skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the civil rights movements is about as individual as it gets. In the past, collectively, groups had responsibilities. Women had a duty to society to raise children and blacks had a duty to not rock the boat. The civil rights movement bucked the collective authority and emphasizes the individual right to autonomy and dignity.

You probably have a point about labor unions. Though, it's worth pointing out, that their triumph was more weak the more west you were. The labor movement in China and Russia produced communism; the labor movement in the United States produced, well, the ability to form in general.

Anti-communist movements in Poland I would also be inclined to chalk up to individualism. They were individuals fighting authority.
Source?

"Exempt employee" has to do with overtime, not moonlighting. It's not relevant to this discussion.
I'm really surprised that you consider it a "sacrifice" to help others. Because when "others" are doing well, I'm doing better too.

Give a job or a good life to anybody and you'll see, they'll just be better. Most of the poor/unemployed people are not like that because they choose to but because they had more hurdles to pass and ultimately were more at risk to fail. And it's not because some made it that it proves that the others should have made it too (survivor bias)...
This scam that is big-tech wasn't going to last anyway. It takes people outside the bubble to see it.
The spirit of the edit was for clarity of position, sorry for the misdirection.
I'm not sure I would've even noticed it if you hadn't pointed that out, I'd expect red is harder too.
Thanks! We've changed the title now. (Submitted title was "If you put server code in your live-service game client, expect private servers")
It's probably true that if you're good enough at evaluating sources, you can find superior technical detail from a free source than from traditional news. The theoretical purpose of traditional news is to be a reputable clearinghouse for skilled researchers and source evaluators to find good enough sources for a wide variety of things.

There's not enough time in the day for someone with a different full time job to properly inform themselves on every issue, so, in theory, news publications pay people to make that their full time job.

Unfortunately, that's not actually what most people want out of news, and is not something most people are actually willing to pay for, so the average quality of the product has quietly degraded over the years, catalyzed by digital media trends in general and sharply hastened in 2016.
A youtuber being a youtuber, but that's his opinion. He not only tells, but he also shows and I can still form my own opinion.

To be more specific: the 3D gestures interface seems great to me. I'm not interested in the AI assistant, much less at that price point, when it's within reach of my 130€ phone. But that particular interface could be reused in a cheaper device.
To my knowledge and based on some additional searching, that old office building is still sitting there and construction hasn't started.
> and so this would save lives

lives of people who can buy a kidney.

this is a transfer of longevity from poor people to rich people.

and since because everything balances, in the future it will take selling a kidney to get to the average, and poor people will end in the same place but with only one kidney
Is this discomfort with the state of the world? Cause I think the goal is that you feel inclined towards action on that. The state of the world isn't... all good. We've got some serious issues right now. And it seems like a lot of people are complaining that they have to hear about that (I will point out almost no other news station is doing this, so also as a proportion of news this seems kinda reasonable) rather than that others are experiencing the bad things.

It's funny to me because their used to be a conservative take that liberals needed safe spaces to talk about all of this stuff, and when it's actually in the media people don't want to grapple with it. I would bet that the most vocal proponents of changing this dialogue lean conservative as well.
Contributor to the PG bulk loading docs you referenced here. Good survey of the techniques here. I've done a good bit of this trying to speed up loading the Open Street Map database. Presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCMnu7xay2Y for my last public update. Since then the advance of hardware, GIS improvements in PG15, and osm2pgsql adopting their middle-way-node-index-id-shift technique (makes the largest but rarely used index 1/32 the size) have gotten my times to load the planet set below 4 hours.

One suggestion aimed at the author here: some of your experiments are taking out WAL writing in a sort of indirect way, using pg_bulkload and COPY. There's one thing you could try that wasn't documented yet when my buddy Craig Ringer wrote the SO post you linked to: you can just turn off the WAL in the configuration. Yes, you will lose the tables in progress if there's a crash, and when things run for weeks those happen. With time scale data, it's not hard to structure the loading so you'll only lose the last chunk of work when that happens. WAL data isn't really necessary for bulk loading. Crash, clean up the right edge of the loaded data, start back up.

