skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another Canadian who knows next to nothing of how or why its country exists. Also the spoils of war.

Only difference is... in the end it wasn’t worth continuing to fight for. What resources?

Canadians like to act like morally superior peaceful “nice guys” but we will see what happens when Toronto gets invaded.

Meanwhile, much like Switzerland, they enjoy a certain degree of immunity from world affairs and, much like England, like to talk a lot. But at least the UK has earned its stripes and protects it’s island and sticks its nose into things here and there. After all, they do have two aircraft carrier groups and those aren’t for self-defense but forward assault.

Canada meanwhile makes syrup. It’s delicious and it’s a nice place to live. But it would be so much nicer if it weren’t full of self-righteous Canadians. Imagine a Canada that wasn’t a neighbor to the USA but instead was still a territory of European countries and a neighbor to Mexico. Things would be very different indeed.

P.S. Don’t give me standard rhetoric about Canada being an ally and helping a bit in the Gulf Wars. Every contribution is important. Too bad that Canadians don’t thank the Patriots who fought in the French & Indian War and who later rebuked the greatest military force in the world back to London - twice. Else there would be no Canada as it presently exists. And no luxury to spin yarns about spending less on the military. Easy for you to say when you have the USA as your neighbor. Or as Han said to Leia, “Perhaps you’d like it back in your cell, your highness?”
As if anybody is going to remember that.
Dang, I know someone with 400TB's of storage in their basement. Kinda crazy when you think about the fact that those super exaggerated figures from classic sci-fi are attainable with some effort nowadays.
Gonna fire off a kickstarter here in about a week and wanted to collect some followers as far ahead as possible! Promo is definitely not my jam! You're right, that page is totally worthless.

Anyway, it's super simple. I just wanted a type-c version of what was already out there, and maybe for it to sound 'reasonable' at a sub $30 price point. It is only 16-bit 48kHz, but does a great job at dialing in tone, recording a quick riff, etc. Bottom line, it's about -90db noise floor and 80db SNR.

Thanks
> Wikipedia is still going with black body radiation as the source of the yellow color of fire.

Wow. The flame section is pretty terrible and most claims aren't cited (I'm pretty sure many of them are also wrong, which hopefully makes citations more difficult to come by).

GP's point about heating metal to an equivalent temperature (and thus color) is correct AFAIK. Interestingly enough Wikipedia actually has an annotated experimental spectrum of a blue flame elsewhere. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spectrum_of_blue_flame.pn...)

> Maybe I should find better sources, although normal wikipedia is great for physics.

It's indispensable as a time saving overview and index to primary sources. As with any encyclopedia (any non-expert body of text really) you can't trust every last detail to be correct.
Yeah, deoxygenated blue blood is a famously common misconception. That horrible and pervasive graphic, reinforced by veins looking blue through skin. Science education content fails both teachers and students, far worse than is often appreciated. I've wondered if it might be pedagogically useful to tell students that, or not.

I wish I had a better friction talk or paper for you. I don't recall seeing that video, but the version of the talk I saw, I recall as benefiting from the audience discussion. Sorry, it's what I had at hand. At some point, perhaps already, we'll get a nice survey paper, which can then be repackaged for teachers and students.

Wikipedia seems to not do well with widespread misconceptions. Perhaps if it had an additional layer of Backstory/WritersNotebook, in addition to Article and Talk. Or at least a similar convention on using Talk. As it its, past talk gets buried, and people come along and tweak things to better match their misconceptions, or some buggy source, so correctness isn't stable.

The google snippet of [1] looks hopeful... but isn't available on sci-hub - perhaps email the author? [2] is eh. I didn't quickly find nice researchy sources. For soot details (eg, I remember it as C-C bonds, but maybe not), there's ongoing work on using soot luminescence as a light source, which might well have good details buried somewhere, but I didn't quickly find them.

If anyone finds anything nice, I too would be interested.

[1] https://www.osa-opn.org/home/articles/volume_27/june_2016/de...
[2] https://www.chemistryviews.org/details/ezine/1393371/Chemist...
Feds may target Google's Chrome browser for breakup
Milliwatts? Rubbish. Kids have been playing rock and roll through AC15s or 22W Deluxe Reverbs (or louder!) in garages and basements for decades. A 5W Champ or similar certainly can get loud but is fine for bedroom or apartment use, at least during daytime hours.

As a teenager I played a Hot Rod Deluxe (40W!) in my parents' basement with no real complaints.
Very well worth the read, a summary can't do justice to the author's work.
Oh, now I get it, and thanks for the email, I'll respond here so it's available to everyone, if anyone else is interested.

To answer your questions, no, we specifically did not ask questions in a survey style like you're suggesting. No "what are the last 10 places on the web", or anything of the sort.

I've taken a very conversational approach, so there is nothing specifically structured there. I knew I was trying to create a customer persona, and there are a few specific questions I knew I wanted answers to, but not a survey, a conversation.

I'll lead the conversation along the lines of "what have you tried to help you sleep", then based on that "how did you hear about that", "how did you decide what eye mask to buy", "I haven't heard of that solution before, where did you find it?", "who do you talk to about your sleep issues, why them, do they have sleep trouble as well?"

