skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the main pain points I keep hearing about kdb is the complexity and its consequences in terms of time spent trying to do anything, and money spent on consultants. The language is efficient and you can write pages of Java with 2 lines of code (they keep bashing Java for some reason). But it takes very specialized talent to get there. I heard that Bitmex was paying up to 6 figures to find consultants in London and have them move to HK which illustrates the degree of key-man risk inherent with kdb.

Performance is good but comes at a massive usability cost. kdb+ brag about very succinct commands and even error messages but the small gain in efficiency from one less character in the error message is at the detriment of the user trying to work with it.

QuestDB (http://questdb.io) is an alternative to kdb as time-series data store (disclosure, i am one of the authors). We left trading to build it and show you can get the same speed without sacrificing usability. Users get better performance than kdb+, but can use SQL, ACID transactions. It is already in production with a few exchanges and HF, and it is open-source!

Hopefully, kdb users looking for a replacement find questdb helpful for their projects :-)
Funny, but can someone add (2009) in the title?
Zoho free mail and Yandex (better?) alternative
Did you mean to link to "A word about why Pinboard was not included?"
-> compared to Zoho: not limited to webmail only (e.g. POP/IMAP enabled).

-> compared to Yandex: way simpler, and no ads, but limited to 5 mailboxes per domain.
This has nothing to do with attention. If the cameras' view is obscured by something, no amount of computing power will change that, unless some physical action can be taken.

Most of the time a human can just shift head a bit to see past whatever is blocking the view.

You do it all the time without even realizing. For example to see your phone's screen clearly when a reflection obstructs your view. Or to see behind whatever happens to be blocking your line of sight.

The possible solutions for this are obvious: add more forward-facing cameras and augment with something that's not affected (for example radar, lidar, infrared, etc.). Adding some physical feature that gives the camera some degrees of freedom to move could work as well, although it does add expense and lowers reliability.
The just-so story is itself thought-terminating, insofar it presents a conjecture as that's just what it is (it's just so), without asking the right questions to connect to.
I remember from my days working for London Underground Ltd that whenever I'd blow my nose after a shift, my snot would have a concerning amount of black matter in it. The days I was off and not entering the subway, my snot didn't have this black particulate matter. I like to think it was my nose doing its job and keeping all that from entering my lungs, but I'll never know.
When clicking the Download link on Ubuntu.com, the LTS version for both desktop and server is highlighted in green:

https://ubuntu.com/#download

The design of the ubuntu.com download buttons encourages people to download the LTS version while making the latest stable version easy to find as well.
Because we have to accept the OS global state?
security wise: yes. otherwise no
I mean, yeah sure. But consuming media for the first time without a parent? Ideally, no, I think it's good to be with them the first time they see something.
wasting water does not get your stuff 'more clean'
> the technology for creating software should be thoughtfully crafted in all aspects.

lost me right here. fetishizing software "craftsmanship" isn't going to make the software run better. It might make it more maintainable. But even then it's better to have a well-designed, efficient system with poorly crafted components than artisanal for-loops
You can solve that by installing more solar. Also, if you have an EV, it comes with a (typically 60kwh) battery. If you have the right systems installed, you could power your house from that for a few days. For reference, e.g. a tesla powerwall would come in at only 13.5 kwh (i.e. less than 25%) and you could buy a more expensive EV with 75kwh or even more. So, you could power your house using your car for a while. If you have the square meters, you could install enough solar to charge that battery capacity. It's just a matter of what still makes sense in terms of cost.

Doing stuff like this is currently expensive but will eventually drop in price to the point where it stops being a cost reducing supporting technology and can actually become your main source of energy together with maybe a more expensive option as an emergency fallback based on some grid level solution (wind, more solar, tidal power, nuclear even, gas, etc). It's just a matter of $/kwh of battery & solar panels. Both are still coming down in price. The reason people are putting this stuff in their homes is that they are already on the right side of that price compared to the grid.
nitpick: it would be wrong to include one, because sarcasm isn't sarcasm if you say it's sarcasm.

personally i feel like even including the archive.org link was pushing it over the edge :)
For a rat, the spinal cord could be just as big, or bigger than the brain in mass. It's possible that the spinal cord does majority of processing for rats, like cockroaches.
There have been quite few people boasting about having symptoms and escaping the lock-down.

Quite scary given that its a great migration for holidays in China. Imagine being stuck in overcrowded train for hours with a sneezing person.
Yeah, I thought this would be about Amazon Aurora.
I love bugs like this. As a developer or Sysadmin you'd think the users are crazy again but then you dig deeper until you lose all hope and already book flights to become a farmer in the midwest and then you find something like thís
I'm over here: https://krister.ee/. I like your grid though. Easy to scan.
As an ex-manager, I laughed.
Well, it does use Bing as its backend. Not solely though.
What I would like to see, is fewer wires.

