skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever playing a video that seems totally unrelated to where you're from or your interests, and it has fewer than 1k views? I bet it might not load right away.
Not sure why you are downvoted.

One of the biggest concerns about any DB is speed of query execution.
Today a decent app/site can generate terabytes of machine data that you need to analyze.
There is a massive difference in usability of a query that takes < 5 secs vs even 5 minutes. So, some benchmarks of speed vs major use cases would have been ideal.

I understand, general purpose DBs can't be the best, but I can compromise for 80%. If it's 50% or less, then I really have to question that choice.
> Do you believe that you could implement the Airbnb interface without any CSS or Javascript?

No, I don't. It has scrollable maps, for example. Those require a Javascript-operated canvas.

What I don't understand is why it needs CSS or Javascript for the rest of the interface. It's just text and photos. An empty css with static html would be enough for that, and convey exactly the same information.
My first question would be whether there's a PPV.

He is irredeemable.
As in our addiction as consumers to all things plastic for convenience and other reasons?
Do you expect anything else from the company that introduced "Plays For Sure" branding over a wide ecosystem, only to kill the ENTIRE thing (not just the branding) less than 5 years later? (as in, all purchased content became unplayable)
>Live Captions now has live translations and will turn any audio that passes through your PC into a single, English-language caption experience, in real time on your screen across all your apps consistently. You can translate any live or pre-recorded audio in any app or video platform from over 40 languages into English subtitles instantly, automatically and even while you’re offline.

Wow that's an amazing feature!
I still use the Galaxy S8 with a 5.8" screen as well. It is actually quite amusing that nowadays this is considered "Small phone". I find it to be the perfect size and refuse to carry a brick around with me. Good thing in my country we still have 2G for when this breaks :P
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> why doesn't the ICC look into Egypt's conduct of refusing to allow civilians to flee

Because Egypt believes this would amount to supporting ethnic cleansing:

https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2024/02/27/why-e...

And given that many on the far-right in the Israel government want Palestinians out of Gaza it's a reasonable position.
But to most it's not the material or the technology, but some untouchable nostalgia that connects them to a country that was founded on an utopia that doesn't exist anymore.
Replaced? I'm pretty sure for the majority of smartphone users, it is their first computer. You have to be above 25 and and live in a developed nation for you to have had a PC before a smartphone.
they're not running any LLM locally, the NPU so far is just an accelerator for OCR (for rewind.ai (oops I mean Recall)) and webcam background replacement without a GPU
Furthermore, if Egypt did accept refugees, depending on how it was done, they could be implicated as an an accomplice to ethnic cleansing
The current political situation in the US gives me every indication that the US would provide Netanyahu asylum if these warrants to through. The US has withdrawn from the Rome Statute and therefore has no obligation to arrest him.
It felt like living with children even when I was in school, but it was cheap and got the job done. My desk area there was actually quieter than apartments I lived in afterwards.
> Your first bit isn't an example of a legal workaround, it's an example of attempted sophistry for illegal behavior.

This is exactly what the police are doing.

> Are you implying that the cops in this case broke the law?

Are you implying that it's illegal to drive with the flow of traffic? That seems like an unreasonable interpretation, it would imply that everybody is constantly breaking the law! The interpretation where the speed limit is relative to other traffic makes much more sense, because the main issue is speed differences. If everybody is driving 70 that is much safer than some people driving 25 and some people driving 115, so the law sets a maximum speed difference, e.g. if the speed limit is 55 and some people are driving 40 then you could drive up to 95 but 100 is too fast. This is clearly much more in line with observed behavior.

Anybody can come up with reasoning to justify whatever. You can say that we should follow the letter of the law and let people get away with it if they can find a loophole, or that we should have judges reinterpret what the law actually says to try to get the result the legislature intended, but don't try to say we should do different ones for different people.
A big complication is that on the one hand you have an identifiable army, on the other hand you have something akin to a militia/guerrilla where combatants and non-combatants are hard to ID often because one person can be both. When you have a resistance it get further muddied because like in WWII France, the resistance was civilians. So you can be a civilian and a combatant.

Things like what Milosevic or what Janjaweed leaders do are identifiable.
You can use secure boot on select distros. Coincidentally, they're the better ones as well (Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, etc...)
Well presumably they don’t wear your uniform
And hardware support.
When I was doing databases, I formulated this joke-theorem of modern computing: Whatever reasonable and widespread database/language you use to model your application, if you do things sensibly, it will work well. A corollary is that: 1. It's a lot more about taste and less about technology we may believe. 2. Good programmers can bend a non perfect tool to work well for a given use case, bad programmers will mess everything even with perfect tools, so in general it is better to spend time becoming better programmers than spend time learning all the new cool tools.

