skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I delayed upgrading to flux and finally bit the bullet this summer, and a month later read the announcement deprecating it.

Next time around I'm going to give TimescaleDB a look.
Sure

But not in the immediate short term of failing organs. Those are unhandled exception errors
> One example is that he first explains that there are two different Mozillas, the corporation and the foundation, and then proceeds to ignore that for the rest of the peice when it's rhetorically convenient to do so.

Charitably I'd assume the quoted reason in the article is the reason:

> In fact, the “not-for-profit” and “for-profit” aspects of Mozilla are so tightly intertwined that the auditors report makes a point of calling the collective group of three organizations simply “Mozilla”… and reports on their finances as a single entity.
A reason I would still bias towards postgres is the maturity of managed solutions (including decoupled compute/storage solutions like Aurora and AlloyDB).

Are managed "proper OLAP DB" solutions competitive with managed RDBMS from a price and ease of use standpoint?
Well, than that’s definitely the reason why
Nah. Malted barley contains enzymes which break down the starches into sugars for the yeast to eat. This is brewing 101 type stuff.
we are drunk and desperately texting that we should get back together.
This is a site for many who are and who intend to be capital, not labor. Make of that what you will.

Also there's those that don't care or see anything negative about it
I worked on a phd for 4 years looking into this problem indirectly and for a decade at Ohio State they have had working solutions to the tire dust issue but it is IMPOSSIBLE to get funding.

A Billion dollar industry and NO ONE cares about cleaning it up if it means increasing costs by 5% or more.

It has been WELL KNOWN for 50 years! We are basically aerosolizing carbon in MASSIVE amounts right where we live and work. Almost like we are purposefully manufacturing microplastics and dumping them in the air as fast as we can. Imagine taking every new tire and just grinding it down into a fine dust then blowing in into the air and dumping it into the rivers. That is what we are doing, AS FAST AS WE CAN.

(For anyone that cares, the solution is natural rubber, which costs slight more than synthetic rubber but lasts longer. So its better for consumers, cheaper all around, and 1,000x better for the environment but Goodyear, Firestone and Michelin flat out refuse to fund research or even block innovation in natural rubber.

[1] https://hcs.osu.edu/our-people/dr-katrina-cornish
It’s funny how for the longest time, I was upset with how slowly the web moved. At times I wished they wouldn’t care as much about backwards compatibility.

But now with these VC-funded tech products that have spawned over the last 5-7 years, who have a move-fast-and-break-things attitude, I’m seeing the benefits of the old approach.

I suppose it’s all a matter of trade offs, as with all things, and there’s no silver bullet.
> Can you explain it?

Can't measure one-way speed of light because you need to get the result back somehow (and that's also limited by speed of light). Usually we just send light and wait for it to bounce back.
Hominins challenge giant hyenas for carcasses in Prehistoric simulations
The Tricorder moonshot was a stupid waste of time with their impossible stupid rules.

A cheap conventual ultrasound in a stick would be a tricorder moment. Hook in a mobile phone and 3D analyzing humans or pets or livestock or many inanimate things becomes software.

This is cool and all, but unless you get the tech out of their hands it'll go nowhere for decades. Just like we've stagnated with conventual ultra sound.

The cost needs to be smashed down. It shouldn't take a moonshot. This is old tech that's not hugely complicated.

Get these down to $50 - https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-ultrasound-transducer...
MIT’s Pantheon
Hours of blood-curdling screaming in the middle of the night, waking up people who are trying to get sleep before going to work. But I can tell from your tone that you've already decided you don't care about anything the homeless might do to other people.
Because squash merging results in horrifically poor commit messages that are use to no one in future, because GitHub can’t be bothered to implement anything beyond a simple textarea for editing them.
Eh, in 2023 it feels like most peoples experience with Windows is less “Personal” Computer and more “Appliance work sent me”. I’m pretty sure a lot of that is set by IT.
Yes, that is, in fact, how the banality of evil works. Everyone is capable of doing evil, without "feeling" evil, if they can self justify its perfectly fine.
Musk wants to make X the home for misinformation of all types --- and what better way to show it than with non-sensical metrics about the product itself.
title of this article is the case in point for why i still avoid calling them “Meta”. at least slap on a “Co.”/“Company” to make sure it’s not mistaken for the adjective.
OP forgot to put (2008) at the end of this.

Today's standard isn't "CD Quality" anymore. There is literally no audible difference between MP3 320kbps, which covers the complete range of human hearing up to 22kHz and FLAC which covers all the way to 192kHz, which is lossless. At this point digital audio has surpassed what the human ear is capable of hearing, and any advancements to this is superfluous as far as music is concerned.

The only advantage to raw or lossless formats for music is archiving, as FLAC can be converted into other formats without incurring additional quality loss. For listening, it is now more important to have good equipment rather than a lossless format, and for streaming it is generally preferable to keep bandwidth requirements down.