Here's the full set of postgresql.conf settings I run to disable the WAL and other overhead:

wal_level = minimal
max_wal_senders = 0
synchronous_commit = off
fsync = off
full_page_writes = off
autovacuum = off
checkpoint_timeout = 60min

Finally, when loading in big chunks, to keep the vacuum work down I'd normally turn off autovac as above then issue periodic VACUUM FREEZE commands running behind the currently loading date partition. (Talking normal PG here) That skips some work of the intermediate step the database normally frets about where new transactions are written but not visible to everyone yet.
Hudson Yards itself received $6 billion in tax breaks and incentives.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/09/nyregion/hudson-yards-new...

The vast majority of the proposed Amazon tax breaks were longstanding, pre-existing programs that were available to any company who fulfill the requirements. Most, like REAP and Excelsior, remain available today.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19178187
Do most humans leave their laces dragging on the ground?

Though to be fair, those laces are really long. The robot needs to unlace the shoes, cut some length from the middle, tie a double fisherman's knot, and relace them.
TSMC Plans to Put a Trillion Transistors on a Single Package by 2030
I love surrealism, dreamscapes and many forms of nonsense and randomness.

I loath anything that feels like it is on the edge of making sense. I hate searching for hidden meaning in something that doesn't actually have a legible hidden meaning. I suspect some of Lynch's work fits in that category.

I'm on the engineer spectrum and I just accept that others rate things that I never will enjoy. Maybe I should learn the appeal of tarot? I vicariously enjoy being around my friend that watches movies non-linearly. I don't understand another friend who watched a popular old movie thousands of times and applied their smarts to analysing it multiple different ways.

I don't think I fit your stereotype for people that want a nice linear packaged story they don't need to think about. But maybe I'm overthinking.

I do enjoy trying to understand what smart friends intensely direct their thoughts towards: so I would enjoy talking with a friend who loves Mulholland Drive.
Miniapps are the future of social networks
That's totally a good point and I don't mean to say you haven't got me on that. The one thing I might point out, though, is that environmentalism wasn't a cultural shift, it was mostly just a response to a practical problem.

You can certainly see other collective action problems that have gotten a government response. The movement to build nuclear weapons was a collective action, but it wasn't really a change in culture.
I've changed it now. (Submitted title was "Yes, Python and Matplotlib can make pretty charts").

(I took out "Best" though because that word doesn't matter and will provoke tedious objections about how no, these are not the best examples.)
My point is that someone that is strongly pro-vaccine is more harmful than not. I'd rather have someone that is just going to be unbiased and stick the scientific method. When you are doing something risky, the risk averse opinion, even if misguided, is far more safe than the the person who's vision is clouded by their preferences.

of additional note, 2 FDA officials resigned during the votes on approving booster shots. They were simply replaced, and their concerns were moot. They were hardly anti-vaxxers.
One thing to keep in mind is that these lists conflate difficulty with time. If you like Chinese, learning Chinese isn't difficult - it's fun. It just takes a while. If you find Spanish dull, then learning Spanish is difficult, even though it would hypothetically take less time to learn.
Who was supposed to get divorced instead of this couple? Like, what was supposed to happen before the error was made?
I didn’t know ‘Table Access Method Interface’ has this been around for a while? Who developed it?
This is awesome. Especially since Duolingo mostly moved away from typing.
Currently learning your language, this is going to be a great help. Obrigado.
I fully agree. OP also ignores the compounded returns. If you lift a person out of poverty you immediately set their children up for better outcomes.
True.

That said in any non-trivial project, writing in the first place and rewriting aren't too different from each other in practice.

