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Heh, reminds me of this garbage:

https://www.vintag.es/2018/11/honeywell-kitchen-computer.htm...

"It was advertised as a machine for storing recipes and helping housewives in their daily domestic tasks. However, reading and introducing a recipe was a difficult if not impossible task as the computer had no display and no keyboard. It required a two-week course in order to learn how to use the machine."
Is lack of sunlight an issue in Swiss ? I believe they have very short days during winter ?
I wouldn't worry about that last point too much. We've already put so much extra carbon into the atmosphere that even with large scale decarbonization we won't make a dent in the problem in our lifetime.
> Compressors have an interface where you specify desired file size and the program tries to produce a file of that size.

That’s not really the case for JPEG XL, where the main parameter of the reference encoder is in fact a target quality. There is a setting to target a certain file size, but it just runs a search on the quality setting to use.
My problem with the complains of the Vaporfly is that we're not talking a few extra million F1 dollars just to stay competitive, or a $10K bicycle, or even a $500 tennis racket. Vaporflys are $250. In the world of competitive anything, that's cheap, and only about twice the price of regular racing flats. Add a $50 pair of shorts and a shirt, hey, the only reason you're not setting world records is because you suck, not because of your equipment.

So if the shoes make a difference, tear up that Adidas contract and go run for Nike. Or go tell your current shoe sponsor to get off their arse and make a competitive shoe.
If you're serious about it, I'd look for a voice coach. It's likely easier to find someone who trains singers than who focuses only on speaking. That is fine. Vocal technique is largely the same.

Additionally, I'd look into something like Toastmasters. This will give you a great place to practice outside of formal lessons with a voice coach.

Being comfortable to listen to is about both your vocal technique - the mechanics of how you form sound - and about your content and delivery.
I predict that in 5-10 years from now, Microsoft will return to its roots as a general-software company producing apps that run on multiple operating systems. Its main cash-cow however, will be software running on Linux.
The article mentions a 115 year span of time.
I use a Scarlett 2i2. I prefer it over the Solo because the input jack supports XLR and TRS (the 2i2 has a combo port where the Solo is only XLR). For vocals or recording yourself with a mic this isn't a big deal because mics use XLR connections but if you ever wanted to screw around with a guitar or another instrument then you'd be using a TRS cable.

Also for podcasters, if you ever end up doing a live show with a guest, having the 2 inputs is nice because then each of you can plug in your own microphone. You can't do that with the Solo.

The Solo is $110 and the 2i2 is $135. Given the above I don't mind spending the extra $25 for the 2i2.

The only downside I've seen with Scarlett's interfaces so far is that the USB connection is very sensitive. Every 6 months or so I have to reconnect it otherwise nothing works. This is with the 2nd generation interface. They just came out with a 3rd generation not too long ago, so maybe that has a more robust USB connection (I haven't tried it). I've had my 2nd gen for a few years and it's still going strong, you just need to be aware of the USB connection.

Overall it's decent. I haven't had any real complaints, other than maybe its pre-amp tends to slightly boost high end frequencies but I don't think it's worth replacing it for that alone. A lot of this stuff comes down to combinations of gear too, not just 1 piece. For example if the pre-amp boots highs and your natural voice is deep, and your mic is pretty neutral then things will sound good in the end. If you have a high pitch voice with boosted highs on your pre-amp and mic then you might sound a little thin.

You could get a shotgun to work in an untreated room, but the problem with shotguns is everything in the $200-500 range sounds pretty bad when you directly compare it to a dynamic mic. I have not experimented first hand with a bunch of shotguns so I wouldn't feel comfortable recommending anything, especially not in the $1,000+ to $2,000+ range.

I would start with this video from Curtis Judd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7rfwCFjBDg. It's a shotgun showdown from 2020 at various price points.

Curtis is a really knowledge dude when it comes to audio and his channel has a bunch of great comparisons and tips. He has some videos where he compares dynamic mics to shotguns too.
one of the reasons that swimming records have continued to fall is they changed other rules to make swim faster while enacting stricter rules on suites.
There is now a wedge on swimming blocks that allow for faster starts (a little like track starting blocks)
They have also changed the breaststroke turn rule to allow for a dolphin kick.
My idly wondering one day was when in history did the worldwide available compute power (roughly) equal that of my iPhone 11?
They are good, as they try to paint a varied picture of how a complex phenomenon is affecting people's everyday lives. Sometimes you need more than charts to see.
I think things have changed some with using OpenCore now instead of the older system. It does take more initial setup but from what I've heard it's a bit more resilient when it comes to updates.

