skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are multiple ways to address shard rebalancing:

1. If you are loading time series data you can often just wait for the shards to rebalance automatically as new data arrives and old data drops out.

2. If you are scaling to add new tenants, just put them on a separate shard and let them fill naturally.

3. It's not hard to move table parts, if you want to redistribute data across shards. ClickHouse comes with commands to do this and it's fairly easy to script.

4. ClickHouse can scale vertically for a long way. It works fine on VMs with 256GB of RAM and 50 TB of storage.

Just to be clear, it would be nice if open source ClickHouse could dispense with shards. In practice, though, it's not the biggest issue in most of systems I've seen (which is now in the hundreds), and there are several ways to design around it. Changing table partition keys is a harder issue to solve. Allocating adequate RAM for queries is another problem that's difficult to address.
This is the one thing that I actually thought cryptocurrency would help - getting small adhoc payments out from under the bootheel of Mastercard and Visa, and especially for international transfers that cross between, say, the MC/Visa duopoly regions into other ones like the Asian ecosystems.

But instead it's slow, inconsistent, inconvenient, balkanised, dripping with scams, criminals and bad actors and still involves substantial transfer fees and volatility on top of that. At this point it's a market for lemons: any new cryptocurrency venture is almost entirely indistinguishable from something that already ended up being at best a non-starter, but often just a scam.

As a vehicle for speculation, arbitrage and scams, it's a masterpiece. As a currency (you know, like in the name), it's, put lightly, not great, especially if you live in the developed world.
Reminder: the original burned down because of cigarette smoking.
I have credit cards in Eastern Europe for 25 years, so CC is not a rare term. I also never lived on credit, I used it just for transactions during the month fully covered at the end of month with zero interest. I did that because security and refunds used to be better for credit vs debit cards (with CC, it was the bank's money, so they were more interested to solve problems). When condition equalized, I closed all CC.
Andre LaMothe showed me the wonder of alternative graphics memory layout like Mode 13h and Mode Z. Though it confused teenage me at the time why you would have four memory segments each dealing with (offset %4) bytes in a line-oriented graphics buffer, it was magical when it worked and was one of the first times I had to let the code just work and move on.

Double buffering was an understandable neat trick and one that would have taken me a bit longer to discover on my own. He also had a custom controller wired through the printer port and some C+ASM for interfacing with it.

I had three of his books, I think the Black Art book was constantly on my desk in the 90s.

https://archive.org/details/BlackArt3DEBook
And have the chat history end up as an input field instead of each request response being prepared individually for the LLM endpoint?

I'm new to the library but from what I can see the Chat adapter will do this automatically if I use the forward call

Quoting the docs: "Though rarely needed, you can write custom LMs by inheriting from dspy.BaseLM. Another advanced layer in the DSPy ecosystem is that of adapters, which sit between DSPy signatures and LMs. A future version of this guide will discuss these advanced features, though you likely don't need them."

I could be wrong, I could be looking for complexity where there is none.

Have a fundamentally misunderstood how this all works, it sometimes feels like I have?
This contention is actually trivial to dispel. As a late 2000's HN user, I can assure you there was no secret 2009 groundswell of jobs, and that there was no HN before 2008.
That’s funny. I suppose the logo probably added to the confusion.
> I still hear younger coworkers snidely remark that the US is an “third world country with cellphones”

Given how things have been going in the US the past few years, I am frankly inclined to agree with them.

Healthcare aside, here is but one example:
https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/08/14/new-video-shows-...
Aren't guns already heavily regulated in NYC, and suppressors illegal in NYC altogether?
I just realized it wasn’t clear, but I meant high value for a grocery store.
This is a relatively straightforward problem to solve. There is a “payment required” HTTP status code and lightning network micropayments are very easy to set up and use.

The problem is that payments that cannot be centrally surveilled and centrally vetoed (without burden of proof of probable cause, usually) are actually illegal to implement.

To do anything like this requires strong ID and KYC for payer and recipient and that isn’t what bare URLs and the web are about.

All of the cool applications of online payments that would spread quickly and efficiently are illegal.

It’s truly sad.
Kourou ?
That’s a good point. The article reads like an extended vacation, often spent trying to start businesses, that didn’t work out.

I was recently working six days a week with a nearly-empty fridge. My coworkers were scraping by. I have two jobs now. Due to a car repair, money is tight through December but we have food (and the car). Working 12 hours a day does cut into time I might build skills for a better job. Still progressing, though.

My coworkers and I at each job can’t usually take even a week off unless it was a paid vacation. A year or two? That’s like a dream goal for us.