Assuming someone doesn't have the ability to maintain a consistent and always-accurate mental map of tens of thousands of lines of code, most of which they probably didn't write themself and some of which they might have never actually looked at before, they're going to very rapidly reach a point where most of the work involved in adding a new feature consists of reading existing code to understand how it behaves and how the new code needs to interact with it. So the expensive part of adding new code to a work in progress, and the expensive part of rewriting existing code, are more-or-less one and the same.
My impression, as somebody who's had to choose this layer of infrastructure a few times.

Many people who "start" with those database choices either (1) "end up" elsewhere or (2) are perfectly content with treating their database as a SaaS business expense.

Their communities have self-selected into a [profitable] niche that excludes the kinds of people (like the author of this blog post) who are both capable and motivated to maintain a fork.

The author of TFA would probably categorize MongoDB as "software I hate" (a category he touches on in the article), to put it in perspective.
One should avoid feeling schadenfreude about how the German language is completely missing from the American zeitgeist.
Agreed that affirmative happiness is very hard to think about as a target.

But I find that most people, when they say that, actually mean reduction of suffering. That's easier to quantify--but still quite difficult, like most quantities in social research.
Dunno how Romanic languages could be considered easier to learn than German for English-speakers. Or why Austrian German would be harder than German.

The stats is probably mainly a vague map of mother tongue languages of the employees. It probably does not take many to shift the stats a lot.
I mean, more like 100s of thousands of deaths.

First Armenia Azerbaijan War: Unavoidable.

First Chechen War: Unavoidable.

Tajikistani Civil War: Unavoidable.

Those alone together are around 200k deaths. When I say unavoidable I mean that once Soviet Union disintegrated along the individual SSR conflicts those conflicts were basically guaranteed to happen, and Gorbachev and his friends did nothing to even prepare for it. I'm not even talking about what sort of damage you should assign to the fact that the average life expectancy drop over the period 1989-1995 in ex-USSR republics was around 3 years(so apply that to 290 million.
What a cool visualization!

... of a fairly mundane data set.

If anything, I am shocked by how much the data between the groups evened out over time. The differences in "adverse experiences" started out so stark, but almost seemed to disappear by 2021, especially in categories like happiness and wealth. I would hate the be the researched who followed this for 20 years just to find nothing particularly interesting.

> "If we fail, we are punished. We are blamed for not going to college, for being unhealthy, for being poor, for not being able to afford healthcare and food and housing."

Not sure if the author and I are looking at the same data set. If anything, it's saying the opposite to me - the difference between a terrible childhood and a perfect childhood results in some barely perceivable differences by the time you are 27.
Yea, those kids who were born into crappy situations should just get out of those crappy situations! Dumb victims.

:/
it was my experience of college. many I know would agree, and few would agree with you. I'm sure there are some that didn't feel this way, but strange sweeping statement to make.
>Then there's telegram and discord, full of all kinds of strange stuff

I was just about to say this. The new pockets of internet communities are filled with interesting and fun things again. It’s just that a lot of them are for and run by teenagers. As adults, we either feel immediately out of place or just get banned outright.

The ones run by adults are incredibly niche focusing on “non-mainstream” interests.

Discovery is a little harder, yes. And it feels more ephemeral than the static sites of yore. But they’re out there. And they thrive.

And 4chan still exists.

The kids will be alright.
de nada! any other language you'd like to see in term typer?
This is insane that Meta has been sharing all WhatsApp metadata with the Israeli Occupation Force, but neither am I surprised. Im sure the US government is likely also using this to conduct a witchhunt of anti-Genocide voices.
This is a common opinion in bioethics and it doesn't really make sense. It's not moral to reward people for doing something because it might cause them to do it?

