skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The toilet uncomfortably low to the ground.

In many parts of the world you squat on the ground, which actually better for you than sitting. Most toilets in the last 30 years are taller to accommodate ADA requirements and you can get even taller ones for a slight cost.

> The sink that splashes

I've really only experienced that in those awful flat bottom or angular sinks. The traditional hemisphere or egg shaped sinks don't splash.

> you have to spend 40 seconds every time to get the water temperature right.

I'm assuming you're talking about showering? Most American bathrooms are not located near the hot water heater and the water in the pipes between the spigot and the heater generally cools because it's not well insulated. As such, most Americans don't hop in the shower immediately when they turn it on but instead let it warm up for a minute or two.

> The cabinet that's 2 inches deep and things fall out each time its opened.

Are you talking about medicine cabinets? Sounds like the one you used wasn't pitched properly. There's two screws inside you can remove on the inside walls to loosen it, you can then shim the bottom edge and replace the screws. This will pitch the cabinet back so things fall to the back and not out the front.

Generally medicine cabinets fell out of fashion as the size of bathrooms grew and are usually only found in pre80s homes. Fun fact, most of them have a slot in the back to let you dispose of straight razors and if you remove them from the wall you'll find a stack of rust old razors in the wall cavity.

> The mirror that fogs up.

Hmm... so fancy heated mirror that will fail or a bottle of defogger you apply once or twice a year? * Better yet just turn the ventilation fan on before you start your shower.

> The slippery tub.

The only time I've ever fallen in a shower was in Italy in one of those shower coffins. So... yeah that's not a problem unique to America.

> The moldy curtain.

You know you can change those right? And if you spend more than $2 you can buy one that's mold resistant?

> Noisy flush.

That sounds like those jet flush toilets used in commercial property, most residential toilets are gravity flush tanks like their European counterparts.

> Soap gunk by the sink.

I'm guessing by this and your mold curtain comment that you're not one to clean your bathroom?

> Plumbing that leaks and clogs under normal use.

That's not normal.
OK, that makes it even worse then. The postmortem linked above definitely says:

> We managed to restore the data and bring services back online the morning of January 13.

Is that wrong? It's bad to lose data, it's even worse to tell people you didn't lose data in one place when you did, and tell them you did lose data in another.
I think it depends on how you learn.

I like to get a "lay of the land" before I commit to a new lang so I read Dave Thomas' book on it while playing around with the language on small personal projects (same way I handled Ruby, read the Pickaxe book and did a few language experiments on my own). But YMMV.

I will say this- once you read the book it becomes ENTIRELY obvious to you who has not, when they ask certain questions, like "what is a sigil?"
I would likewise like to know the basis behind these claims. There have been countless instances when I've been reviewing a PR and found changes completely unrelated to the task at hand (user story or bug). One commit often has a scattering of changes that get lumped into one git add * git commit. In a disciplined world full of mindful developers, I could see this being a thing. But I have little faith this could be sustained in a majority of dev shops.

I'm not trying to be negative Nancy but realistic Ron.
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If you’ve every dealt with a stomach virus going through a family at the same time you’d never question the number of bathrooms in a home.
Burnout at Work and Possible Interventions
Hi all,

As my previous post explained burnout and how it is personally affecting my family

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22051300

I decided to create a newsletter for entrepreneurs who may be experiencing the same feelings or emotions. Further to this, I wanted to expand the subject matter into other areas such as ideation, growth, well-being, mindfulness and more. Writing about the previous burnout experience was therapeutic, and so I wanted to share some valuable insights that can help others as well.

Optionally, if you would like to receive such articles in a newsletter format you can do so by subbing here, but if not then no worries.

https://thefoundingentrepreneur.crd.co/

(little snippet here) #001 / January 24, 2020

The Founding Entrepreneur

Burnout at Work and Possible Interventions

To give a little context about my personal experiences in relation to burnout affecting my family read this post I shared in Hacker News This post explains why I wanted to create this newsletter in conjunction with topics focusing on entrepreneurship subject matter.

Now with that out of the way, let's dive into some content.

In order to understand burnout which may seem obvious to some, I wanted to provide a definition providing clarity. Burnout (at work) is defined as the psychological long-term exhaustion at work due to three main categories.

- The feeling of cynicism and detachment from the job

- Sense of ineffectiveness and lack of accomplishment

- Overwhelming exhaustion

Often we begin our careers with energy, excitement, and enthusiasm but over periods of time, these feelings tend to diminish… Why?

In this newsletter the topics I will be covering include the following;

- Burnout and how it is linked to health

- Entrepreneurs and Burnout

- Strategies to help combat burnout

️ How is burnout linked to our health?

