Dominik Schneider

@duckdb geospatial support out of the box?

Today we're launching DuckLake, an integrated data lake and catalog format powered by SQL. DuckLake unlocks next-generation data warehousing where compute is local, consistency central, and storage scales till infinity. ⁠DuckLake is an open standard and we've implemented it in the "ducklake" DuckDB extension. – Read the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/05/27/duc… – Visit the new DuckLake website at ducklake.select

“The Drax power station was responsible for four times more carbon emissions than the UK’s last remaining coal-fired plant last year, despite taking more than £0.5bn in clean-energy subsidies in 2023, according to a report.” theguardian.com/environment/ar…

BIG NEWS: Idaho AG’s lawsuit against Open Primaries Initiative DISMISSED “The people of Idaho will now have a chance to vote YES on Prop 1 and give all Idaho voters—including independents—the right to participate in every taxpayer-funded election.” idahopress.com/news/local/ida…

the woman on the left is a Olympic medalist in hammer throwing, the first ever U.S. woman to medal in this Olympics event the girl on the right is 16 in this photo, competing at an under-18 event, not an Olympian weird isn’t a strong enough word for these guys

An incredible bit of media from @ProjectLincoln. Please share far and wide.

Russian foreign minister Lavrov endorses JD Vance. meidasnews.com/news/russian-f…

Colleague, UCBerkeley's IB Dept is searching for a human evolutionary biologist. I am a human evolutionary biologist. I was in this dept. I left my full prof position. If you want to apply, we should chat so that you walk in eyes-wide-open. DM me. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04502

Uhhh hey... since this election is now solely about cognitive abilities, I feel like it should be a big deal that one candidate (who is nearly 80) has fallen asleep like 5 times now during official proceedings. Helloooo...Political media, you guys there?

"I thought he was going to save some jobs. He pulled the wool right over our eyes and he’s still doing it till this day,” says 58-year-old Susan Cropper, who worked at a Carrier plant in Huntington, Indiana, for 31 years. theguardian.com/us-news/2019/j…

Dear New York Times editorial board, Did I miss your 2024 piece requesting Donald Trump drop out of the Presidential race after multiple convictions and multiple women saying he assaulted them or after January 6 or after dozens and dozens of other horrors?

Biden: I know I’m not a young man… I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to, I don’t debate as well as I used to, but I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong. And I know how to get things done. When you get knocked down, you get back up

Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself. Between someone who tells the truth; who knows right from wrong and will give it to the American people straight — and someone who lies through his teeth for his own benefit. Last night didn’t change that, and it’s why so much is at stake in November. joebiden.com

@wombat_ee They might still have a hp. It cost money to dispose of the tank so it might just be sitting there.

What do you want in your emergency stay stash? 🤔 Had a great time getting feedback on some of @get_fortifyd's alpha version today, from academics and practitioners at #NAF2024. Accessibility and inclusivity are a big priority for us and for NAF members -- a 🙌🏻 to that!

@vboykis Had a fun conversation in Japan with it in 2020!

Folks know Google Translate has live voice-to-voice translation, yes?

@bikeshopgirlcom I've long been a bike transportation advocate but having a kid really bumps it up a notch! Really cool resource for finding an ideal place to live with this in mind is close.city

Someone just alerted me to this @guardian article from January about a *big 5 yearly UN report!* on material extraction. The @guardian singles out cobalt and electric vehicles. But look at this graph from the report! WTF is going on here? I must do a 🧵 theguardian.com/environment/20…

Renewable generation on @California_ISO grid was over 100% of load from about 8am to 6pm yesterday. Plus it reached a new record of 166% of load at 1:20 pm. gridstatus.io/graph/renewabl…

Front page of the Coeur d’Alene Press today. For far too long, Idaho’s party elites have had more power than Idaho’s voters. That’s not right, and we’re about to give the voters of Idaho a chance to take back their power. #idpol

@JesseJenkins @FrontierTony @BorensteinS Is this paper suggesting it would be cheaper for the utility to give customers money directly based on decreased social cost of e assuming they used less than to give rebates for more efficient ac? (With current flat rate)

If rate design is inaccurate (and it is), energy efficiency measures absolutely cause cost shifts, and given how long we've been promoting energy efficiency in conjunction w/flat bundled volumetric rates, I imagine the total cost shift is actually enormous. There's been research on this too. See files.asmith.ucdavis.edu/2018_JAERE_NS_… (I think Severin has also done work on this topic)

.@BorensteinS estimates that soaring retail rates, poor rate design & rapidly growing rooftop solar adoption in California combine to shift ~$3.8 billion from bills of solar adopters to those without solar, increasing their rates 5.7-7¢/kWh. 😯 energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/cal…