It's like the idea that people shouldn't be paid for growing food or building houses because they'll profit for it. Which leaves people only being able to profit from making useless things because then nobody needs them.
> it's also funny how Austria is coded as a Category 3 language while Germany is Category 2 :o

Honestly, I'm not surprised. German Austrian dialects are quite strong, omnipresent and difficult to learn (few resources apart from going in the streets).
We are not bots. We just get flagged. Sorry for the confusion.
Frankly, I'd much rather tend to my real-life garden than any digital metaphor for one. I find it so much more gratifying!
> Tangent >> it's also funny how Austria is coded as a Category 3 language while Germany is Category 2

That’s almost certainly the error of the person who colored the map.

Maybe they’re thinking of Alemannisch, but I don’t think that’s cat 3 either.
Makes discovery too easy, and memory holing too hard.

(Conspiratorial/Systems thinking acknowledged.)

https://twitter.com/reddit_lies/status/1778899250857783731

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40043297

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-world_assumption
Used it heavily. Fed it with gnutella. I liked the skins option and ran with a quad ][ amp look because I gad a quad 2 valve amp which subsequently got destroyed in a flood.

It didn't kill a pc to run either. Low overhead and low screen real estate.
> It's called "donation" not a "risk pool".

Unsympathetic people get fewer donations throughout society, and I'm inclined to see someone who'd rather let their organs rot in the ground or be cremated when they could save lives as... quite unsympathetic.
What's the process for adding support for other databases to your tool qStudio?

I'm thinking perhaps you could add support for Timeplus [1]? Timeplus is a streaming-first database built on ClickHouse. The core DB engine Timeplus Proton is open source [2].

It seems that qStudio is open source [3] and written in Java and will need a JDBC driver to add support for a new RDBMS? If yes, Timeplus Proton has an open source JDBC driver [4] based on ClickHouse's driver but with modifications added for streaming use cases.

1: https://www.timeplus.com/

2: https://github.com/timeplus-io/proton

3: https://github.com/timeseries/qstudio

4: https://github.com/timeplus-io/proton-java-driver
> I do agree that AOC represented NJ, Connecticut, and Amazon's long term interests very well. Her district, not so much.

If you consider the fact that even before the deal fell apart people began buying up swaths of real estate in the area in preparation of pushing out her current constituents then I think she made the right move.

Her people are the blue collar workers of the district.

The previous rep who was the Democrats top connection to Wall Street didn't even live in the district. he lived in Virginia :talk about not representing their interests.
As long air pollution, noise pollution and stress caused by completely superfluous activities are tolerated, this is indeed an Orwellian measure.
My personal observation on this is, while Vietnamese is listed as a hard language for English due to differences, I found it's actually a pretty simple language beyond the non-European pronunciation. Grammar sounds like:

You want eat what?

I'm hungry very.

You go no?

etc. I had an easier time learning that than German for example.
Bombadillo
Recent and related:

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Zero-Day Exploitation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40016985 - April 2024 (59 comments)
Exactly this. He's never (as far as I know at least) thought it's somehow bad to discuss how his work might be interpreted. He just doesn't like the idea that there's somehow a definitive interpretation of his work that he owns.
> There's a whole chain of novels by Larry Niven about what might happen when human organs enter a market economy. It assumes it works like any other closely-regulated market, producing a robust black market quickly dominated by organized crime.

This is like when people quote Pournelle's Law like it's a fact. The only thing this paragraph means, just like the only thing Pournelle's Law means, is that the person who wrote it is a Republican. It doesn't actually demonstrate anything factual or even related to reality.

(You can get paid for plasma and sperm donations but there isn't a black market for those.)

> Insurance companies are just parasites, no argument there.

They provide insurance, and they're probably more aligned with your interests than the rest of the supply chain is.
Hominid fossil found in stone floor tile
Lynch is a huge proponent of meditation and even has a foundation promoting it https://www.davidlynchfoundation.org.

His ideas and imagery come from there, I would guess. He said somewhere that it's like diving deeper down to catch the bigger fish. So we end up with quite strange, but very detailed and interesting imagery and set of characters.