Whereas, it’s terrible he had a divorce and lost everything. I’ve prayed that Jesus Christ bless he and his former partner with mutual forgiveness and new lives with peace. I thank Christ that He gave much joy in financial or other circumstances that would cause depression in most people. He is our Rock.
> That's where the innovation in the space will be because that's where the money is.

Agreed completely, assuming that "innovation" is a euphemism for "grifting". These platforms are completely dominated by rent-seeking and borderline fraudulent garbage. I'd take a web ring over the front page of the App Store in any context.
[Sigh]

I keep trying to correct the rampant misinformation and disinformation about this.

It's all a matter of record and most of the people are still alive.

Yes, Kildall went flying. He went to see an important partner, Bill Godbout, with his employee Tom Rolander.

https://scobleizer.blog/2007/08/08/the-rest-of-the-story-beh...

Rolander talks about the flight here:

https://youtu.be/Dx89THub510?si=Fco75Iq6Ap2GDfY3&t=1020

(17min onwards.)

Godbout died quite recently, and is missed in the classic and vintage computer world: he was a big figure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Godbout
That article does not state that "Republicans" tanked the economy. It says the economy is on average worse when a Republican is president.

All the cited sources, basically concludes that the performance of the economy is almost entirely based on factors beyond the control of the President or Congress.

Which makes sense. The economy is complicated, and people will change based votes on their feelings. The Economy is also notorious for lagging indicators. Political parties often blame their circumstances on the "last" administration.

I'm dealing with technical debt and decisions that were entrenched 30 to 40 years ago in many cases. Extrapolating the realities of my experience in different business and technical environments informs me that it's really not this simple.

These articles don't really help people understand economics, they are designed to sell you a certain belief.
I kicked off the year with a web app that summarises foreign books using AI.

2nd is a desktop emulator of an iPod (macOS only)

3rd is a Stardew Valley tool

Let me know if you need a URL for any of them :D
It's Triumph of the Nerds[1]. Here's the full video[2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Nerds

[2] https://youtu.be/c1yzXkH5Pfo?si=_0-2HymQxzZOfgS0
My understanding from anecdotes[1] is that it's common for dolphins to play with small boats by intentionally getting the humans' attention (e.g. splashing water on them), and a lot of sailors think they understand that humans control the motion of the boat. Though it is sketchy anecdotes.

However, they are almost certainly smart enough to understand how rowboats work and that humans control them. Orcas have been considering human boats for tens of thousands of years and they have human-like cultural transmission of knowledge; perhaps they could quickly adapt what they knew about rowboats to sailboats when those were invented, then motorboats.

[1] E.g. https://www.quora.com/Do-whales-know-that-big-ships-are-cont...
No, he’s not. He’s threatened to dox people who leave bad reviews on his books; he should not be promoted or praised. It’s purely an ego thing.

It saddens me to see his links posted to aggregators. Most people only know his carefully cultivated image.
No such "western media manufacturing consent" here. Everyone is unsure of the future. Assad is practically universally hated, Idlib was been under HTS governance, relatively moderate for the region, for the past 4 years. The past Al-Qaeda ties are frequently noted. Few bigger western voices than the National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan:

"The group at the vanguard of this rebel advance, HTS, is actually a terrorist organization designated by the United States. So we have real concerns about the designs and objectives of that organization. At the same time, of course, we don’t cry over the fact that the Assad government, backed by Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, are facing certain kinds of pressure. So it’s a complicated situation.”
The Philosophize This podcast has covered Weil in four separate episodes, and has a backgrounder / reading list as well, all compiled here:

<https://www.philosophizethis.org/blog/simone-weil-reading-li...>
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. I mean, what is your job if you spend most of your time with Mathematica but still consider it a hobby?
Making Decisions in Chaos: Insights from the Garbage Can Model – Cohen (1972)
> Hasn't the DoD also maintained the line that there are no US forces in Syria for years too?

If that’s true, they might want to stop publishing press releases about their actions in Syria.

“CENCOM Destroys Threatening Weapons Systems in Syria” https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/39...

“US will remain in eastern Syria and seek to prevent IS resurgence, Pentagon says” https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-will-remain-eas...
Consider that the whale has something like an ultrasound scanner integrated into it's sensory system. I wouldn't be surprised if the whale knows more about how the boats are built than the humans driving them.
Or, even simpler, you ask for monthly total, and backend has no idea what "monthly" means, because it started/ended at undetermined local hour that has been discarded when converting to "utc"
You might be able to make something like that work, but it without care it would discourage new housing and incentivize removing less desirable properties.

