skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting that ClickHouse and MySQL work quite well together. Clickhouse has a similar SQL dialect and can read data directly from MySQL. (Awesome feature BTW; in some cases queries even run faster that way.)

It's straightforward to build applications that do transaction processing in MySQL and analytics in ClickHouse. You can migrate data out of MySQL that does not belong there. You can also use CDC to mirror transaction data into ClickHouse for analytic processing. [0] The resulting applications are quite robust and have the advantage that different parts can scale independently.

Building applications that use the strengths of each of the component databases is a natural way to scale systems.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of the cited article and I work for Altinity.

[0] https://altinity.com/blog/using-clickhouse-as-an-analytic-ex...
Could the window manager be configured to communicate with this mechanism? The window manager knows what windows you're manipulating at the moment. (I imagine that terminal processes would be somewhat more complicated to handle.)
I, too, keep my specifics in the pedantry.
Eh, I am not saying consciousness is not required for advanced bio-computation

I am saying that going from observation of behavior (computation, memory, actuation, etc...) to saying that "poof! that explains consciousness" is a leap of assumption without having deescribed the mechanism that brings about actual awareness

The P-zombie thing is pretty interesting honestly. So far on initial read it seems to make sense to me, except that to me the idea of "non-physical" doesn't mean anything magical or otherworldly. But rather that maybe theres more to the universe that the 5 senses do not interact with, and maybe someday we will discover physical artifacts of free will in living things that are able to manifest an attribute of consciousness like free will

For instance, quantum mechanics shows matter is intrinsically non-deterministic, although the statistics of outcomes are robust

Maybe that, or some other physics we have not discovered yet, can help show artifacts of consciousness that would not be feasible in a very complex and sophisticated classical computer?

Maybe there lies the distinction?

But again, I am not saying that such a physical artifact would cause consciousness, but rather shows that the human being allows consciousness to manifest in the human kind of like a mirror (the body) reflecting light (the conscious being, or the soul)

From Baha'i: "Know thou that the soul of man is exalted above, and is independent of all infirmities of body or mind. That a sick person showeth signs of weakness is due to the hindrances that interpose themselves between his soul and his body, for the soul itself remaineth unaffected by any bodily ailments. Consider the light of the lamp. Though an external object may interfere with its radiance, the light itself continueth to shine with undiminished power. In like manner, every malady afflicting the body of man is an impediment that preventeth the soul from manifesting its inherent might and power. When it leaveth the body, however, it will evince such ascendancy, and reveal such influence as no force on earth can equal. Every pure, every refined and sanctified soul will be endowed with tremendous power, and shall rejoice with exceeding gladness."
The company page even makes browsing through logs look cool. Every man's dream job while the teenage hacker guesses the admin's password efortlessly.
Personally, I think while probably too futuristic large drones that are autonomous and deliver people would be safer. Its arguably easier to avoid objects when you can dodge in 360 degrees of direction.

It's also easier to avoid pedestrians as most can't fly.

It also could save on gas and energy as you can go directly as a bird flies to your destination instead of taking 20 minutes it takes 3.

Of course this would be a huge infrastructure ordeal as well probably and require a damn good system as you don't want vehicles landing on houses all over the place, but it'd be amazing for people with long commutes.

You could probably have airbuses that pick up like 30 people say in a small town and fly them to the city to be delivered individually by smaller vehicles locally. What took 45 minutes, now maybe takes 15.

These would be better if maybe electric with gas as an emergency backup system, and then just have good batteries and solar power fuel most trips.
Same here. I’m always curious as to what things Google is building and providing, but I’m so afraid that things will break within the next 18 months, because Google suddenly decides to ditch it again.
If that's what your younger immature self wanted to do, I don't see why the browser should get in the way.
That's true regardless and not the issue. The issue is calling it 'Incognito Mode' and implying it offers the same privacy protection as other browsers' private modes, like Firefox's private mode for example, when in fact it doesn't. It's a standard feature on modern browsers and Google intentionally misled it's users that Chrome offered a comparable feature. Users had understandably assumed Chrome's privacy feature did in fact provide the same level of privacy they would expect from other modern browsers. It would be like me selling you new brakes for your car and telling you there is always a possibility brakes can fail when in fact they didn't work to begin with and would have never stopped your car. One is common sense advice, the other is fraud.
This is sadly common in the industry. I recently found out a C-level guy was selling our next thing as a fully automated solution despite the fact it's not even close. It was the rare occasion where he was caught early enough that something could be done about it, but AFAIK he's done similar stuff in the past, and by the time someone found out it was too late.
Bakery Creates ‘Pan Solo,’ a 6-Foot Replica of ‘Star Wars’ Hero Made of Bread
Paul Samuelson[0] makes the argument here[1] when discussing how lighthouse economics works that anything with zero marginal costs that has a price other than free is by definition an economic loss. Therefore you should find other ways to fund lighthouses, and by extension, all media and software.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Samuelson