Was tidiying up behind my desk with 3 monitors on. Rear is just a spiderweb of power cables, display cables, usb cables for all accessories, usb extensions to power monitor ports, audio cables to speakers and headphones etc.

Something has to give

SSD switch is funny in that it improved personal computers and laptops massively, yet spinning rust disks are more than ever important in data centers. And in NAS at homes.

Can you think of other examples of such improvements before SSD switch, to get an idea of what we are looking for.

LCD monitors come to mind. Occupy less space, weigh massively less, nicer and bigger picture.

Centrino style platform for laptops, standardising connectivity and networking, made them practical for everyone.
My big beef with disaster prepping is the rabbit hole aspect of it. The prepper community is nuts, but also remarkably intelligent. Perfectly good articles like this one are going to keep convincing me that I'm not doing enough.

Ignorance truly is bliss.
The Two Egyptian Finalists at SXSW Pitch 2020 – WAYA
“Dariusz Sikora” – Social Innovation Fraud from Poland Alert
Ruben Lozano Me – Growth Marketing Specialist
>but that's distinct from the overall windowing system, graphics state, etc. which would be stored in `World`.

That'd be pretty odd naming, usually 'World' would own all your game objects and scene, but have no relation to the windowing system or swap chain.

Regardless though, I wouldn't make the windowing system or swap chain or d3dcontext global either, I mean all of that is literally designed to be wrapped into some object. (Well, the window requires some trickery, but it's still prettier than a global handle in the end.) There's really no reason for a game to have actually global state, even if most games are only going to need one window.
In Kenya also just some people manage to do it. I'd bet there's no many single parents among them, just like there's no them in US. Or people having to do multiple part-time shitty jobs to pay the bills. Or people that have to take care of their parents or siblings. It's highly dependable on your social and financial situation if you'll be able to run a business, any business including SaaS.
It's buried somewhere in the spec, using evasive wording.

I bet this is fully artificial limitation sneaked into the spec by people not wanting "stuff working without PCs"
Elixir v1.10
You can exclude search terms on google with a "-" prefix including websites e.g. "-twitter" "-bigthink"
A discussion of natural disasters and people's preparedness (or lack thereof), and reasons for this.
IANAPhysicist, but my guess would be, you set up your atom trap in such a way that conditions/forces/solutions to wave equation/whatever exclude any states except "no atom" and "a single atom".
The unofficial Apple Archive is on death’s door once more
Thank you :-) I tried to get in touch with

https://www.vorleser.net/

in the past to provide Speech training data, but they were not really interested. I thought it would be great to improve STT having a real good and HUGE set of german audiobooks based on Text, that is publicly available... unfortunately i had no success trying to script something for this purpose (mainly lack of time).
> Is /sysfs enumerated first and then a match is searched for in lib/modules/5.4.6/modules.alias?

Yes :)
In my (oceanographic) research area, some formats are binary and others are text-based.

Binary tends to be used for big datasets recorded by instruments that are left in the field, unattended, for months to years. Since every byte counts, these instruments cram information in very tightly. The binary nature of the files makes them a pain to deal with, but it also confers an advantage: the files are very seldom corrupted by a person who thinks they are benignly viewing the data.

The text files, on the other hand, sometimes get extra junk inserted because someone in the data analysis pipeline thinks it's OK to look at information in MSword or MSexcel.

Sometimes, opaque binary data formats are superior, in terms of data integrity.

I thought of this, while reading about recutils and thinking of a contrast with sqlite. Recutils looks great, but if I started sharing data in that format, I bet it wouldn't be long before derived versions of the files had become corrupted, as someone edited with MSword.

In this forum, people will sniff at people who use MSword, and I have done so, myself. But, it's a simple fact that some people who are good at one thing are not good at another. Some of my colleagues who use MSword for every silly thing (e.g. seminar announcements) are actually very good at their subject matter (e.g. the science talked about in those seminars).
A 2019-NCoV Crawler
> So the argument today that psychiatry lacks any scientific basis and rigor for its practices is still very valid and legitimate.

It's been said that psychiatry is the new religion and psychiatrists the new priests for a reason. Any good actor with enough information can pretend he has a mental illness and fool psychiatrists. Not only that, you can have psychiatrists come up with different diagnoses for the same individual - even to the point of contradicting each other. And there is no scientific way to show one psychiatrist is correct or not.

Just like religion was the best we could do with level of knowledge we had in the past. Psychiatry is sadly the best we can do with the current level of knowledge. It's pretty much voodoo, but it's better than the voodoo that came before it. If neuroscience ( an actual science ) lives up to its potential, then we'll finally be able to toss psychology into the same waste bin we put astrology in and perhaps psychiatry can have a scientific foundation.
And this one from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11717010
Sure! :D https://warpedandtorn.io/ - Having my own little space to publish whatever I want is extremely liberating.