I'd still be scared of an update completely borking everything though...
I think it really comes down to how well-designed the performance model is. And averaging a handful of survey answers sure as hell doesn't cut it.
I suspect you’re quite right, and the engineers knew what they were doing. But the requirements were crap, alas.
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It's a knife that cuts many ways. Personally I wouldn't take a position there in 2020. Not because of what they're working on--I'd be fine working for a defense contractor--but rather because I don't want to deal with ideological drama on a regular basis. Work is work. If I decide to save the world, I'll do it on my own time with my own earnings, and my employer will be none the wiser.
I mean, they kind of are... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia
Describing the Hudson as drinkable is somewhat ahistorical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution_of_the_Hudson_River

In any event, NYC gets its water from upstate, not locally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_water_supply_sys...
LHM is not slower for iteration (it's faster actually).

LHM indeed pays 2 references per node but they are well worth as it has deterministic ordering/iteration and I have witnessed numerous cases with HashMap that show up in production only due to iteration order (esp after rehashing). The code is broken but the cases did not reproduce during testing...

Now if the two extra references are an issue, consider that HashMap is quite space inefficient with having a dedicated node per each entry - that's the main price. The (simple) node memory footprint is 36bytes on heaps less than 32GB, i.e. compact pointers. The extra references add another 8 bytes for having an insert or access order.

If the goal is getting a compact low memory footprint, HashMap is not fit for purpose. Overall it's the jack of all trades and even got reworked (java8) to support tri-based collision resolution for keys that implement Comparable.

Couple years back I wrote CompactHashMap (under CC0) that has an average cost of 10bytes per entry and it's extremely compact for small sizes with having only 2 fields on its right own, so even small/empty maps are tiny. In microbenchmarks (same used in openjdk) it handily (2x) beats java.util.HashMap on "Traverse key or value", get/put have similar performance, and "Search Absent" is worse.

The point is: LHM should be the go-to hashmap for java as being node based hashmap is justified (unlike java.util.HashMap)
Wow, people can be spectacularly ignorant of even simpler things like probability:

1) Scientists predicting the probability of an earthquake in a region that just had one. "If it doesn't occur, they'll say it was only a probability, and if it does, they'll claim they predicted it! Stop wasting taxpayer's money on this nonsense!"

2) "My mother chain smoked all her life and she's in her 90's. So smoking doesn't cause cancer."
>An overwhelming majority of vulnerabilities if not actively pursued and discovered would never be known so as to be exploited other than in extreme cases.

There are two ways I can read it, the first being almost a tautology (if no one pursues it, then it won't likely be found by accident), and the second (if white-hats don't pursue it, then it won't be found by black-hats either) sounds very unreasonable to me. The black market for zero-days is quite active, with prices for a single vulnerability in the millions [0,1]. So I'd appreciate if you can provide any citation that the "overwhelming majority" of security researchers are white hats. I'd find that to be as surprising as a statement that an overwhelming majority of people breaking into houses are locksmiths.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_for_zero-day_exploits
[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/01/zerod...
Based on a comment buried in the source, this library seems to be heavily based on work by Kai Chang:

http://bl.ocks.org/syntagmatic/3150059

It’s a shame Kai isn’t created in the README, LICENSE, or announcement.
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It isn't that simple. The public high school I went to is one of the best in the country and was largely comprised of middle class and upper middle class families. The very wealthy largely sent their kids to nearby private schools. The parents of the children at my school were largely professionals / tradesmen / small business owners, worked incredibly hard to get access to the school district (I know mine certainly did), and placed a large priority on education. This resulted in a culture of parental involvement in the schools / their childrens' education and a competitive academic spirit which kept standards high. High property taxes also produced a funding model where at least 95+% of funding was coming from local taxes, local bonds, and communal fund raising by engaged parents. Local people supporting their community schools because they cared. These were being levied against regular homes as well as large homes.

There were attempts made to bus in people from outside but they were fought tooth and nail by families across the income spectrum in the district because the perception was that it was unfair that they had to work extremely hard to get access to these resources but other people could simply show up and get it for free.
I was always torn about the implications of Vaporflys. I can respect the fact that they skew the competition, but how is this any different than cycling? Pay a ton of money to reduce drag coefficient, moment of angular inertia, and weight to maximize energy return. The article even points out similarities in midsole thickness, ZoomX foam, and the Carbon fiber plate with other previous shoes that were completely legal with the IAAF.
I love my Vaporflys and I run noticeably faster in them, but I think the most underrated thing about them is that they're way softer on the joints, and greatly improve running stability. They have the potential to make running safer and more accessible. Personally, I'd rather see more people maintaining and improving their fitness than some legacy goal post.
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Anyone want to do the math on how much such a project would cost (with perhaps a projection in 10/20 years)?
Instead of dystopian, I'm surprised they're not calling them stagnant water communities/cities.

Cities like Detroit and other areas past their prime did not devolve into madmax scenes, but instead are left with a bunch of toxic funk floating in a cesspool.