[1]: https://courses.cit.cornell.edu/econ335/out/lighthouse.pdf - page 359, first paragraph
So why not address those edge cases with something like "madvise" style configuration rather than just saying application developers need to reinvent the wheel any time they do something outside the golden path?
One of their victories is you equating "far left/right" to "calls for political violence"
On an individual company basis, legal discovery.
So sorry for seeing this late. Yes we do!
I think GP is referring to the very early days (March 2020 to maybe May or so) when they were advising against the general public masking. Based on what I read afterwards, it sounds like the idea was that they were worried that the higher end PPE would end out getting bought out by people who were worried (which given the outages on things that in seem pretty unrelated like toilet paper), so they discouraged masking for the general public at first to ensure supply for places like hospitals that needed it most. After a few months, they probably had more confidence in the availability in equipment, so they flipped the recommendation. I remember being surprised by this, since masking was never really something that I had done before or seen my friends and family do, but from reading a bit it seemed clear that it was the right thing to do, so I adapted. I suspect that the bad faith arguments against masking would still have been made if they hadn't first recommended not masking, but it certainly didn't help with getting the general public on board. I'd imagine that a certain segment of the population was not going to follow the recommendations no matter what, and the segment that did properly mask obviously would have even if the messaging had been to mask from the start (or if they didn't say anything about masking until they started recommending it), but I don't have a strong sense of how many people "in the middle" were swayed due to the fact that they at least appeared to have an inconsistent message on this.
It's not just a question of efficacy, but also safety, which can depend on more than just the systems relevant to efficacy.
Why haven’t we invented forever-puppies yet?
Ah, I think this is actually a very interesting example. My understanding is that TigerBeetle started its development under the company Coil, and was eventually spun out to its own company. I think this post my almost be directly speaking to Coil's decision to fund an in-house, specialized, database project written in Zig.

More power to you guys for actually getting to work on such a fun project, but I wonder if that was a poor decision on Coil's part, as reflected by their eventual decision to jettison that part of their tech?
Sensors of world’s largest digital camera snap first 3,200MP images at SLAC
Do you also feel nervous when resizing a FS that has files in use?

I've never thought about the AV scan of such a file!
>fragments about Hitler and Goebbels shielding themselves from gory reality on the ground are interesting in this context. This shows well how the leadership operates on the level of its own fantasies, and moves the "chess pieces" while clueless about what they're really doing.

For Goebbels, as a cripple who never fought in any war, maybe so, but not for Hitler, at least as far as combat violence was concerned. The man was a repeatedly wounded veteran of the first world war who had served right in the worst of front line duty, and knew exactly how brutal the carnage could be for every one of the millions of soldiers he later ordered out to battle through his generals. Cluelessness might apply to his ordering of the holocaust, because a thing like that pretty much had no precedent in human history, but not quite so much for his war-making.

Curiously, while, as far as anyone knows, Hitler himself never witnessed one of the mass killings his death camps were performing daily, Himmler did want to see what it was truly like, and nearly fainted at his first sight of all those regular people being gassed at once. Didn't stop him from continuing to approve the whole monstrous thing though...
Some would argue that propaganda is worse than nothing. Depending on your objectives, of course.

> "The first casualty when war comes is truth" - Hiram W Johnson
The full documentation is at https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/

I also have a series of blog posts where I talk about new features in a lot of depth: https://simonwillison.net/series/sqlite-utils-features/
For most commercial purposes screen readers can be safely ignored, they are not used by big spenders. Social share cards can be previewed readily and easily prepared without impacting the main content of the website.
They could just make the headers public, not sure how it would give out the source.
I learnt about queueing practice on an IBM Mainframe (MVS/CICS) mixing with theory at the university. From that point I was very disappointed with RabbitMQ and other technologies way back because these systems were overpromoted as message brokers but it didn't have the basic capabilities of a message broker (contention) [1]. My take away from this is: stay alert of overpromotion and have real implementations (yes IBM...) And theory in mind.

[1] https://lists.rabbitmq.com/pipermail/rabbitmq-discuss/2010-M...
I wish there were a good way to get at all that data for individuals. Always wanted a job where I had a BB so I could just search around curiously in whatever financial asset area piqued me . Unfortunately I did not make the grades for it.
> The expectation was that because they knew the vaccines reduce the chances of getting symptoms such as coughs associated with transmission, reduced the time people were sick for, and also reduce the viral load in people who got sick

This assumption relies on it being solely droplet spread, which we already knew was wrong months (at least) before the vaccines were announced.
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Hello there, the point of the "choose-your-own-adventure engineer" is that you might come with qualifications and ideas we never considered before.