This idea, if true (and I believe it is) tells us how lucky we are compared than the past programmers. Advanced databases and languages are so advanced that they can do almost everything, even if they are not good at doing everything. And hardware and RAM is so generous today, that will mask a lot of potential issues unless you are at a big scale.
Nice work - this is a real benchmark for cases I use LLMs for
In retaliation for this comment, Excel glitched out and deleted fifteen minutes' worth of carefully-formatted graphs when I tried to save.
> You can completely swap out your database without changing any of your code

Uhhhh in theory... maybe... not really. Switching PG out from under our relatively toy-ish SaaS product would be a huge undertaking.
If you take over some territory and rule it permanently, and then define the pre-existing population there as non-citizens with no way to change their status, you do not get to count as a democracy. This is what Israel has done in the West Bank.

> The discrimination is based on citizenship status and not on race. Arab Israelis have the same rights as Jewish Israelis.

It is based indirectly on race (inasmuch as "Jewish" is a race; maybe "cultural group" would be more accurate), because any Jewish person in the world can become an Israeli citizen, whereas most Arabs have no way to become citizens unless they are in Israel proper, the Golan Heights, or East Jerusalem. I.e. for people who live in the West Bank (outside East Jerusalem), whether they are Israeli citizens is entirely determined by whether they are Jewish.
Which means that they were questionably democracies. Would China become a democracy if the Politburo standing committee reached decisions based on a vote of its members?
Who planted that apple tree?

Who owns the land it grows on? If you own it, how did you buy it?

Who brought apple seeds to the continent where you plucked it?

Who raised you to the point that you were able to pluck that apple?

Who built the roads that you drove on to get close to the apple tree? The car you drove?

Who ensures that the air and water are clean enough for apple trees to grow there?

The problem with any manufactured scenario such as this is that it narrows the focus down to a single act, and tries to claim that that is the entire system.

It never is. The system has no beginning or end, and must be considered far beyond a single act if you are to meaningfully understand what supports it and just how interdependent it is or isn't.
Ask HN: Most successful example using LLMs in daily work/life?
Nice whataboutism
Lots of people I know completely stopped used Facebook. Some are still on IG though...
Except only one of those organizations killed 30 000 civilians within 7 months.
I have a follow up question: If both sides of this topic are quickly flagged, then why do mods consistently intervene to the detriment one side?
Postgres storage engines are not mature yet to allow higher through put for insert heavy scenarios (That are not necessarily analytics focused). They also don't have a way to offload storage to cheaper storage.

Orioledb, pg_analytics, hydra are getting there, but nothing out of the box postgres yet.

Compression also nearly non-existent except for TOAST.
Ah, so before or at the dawn of germ theory is part of your point? OK, I’ve heard enough.
Coming from Timescale, the proposal is not to use the best kind of database for a workload, but to use one database but then multiple extensions for workloads that Postgres may or not be the best fit, moving the multiple layer one level down. And maybe not getting the best performance (database people are specially sensitive on that topic, for heavy loads at least), that may or not introduce incompatibilities, inconsistency or compromise stability.

Shaving complexity is a good goal, but is partially negated by adding it again closer to the core.

Anyway, maybe for most (in unique installations, or companies, not amount of servers dedicated) the workload won’t be heavy enough to deserve the extra complexity of handling many different database servers.
[x:y] = [lx:ly]

and I suppose the model of localization discussed in the article above counts as well.
very similar to this is "Turing Complete" on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/
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There is probably something to this.

Though n = 1, I have a CS degree and am not particularly smart, and... that explains a lot about my life and career trajectory post-grad.
Could a simplification of reactive UIs be a possible angle?

Part of me is thinking about htmx or something from alpine and wondering if it’s enough. Shoutout to livewire too.
> But it's kind of embarrassing

Sorry for you. But it’s still far more efficient, cleaner, safer and quieter to run a generator and charge batteries.
Solving this is high on my list with PGlite (https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite). I have a bunch of iteas/thoughts that I hope to get to at some point (IVM, streaming queries, result diffs).

When PGlite (or SQLite) is used with Electric (https://electric-sql.com/), we already provide good reactive primitives. But we hope to improve this so that where possible the full queries don't have to be re-run.
At least until 2006 or so it was legal to deny Arab citizens entry to your community or permission to live, provided it was covered by the Admission Committee Law (most communities in Israel are).

Never mind the explicit ethnic-based right of return, land ownership rules, etc. By their own admission, the state frequently makes decisions prioritizing communities of the dominant ethnic group, see for instance 'National Priority Area's.

Honestly, the ethnic favoritism in Israel's government is so widespread and blatant I could just keep listing examples on and on.
> Will the ICC actually approve the warrants?