Definitely not somewhere you'd want to settle down.
Most databases will use all the cores you can throw at it :-)

Not out of the ordinary to see a SQL Server query using 20+ cores for a query with a parallelized plan
I think people would prefer to know about it and be in charge of the decision.

Unlike a car, a phone doesn’t pose a threat to my safety so I’d like to at least turn the throttling on/off according to my needs - given that Apple provides accurate information about the implications.

In retrospect throttling might look like a good idea, but back then it was outright bizarre.

Some people were already suspecting that older models don’t get along with newer software, but there was no certainty.

I remember I avoided some iOS updates without being sure it’s helping my phone - all until Whatsapp (or some other critical app) stopped working and I had to upgrade.
17 light hours away. I wonder whether they will be able to communicate with them when they get to one light day away.
Fair enough.

>whether the Saturn V architecture has survived

We understand very well the basic approach that was taken to land on the moon and the hardware we used to do so. We'd have to re-engineer a lot of things that aren't just off-the-shelf to do it again. But we could do so pretty quickly if there were any compelling reason to do so.

As I understand it, current technologies that could include moon landing are being worked on in the broader context of going to Mars.
Most projects use setuptools for package management, which ensures that the environment is as expected.
I think AWS not having automatic hostnames for ASG instances is a way to lure you into Lambda's, at least that's how I got hooked.
Is there any level or consistency of anecdotal evidence that you would find acceptable?
(I know you know this, as one of the principals; this is for other readers.)

And importantly, that 32-bit checksum is a pretty good checksum; a truncated XXH64(): https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8478#section-3 That's about as high-quality as you can expect from 32 bits. It's not, say, Fletcher-32.
Hacker News is not a "tech forum"; please see the first paragraph of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
This is a pretty sweet Terraform module that I will personally be testing out soon.

I was curious what they are using for the Lambda function, and it turns out is a framework-less Python script[0].

One thing I'm not clear on yet is if using this will imply one such lambda for every autoscaling group or not.

[0] https://github.com/meltwater/terraform-aws-asg-dns-handler/b...
Our company is pretty small (We only have 5 developers) and judging by the lack of pricing info (you can only request a demo) - I'm guessing it's too expensive for us haha.

But thanks for the suggestion!
She does us a great public service, by making the abominations of our time into objects of humor, and thereby bearable to look upon.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/75512.Cintra_Wilson
You can solve a lot of social problems with software though. For example, simply extending an existing interface to one that assists users in matching their subjective taste to others' subjective taste. Goodreads was well known for this. (Edit: I see the cookbook already has at least one subjective-qualitative enhancement in the form of the Featured Recipes list)

Also we can be pretty critical here on HN but I see no reason why Wikibooks must be judged without reference to its potential--not only is it already helpful to some, for various reasons all along the long tail, but perhaps it's just a few tweaks away from even greater functionality. Critiques too often impart the idea that the current experience is lacking _and therefore_ needs complete replacement by e.g. "a website that..." when the existing efforts at least show potential in terms of humans being willing to work together productively toward building a generous resource. That's really something.
> I don't understand. Are those imperial gallons, US gallons, US dry gallons, or Irish gallons, which are all different sizes?

Imperial and US gallons would both make sense, and you're right it's ambiguous.

Dry gallons would not make sense, since this is a liquid quantity, and Irish gallons are long obsolete.
Still there. Collaboration is ongoing.
It costs about $100/hour to run a bus. A small bus only saves a small amount from that cost. If there is any possibly of filling the small bus you should always run the larger bus. If money is not infinite you will prefer to run a larger bus less often (though the more often you run the bus the better up to 5 minute headway)
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Instead of compiling assets externally, you could do it in a multi stage docker build.
Oh man. I can't unsee this now.

Why is the text so close to the edge of the screen? It's the same feeling when the gravy is about to touch my dessert.
Koch believes “that consciousness is a fundamental, elementary property of living matter.”

Consciousness is “magic” then.

Even if we build machines to mimic a real brain, “it’ll be like a golem stumbling about,” he writes: adept at the Turing Test perhaps, but a zombie.

This guy created a whole moat of unfalsifiability around his views.
My point is to not judge an entity's power by what would happen if they didn't exist, but what happens because they exist. Google doesn't act the way it does because there's a universal law dictating a Google-like entity must exist and must act that way. Google is made of people, and all of its actions can be traced to one or more of the people in Google.
I hear solar panels can give a pretty solid amount of power.
They almost certainly mean 802.11g or n, not the archaic a. FreeBSD has generally good 802.11n support. It lacks 802.11ac.

Yes, if you absolutely need 802.11ac wifi in particular, FreeBSD isn't a great choice. But many modern 802.11n NICs (and 802.11ac NICs, in 802.11n mode) "just work" out of the box, including the 'iwm' devices mentioned in the article, on more recent versions of FreeBSD.

