has a purpose (other companies don't)"
I don't mind paying for good quality experiences. I don't like to feel like I'm being fleeced while doing so.
It is moderate, but it's not some exclusionary, niche thing like a "far-right social platform" is. HN is generally a broadly-welcoming community that attempts to elicit good-faith, well-reasoned discussion. Its actual purpose is one of openness and community rather than, simply put, "us vs. them" worldviews.
Was the amount per person then? The books (per my link, I'm guessing they changed pricing seasonally so the article is also probably right) were ~$4.50 per adult and included admission. If the number in the article was per person then the situation has gotten worse than it claimed, if it wasn't then it's better.

(In any case, I missed that comment when I read the article the first time, you're right. Sorry!)
I believe the parent is talking about all the power overhead that's used even when there are no instructions running.
LiveView took on a life of its own
HN would have continued its slide from idealistic libertarianism to extreme right with the rest of US politics without dang occasionally swatting people down for using it for ideological battle. It's only moderate because of active effort on the part of the mod and people who bring things out of sync with the guidelines to his attention.
It's like guffaw except with extra phlegm.
>2 Seats + 6 Foot bed seems like a winning combination in practicality, but is quite rare in the US.

I'd argue that it seems the exact opposite. People aren't buying $50,000+ 4-door 4x4 trucks because Ford is forcing that on them, they are demanding it. And 2 seats are nowhere near optimal practicality.
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Views can really bite you performance wise, at least with Postgres. If you add a WHERE against a query on a view, Postgres (edit: often) won't merge in your queries' predicates with the predicates of the view, often leading to large table scans.
Use `Python -m Pip`
>Replying here since reply to your last post is not available.

Typically when that happens I have to click the time posted on a post and then I have the option to reply. Not sure what causes that.

>I prefer the world "ruled" by few major entities / blocks. No need to be either US or China alone.

I don't think that is possible.

Do you have any historical examples where this has happened? Please don't bring up a time when there were multiple major powers but they were so far away they couldn't reach the other, assuming they even knew the other existed.

If you do not have any examples of this occurring, why do you think it would work in the present?

>Like bombing the country that refuses to trade in certain currency?

I am not suggesting that the US has only done good and just things. Only that the US is better than China.

China is currently taking over Hong Kong (despite having a 50 year agreement for autonomy starting in 1997), attempting to take land from India, trying to dam a river that provides water to India, is consistently threatening Taiwan, etc. China does the same crap. And all of that is within the last few years. If you want to go back further we can.

I would also note several of the US invasions were not in fact US invasion but NATO invasions. This likely means one of those blocks of country you support to be a world power were involved with these invasions.

Let's talk about internal affairs. China has a terrible record and potentially holds the record for causing the most deaths of its own citizens. Obviously they don't care about the people. What about freedom? Do Chinese citizens have more freedom than US citizens? Why would China treat people who are not its own citizens better than the citizens?

The US is better for the world and the people under its control than China.
I still think it was a massive mistake that VW skipped selling the ID.3 to focus on the ID.4 in the US, assuming all Americans would prefer the SUV-like ID.4. The ID.3 is the true EV successor [0] of the Golf and every American fan of VW that I know loves the Golf and had one or two of them. (I'd consider the ID.3. I don't want an ID.4.)

[0] For a few years they made an "e-Golf" that was batteries badly fit into an unmodified Golf frame. The ID.3 is bespoke EV on the shared MEB architecture.
Based on my experience, I like the author's approach since it makes things pretty clear-cut and optimized the storage in the core table (in my experience as well, deletes happen frequently and the soft deletes are rarely touched). In large, row-oriented tables that that storage can add up and even with views/materialized views there's a cost to using/maintaining those as well.
In case you've ever wanted an opportunity to learn Zig and WebGPU, we have Zig bindings to Dawn (the Chrome implementation) with a fair amount of examples in Zig[0] - also working on getting WebAssembly support going right now.

Can be a bit easier than trying it out in-browser (works on Linux, etc.)

I'm shamelessly posting here because we're looking for folks[1] to contribute by porting more webgpu examples over to Zig :) Can be a fun way to get started with both, though.

[0] https://machengine.org/gpu/

[1] https://github.com/hexops/mach/issues/230