skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More accurately, the clocks of the linux virtual machine running docker containers would differ from the OSX clock.

Those aren't really containers skewing from other processes on the same system as the parent describes, but of clocks skewing on two different systems (which is a totally normal thing we deal with regularly).
I converted my entire collection of physical books to e-books by using a scanning service that scanned them destructively (spine removal.) It was super empowering to dispose of 50 boxfuls of physical books with content that can fit on a few GB and be available wherever I happen to be.
Thanks! I found that too.

I wish it had more :)

Being on the outside of these giant companies I'm always interested in all the semi-invisible architecture that supports the development, stuff that needs to exist but you don't really think about it until you need to make it.

Anyway, I really appreciated your blog and will be adding it to my watchlist :)
Nope. I understand that. I wouldn't say that cannabis causes schizophrenia or even episodes. It's more a story of how my friend and the people that love him came to view cannabis as it relates to his illness. It's an "understanding" if you will held by carers and primary care givers alike. If you suffer from psychosis, they make a point of warning about cannabis.

Perhaps the lapse in judgement is a sign of an oncoming episode, with weed unnecessarily blamed. But the experience of so many people and the possibility of a link deserves to be investigated with the rigour of science.
I like to take notes and highlight and write all over my books when I read and I have yet to find an e-book software that fits my use case. However -- if any one has any recommendations please let me know. I greatly prefer the convenience of my phone.
I agree it's unfortunate, but it doesn't really seem in conflict with "everything is a file".

Making it a file is separate from making it sensible/usable for containers. Like the /proc filesystem. They are "files", but don't many don't work as expected without something like lxcfs. Like /proc/uptime, for example.
I thought of the same thing. Both are inexpensive, straightforward, no-BS projects that leverage the advances made in electronics over the years to deliver quality audio.

If I made one of these, I 'd be tempted to put an ODAC and O2 board in the same chassis to have a complete amplifier.
Nice discovery!
Now scifi/horror movies can stop using the "I have no reception for no reason" and use helium somewhere in the plot.
> Chinese writing to this day doesn't indicate the sound of the word at all. A fortiori, it doesn't indicate vowels.

That's not true. The vast majority of Chinese characters (estimated at around 90% or more) are phono-semantic compounds, which were also devised based on the Rebus principle that the OP of the thread mentioned.

These compounds consist of an element that hints at a word’s pronunciation (the "phonetic"), together with an element that hints at its meaning (the "radical"). The phonetic and radical are respectively analogous to the rebus and determinative of Egyptian hieroglyphics that the OP also mentioned.

For example, the following characters all share the same phonetic 青, which is pronounced qīng in Mandarin Chinese:

請 - pronounced qǐng - with the 言 speech radical, means "to invite, please"

情 - pronounced qíng - with the 忄 heart radical, means "feeling, emotion"

清 - pronounced qīng - with the 氵 water radical, means "clear"

睛 - pronounced jīng - with the 目 eye radical, means "eye"

The character 青, which means "blue/green", lends its pronunciation qīng to the characters in these examples, not its meaning.

One major caveat is that because the Chinese writing system has been around for a very long time and both the meanings and pronunciations of characters can shift over time, the phonetic and semantic components of many characters are no longer as reliable in indicating their pronunciation or meaning. In many cases they are still good enough though. It’s interesting to note that because sound changes are often systematic, the phonetic components of phono-semantic compounds still generally work within any particular spoken variety of Chinese (i.e., the pronunciation of the phonetic evolves similarly to the pronunciation of the other characters that make use of the phonetic), even though the various Chinese varieties may have diverged differently.

[ This response was adapted from my original answer in Quora: https://qr.ae/TUhrP0 ]
Yeah, the minute you start reaching back to the server for a significant update to the client data model in order to support a view transition I think the benefits of SPA are lost.

Granted I've only deployed one SPA to prod and that was an Ember application but I'm not feeling the love based on that project.
Geez, guess there's no Beatles fans here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus%27s_Garden
Everything is a file hasn't been true for Unix since almost the beginning. It's kind of like the Unix philosophy of small, independent tools...except for the database where you store all the important data.
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^ This.

In Melbourne, I graduated school in 1997. With a bachelor and a PhD and a few years in R&D in biotech I am able to rent in the inner city.

My neighbour is a

1) a tradie my age,

2) owns the house and has another investment property,

3) and finishes work at 3pm to hang with his three kids.
She has never been to Sweden nor Mexico has she /s
Fine - you are correct. These people are not "innocent" in the legal sense, in that they are in blatant violation of the law.