A better option might be a tax on unlisted properties, but that’s harder to enforce as renovations after someone leaves isn’t a fixed time period.
Crystal structure is a pattern, and various properties of crystals are explicable in terms of the pattern of atoms within them. The pattern of bases on a DNA molecule determines what genes are encoded on it. It is semantically and epistemically pointless to argue that this makes them nonphysical, and inconsistent to use this argument only for mental phenomena. Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of argument will probably end up at the useless metaphysical position that all is pattern and nothing is physical.
No Jews, no news in HN [1].

[1] https://www.futureofjewish.com/p/no-jews-no-news
> People argue that it's only a few bad cops who make the rest look bad. I'm having increasing difficulty these days believing that argument.

Very, very well said.
Pointing out evidence of a UK rag fabricating photos to fit a Western propaganda narrative is... Russian propaganda?!
> Touchpads don’t solve for muscle memory for the same reasons mouses don’t.

Uh, what? I have my touchpad tuned so that one swipe from top left to bottom right is exactly equal to going from the top left to bottom right of my display. And aside from that, how do you think people play FPS games, that they think about every mouse movement and then do it?

> Most people who use keyboard based workflows dont just use hjkl to move a cursor around.

> Try using your daily code editor

One of the few usecases where you can do that, and in general is extremely heavily biased towards keyboard use.

Having a touchpad or mouse is great because it is adaptable and versatile. It doesn’t require the application developer to have accommodated every step a keyboard user wants to optimize for. Not to mention there is no “quickly” using your keyboard with one hand if you constantly need to hold modifier keys :)

> Using a keyboard is generally much faster.

That was my point, it is until it isn’t. On any application without Vim or EMacs bindings I’ll happily be leaping over hundreds of lines of text with one or two swipes whilst you are sitting there, going taptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptap with horrid inefficiency.
I just don't know.

I remember ISIS beheading people. Some of these people are still around. Some of them are imprisoned in Kurdish camps. Will they be freed?

The best scenario I can imagine:

Erdogan controls the Islamists and guarantees the security of the people and leaves the Kurds alone.

At some point, even the millions of refugees will be able to return.
From https://archive.is/W0k4j (an archive of a page on brave.com)

> Step Two: Brave Replaces Ads
We recognize that ads pay for most of our web content. Ads are not going away. So we replace the bad ads with Brave Ads, which we use to pay publishers and users.

Maybe they don't replace ads now but they seem to have done it in the past. Or at least talked about doing it.
Sort of, a little. There was a lot of excitement about wearables for medical sensing early on, but the enthusiasm died down a lot when it became apparent that you can't just collect sensor data from the person and turn that into something meaningful in terms of health. For example, one project I worked on was measuring stress using heart rate and heart rate variability. You can get a fairly good idea of a persons stress level from this. But some stress is normal, like when you give a presentation in front of a crowd or do complex math. So is high stress good or bad? It's both, it depends on the context. What a persons stress level means in any random situation is something that is not currently known. It would require measuring stress over a wide variation of situations, for various types of people, to understand what correlations exist. So the research has narrowed a lot. A researcher might do a study to see if increases in stress measurements that are uncorrelated with activity level are correlated with inattention while driving. That's one possible study out of billions. Most research is done by grad students and they want to do something with impact, so many of the more mundane experiments will never get done, unless some kind of national lab is formed to systematically carry them out. There is no such lab yet for wearable data that I know of (though a few have tried to get funding for one). The manufacturers of the wearables are still working on improving the accuracy of the data (it's tough to get reliable sensor readings on a moving, active person, and nothing holds to skin well). So improvements in sensor accuracy will help, and then a more systematic evaluation of what can be inferred from that data will become more common. Some of it is happening, but it's a big job that is going to take decades (unless we start training a lot more grad students. I feel like much of the population of the world is going to waste, just trying to survive, when they could be trained and doing research.)

Or maybe we can just feed tons of raw data from everyone into an AI and it will Give Us The Answers (TM). But places like Apple and Google have had data like this for a decade and don't seem to have come up with much yet. Most wearables can't even reliably tell when a person is sleeping (though some can, I've had good luck with the Samsung G5, and the Oura Ring works if your sleep times are regular. The Mi Band 7 is pretty hit or miss.)

Here are the web pages of a couple of researchers working in this area to give you an idea of what current research looks like:

https://destrin.tech.cornell.edu/

https://people.cs.umass.edu/~dganesan/

Look at the proceedings of the MobiSys, SenSys, Ubicomp conferences to see more current research. Some of it is showing up in medical journals as well, so try a PubMed search on "health AND wearables". Moving something from a research demo to a product that a billion people can use and that clinicians will trust is not easy. I believe wearables are finding a place in physical rehabilitation.
The Web Monetization API was another recent effort to try to make this, the latest of many attempts. See previous HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274455

My guess is that 1. there’s virtually no demand from potential supporters for a more convenient way to pay creators than existing payment/subscription apps, and 2. relatively few creators have direct control over their own internet presence anymore, so any solution that requires modifying a web page is dead in the water.