Almost certainly
TBF you didn't say it - It appeared that way if you followed the logic at the time regarding the gp you responded to two posts up about keeping poors away.
Starship carries ~1200t of propellant, of which ~950t is LOX, and 250t is Methane. While yes, most of that will be burned off by landing, it'll still need enough to return to lunar orbit. Even if we assume that only 10% of the fuel is needed to return to orbit, that's 95t right on the bottom with another 10t of engines and most of the 100t of dry mass of the Starship itself (plumbing, tank domes etc).

The thrusters you're (probably) thinking of are the landing thrusters that NASA thinks they might end up needing. Not to stabilize the rocket when on the ground, but because the Raptors might be too powerful and might dig out a crater underneath the vehicle when landing on an unprepared surface (such as the Moon, at least before a base is established or something is sent to prepare a proper surface). Placing weaker landing thrusters up top eliminates this issue, although at the moment they're still considered speculative in the sense that last we heard (which was admittedly a year or two ago), SpaceX are not convinced that this will be an issue.

Thrusters would anyway be a crazy approach to preventing a crewed vehicle from tipping over, as you wouldn't want them to be firing when the crew are doing any of the things that would involve the ship becoming potentially unstable (eg unloading cargo). For stability they'd have to use the large self-leveling legs from the original HLS design.
I'm all for prosperity, which is why I think trying to merge two cultures over overnight will just result in chaos and violence. Especially since the groups are around the same size and the territory is tiny - if you actually think about the practically of such a solution you'll realize it's not viable.

Do you really think the new nation wouldn't just delve into chaos Lebanon style? Might as well just sentence everyone to eternal conflict.

How is starting with two states and later on creating a union type entity not better for everyone?

Let's say you had to approach this as an engineering problem of merging two very different branches/companies/etc, how would you approach it?

And re US, they basically committed genocide and ended up absorbing a minority, the situation in Israel is different as it's similar sized populations on a fraction of the land.
It's probably easier for MS to just collect that no matter what so I doubt they'd stop themselves from doing it.
Could be "problematic"
Solar arrays are cheaper than generators and not exactly difficult to install.
Why would he need US asylum? Israel isn't an ICC signatory.
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Well it was more so compared to LemonSqueezy which is 5% or Stripe Checkout which is 3%. But I believe both don't offer hosting of the actual products such as ebooks or videos while Gumroad does.
Point being that Moon is the root of the word Lunacy as used in the title.
Engineers usually answer to something like a city council who are elected representatives. If the community at large does not support a change, it is unlikely to go anywhere.

I know many engineers in these sorts of roles who spend years building up the consensus to push small improvements through.

The positive side is once the first scary change is implemented, and the public actually likes it, the political will suddenly emerges to do more.
Turning friendly geniuses into hostile geniuses via this sort of xenophobic/paranoid dumbf*ckery is only one of the many way in which America is working to make sure that it loses.
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> You are running software that is blocking content you want to read. That is my point.

Yes. It's my point too. I am running very standard software for a dev and it is stopping their dev blog posts being visible.

> If I put on blinders and then complain

I'm not complaining. I'm explaining, given the evidence I have, why they may be seeing poor results on HN. If I'm not alone (and since I have no custom setup designed to keep our their blog posts that would be a surprise) then there are other developers who cannot see their posts.
At least the way Apple treats it, mobile operating systems are where user capabilities go to die.

You know all the professional software, on your desktop? Avid Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Adobe Premiere, Blender, that stuff? It doesn't run on iPad; not just because the developers are stingy and don't want to make a native version, but because the iPad is fundamentally limited in what it's software can provide relative to Mac. On top of that, you cannot distribute software yourself which relegates you exclusively to using Apple's provided runtime and storefront. It's an insular system that prevents new and exciting features or experiences from getting made without Apple's express approval and profit.

Or look at games. The iPad should be giving the Steam Deck a run for it's money; you've got a great GPU, strong single-core CPU performance and a big punchy display up front. Instead of playing Fallout: New Vegas (like any respectable person should be able to do in 2024), you're replaying Monument Valley and Angry Birds HD for the billionth time. Or maybe you just get frustrated trying to set up Delta or UTM and go watch House of Cards in resigned frustration.

The Mac is headed the same way, but at least there's a core audience of vocal whistleblowers pushing back against pointless software limitations. Apple is desperate to crush any methods of content creation or consumption that does not directly benefit them. To that end they have avoided adding professional features to their mobile devices to reinforce the content consumption loop and artificially inflate demand for the Mac.
No because you still have to deal with permissions, integrations with AWS services like networking, training, security audits, regression testing, often physical network connections (Direct Connect), DNS…

And you’re dealing with your PMO department, project managers, finance, security, contract negotiations, retraining your ops department…

And you know that Aurora MySQL instance that was suppose to prevent “lock in”? I bet you someone somewhere in your org thought about creating an ETL job and then said forget it and used “select into S3” to move data from MySQL into S3.