Burnout has various determinants for people who experience it.
This is the messaged PR “postmortem”. It’s basically a shoulder shrug emoji and takes zero responsibility for the incident.

They also failed to address their abysmal responses on Twitter that essentially belittled and poked fun at the affected users.

E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22002258
Awesome! Thanks for the tip. I didn't knew that Joplin has an API. Currently I am parsing the yaml files directly. Using the API could be an alternative, especially when I want to re-enable the encryption.
Why do you want to steal money from wealthy people through taxes? Isn't the problem poor people and shouldn't solutions aim to get them to create wealth?
"Installation of Qt binaries will require a Qt Account"

Farewell, Qt.
Jaime while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher.
If SP drops one week whats the chance it'll move and by how much next?
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The USB spec limits the amount of power a single device can draw from its host. For a USB hub, this means that the downstream devices will have to split a single device's worth of power allowance between them. So to support multiple power hungry devices, many existing USB hubs offer additional external power supplies.

In my case, I have two midi controllers and an external audio interface that all want their full share of power. The audio interface refuses to run without it.

So I'm wondering if there's a hub that is "externally powered" via the host's PD power supply.

There are plenty of USB C hubs that can draw additional power from a downstream PD source. But I want something that can draw additional power from the host even if it's a laptop running on battery.

(Power Delivery is an additional spec that can run over USB C, but its existence is independent of and doesn't change the USB spec's power limitations for a single device)
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We (the build2 project) use it in our CI infrastructure for VM storage. For every build we make a snapshot of a VM, boot it, build, drop the snapshot, repeat. So we are talking about making/dropping snapshots every couple of minutes 24x7 for months without a reboot. We haven't had a single issue.
They used to have a great reputation in France about 20 to 15 years ago. It went downhill since, the company got sold and they started to sell expensive and slow cloud services, a bit like Amazon with less success.
The half-flush simply empties the bowl and refills it, the full-flush crashes a full tank of water on top of it and flushes it all (which is how American toilets typically flush).
This price includes the use of the full Qt for Device Creation product, but not any distribution licenses – these need to be agreed separately. It also includes only installation support, whereas a regular commercial license comes with full support.

What do they mean, no distribution licenses? For 500/year I can develop but not sell? :)
I do, but what I noticed is that I rarely reopen them, so I use a random bookmark opener to open a random bookmarked item everyday.
There's a reason why almost everyone pursuing autonomous driving uses lidar despite the high costs. It's because lidar has extremely good "recall" and "precision" in most driving conditions. In other words, if an object is present on or near the road, lidar will almost certainly detect it (high recall), and it has very rare false positive detections (high precision). Lidar also directly provides distance information. For pure camera based approaches, we've seen huge improvements in recall in the past decade, but unfortunately we still need orders of magnitude reductions in the false negative rate to be good enough for safety critical applications. I think pure computer vision approaches will get there someday, but we first need some fundamental changes in CV algorithms in my opinion. Hopefully with increasing adoption, lidar will get significantly cheaper.
Interesting, I'll check that out. What's always surprising to me is that along with all the hair, there seems to be some grease/black stuff that builds up with the hair. Not sure if that's something other people find.
Ah if only there was another way to connect to the internet with phones
I don't trust people who like their software tools. I can trust some of the people who believe that their usecase justifies the cost of a tool, as long as they can also articulate it's limitations. If someone doesn't understand the environment and problem a tool solves well enough to rattle off a laundry list of good, bad and ugly design decisions, then their baseline analysis doesn't have any utility.

It's a subtle distinction, because once someone is primed that these are the two options, everyone thinks they're in the second category. You have to give someone enough rope and hope they offer up how much they "love" their toys.

I like this article because the container toolset ecosystem needs criticism to evolve. And we don't see enough of it.
Because most cryptos are traded in terms of BTC or ETH, if either of those two go up, virtually all other coins tend to rise as well. I haven't seen altcoins decoupled since 2017.
They changed the license from LGPL to GPL?
The power brick for the newest MacBook Pro delivers 96Ws and it will use all of it at high workloads. I've seen mine drain the battery (slowly) when plugged into the 87W power brick from the last-generation MBPs.
Discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22130874
Are you murdering people in your bathroom?
My Nest Hello (Google's knockoff of the Ring) fits into my home security plan in a few ways.

1. It tells me who is at the door when I'm home and lets me see their face. If it's a good friend I can just tell them to let themselves in, if it's a marketer I can ignore it, etc. This is somewhat just convenience compared to a peephole.

2. It tells me who is at the door when I'm not home. I can let me friends know to come back, if it's a neighbor I can let them know I'll catch up with them later, etc.

3. It lets me keep an eye on packages when I'm traveling. I can ask whoever is house sitting to swing by if there's a buildup of them (which in turn hides that I'm away).