The only reason I can imagine to continue expanding the capabilities of lossless audio is for scientific purposes and machine learning where the limits of human sensory perception isn't a limiting factor.
I've always had the impression that Twitter was a place people go to be spicy and flippant. The character limits incentivized this kind of behavior. It was never a place I expected to have an in-depth discussion or long form reads. For me it is still useful for marketing, giveaways and to have a glimpse into popular sentiment.
The decoder either reproduces exactly the same bytes as the original or it's seriously broken. You can run "flac --verify file.wav" to test this, or compare the decoded bytes yourself if you don't trust the tool. I doubt such bugs are a common issue.

I suppose decoding speed could matter in some situations, but they said "for serious listening", not "if your system is so slow that it fails to decode the file in real time".
Clearly a mistake!
Relax AI are now in the verge of evening the playing field for actors. Athletes not yet, unless we have AI starting to generate completely made up sporting events.

The later is extremely possible given how much data there is and how similar it all is.
The backstory here is they were doing a rewrite anyways, for reasons that had not much to do with languages; they expected to write some C++ for the new version. Rust was the right call for them.
This is a huge equivocation by TFA. When we think of banks failing we typically think of situations where banks can no longer honor deposits.

What the article describes is nothing of the sort. It was a strike, which is a breakdown of operations, not insolvency.
Oh that's cool man, what's the story there? Was he among the Sikhs who settled in farming communities in California and intermarried with the Chicano population?
Hacker News users have been predicting the imminent demise of Twitter for a whole year now.

Clearly the least predictive user base. People have been "giving it two weeks" before it collapses for so long now.

Lowest quality prediction ever.
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100% correct. That was the gist of my original point. In Corporate America, unless you're in the C-suite or sitting on the board, you're not in the club. The corporate ladder makes it seem as though the middle management levels are on the path to being upper class, but they're in the same position as everyone else. They just drive a nicer car while doing so.
They seem all over the place.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/11/influxdata_apologizes...
The point is it enables bisect workflows that don’t suck. If half the commits in a tree are “fix misc derp” or “test passes now”, that workflow isn’t possible.

The short term and long term view of the work should be different.
Ask HN: After 3 years of crypto trading, how to return to the normal job market?
Hello guys,

It has been a crazy ride. I'm basically an (crypto) algo trader. This was kind of a dream. Made it true. Worked well. Did it on my own.

Now would like to have a "normal" job again. Maybe in Data Science or Robotics (although no exprience, but this would be very exciting). Anyway.

What do you think. Should I mention that I was basically unemployed the last 3 years and did crypto trading?

I think from the technical part, it was very challeging. Also I was able to beat the competition for quite a long time.

On the other hand, I can't prove anything I say and there is no reference that proves that I actually was that good.

How would you handle this? I mean it is kind of weird to be honest.
> EQ-ing and mastering could also be different.

Possible, although I didn’t change any default ones.
I'm not subscribed to this user and have never seen one of their videos, this was #1 on my YouTube home page last night.

YouTube home page despite popular opinion is my best way to find new deep interesting content.
> It is critically important to keep the emails flowing independently from the DNS mafia/racket

It's really not a racket and it's really not critical.
I would really like to see the proof that it's impossible to design a reversible state machine that won't cycle. But even if you do prove that, you would also have to prove that if the laws of physics are reversible that the universe is reversible.

The current best theory and understanding of the evolution of the universe is that it will reach maximum entropy (heat death). There is no cycling when this happens. Can you cite what theory or new discovery you have come across that somehow challenges the heat death hypothesis?
Was very similar for me. No good reason to go V2, the new query language, on top of sucking for anyone that only uses it once every few weeks, also wasn't really supported well in Grafana.

I ended up trying VictoriaMetrics by near accident as infuxdb didn't like something on my raspberry pi, and honestly it has been pretty painless. It is Prometheus-like stack which means you can use any PromQL-compatible things with it. There is "all in one binary", and version split by functions.

VM have tools to migrate from InfluxDB v1. I ended up just sticking old influxdb data in one database, as I wanted to change the format of what I write to it along with the migration.

> Ultimately, I still stuck with InfluxDB v1 because sending data to it via the InfluxDB line protocol is so simple. I have a couple of bash scripts that use awk to transform command output to Influx line protocol and send it to InfluxDB. It's just so simple. I love it.

It also have agent that's job is to convert from various protocols, and do the scraping, that includes influxdb, and few other popular protocols.
I wonder if we could switch to a biodegradable plastic.
Literally everybody except twitter's owner is better off for it.
This is a good reason, but it's niche, and such level of privacy isn't sustainable for most people. Because they are Google, and they know the location of your IP address better than anyone (since they have Wi-fi info, too), so if you can't trust them at all and fear repercussions, you'd better access them via Tor or some VPN you can trust.