I was looking to understand the customer, not specifically looking for a channel, but in those discussions we found some very surprising consistencies which made us go...what?...that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard! but then...yeah, it's a thing I guess :)

I see a few issues with the "What sleep related sites..." questions, which I think many people would likely ask.

1) If you're in the market, you should know those sites without them telling you. So you're kinda wasting your time and theirs. Specific to sleep, most people don't even speak to their doctors about sleep, so their isn't a "place they go", it's more a "what do you do", and then pulling on that string.

2) Competitors are likely at any site related to your community, so you're just adding to the noise (same as being the noise in a facebook advertisement, etc).

I don't know what you mean about a "gamified experience", your customers are people, treat them that way. I don't think you need 1000 answers. Speak to a few people a day, and in a few months you've got more than 100 people, and you should be able to spot the necessary threads.
Actually, what I was doing was describing a number of rights that I—as a cis-het white man—already possess, and that others have not been granted, and are asking to share, following in the article's quote of “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”. But you've done a good job describing why dialog on these topics is difficult, since people such as yourselves consider that "elevating [my] philosophy of gender and sexuality over other peoples'". We can talk all day about property rights, but I can't explain to you why you need to care about other people, and without you caring about others, there's no possibility for useful dialog.
It sounds like it didn’t load right. That being said, it is really minimal: a hero header/title, hook, and a call to action at the bottom(Typeform, 2 Q’s).

I appreciate you taking the time to check it out.
Disclaimer: Sorry I will not br giving you templates because I don't have any.

> I obsess over making good estimates.

Be careful with this mindset. Estimates are not available at all times, especially when involving complex product.

If the engineer is not comfortable giving estimates for a certain complex deliverable, give them "task" time-boxed to research for estimates.

If the engineer is TOO comfortable making estimates, make sure you have a senior around to help you assess the situation.

> Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person obsessing over it

I must assert that it's actually more important to care about customer satisfaction than estimates. If your customer trust you, they trust your estimation. With their trust, you can add reasonable buffer to partially nullify the importance of accurate estimates. And by customer, I mean all those the actual product customer, the upper-management, and THE TEAM. I know PM's tasks are not easy tasks.

Now if you feel you are the only person obsessing about CUSTOMER SATISFACTION. I think you will need to inquire if those people don't care, or don't have a bandwidth to care. If it's the former, then it's bad. If it's the latter, you will need to ask how you can make bandwidth for it.

> tendency to underestimate

If you haven't, read the mythical man month. It's not just about the mythical man-month really. It has other useful stuffs.

References:
I'm a lead engineer, my GF is a producer, we exchange ideas alot. (fortunately we are not in the same team)
I think OP is talking about the fact that it is possible to represent and transmit sound via an electromagnetic medium and that therefore this limit is not a limit on sound information (which is nothing but generic information that can be transmitted at the speed of light) but rather a limit on sound as it occurs physically (in the way that you've described).
I have that exact trackball mouse and haven't had a single issue with Manjaro 20+. The nice thing about the usage of it with linux is it natively knows LMB & RMB is MMB. In windows you need logitechs software to get it to work.

I've since become an ambidextrous mouse user. Rollerball for left, traditional for right.
Looks like SuperMemo is windows only which is a deal-breaker for me.
I have a Chevy truck that does this. Purchased and used in California. I think it's just a subtle mismatch between the gas port and the overly complicated vapor reclamation devices that are on California gas pumps.
normally i don't get a mock or an api until after the deadline.
I use the CloudNine split ergo mechanical keyboard. It is nearly identical to the Microsoft Ergo 4000. I lost no typing speed, unlike when I tried the ergodox ez.
Anecdotally, that's how my team found out one of our co-workers does some Twitch streaming. He has a really good mic, camera and a 3-point light setup.
Saury fishing is seeing historic low catch this season, price is shooting up to $60 in extreme cases from usual $1/fish. They’ll be gone much earlier than those cute whales and dolphins but there’s nothing meaningful going on

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/08/b67d07c2d081-japa...
Investment quant, usually. If a person wants to truly maximize dollar per hour.
Ultimately, this is a lampoon of people who think they are better than some others.

Guess what, bigots! You're all just so much more meat, and not fit for galactic society.
Instantaneous deploy any JS function
Hi there, I'm working in a serverless solution for my startup (https://abstra.app) where you can deploy functions with just a command.

We create this experimental feature to understand what is the best experience for an developer shipping MVP APIs

I would love to hear more about your thoughts about this!
> The fundamental paradigm of OO (object-identity, behavior-based) is not compatible with “reasonability”, and so it will be hard to retrofit existing OO languages to add this quality.

This is false, I knew this was false even without reading what he meant by "reasonability" and, upon reading what he meant, I confirmed that it is, indeed, false.

Something that I too found odd is the separation between "functional" and... "Mainstream". That got me confused, LISP is over sixty years old and anybody with more than a passing education in computer science knows about it; there are few languages more mainstream than LISP.