4. It lets me confirm that my pet sitter is indeed swinging by. Sure they could text me every time, but it's easy for people to forget that and it's a hassle for the sitter.

5. When things go wrong, it helps me identify the culprits and circulate those pictures. That may not do much in all circumstances, but at the very least it lets me pass on useful information to my neighbors.
I don't think Bitcoin gold uses the same hash function as Bitcoin
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I think one of the worst parts of this kind of stuff is that paying for the product doesn't mean they stop selling all your data. It just means they make even more money off of you.
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We use the PREEMPT_RT patch set available at:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-sta...

That patch set is slowly being upstreamed into the mainline kernel. We regularly encounter incompatibilities with drivers for the Raspberry Pi SoC and upstream our fixes and feature work as well, e.g.:

https://git.kernel.org/linus/f7da7782aba9

https://git.kernel.org/linus/3c7b30f704b6

I must admit I wasn't aware of LinuxCNC, thanks for the pointer. This would seem to be a really nice use case for Revolution Pi.
Behavior for home screen vs. task switcher is the same. But you do make a good point that state restoration isn't necessarily something that should always be implemented. The user may not necessarily want to go back to exactly where they were when they last used the app 2 days ago.
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Cost of a 51% attack for different cryptocurrencies?
Redhat and SUSE (SLES) are both enterprise environments, so at every level, they have to choose one tech stack to go all-in on (i.e. to train their support staffs on), and then discourage their customers from using the others. (“Deprecating” a component, for such orgs, means that some of their customers are now stuck with it, and they’ll continue to support those customers in their use of it, but they certainly won’t support new customers using it.)

The fact that one enterprise-support provider went all-in on Btrfs, while another didn’t, basically tells you that the choice is pretty arbitrary. If no enterprise-support provider used Btrfs, then I’d be concerned.
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Will this impact Swift for TensorFlow?

https://www.tensorflow.org/swift
The Latin alphabet lost a few Greek letters, but retained "F", which existed in older Greek alphabets but was lost in newer alphabets. Latin changed the pronunciation of a few letters and later added letters, at the end of the alphabet, except for "G" (which replaced an abandoned Greek letter).

Before that, the Greeks took the Phoenician alphabet, which had 22 letters ending in "R", "S" and "T".

The Greeks lost a few Phoenician letters and added new letters after "T".

The Phoenicians inherited the alphabet from other closely related Semitic people (very little is known about those), but the Phoenician language was simplified during time and the Phoenician alphabet lost 5 letters from the older alphabet, which had 27 letters.

I am not aware of an older alphabet whose order is known, besides the old 27-letter ancestor of the Phoenician alphabet.

Most evidence about the letter order of the old 27-letter alphabet comes from the Ugaritic alphabet, which was also derived from it, like the Phoenician, but which replaced the graphic signs used by the older alphabet with cuneiform signs, nevertheless retaining the names and the order of the original 27 letters. The Ugaritic alphabet added 3 new letters after the original 27 letters.

The names of the first 27 letters of the Ugaritic alphabet can be seen in the Unicode database (from 0x10380 to 0x1039A).

Many school exercises with the Ugaritic alphabet have been unearthed, so there is no doubt about the letter order.
I went on a quest a few years ago, thinking it would be good for the industry to standardize on a single next generation filesystem for UNIX. I started with ZFS on linux since that seemed to have the most vocal advocates. That lasted about a half year, until a bug in the code resulted in a completely corrupt disk, and I had to restore 4TB of data over a month from offside backups. That plus the licensing confusion around ZFS has made it impossible for ZFS to be the defacto choice.

I went down the BTRFS path, despite it's dodgy reputation when netgear announced their little embedded NASes, and switched my server over to it. The experience was solid enough that I bought high-end synology and have had zero problems with it.
You can grow and add/remove raid1 devices (mirror vdevs) in ZFS without any significant work or downtime. Shrinking does require a bit more work, but depending on your setup it can be done fairly painlessly with send/recv (and shrinking is usually not something which is a very common administrative operation).
The Romansch/Germany/Italian text would indicate Switzerland rather than Germany or France, though.
Does/will it support an API?
The article answers it, in fact.

Phoenician letters had to have an order, because they were also numbers.

Subsequent alphabets preserved that order.
I find you reply funny but I think you got downvoted because these analogies usually go the other way round: CS thing is described in layman's terms to make it understandable.

Going the other way round seems a bit strange, IMHO.
A Gartner analyst here. AMA.
> Most viruses aren't stealthy

Do you have data?
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At a previous job, I deployed btrfs to production in a system that continuously spins up and shuts down thousands of VMs. A key feature that I was able to leverage to make this easy is seed devices. This btrfs feature works similarly to overlay filesystems.