EDIT: Would love to also set up a blog roll with other HNers. If anyone likes anything on my site link me yours! Would love to chat and share and link to each other's sites!
There was a thread 8 days ago: https://www.nototo.app/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22087780 Any chance you mean that one?
Sometimes I’m not sure how much of our habits can be attributed to cheap utility prices and how much can be attributed to differences in environmental opinion.

Either way, this thread reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/oCDW_TSZjVg
Worst ones are (although not limited to America) ones where you have to reach under the water flow to get to the control.

Eg the knobs are on the inside wall of the shower facing the entrance. So to turn on the water you have to reach your arm and sometimes half the body across the shower. Then you have to turn the bloody thing past cold full blast, with the cold water coming down on you. And to add to it, you can’t really tell where you set the temperature to unless you feel the water. If the temperature is wrong you have to reach through the water stream again to change it. Annoying if you set it too cold, good luck if you set it too hot.

Who designs these things?
I'm not sure to agree: if/as *nix systems do not use the extension to know the filetype, then `file`-like heuristics is the only other way to know the file nature, or do I miss someting?
https://sjmulder.nl/en

Currently completely static and handwritten HTML (except the generated download indices) but I do intend to add some sort of publishing thing to it at some point.
The US relaxed its meat safety rules due to meat processing being shifted away from the USA to nations like china which have lower standards.

This shift began years before Trump took office btw.
I'm not currently solving it that way but my next side project definitely is going to try out metamask as the mean of authenticating the user.

A friend of mine showed me some "dapps"(decentralized apps) that he uses (uniswap.io, axieinfinity.com and some other i forgot). They all used metamask as the "login platform". The point is that you have your key in this metamask plugin that is stored in your browser and you can sign things. That means you get a challenge from the server and metamask then asks you if you want to sign that challenge.
The hole onboarding experience was super easy and you theoretically could use that to pay for some premium features of a service.

I thought that is really cool because you don't need to enter email, username, password and whatnot. You just click authorize and you're in.
A TLDR from the past discussion[0] for the tour[1] based on my understanding (please fix me if I’m wrong):

Unison is a functional language that treats a codebase as an content addressable database[2] where every ‘content’ is an definition. In Unison, the ‘codebase’ is a somewhat abstract concept (unlike other languages where a codebase is a set of files) where you can inject definitions, somewhat similar to a Lisp image.

One can think of a program as a graph where every node is a definition and a definition’s content can refer to other definitions. Unison content-addresses each node and aliases the address to a human-readable name.

This means you can replace a name with another definition, and since Unison knows the node a human-readable name is aliased to, you can exactly find every name’s use and replace them to another node. In practice I think this means very easy refactoring unlike today’s programming languages where it’s hard to find every use of an identifier.

I’m not sure how this can benefit in practical ways, but the concept itself is pretty interesting to see. I would like to see a better way to share a Unison codebase though, as it currently is only shareable in a format that resembles a .git folder (as git also is another CAS).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22010510

[1]: https://www.unisonweb.org/docs/tour

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage
There's nothing to be "solved" in terms of climate.

> Instead of burning natural gas to make your coffee in the morning, you’ll have an induction range, which [can] be programmed to cook your coffee for you in a way that’s much easier.

That doesn't sound easier (or cheaper).

"And prices have been dropping, with some induction ranges selling for $1,000 or less." (https://www.consumerreports.org/electric-induction-ranges/pr...)

I guess most Americans don't have enough money to buy one for cash. But if the government properly taxed the rich and gave free induction ovens ("Obama Ovens"?) to everyone, I'm sure we could solve climate change and make life more enjoyable.
Ruby 2.7 is now supported in Pallets
> (yes, the offical package image is two gay turtles)

It's weird that the FAQ page linked there [1] doesn't seem to link back in any way to recutils' own page. The only way to get there [2] seems to be to click on the "Software" header link and Ctrl-F for recutils.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/faq.html#whyturtles
[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/
To say a media isn't objective with their political coverage is actually the norm and what should be expected.

I think that depends where in the world you live.

In the UK all news broadcasters are required to be neutral and objective by law. They aren't and the relevant regulator is MIA, probably because it's staffed with people who agree with the broadcaster's biases. But it's certainly not the norm there that "people" say media isn't objective. Lots of people still like to claim the BBC at least is objective, despite reams of retired or former journalists going on record to say it isn't.
are you ready for a pull request ?
You probably have to cite some studies on this, if you want to convince anyone that more water is required.
Magecart cybercrime gang arrested in Indonesia
Claiming a coup attempt as staged looks more like a conspiracy theory to me. Luckily, that was dismissed by the head of German intelligence[0].

> “The coup attempt was not initiated by the government. Before July 15 the government had already started a big purge so parts of the military thought they should do a coup quickly before it hit them too,” Kahl said.