However I would then ask if the legal criteria of judging innocence are useful to society. My claim is that they are not, in that we label people as "guilty" and socially disadvantage them, when they may otherwise be perfectly productive members of society. Their use of cannabis in and of itself causes causes comparatively less harm to others, at least relative to harder drugs like alcohol.
interesting. What kind of lucrative opportunities would they have? As a fundraising-consultant? Because I am curious as well
Hi, I'm one the makers of Levels.fyi. Happy to answer any questions and would love to hear feedback! We have a lot of features in the coming months that we think folks will love!
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You mean the linked NPR article that agrees it doesn't have lasting effects, but instead effects that clear up as soon as people stop using? (Although with no control group, the described study is essentially worthless)
It happens that linseed oil and rust, which make for cheap rot prevention and waterproofing, stains the wood red. You're basically correct.
Well, there are certainly classes of problems that I'd use static typing for, but in my experience, static typing != software that gets the job done. That doesn't mean that it holds things back, though.

Many static typing arguments remind me of the Air Force's old "We'll bomb them so hard we won't have to send in ground troops." I just haven't seen it in practice, and the few studies that have looked at it empirically haven't seen a clear advantage either. If you know of such a study, please point it out!

In the end, all sorts of combinations have succeeded or failed, to the point where now when people start talking about "the right tool for the job", I add in "the right tool for the right people in the right environment for the right job..."
Any recommendations for people that are tempted to build this but should really put their time elsewhere?
That's why it is called POPULAR culture, because that's what the majority of people know.
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Very cool. I was very interested when the IEEE Spectrum original feature was published, and got one of the Tripath amplifiers to play with. It was a commercial product, marketed as inexpensive toy. Then people on Head-Fi Forums started taking these things further. One of the forum members started modding home-theater amplifiers, so I purchased one and it was great.

Vinnie Rossi, Red Wine Audio. It is still amazing. But his stuff is now quite out of my price range.

These amplifiers are great fun, though.
The majority of all active speakers produced nowadays are Class-D, it's nothing really new (and the fact they are super cheap).

No idea how this guy wrote this article and didn't come across DIY Audio (or he just didn't mention it in the article). There is a tonne of information here: https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/class-d/
> The go compiler does dead code elimination.

For Wasm output? It really doesn't seem like it. Output binaries from the mainline Go compiler (atm) are ~2MB. Most of which is dead code.
I think you meant to reply to criley above; this has nothing to do with what I said. I did not accuse anyone of "retreat"; I replied to a complaint about being misunderstood.
I like how the sample question on Triplebyte tests API memorization instead of algorithms knowledge.

Of course, you can't win. At a whiteboarding session, there will always be applicants who give out the method from the library instead of providing an algorithmic solution.
I am not sure what is valuable here though. It sounds like you think fundraising skills in and of itself is valuable. I guess that kind of makes sense

But still, at best he can be a mentor for when you fundraise. But would you hire him or pay him, to be a fundraising consultant?
There's a reason why we teach math in kindergarten and proofs in college. There's lots of things that are useful to do without the rigors of rigorous proof.
I agree that Deep Work is worth a read. Quite a few meaningful ideas in quite few pages. The end-of-day shutdown is one of the ideas that stuck in me. After a workday my mind is usually buzzing a bit too much for most activities. Focusing on winding down helps very much. Having accepted the point made by the author in combination with it being such a small thing to say the phrase when walking from work means that I often remember to say the phrase and then instantly accept that I should focus the last drops of work-related attention on disconnecting from work in a good way. Helps me a lot!
Not discussed in the 2016 threads was how the community supported DuPont despite clear evidence it was poisoning those farmers or their cattle.

That group behavior reminds me of stories I've heard from a friend who has close relatives that lived in Stasi-era German Democratic Republic. Everyone was scared of their neighbors because everyone was a snitch.

It also reminds me of Mark Twain's "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg". To surmise that people are generally good is wrong, for "The weakest of all weak things is a virtue not tested in the fire."
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I'm not sure I understand your question; what do you mean by "but should really put their time elsewhere"?

Are you asking for an amplifier that would deliver similar performance to this, because you don't have the time to build one, or that you suspect you'll come out ahead on build vs buy because of the price you value your time at?
But that’s kind of the point. If all you’re doing is working on yet another software as a service CRUD app, you don’t need a team of A players. You just need halfway competent developers and one of two architect level positions to steer them.
It wouldn't break overflow, but it would break the conversion to and from signed negative integers (which if I recall correctly is implementation defined, and behaves differently on 1's complement and sign & magnitude platforms —if there are any left).
> If I made one of these, I 'd be tempted to put an ODAC and O2 board in the same chassis to have a complete amplifier.