For example one of our tech team members is and MD and he rocks!
> There is nothing childish about loving your work, having fun while doing it

Expecting to love your work and have fun doing it, is incredibly naive, yes.

> bringing that attitude to work. It's infectious and great for company morale.

Exactly the opposite, relationships become incredibly strained with the rest of the company and there is a lot of frustration when dealing with the software department. Developers are disliked in the company because they are selfish unprofessional time wasters.

The users are just dumbfounded when they present their 8 month rewrite of perfectly working system, in trendy react framework, now with only 80% of the features and in a slower web page. It's really embarrassing.
I created https://Bigger.Bio as a way for The TikTok crowd and Instagramers
to put multiple links on their profiles bios and do cross promotion. Admittedly it's not rocket science but an interesting project nonetheless.
While I am happy to see people improve their lives, I am absolutely heartbroken by people like Gwyneth Paltrow exploiting her fame to peddle supplements. Her basic business model leverages the absence of affordable health care to Americans. For example, impoverished women who can't afford fertility treatments might spend a couple hundred dollars buying some over-priced trinket that grants magical healing powers to the consumer.

Whatever you're going through, I wouldn't discourage you from your coping mechanism. I do hope someone in your life can sit you down compassionately and explain that there are no silver-bullet solutions to your problem.
I misunderstood you.
This is not that different to what happens where I am (except the taxes come from both the employer and the employee), though both need to be increased to improve unemployment benefits and healthcare.
Jack Considine is always a good read
There’s so much programming you can’t even imagine. Core web vitals, ttfb, sitemaps, robots.txt, mobile first optimizations, responsive design, keyword monitoring, meta tags, url structures, and a dozen more super challenging tasks.
It's also literally called incognito mode. If they want to rename it to "temporary profile" or something, I for one would be a lot happier.
I don’t actually. Amazon is on the “fail” list.

It sounds like you want APIs for all of your services. That’s fair. But I don’t think the vast, vast majority of people have use cases as you describe so the ROI on providing something and maintaining it is too low.

In any case, in today’s world, you can programmatically scrape the page of the results and crawl further pages if necessary. It wouldn’t be 5-10K lines to output a list of names and prices.
There’s really no functional difference between malice and incompetence, or even between evil and weakness. The problem is when incompetent people are given power to force their erroneous beliefs upon other, more rational, people.
why does it need to be a vacuum system? Couldn't a similar device be a pod-like maglev device that floats above a magnetic track and maybe can temporarily hover albeit more slowly via some drone-like propeller on the bottom when 'off track', or for final-mile portions, could even turn into a car when not in maglev mode.
Luckily you posted this anonymously because if your name was ever tied to a comment like this, you'd face the wrath of the woke mob. Your comment is extremely benign as far as "right-wing" comments go, but if you would've posted this on your company Slack, you'd be crucified.

Thank you for posting this. Many of us agree with you.
US Army soldiers felt ill while testing Microsoft’s HoloLens-based headset
It seems like we do know all the reasons though?

It's multiple factors, but they're all mostly easy to observe, measure and identify.

High-sugar, high-fat, packaged foods with preservatives, emulsifiers and artificial colors became cheap, abundant and normalized. These are essentially the perfect cocktail for obesity (by perfectly mixing calories, insulin response, gut microbiome changes, satiety, dopaminergic effects, etc).

Simultaneously fewer Americans are working physical jobs, the jobs that are physical have reduced physicality and society in general has shifted to more car-centric and sedentary leisure (watching TV instead of going fishing on Saturday).

Finally social changes. Women's liberation movement means more dual income households (and single adult households) which means less cooking from scratch and more fast food, packages food, etc. Also strong anti-bullying, body-positivity and self-esteem cultural norms prevent people from getting any peer feedback about their health/weight until it's a doctor telling them that they have diabetes and high blood pressure.
who seem to have tossed aside all caution and critical thinking when it comes to medical interventions that get labeled “vaccines.”

So... this is an antivax substack?

(I think this is being taken as a glib dunk, but I'm really asking: is there a way to write that sentence and not be an antivax person? "The mRNA vaccines are not really vaccines because they're not sterilizing", or something like that, is a core antivax talking point.)
I agree that a Transformer is an example of a "reflexive" behavior because it learns to react in a context (via gradient descent rather than evolution as the learning algorithm). It's a conditional categorical distribution on steroids.

I also agree it's not much different than what's going on in this petri dish with pong.

But I don't think that's a profound statement.

What I'm saying is that calling what a Transformer does "language development" isn't accurate. A Transformer can't "develop" language in that sense, it can only learn "reflexive" behavior from the data distribution it's trained on (it could never have produced that data distribution itself without the data existing in the first place).
> The code doesn't just magically go from 5-10 SQL queries to being completely unmaintainable without an ORM overnight.