If I were doing that today, I would do a bake-off of OverlayFS vs. btrfs for this feature. Btrfs has many other compelling features that may make it worth using, although it's always been slower than ext4/xfs so I'd also need to check how it does with modern ultra high performance NVMe drives.

Btrfs never lost our data, although there was a kernel panic in the journal writing code in the Linux 3.2/Ubuntu 12.04 timeframe. The panic would not cause data loss but it did wedge VMs. Since that was fixed, it's had a 100% reliable run in that system, to my knowledge.
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Because a Docker config makes it hard to accidentally wipe your filesystem instead of building a Docker image. Shell scripts make that less difficult (and any solution using shell to do something similar to Docker will have a bespoke layer of in-house code that should be correct but will require maintenance by your team to make sure nobody makes a change that turns it into a filesystem-eater).
Reminds me of this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9UO9tn4MpI

Obviously don't do this. I would be concerned about standing this close as well, radio burns are super nasty.
Ahh, I see, I didn't realize they used more water than a single fill, though now that you mention it it's kind of obvious, since they fill to the brim when they clog.
Not modifications per se, but it doesn't quite do the "normal" setup. Encryption is a mess (you can't export encrypted volumes via NFS), and the caching layer on top of it seems prone to corruption on the SSD (I've had my NVMe mirror cache drop twice over the last year and a half).

I'd like to see them move to full disk encryption rather then their current approach.
Nifty. LinuxCNC runs with various RT patches, but they've more or less standardized on PREEMPT_RT at this point. Seems like a good choice.
"In my area, you perversely have to go to the ultra-luxe range of the market to get a high quality 2-3 bedroom single family home, while 5 bedroom new constructions are a dime a dozen."

Same in the Boston area...you're either getting an older, reasonably sized home, a new-build condo/apartment, or a new-build McMansion / cookie-cutter development. These new-builds are often much larger than millenials want, bigger than boomers need, and too expensive for their blandness.

My guess is homebuilders simply make a better profit on these huge homes...for now...while the market is upheld...
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That's a great setup!
Would you mind sharing your scripts and configurations?
My Dad taught us, around the table after dinner.
i wonder if this will cause a fork.
I think it's more complicated than that. You'd need enough computing resources to "beat" half of the Bitcoin network's current hashrate, which is absolutely massive compared to BTG's.

Oops: I see what you mean though. Because there's so many BTC miners, they can easily swap over to BTG to overwhelm the much smaller network.
Won't sudo apt install qtcreator still work? Just use your distro packages.
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I was in a 2 bedroom house with 1 bathroom and three people, including me, until I was 18.

I don't remember it being too bad, probably because only two people in the house had to leave in the mornings, and we left at different times. Also because I didn't know anybody who had more than one bathroom. Our extended neighborhood was all 1940s construction.
Qt has various components under different licences. Some are GPL.
What is lost in this kind of conversations, can be summed at:

You pay NOW or pay LATER.

Some stuff is VERY hard to add later, and will cost much more:

- Security
- Usability
- Cross platform
- Accessibility
- Type safety/Type hinting
- Performance

If you delay too much in pay attention to this stuff, then the cost later will increase so much. And then only a massive refactoring will fix it (or worse, like in one of my projects, a total change of langs and frameworks!)
It does? Unless you've not opened it in like a day, in which case you probably want to start again.
Equihash is not SHA-256.
That's not how it works. If you want me to trust you with decision making, I need to know who you are. If you are selling me a CRM software, may be I don't need to know who you are. Your business model will depend heavily on reputation and results for previous clients.
The "median family" is wildly different today than it was 60 years ago. A skyrocketing percent of households are single individuals with a single income and no child expenses.

https://ourworldindata.org/living-alone
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Correct, it uses equihash [1].

[1] https://bitcoingold.org/equihash-btg/
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In an article about writing systems, you could, perhaps, have assumed the author was talking about written English.

Which is, indeed, quite a bit more challenging than most languages written with a Latin script.
Same here, though it helped a lot that we were in the middle of nowhere and going outside was very much an option when someone was on the toilet.

Heck, I shared a house with 8 people in college that only had one bathroom... That was more of a challenge, but it was rare that we were all there at the same time, so it mostly worked.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001822
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I don't disagree that maintainer-goals and practices make me trust ZFS more. They do. But there have been bugs. Last major one I remember in the core code is this one:

https://blog.lastinfirstout.net/2010/04/bit-by-bug-data-loss...

But there was a Linux-specific data loss bug with ZFS in 2018:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/7401

Of course you should use what you like. And I agree that ZFS is safer. But again, I don't know of any file system that can say it has "been stable from the beginning", if stable means no data loss.