In [0], Kahl dismisses the possibility that the Gülen movement did the coup. However, he fails to mention which other group in the military "feared" the purge and was big enough to attempt a coup.

If you combine that with:
- the 2010-11 purge of nationalist-modernists from the army was directed by Gülen people[1][2] (and supported by Erdoğan[3])
- all 4 military schools were totally infiltrated by Gülenists[4]

you would see that the Gülen movement was certainly in the army, and after the purge of nationalist-modernists, there was no other group in the Turkish army big enough and pissed off with the govt enough to attempt a coup. The testimonies of suspected army officers[5] mentioning Gülen is no surprise at this point.

When I see the purge of Gülen supporters to be generalized to Erdoğan opponents, something goes off in my mind. People who are against both Erdoğan and Gülen weren't targeted for that purge. If anything, they were trusted more than before, because many pro-Erdoğan people could get into state positions using Gülen connections pre-2013.

A good guestion to ask here is why did Erdoğan facilitate Gülen's infiltration of the institutions in the first place. As I mentioned above, it was because he feared a Kemalist coup or party shutdown. So, if Turkey didn't have the habit of "fending off populists with coups", none of this would happen. Or maybe it would?

All in all, what I'm trying to say is that the whole issue is more complex than "autocrat bad punish opponents".

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[0]: https://www.rt.com/news/381290-bnd-gulen-erdogan-coup/

[1]: http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/son-dakika-ergenekon-davas...

[2]: https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/15-temmuz-darbe-girisimi/balyoz-dav...

[3]: http://www.radikal.com.tr/politika/erdogan-evet-savciyiz-888...

[4]: https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/08/turkey-gu...

[5]: https://t24.com.tr/haber/15-temmuz-darbe-girisimi-ifadeleri-...
Scriptless Automated Testing Is Not the Same as Record and Playback
There is a number of trapping techniques for ions (Paul trap, Penning trap) and for neutral atoms (magneto-optical trap, optical tweezer, optical lattice).

In the case of trapped ions, their mutual repulsion keeps them tens of micrometers apart, so one can easily resolve the individual ions on a camera image with modest magnification. This is an image of 9 ions taken by the same group that made the artistic image in the article: https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/imce/248/c...

For neutral atoms one can for example have a tweezer whose trapping region is so small that only a single atom fits inside.
God forbid I use wikipedia once in my life. Is that the only part you want to reply to, not the substantive parts?

Let's just use the main study you linked to. It shows biological females scoring 5.07 out of 9 on "core autogynephilia", with a standard deviation of 3.5.
Pinscreen Deepfake Live Prototype [video]
Identity.NET for embedding a library, Identity Server for hosting a service.

They're not the simplest, and unfortunately the scaffolding story with Identity.NET is a bit of a nightmare for MVC apps (if you're not careful, you can end up with a ton of hidden-but-accessible razor page endpoints), but the code is robust and most cases are covered.

Identity.NET will also need you to write your own implementations of a couple of database access classes if you don't want to drag a dependency on Entity Framework Core along for the ride.

Documentation is fairly dry and mostly complete (Microsoft style) but be careful with versioning because dotnet core moves fast.
> It shouldn't be possible to register a .co.uk domain unless you are a company that is registered in the UK

That's literally what .ltd.uk is for, and no-one cares about it
Embedded DSLs in Python sometimes have a lot of overhead because of the way large expressions are built with operator overloading (x + y + z + ...), creating lots of intermediate objects.

But there are solver-specific alternatives, such as for Gurobi or MOSEK that provide good performance, as well as vector-oriented modeling such as cvxpy.

Myself, I'm partial to Julia's JuMP as an embedded DSL that has good performance, a general purpose language and "nice" syntax, that is comparable to algebraic modeling languages.
Yeah, the cryptocurrency spam everywhere is a problem and I'm glad the community is fighting it. But for me, the more annoying remnant of this bubble is the fact that the meaning of the word "crypto", used for decades for "cryptography" (like in "strong crypto"), has now been altered and by default means "cryptocurrency." Which, because of many crooks involved, is often associated with its shady aspects.
Me and my partner just did the same and it was so much better than we thought. Not longer having to time things in the morning, no longer needing to rush the other person because you are going to be late, no need to fight over shelf space.

Downside though is I end up spending more time in the bathroom since no one else is waiting to use it and it’s a bit of a quiet space.
Kivy ?
World increasingly ruled by 'would-be or actual dictators'
Yep, It even has a name in Ecology: Mesopredator release. You can have one wolf or "twenty" coyotes in the same area.
Mine is https://manuel.kiessling.net.

I generate it as static HTML with Hugo.
My homepage is at https://jlelse.dev/ and my blog at https://jlelse.blog/

Both are generated with Hugo (https://gohugo.io/).