Such a product is available commercially:

> https://www.jdslabs.com/products/48/objective2-odac-combo-re...
The law itself is predicated on violence. What would a legal ruling mean without enforcement? Indeed the colonization of the new world was entirely legal under the laws of the colonists.
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I don’t build audio amplifiers often, but when I do, I always use top-quality components like HPOO.
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I'm definitely a fan of go over C. I was really happy with unbound as a local resolver for a good long time, but then started having DNS issues that would be cleared up by restarting unbound.
Wasn't he from The Verge?
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The value of everything tends to not go up or down...until it does. I think woodblocks have a potentially larger market due to their relationship to anime and other parts of Japanese culture and past. I have a watercolor done by an artist who colored woodblock prints. He painted it in occupied China in “service” with an occupying Japanese force during WWII. Out of protest, he painted the landscape instead of the Japanese forces. I don’t know whether it’s monetery value will go up, but interest in the world wars has.

I love that site. Glad to see it and woodblocks mentioned here.
(Falun red. The pigment, and main ingredient apart from flour and linseed oil, is basically garbage from a copper mine.)
Interesting thing about annexation is that legally it isn't the taking of territory, it's recognizing that an area has always been part of one's territory.

This can get messy, but it can also give rise to some really culturally fascinating places, like the Alsace.
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That’s true. I’ve interviewed “full stack developers” who when you asked them to write a query they started writing C# Linq statements as if they were using Entity Framework.

It only takes one of two steps above the average “full stack developer” to be the one eyed king.
If you are looking for something already built, the eBay/aliexpress shops of the Shenzhen companies often have the option of selling you a complete amplifier made up of their modules. Which will probably end up cheaper than getting all the parts yourself...
It seems there are two logical assumptions being made here that are, in my opinion, inconclusive to say the least. That is first, the idea that the law cannot adapt to allow such organizations, and second, that these organizations would in and of themselves be adversary to the law in which they operate.
Note that some of this research, especially early, overstated the 'bias' here because they didn't realize that the default 'analogy' routines specifically rule-out returning any word that was also in the prompt words. So, even if closest word-vector after the `man->woman` translation was the same role (as is often the case), you wouldn't see it in the answer.

Further, they cherry-picked the most-potentially-offensive examples, in some cases dependent on the increased 'fuzziness' of more-outlier tokens (like `computer_programmer`).

You can test analogies against the popular GoogleNews word-vector set here – http://bionlp-www.utu.fi/wv_demo/ – but it has this same repeated-word-suppression.

So yes, when you try "man : computer_programmer :: woman : _?_" you indeed get back `homemaker` as #1 (and `programmer` a bit further down, and `computer_programmer` nowhere, since it's filtered, thus unclear where it would have ranked).

But if you use the word `programmer` (which I believe is more frequent in the corpus than the `computer_programmer` bigram, and thus a stronger vector), you get back words closely-related to 'programmer' as the top-3, and 23 other related words before any strongly-woman-gendered professions (`costume_designer` and `seamstress`).

You can try lots of other roles you might have expected to be somewhat gendered in the corpus – `firefighter`, `architect`, `mechanical_engineer`, `lawyer`, `doctor` – but continue to get back mostly ungendered analogy-solutions above gendered ones.

So: while word-vectors can encode such stereotypes, some of the headline examples are not representative.
As much as I like munin, it's just not covering the current needs around application monitoring, containers, dynamically scaled clusters and more detailed metric inspection. The go-to solution for me now is Prometheus + Grafana, it does all of the above and is directly supported by many products.
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> I imagine there might be some really interesting (for meanings of interesting that include shoot me now) and hard to track down bugs as you deal with inconsistent clocks not just across systems within a network, but processes within a single system.

I feel like the "safe assumption" that the other end of a given IPC channel (or even inter-thread communication channel) is on the same machine, is responsible for the vast majority of failures we see in e.g. Jepsen testing of databases.

After all, in sufficiently-large computers (i.e. HPC clusters that pretend to be one "computer"), you've got NUMA zones that are light-microseconds away from one another, where even threads of the same process can literally end up needing vector clocks to linearize events between themselves.

It probably wouldn't be too bad a thing if things like the Linux base-system used only internal IPC mechanisms that exposed this unreliability (like e.g. Erlang does with "unreliable async message passing" as its IPC primitive), forcing each component to deal with the fact that its peers may or may not be netsplit away from it.

Even if that scenario will only come up if you're writing code to get your GPS position from a Dyson sphere of 10-mile-deep Matryoska brains.
It is refreshing to see these types of articles.

Of all disciplines of human interests and hobbies, Audiophiles are one of the most stubborn, misinformed, anecdotal and delusional bunch. Of course I am generalizing, but every time I engage in a discussion about audio quality, it is a losing battle. Not because of lack of data or supporting evidence, but because of the fundamental dissent for data driven arguments. You cannot argue reason when the first step is to be born with "audiophile ears".