I'm not sure in whih world an ORM helps with maintainability...
I interpret this to mean the executives are taking both the customers and the shareholders for a ride. Consequences for them would be good for everyone else.
LSD helps to treat alcoholism: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.10200

Studies in the 60's had some remarkable results - single LSD administration helped many individuals (participants in trial) break their alcoholism. I'm not stating % because it varies depending on definition of success.
There's no proof, true. I could have worded that more cautiously. But the margins were small. Elimination of one or two factors would have been enough to sway them. And there was conscious targeting via social media (including twitter). Not saying it was only Russia.
As best I can tell the investigation is still ongoing, but for some reason no one in the media really reports on it anymore. I think if the investigation had been concluded there'd be some reporting on that but I haven't found any.

As of early 2022 it was still active:

https://wirepoints.org/why-is-criminal-investigation-of-prit...
I call this the tragedy of software development.

Well written, minimal, roubust systems are not appreciated or welcomed. Heck, most of the times people don't know they exist.

In our industry the heroes are the firefighters and the firefighters are usually the pyromaniacs.
Oh wow you're in for a fun day of googling, on the innner world of wrestling. Look up Face, Heel, Turn, Kayfabe, and then go deeper if you want.
I was bored as fuck as a child in school, and very nearly ended up with an ADHD diagnosis. The eventual "cure" was honors classes.
I read through a few paragraphs of weird rants before I gave up. No mention of the cdc from what I saw there.
I am a js disabler who writes js for a living. "Apps" are hard without js. Not worth it and I do not expect anything complex or interactive to work. Stuff like HN and news/forums function just fine without, though. And that is great.
Elon Musk wants to offer Americans an ‘everything app’ like China’s WeChat
It works well under emulation, e.g. FS-UAE.

You do need the ROMS which you can get from <amigaforever.com> which owns the copyrights. I think about $30USD.
I worked in a construction company where we drawed blueprints in AutoCAD for these pen plotters. It was very soothing to see them work, but we had this pervert engineer who would caress the long brush's hairs under them and whisper sexy things. Unfortunately, that is irremediably linked in my mind to pen plotters.
I long while back, there was a book called HTTP: The Definitive Guide. Is there anything like it that is current?
Is that a little like telling American Persons working with Chinese Persons to cease and desist if it involves microchips ?

https://fortune.com/2022/10/13/chinese-americans-china-chip-...
Which in and of itself is sufficient to proceed with "huh, cool! keep up this line of research!"
Can I legally include a line break in my child's name?
For the record, this is one of the top Greek employers. This is Greece's Amazon essentially. The C-team are intact since day-1 and AFAIK still writing (some) code.

It is not unheard of to have 4-day weeks and developer-first mindset at that place.
Yes.

There is plenty of coverage of Ukraine and we aren’t getting the Iraq war’s fake-but-looks-real coverage that was actually misleading propaganda.
>You are unable to explain how reducing the space occupied by the initial configuration you proposed could change the temperature - which you say is 0 in all those cases - or the macrostate - which you call absolute zero macrostate in all those cases. The entropy would be the same whenever the particules are more concentrated than in your example - even though they would have lower probability of ocurrence. Don't you agree?

You're unable to read my explanation which i've already repeated twice. Go back and look it up. I even went with your cubical definition.

I don't agree. Entropy is lower when the current macrostate has a low probability of occuring.

>There is no entropy of the microstate - the entropy depends on how you decide to define the macrostate

The macrostate is defined in terms of possible microstates. Thus Entropy relies on both microstate and macrostate.

>If by sheer luck all gas particles moved to the exact left side of the container the energy wouldn't change, the macrostate wouldn't change, the entropy wouldn't change - it doesn't matter how unlikely that is.

Wrong. Energy wouldn't change. Macrostate changes. Entropy changes.

>It doesn't matter if you know the position of each particle. The entropy for the thermodynamical system described in the previous paragraph is independent of your knowledge of where the particles are or how unlikely you think their positions are.

Isn't this my point? And weren't you against my point? Now you're in agreement? My point was entropy is independent of knowledge. Your point was that it is dependent.

>I agree that you could use alternative ways of defining the macrostate where that happens! (And calculating Gibbs entropy will give different results. One can even get zero entropy using the microstate as macrostate - and one may actually want to do that if the microstate is known!)

Except you don't have to do this. My point remains true given MY stated definitions of macrostate.

>Both concepts are used. When you say that the equilibrium is simply the highest entropy state but the equilibrium entropy can also be lower I'm not sure if it can be read as one of those or you're saying something else entirely.

I made a true statement that from what I can gather you agree it's true. You're just trying to extrapolate my reasoning behind the statement. It's pointless. Example: If I give you a number, say -1, do I mean i^2 or 0 - 1? because one of those equations is impossible to express in reality.