As a project manager trying to ship code so you can show “impact” to put on your promo doc, are you going to choose for your team to spend weeks to write an ETL job to prevent “lock in” or are you going to tell the developer to write that one line of SQL?

There are all sorts of choices you can make that will save time and money and ship features that actually deliver value instead of worrying about the boogie man of “lock in”.

And I really hope that there was some better technical reason than just saving $6 million dollars a year for a multibillion dollar company to go through the migration.
The problem with holding the US accountable is that they have a law that'll let their president invade any country that arrests American citizens.

Large military powers such as China, Russia, and perhaps India, could try to put out warrants, but most ICC signatories would end up having an aircraft carrier parked in front of their capital.

I agree that the American war crimes should be treated the same as the Israeli war crimes and the Hamas terrorist attacks, but realistically, this will never happen. The same way the ICC won't ever get their hands on Putin for the invasion of Ukraine, or Xi Jing Ping for the Uyghur genocide.

If Israel had nukes and a top-five worldwide military presence, any attempts to go after Netanyahu would be as futile as attempts to convict Bush. The unfortunate fact is that the people with the biggest guns are rarely kept to the same standards as everyone else.
At the time of the letter, Hamas and Fatah were in a unity government [1], although that's maybe disputable too. If Wikipedia is accurate and complete, Hamas claimed at the end of November 2014, that the unity government had expired; but then in June 2015, Hamas rejected the dissolution of the unity government.

But yeah, you're right, my summary was overly brief --- the earlier ruling was more that there's a reasonable question of if they have jurisdiction, so investigations can proceed. As opposed to before where the court ruled that it didn't have jurisdiction, and couldn't proceed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Hamdallah_Government
I know this is controversial, but here's my take: self made rich people live in reality. Whatever ideas they have about reality will be tested relentlessly, otherwise they wouldn't have succeeded at business. Government bureaucrats however do not live in reality. They live in lala-land where they spend other people's money. Who knows how they got to the point where they can make the choice of how money and resources are spent, but whatever it is, the actions they take is never really checked against reality. There is no competition between government agencies where badly run ones are allowed to fail. For that reason alone, self made rich people are on average much better at spending money wisely, as we've seen with for example the Gates foundation.
Why do you think Hamas has been involved in fighting against Israel? Just because they're evil? They're an oppressed people fighting an occupier. The massacres by the hands of the Isaeli far outnumber those by Hamas. From the 400k displaced people in the six day war, to the Sabra and Shatila massacre, to the regular "mowing the lawn" operations in gaza (that's what Israel dubbed their bombing campaigns in Gaza in the past couple decades), to the violent israeli response to the peaceful march of return protest, to the current ongoing genocide, Israel is not "defending" itself. There is no defensive genocide, there is no defensive apartheid. The idea that Hamas is not itself an answer to the continued ethnic cleansing campaign carried out by Israel is a joke.
Htmx doesn't help with this problem (knowing whether the underlying data has changed in order to update the UI). It's a common problem in any kind of collaborative app.
I'm sorry, but Amnesty International lost completely its credibility by supporting Putin and Hamas terrorist.
I work for Microsoft, so take what I say with a grain of salt. I could not be more excited for these AI productivity features built into the OS. “Recall” is almost exactly what I’ve been dreaming of since the AI boom. I didn’t catch it in the release, but something that can “record” my work life and do things like auto-manage my todo list or answer a question I had about how I did something a year ago is the killer AI product I’ve been waiting for. Not sure I’d want this as a personal device, but would be amazing for work.
Indeed, I would've made more money if I put it into VTI. It's always tenuous to hold equity in such companies, especially at a 100 million dollar valuation which means my 1k would become 10k at most if Gumroad reaches a billion dollar valuation, which might be quite a while from now.
> Would China become a democracy if the Politburo standing committee reached decisions based on a vote of its members?

No, that’s oligarchy.

These questions have been debated for a long time. There is a No True Scotsman nature to the project, given the very nature of citizenship and polity means there are always demarcations between who can and cannot vote. But the difference is in degrees, and it should be obvious that there is a difference in kind between twenty-five people in a multi-billion-person nation and millions in a millions-more territory.
Your last sentence is subjective. I grew up eating bear sausage and it was delicious. Perhaps owing to differences in black bear diet/meat vs Alaskan bear. This article seems to corroborate my suspicions: https://www.outdoorlife.com/hunting/bear-meat/
Democrats are only half of congress, though - Republican support is needed to pass bills, currently.
I've been very happy using Hasura on top of pg.

There are several fantastic options that remove the need to manually write resolvers, set up subscriptions, solve N+1, reinvent the wheel, etc.
Just out of interest what would you say a 'higher throughput' was?