It's also not completely random. There is some loose internal logic and Lynch knows what it is, I feel, but he refuses to explain it. It's part of the fun to try to decipher it.

The furniture pieces have some art deco motifs, and look like they would fit into the Twin Peaks universe well. Specifically thinking of Naido's place or fireman's castle on the purple ocean from The Return https://backtotwinpeaks.com/twin-peaks-articles/supernatural...

The idea of places and even furniture, specifically, hosting spirits is also common in Twin Peaks. here I was remembering Josie being stuck in a wooden knob and log lady's husband spirit going into a log.
A rather low hanging fruit is smoothing out welfare cliffs so poor people don't feel stuck in an position of a local maximum of utility near the bottom. The problem is that these initiatives are very complicated, and you get more public support just blindly throwing money at the problem.
That's the point: it's not negligible when you have to convert it to the distance this craft has to fly.

It's a bit of mental gymnastics, I suggest you do the exercise with paper & pencil to see what happens.
Why would you roll your own base64 and s3 client in C? https://github.com/monotone-studio/monotone/blob/1.0.0/monot...

Or, maybe I'm just not understanding the audience of "embeddable" that would lead one to such an approach
pyaging: A Python-based compendium of GPU-optimized aging clocks
Russian is much easier for English speakers to learn than Finnish or Estonian, yet they’re in the same category on this map.

It doesn’t seem like a very useful ranking, at least for the smaller national languages.
> I spent a couple nights in Vegas because my 13yo was interested in seeing it. I watched what was happening in the casinos, and wondered if I was missing something.

You were missing the dopamine hits.

The highs and lows and 'drama' and 'excitement' of winning (and losing) is what people tend to go for. That's why it can become an addiction: wanting another hit.

* https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-brain-get...

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3845016/
Hungarian deserves its own color
Yes, my (limited) understanding of the literature is that this is exactly what they do. You don’t see the same single-fatherhood effects when looking at the children of widows, for example.
> It's possible but not very cost-effective to maintain separately-chunked versions of these large geospatial datasets.

Like all things in tech, it's about tradeoffs. S3 storage costs about $275 TB a year. Typical weather datasets are ~10 TB. If you're running a business that uses weather data in operations to make money, you could easily afford to make 2-3 copies that are optimized for different query patterns. We see many teams doing this today in production. That's still much cheaper (and more flexible) than putting the same volume of data in a RDBMS, given the relative cost of S3 vs. persistent disks.

The real hidden costs of all of these solutions is the developer time operating the data pipelines for the transformation.
>Tangent >> it's also funny how Austria is coded as a Category 3 language while Germany is Category 2 :o

Well, Austrians, much to their national pride, don't really speak German, but they have their own localized dialect forks of it which are more difficult to understand for foreigners who only learned "vanilla" German, so the map is correct in this regard.

It's why Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own American movies to German, but the studios got a German actor to voice him since his Styrian dialect was considered too strong for most German speakers.

Similar with Swiss German.

No matter how well you think you know German, you'll always run into a dialect you won't understand.
I hate the expression "ahead of its time", but I do feel like Shoutcast in Winamp was way ahead of its time. I was watching live video streams from random people for years before I had ever heard of Twitch, on a fairly crappy internet connection.

AOL really did them a disservice.
The cameras and microphones on our phones are hard to use to record others with surreptitiously, and there are pretty strong social mores against doing so. A pin (or eyeglasses, or other such wearables) is a beast of an entirely different color.

But even if there weren't such a difference, I'd argue that just because a bad thing exists doesn't mean we shouldn't fight against more of that bad thing.

> Hell even at tables of most restaurants.

What sort of restaurants are these? I can't remember seeing one at the table of any restaurant I've been to.
I assume the couple will be able to sue for malpractice?
Interestingly, there are two tiers within Category I, which isn't reflected on the map:

- Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Italian, Romanian - 24 weeks

- French, Spanish - 30 weeks
On the face of it, that's absolutely insane.