Any new attempt to pay creators that doesn’t factor these two realities in will likely fail, because it just makes things harder than existing solutions.
2000 character limit.
Of course they can, it takes one to know one.
Not every part of these blockbusters is pushing the limits of what's possible, even for spectacle. Studios are quite happy to leave a lot of things as they've previously managed because it's good enough.
a massive L to me is living your life by not taking risks because you are more comfortable counting your money beans and watching the compounding interest
Is this the same issue with content creators being reimbursed for generative ai?
Thanks for the guidance. I'll take a look at the hiring thread and the site guidelines. Appreciate you pointing me in the right direction.
France max limit for individuals purchasing from professionals or businesses is 1k EUR except for a few edge cases.

https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F10999
She converted to Christianity later in her life. The reasons why she did it would probably turn a lot of people towards Christ as well.

I don't think she converted to Christianity out of spite of Judaism, but rather out of love for Christ. In several of her writings she refers to Jesus as the absolute role model a human could ever strive to be.

She did write a couple things that were critical about Judaism, but she also wrote a lot of things that were critical about almost everything that came across her life, being a philosopher.

I wouldn't label her as anti-semitic, though, mainly because one of the main motives behind her whole life (not just her writings, and this is what sets her apart from other philosophers), is to exercise love for all human beings.

(I have read a lot about her but wouldn't consider myself an expert on Weil yet, so this is mostly my intuition about her.)
I visited Notre Dame the first time I was in Paris, stood in the queue, climbed the stairs and took the photos everyone takes and have positive associations of the trip. The age, location and the view all help make nice memories that I guess many visitors feel. Victor Hugo & Disney probably add to that for others.
An antecedent was the Flying University[0] in Poland while it was part of the Russian Empire, and was revived under the Soviet Union. Marie Curie was a graduate.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_University
It's a place where there's no good guys to root for. I fear for its citizens, and especially for women.
OpenWrt Affected by Security Issue That Could Have Led to Compromised Build Art
It’s not a particularly accurate or comprehensive history beyond the dates used. For one thing it really traces back to a single chemist in the Department of Agriculture in 1862, then through the Division of Chemistry which became the Bureau of Chemistry, before as mentioned the FDA was formed.

I’d suggest reading a less biased account which goes into some of the more interesting details. Academic Scientists and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Cooperative Research in Twentieth-Century America is one such take but there’s others.

That said, there has definitely been a lot of political influence applied to the FDA. The current loophole around supplements and effectively fraudulent alternative medicines being one such example.
If it's anything like teletext, normal VHS wouldn't have the bandwidth, you might have some success with SVHS, although unlike teletext it might not be framed as a normal TV signal so the general tuner / recording circuitry might also have problems.
Adding a package repository is a very conscious choice that also requires a password. Cut & pasting a line of code from we website is not. This is why a lot of time and effort was spend in the past educating users not to run random code from the internet. That is may be safe in this particular specific case does not change the fact that this generally undermines the message that one should not cut&paste arbitrary code from a website into a terminal.
It’s immoral to let a sucker keep his money.
Not really, it just tells you the calibre of the pistol, and maybe some details on the loading mechanism of you're lucky enough to get distinctive marks on the casing.
Yes, that's true - actually i meant distilling the key points from articles and removing AI generated SEO fillers among other things
Given how terrible that advice is, it makes you reconsider the other items. The whole post might be clever satire: "Don't just do what you're told. Don't just eat the crap pushed by Big Ag. Do think."
RL, But Don't Do Anything I Wouldn't Do
The system is in complete harmony. Sometimes the predators are in the ascendancy, sometimes the prey. Our science has little comprehension of the grandeur of the totality of Nature's balance, simply because the willful ignorance of the vast majority of the human race keeps us so out of balance in its destructively selfish competitions.

We are the only creatures who can choose to manifest a selflessly compassionate ethos, instead of selfishly cruel indifference. When we choose compassionate service to all (including the Earth, herself), we not only improve the lives of those around us (and foment our own internal peace and happiness), but we also clariy our perception, allowing us to more deeply grok Nature's intricately beautiful systems that provide our sustenance.

Only in caring for each other, we will learn how to properly care for our blessed mother Earth.
That much is clear. It is not about safety. It is a cult around memory safety.
Is the sound part real? What frequencies are used to communicate stress? Is this in range of anything I could connect to a raspberry pico or arduino? My flowers desperately need answers :D
Why not a MiniDisc drive in the laptop?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edKZVCiMpBk