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by hodgesrm 4y ago
It's pretty awful but does not seem to rise to the level of Nazi extermination camps as far as I can tell. Seeing it through the lens of the Nazi regime does not seem either illuminating or helpful to stop it.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> The comparison to Nazi Germany is on point. Hardly. Hitler and his cronies were driven by a level of crazy that outdid most of the other autocracies of the 20th century. Just two examples: * Starting a war of conquest that utterly dest
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> Isn't that already the case? In theory yes, according to the US Supreme court in Gideon vs Wainwright. [0] In practice no. Public defender programs are chronically underfunded in the United States. The problem seems to affect stat
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
This story is why everyone should have the right to proper legal representation regardless of ability to pay. Cases based on junk science should not have to be reversed on appeal. It would also help build precedent against such methods.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
On the flip side Southwest has stranded what look like tens of thousands of passengers. The memo seems to be focused on curing that problem. It's not clear what the alternative(s) would look like short of ditching all their passengers.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
How do you know it's downvoted by HN mods?
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
I like this essay. It reminds me of the way mountaineers think about risk. The common factor is that they all accept that the joy of ascent is worth some level of risk but at the same time you must apply discipline to keep that risk within
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
One of the Jobs' virtues was that he didn't sugarcoat his opinions. It was pretty harsh a times, but what should he have said instead?
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
This is a good point. Journalists get dinged for trying to pull out the truth. Andrew Ross Sorkin's interview with SBF seems like a case in point.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
This is a great dataset. It's also available at https://github.demo.trial.altinity.cloud:8443/play?user=demo (password demo). For a guide to using see https://ghe.clickhouse.tech/ by Alexey Milovidov.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
I wouldn't undersell ChatGPT. It's like a repl for a particular LLM. Maybe there are others but it's the first time many people have gotten direct access to the technology. Sometimes the medium is the message.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
I'm a history major and love classical history. My first question to ChatGPT was: > Why was Julius Caesar murdered? The answer was the following, which would pass a standard exam question on the topic. It exhibits [the appearance of
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> This will hardly seem like a controversial opinion, but LLM are overhyped. As the [excellent] paper points out, LLMs are complex functions that can be embedded in systems to provide plausible answers to a prompt. Here's the money
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Purify could find memory errors in just a few minutes that would take engineers days or weeks to track down. The dynamic instrumentation capability on existing binaries was huge. The first time I saw it in use was at Sybase. Running a demo
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Yeah, that's wierd. I just upvoted you to compensate.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Is the problem with crypto that it has no useful purpose or is it just riddled with fraud, like what happened at FTC? It's a useful thought experiment to consider how much faith we would have in the banking industry today if it were as
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
What's cool is that even in this case ClickHouse is still stupid fast compared to most other databases. ;)
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> however there's no indexing being used and this is a full-table scan. That first steatement about "no indexing being used" is not quite correct if the query is run exactly as you show in your nice example. ClickHouse per
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
ClickHouse uses a single primary key index, which matches the sort order, plus skip indexes, which knock out blocks to scan. Here's a writeup that explains skip indexes. https://altinity.com/blog/clickhouse-black-m
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Snowflake. It does not work internally the same way as BigQuery but is substantially equivalent in user-visible functionality.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
Have you looked at the resulting art works? There's an exhibit called "Unsupervised" currently running at the New York Museum of Modern Art [0]. I saw it last week--a fascinating of collage of shifting, waterlike images with
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> The main thrust in this article is that scraping HTML display markup is a terrible form of data interchange between systems. Agree. Many of the comments seem to come from reading "Why HTML Is a Strategic Dead End" leaving off
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The World’s Biggest Airports Confront a Tiny but Serious Safety Threat–Wasps(wsj.com)
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‘Deep Geothermal’ Promises to Let Drillers Go Deeper, Faster and Hotter(wsj.com)
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> walk anywhere in SF near a BART (subway) stop and you face open drug use, trash, and other problems nobody wants in the neighborhood they call home. Is there any evidence these problems are actually related to BART? The Tenderloin dist
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Ask HN: How many database products are ClickHouse forks or embed it?
1 points by hodgesrm 4y ago|0 comments
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
It's both faster and cheaper. ClickHouse gets a lot of migrations off SQL Server. Not every dataset works, of course. As noted elsewhere ClickHouse does not handle complex joins well.
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
> If pg was olap there wouldn’t exist any competition out there. What does this actually mean? If PG were an OLAP database it probably wouldn't have full ACID support, because pure OLAP workloads typically don't do a lot of upd
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by hodgesrm 4y ago
This is so sad. The motto "Dominus Illuminatio Mea" (The Lord is my light) on the logo is beautiful. It's on dozens of books in my house.
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Crash at Crush(en.wikipedia.org)
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