FreeBSD 12.0 dates to 2018 — this is like installing Fedora 29 in 2020.
> over 400 distinct pieces, each with their own rules for movement

I doubt it'd exist. It's hard to place 400 pieces on board, hard to remember 400 different movement patterns, it takes forever to setup the game.

Shogi is asian game with 15 types of pieces.
This is so cool, and well done. Thank you :)
You misunderstood. If you privately resell your Tesla, the purchased licensed software stays with the car. This car was sold and priced by Tesla s not having autopilot. Consequentely, they removed it, when they discovered, it was still activated. But a car purchased with the autopilot option, keeps it.
According to reference.com, “cocktail casual” is not formally defined: “Traditional cocktail attire usually consists of knee length dresses for women, dark suits with a tie for men and fancy shoes for both. Cocktail casual, however, [...] has not yet been concretely defined. It means different things to different people, so partygoers who know the host well should feel free to ask for more specific instructions.”

Knee-length dresses (i.e. “short dresses”) seem to reasonably fall under the definition of “cocktail casual”. For example: https://www.clbxg.com/Cocktail-Casual/
Objects and messages good, classes and inheritance mostly bad.

Except maybe for modelling/simulating concrete classes of objects (ie, as in Simula, the language).

Proper multiple dispatch (a la common lisp CLOS) seems rare - I'm guessing java/c++ seemed like a sane trade-off for some type safety - but they probably should've stuck to self/smalltalk (for Java) or looked to standard ml/common lisp (c++).

I still don't understand why Javascript got classes, rather than some paint on the prototype system.
I usually stick in some css like:

body {
max-width: 45em;
}

Viewport size isn't a great clue to the ideal font size: someone can have a large monitor that they're close to, or a small one that they're father from.
> If one wants to send their kids to a good school you HAVE to buy a single family home in that school district.

Not sure where you are located, but my experience in California is that renting an apartment is sufficient. Granted, there may be places that have very few apartments, but you can still rent a home/townhome.

Also, in some areas (I grew up in Sacramento), you can "open enroll" into magnet schools that are out of your area. I went to the top school in Sacramento despite living outside the local area.
And take it to the next level -- influx of unmarried men into workforce lowers wages for heads of families, so ban those too.
And Kai credits previous work from Jason Davies[0] and Mike Bostock[1]. Mike Bostock is the creator of D3.js and ObservableHQ.

[0] https://bl.ocks.org/jasondavies/1341281

[1] https://observablehq.com/@d3/parallel-coordinates

Edit: Just saw your name. Holy shit, it's Mike Bostock.

On a side tangent, I find it crazy that the New York Times for a long period had yourself, Jeremy Ashkenas, and Rich Harris all on staff. What an all-star team.
Wow, fantastic answer and retort. You've sold me. By golly I'm going to convert my whole savings to bitcoin now..
I think we'll see some citizens become more nationalist, while the number of people who are either stateless or consider themselves only loosely attached to a state grows dramatically. At the same time non-state organizations (multinational corporations, drug cartels, city-states, religious fundamentalists) will grow in power to fill the void left by the shrunken state, taking over many of the functions of the state like physical security, dispute resolution, taxation, infrastructure, etc.

This is already happening as well: while the hinterlands of Britain voted for Brexit, it was widely unpopular in London, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and other regions, and may lead to the breakup of the UK. I could easily see a future where cities declare their independence and then organize a loose global confederation of free-trade agreements and mutual assistance pacts, leaving behind rump states ruling over the rural areas of what used to be their country. Then add in private corporations (incubated within the cities) to provide physical security for travelers and migrants who pay for the service.
Growing live performance isn't great news; it's likely driven by the fact that buffet streaming is murder for artist capture of revenue from recordings. Live performing is one of the remaining options. And it doesn't scale.
Hi! Postgres.ai founder here.

This is requested quite often – for example, if we copy the database from production, sometimes it's needed to remove all personal data not to break regulations.

It is possible in Database Lab, but it's not a very user-friendly feature yet. Briefly, the process is as follows.

The "sync" Postgres instance is configured to be a production replica (better using WAL shipping from the WAL archive). Then, periodically, a new snapshot is created, currently it's done using this Bash script: https://gitlab.com/postgres-ai/database-lab/-/blob/master/sc.... (We are going to make it a part of the database-lab server in the upcoming releases).

Here https://gitlab.com/postgres-ai/database-lab/-/blob/master/sc... you can place any data transformations, so the final snapshot that will be used for thin cloning has adjusted data sets. For example, all personal data is removed or obfuscated.

Of course, if you do this, you need to keep in mind that physically, you'll have a different database. It may affect some kinds of testing (for example, troubleshooting bloat issues or some cases of index performance degradation). There are various choices to be made here. If interested, we'll be happy to help, please join our community Slack which is mentioned in the docs and README.