Personally, I trust my local authorities, since I'm an EU citizen and the GDPR applies. I know this may be naive, but Google has implemented many changes in response to the GDPR already, and for me it's the only alternative short of avoiding them completely.

Speaking of Chromium, forks still exist, like Vivaldi or Brave, and they ship with ads blockers that are not subject to the limitations of Manifest v3.
Idk I have a kid and I think that’s a BS line. It’s explainable; saying it’s some mysterious unknowable thing is a cop out.
We can measure the speed from A to B back to A.

We can’t measure the speed from A to B directly (without sending something from B back to A wrt speed of light).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light
It's a salient question. We don't know. There's still physics we don't fully understand (e.g. dark matter/energy) which could end up requiring adjusting or explaining further out understanding of the constants in e=mc^2 for example.
How does that square with the junior job postings that want at least ten years of experience with some technology?
turns out there's no philosophy of engineering!

IMO, this is also why we have "computer science"... as if computers were found in nature and we were trying to 'reverse engineer' how they are made; which is ridiculous!

engineering, technology, computers, are not well covered by neither philosophy of arts nor sciences; if anything math's philosophy gets closer; but it's just a branch of phil. of science.
Looks like OVH does managed k8s, and they're pretty solid at this point for the most part. https://us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/kubernetes/
A million dollars in 4 years, that's pretty crazy. Good for them.
There are two reasons to use WAV over FLAC in music production: you can load WAV files into your DAW faster; and WAV supports floating point, which means you never have to think about clipping until the final mastering step. Neither is relevant to listening.
You can be a junior developer with 15 years of experience, but it's quite hard to hear.
Only chromium support, though. Pass.
The cynical take about the West's slow titration of giving weapons to Ukraine is that it maximizes the amount of time that Russia throws its men into the meat grinder.

Once Russian loses most of its fighting age men, it can't engage in another one of those types of wars for another generation at least.
I enjoy playing around with https://ideogram.ai much more. Correct spelling was always there and you can mix and match with others' prompts: the image generation experience is a collective creative activity.

Bing is desperately adding new features in the hope of finding the "one feature to lure them all", but Bing is not the most effective platform for these generative models.
I see a lot of people who are down on this. I read the comments before the article, which was perhaps a mistake, because I went into the article thinking this was a lot less clever than it actually is.

This is neat. This may not be The Most Practical Solution, but the idea of having a thing that you can carry around and turn local bikes into power generation seems like a perfectly-reasonable invention for me.

We're talking about helping the homeless. They don't need the minmaxxed optimal solution. Not every homeless person may have access to a power outlet-- I don't know who wouldn't be able to move enough to pedal a bike but not enough to get to a public library, but that's really /not the point/. There are a lot of reasons that people end up homeless, and they can cause some really spotty/unreliable behavior.

There's nothing wrong with adding ideas/solutions to the mix. There's no need for a concept like this to replace other solutions. We can use all the viable solutions at the same time.
> Housing ... daycare ... parental leave..

Looking at this list - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fer... - none of the top 10 countries seem to have great daycares or comprehensive parental leaves or generous social safety nets.

> women want careers too

Ding ding ding. This seems to be the dominant factor when looking at countries with the lowest fertility.

Diving deeper into the birthrates of "developed" countries, it seems a big chunk of babies are born to immigrants. Germany - 25% [1], USA - 26% of kids under 18 have at least 1 immigrant parent[2]

[1] https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Society-Environment/Popula...

[2] https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested...
Alright yeah, speed makes sense.

I had forgotten about the UI! Kinda remembering now how they pushed the tabs up into the window chrome next to the close/minimize buttons which let them really shrink down the size of the top bar back when browsers typically spent a ton of vertical space on ~stuff. I bet having a single bar instead of separate URL / search bars was nifty too.

I guess Chrome's launch is also from a different era where sentiment around Google was much closer to uniformly positive which I'm sure helped.
"Search and rescue" is the standard excuse anytime someone invents a nifty new robot. I would love to know how many robots are actually really used in search and rescue.
Reminds me of a friend -who upon graduation- went from intern directly to "CTO" of a web agency. He was their 2nd developer and only engineer.
https://archive.ph/Xhq4K
As Jimmy Carter turns 99, he’s still full of surprises
You are taking the wrong lesson. Russia has countless times used the threat of nuclear escalation to its advantage. Many western governments (and zealots like Musk) are very hesitant in giving aid to the Ukrainian defense effort citing nuclear escalation.