Why is it hard to understand that we have sophisticated metrology and instrumentation that can analyze things better than human ears can? I can understand a separate discussion about personal opinions regarding how "warm" a particular sound is, but that should remain distinctly as - subjective and that's perfectly OK.

It feels like the entire audio industry is promoting pseudoscience barring a very few vendors that actually care. We have a $8500 mp3 player from Sony claiming all kinds of things to the overwhelming abundance of cheap Shenzhen exports. There is just so much noise.

I absolutely abhor audiophiles.
Not even a tiny bit. Especially when it's your first job out of college.
Also interested to see how this solves the 'hate and harassment' problem. Will the USD 5.00 fees cover things like background checks for extreme viewpoints, handle verifying real identities to check against blacklists, and pay for moderators to review posts for harassing content, monitor user complaints, and adjudicate between parties that feel they have been wronged or unfairly treated. Then there's fake news - they could use ML algorithms or pay for human fact checkers to verify posts, but the problem of dealing with mistakes and false positives is still there.

Like the previous comment states, this might be easy to handle when the users are a small group of like-minded friends, and maybe simple ad hoc processes will do for a while after that. The problem is, these sites are only useful when they have a much larger user base, but scale will also bring exactly the same expensive and difficult problems as FB, Twitter etc.

Something to bear in mind as well is that online hate and harassment is not new. Pretty much immediately after the first electronic forums or message systems were created and made available to end users, the problems started. The issue is with people, not the technology, so technological solutions are not the answer...
As someone who used to work on BitKeeper, I'm tickled to see a more popular SCM's test suite as a kind of de facto filesystem benchmark -- confirming what we had been observing ourselves forever.
Many of the posts are from Montreal and very local (like mow my lawn). Can I filter by location?

Are the prizes in US$ or in Can$?
The AV might not be even looking at patterns in the executable code.
We've had an issue where we accidentally ran the msys strip tool over binaries compiled with the MSVC compiler. A quarter of the scanners on virustotal went crazy and "detected" our program.
The same unstripped program was fine with them. And by "the same", I literally mean the same: virustotal showed that all sections in the "malicious" stripped executable had identical hashes to those in the clean unstripped executable. The only difference was some header bits that were irrelevant to the runtime behavior (I think it was the "linker version" field, and maybe some others).
I think it might boil down to your philosophy on sound reproduction. Do you want accuracy with some potentials for ugliness if you clip, or do you want coloring and musical distortion? I don't think AM radio sounds good at all, but it is sometimes emotionally comforting to listen to. Fidelity isn't everything.

That said, many high end audio folks are straight up whack jobs.
You're already hitting a database, you can add a column for whatever information you want. I've heard people are spooked by having too many columns, but more spooked than having essentially untestable production IDs in their code? No thanks.
You are 100% correct. “Everything is a file” was more of an early design insight, which was gradually abandoned as new features were added.

There is a movement of “Unix purists” who lament this deviation from founding principles, and advocate for a return to them. The most notable example is Plan 9.

In Plan 9, everything actually is a file. And exactly as you said, all resources are namespaced via the filesystem. It’s quite elegant and practical.

Sadly Plan 9 has remained a fringe OS, and although it influenced mainstream operating system design in many ways (including the concept of /proc), I wish that influence had been stronger.
Any DAC chip and some usb interface for it that you could recommend to go with this?

And slightly OT, but does anybody know any ABX test of balanced input/output signal? I find it hard to believe that there is a single person who can hear the difference.
Nice, I was just starting to contemplate about how much work it would be to train a bert model from scratch.

Context to understand the importance of this release: http://ruder.io/nlp-imagenet/ Though not named in the post, BERT is part of the same family of models as these.
I use Faber Castell pencils in 3H and 4H in my workshop, they're quite good. Sharpen to a very fine point easily that lasts a while when marking metal or wood surfaces.
Hi, I just watched through the first two parts of your three part intro to Texas on YouTube.

I noted that you restart the server process each time you make a change to the elixir application and coming from the Clojure universe I have the following question: Is it possible to insetad of restarting the server program each time you make a change to it's source code instead modify the program as it is running?

This is usually how I work on my Clojure programs and I find that doing that which results in near instant feedback while I am programming.
Quite right. My contracting agency was making as much as I was for every hour I worked. Doesn't seem right when all they did was handle complaints and payroll issues. On the bright side, they were throwing money at us anyway and my student loans are paid off.

Left a sour taste in my mouth, though. Haven't worked in tech since.
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ESS [0] is fantastic, which I am using with R.

[0] https://ess.r-project.org/
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Size is a big feature though.