Now imagine a world where Russia didn’t have nukes, that we successfully got rid of those horrible weapons in the 1980s to 1990s (which was very possible if the American government would have been willing), how far do you think Russia would go then without being shielded by this threat? At the very least western nations wouldn’t have their favorite excuse for why they don’t send their so many weapons and so many armies to actually defend a nation under an invasion.
Ever since Musk took over, Mastodon has felt pretty much identical to old Twitter for me; same people, same conversations. I recommend it. I've stopped paying attention to Bluesky.

Everybody always points out that the alternatives to Twitter are inferior. The issue there is, X is also inferior to Twitter. Pick your poison.
There was a similar report earlier this summer from the Florida coast. Wouldn't it be deadly to swim in waters that warm? (I mean clearly it was for the dolphins, wondering about human ability to cool when perspiration is not possible)
The thing I always get caught up on, when making comparisons between computers and humans wrt autonomy, is that the computer reaches the output state from the input by a clock cranking the CPU forward, ie it's a function that runs when the environment around it forces it to run. To put it in the LLM context, between words and after a Stop token, the "intelligence" is dead - frozen - suspended until the next function call.

How can a machine, then, possess anything like self-directed behavoir, when it never has a sense of self-preservation? Basically this is my axiom, that sense of self requires fear/awareness of mortality and the good sense to avoid those things that end you.

Perhaps you could concoct a machine that runs in an infinite loop with no off switch, I guess my question for you is, in what way can a machine have autonomy?

And my distinction between living and dead might be, a living system acts out of self preservation, consuming or modifying its environment to survive/thrive, while a dead system is simply acted upon by the environment its embedded in, like a crystal growing due to molecular force and temperature gradient - or an adding machine being cranked by a higher being.
The 22 figure is based on the post proof-of-stake energy cost. For the vast, vast majority of it's history, it used proof of work. And it's also worth noting that many, many, many cryptocurrencies still do.

And, while 22/1 is infinitely better than 160,000/1, that's still 22 times more energy used to facilitate the transfer of funds, which we already have methods to do more efficiently.
Chrome was much better back when it first came out. After that I guess inertia and no obvious reason to switch.
Ok I'll bite -- what are they supposed to use instead of ActiveDirectory? We going back to Netware?

Oh you don't want them to use Windows at all? So what, F500s are gonna run on Ubuntu and OpenLDAP? That should be smooth as butter and more secure out of the box /s
I worked on this indirectly for 4 as as part of a pdh at Ohio State. We have had the solution to this problem since then but because natural rubber is slightly less profitable for the companies (it lasts too long and it too high quality) they use synthetic rubber.

Tire dust is a problem becuase we WANT it to be a problem the solution is available but it is impossible to get funding because the tire companies don't want to use it.

Thats it, that is how capitalism works. Make millions upon millions of people sick so that 3 companies can make slightly higher profits.

[1] https://hcs.osu.edu/our-people/dr-katrina-cornish
But whose fault is it?

I just got hired by a company that was looking for a data product leader.

I only have 3 years of experience in data analysis, but the owner of the company thinks I am extremely capable of leading the company's data front.

Since I'm not attached to titles, concepts, and job definitions, I obviously accepted the offer because my salary doubled.
Homeless I've encountered are usually well fed and clothed and they always have cell phones. This includes the registered sex offenders with face tattoos.
How were bankers not skinned alive?

If someone owes you or I money and then suddenly they go on strike there will be a vicious reckoning.
Bluesky is growing and going more and more mainstream in tone by the month.

https://vqv.app/stats/chart
People fake emails all the time: see examples in this comment thread. Literally all it takes is a text editor. This is not the same thing as a criminal frame job, where someone is going to put your fingerprints on a knife at a bloody crime scene.
From what I’ve seen a senior is just an junior who landed a job
> Pulsars(rotating neutron stars)

Thanks.

I was going to ask whether the article was using the term "pulsar" when "neutron star" would have been more accurate; I would have said that a pulsar was a rotating neutron star with a beam that intermittently points at Earth (making the distinction observer-specific).

But don't essentially all neutron stars spin? I don't know how a non-rotating neutron star might form. If that's the case, they could have just said "neutron star", and I wouldn't then have this issue about the subjectivity of what a pulsar is.
> as if computers were found in nature and we were trying to 'reverse engineer' how they are made; which is ridiculous!

Computer Science is a branch of pure math, and arguably pure math is found in nature and we're just reverse engineering its laws.
I mean Why are you asking it to howl in the first place ?

Just saying it's fine if you're having a normal conversation which i imagine is what most people care about one way or the other.
They also do when taking psychoactive substances.
While keeping something running via an informal system is better than nothing, and most people might be okay... if you're just kinda shifty looking or unpopular at the moment in your local pub and have a much harder time than everyone else, that's not exactly great.

That is, it's not only the common experience that matters, but the outliers too. The basic tools of society should be available even if you're ugly, annoying, or a minority.
Probably too old to be GitHub, but Knight Capital comes to mind.