I just don't understand this flamewar; terrible code in Clojure is no easier to read than terrible code in Python. Conversely, good code in either language is no easier to reason about than good code in the other.
I remember buying one of those in 2000. It was even USB. A few years later someone gave me another eyeball Logitech without the stand and I just put it on a soda bottle filled with water with a bolt and wing nut through the cap (poor man's tripod). Comparing it to my old one, man was that a huge jump in quality and framerate in just 6 years.

I used it to make this fun little tool:

https://rearviewmirror.cc
I'm a Linux noob, and I was under the impression that Linux was written in C, and this could be compiled for any architecture, given a compiler with support for it. This really shakes my faith in Linux, if architectures, and even individual CPUs, need to be special-cased in the codebase.

Just kidding. I think I know what's going on here, and it's actually worse than that. Big company (IBM) pushing for tighter integration with their new chips (POWER10), which results in the kernel maintainers having to drop support for their old chip. Why they let a big company bully them like that is beyond me, but I guess something something IBM RedHat Kernel maintainer salaries something. :)
> especially the parallels for me as the music producer who found the first popular white girl rapper: "Kreayshawn" and produced her first few tracks ("Bumpin Bumpin", "Gucci Gucci", etc)..

Wait... you produced those early Kreayshawn joints? HN is a wild place hah.

> I would really have liked more perspective in the story from the music producers POV

This is pretty much how I feel about every piece of media on music/artists/bands/etc. Song Exploder is one of the few that puts that process & the accompanying story front and center. It makes the content far more interesting IMO.
Nothing says science needs to progress linearly. Also, sometimes you gotta make the public think lame stuff is magic in an ELI5 way to get them to have a positive opinion on it so that when the government funds these things, people aren't up in arms that millions are spent on that as opposed to lowering their property taxes.

Like Tommy Lee Jones said in Men in Black: "A person is smart; people are dumb panicky animals."
I think they're good. Privacy is a concern if the data can be used against humanity in some way, e.g. discrimination, identifying mental issues with someone, tracking political movement. There's a slippery slope argument with giving the gov data. But as it is, Google Maps knows where I've been and I trust the gov to handle my data better than Google would.

But in this situation, the data is being used for a lot of good, i.e. keeping people safe, so they're on the ethical level of CCTVs and dashcams.
The parser was updated which brings the ability to use new (stage 4) ES syntax without having to transpile:

- Nullish coalescing

- Optional chaining

- Numeric separators

- Logical assignment operators

I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned in the notes -- I guess everyone is transpiling for production anyway, but it's still nice not having to do so in development.

Now if only they had a way to activate support for stage 3 features (https://github.com/acornjs/acorn-stage3) so all the class field stuff could be added to that list (modern browsers have already supported it to varying degrees for a while now).
I actually imagined the iSight as soon as I read 'classic webcam'.

The only other 'classic' I can think of is the Logitech QuickCam Express.
My setup for simple to somewhat complex web apps is to download a minified version of Preact and htm and just import it as ES6 modules. The builds from unpkg work just fine although it seems you can't use the hooks extension since it has an unpkg URL hard-coded. I haven't looked into building Preact myself.
Webpack itself is quite low level. `react-native init` or `create-react-app` gives you the ready to use developing environment and updating that is usually a breeze.
> "'Gucci Gucci' is completely traumatizing. When that song comes on, it makes my ears feel like they're bleeding," Zolot said, explaining that the track itself has had a big negative impact on her. "Like, it makes me feel like I'm gonna die. It gives me a panic attack hearing that song."

> Part of it has been the pressure of trying to make another hit "as big as 'Gucci Gucci'" in subsequent years. However, the bigger issue that's continued to goad her is the fact that she receives no royalties and is still in debt to Sony for $800,000 for it — something she addressed in a string of tweets asking people to stop buying and streaming the track.

Maybe, just maybe, thinking of vocal artists as just instruments in an overall track is a mistake?

It's cool and all that you "found" her but it doesn't sound like she was very happy with how things turned out. Having someone else in the studio who didn't think she was just an "instrument" might have been nice.

Just saying.
I feel like this is the other way around. 95% of what I hear about California water shortage stuff has been from people outside of the state.

That and wildfires 500 miles away from me are about all people outside of the state ever seen to hear about. From the way they tell it it sounds like they're concerned that I'm going to die of thirst.
> To keep reading this story, create a free account.

Nah.
Without rust/library/, libc, and winapi-rs:

$ grep -irn 'unsafe {\|unsafe fn' . | wc -l
1780

Without rust/library/:

$ grep -irn 'unsafe {\|unsafe fn' . | wc -l
1937

With rust/library/ (and libc, and winapi-rs):

$ grep -irn 'unsafe {\|unsafe fn' . | wc -l
5612
On Friday, the Washington Post profiled several members of the group.

"One of alleged plotters, 23-year-old Daniel Harris, attended a Black Lives Matter protest in June, telling the Oakland County Times he was upset about the killing of George Floyd and police violence."

Another alleged plotter, Brandon Caserta, called President Trump a 'tyrant' - adding 'Trump is not your friend, dude.' Caserta notably has an anarchist flag behind him in several videos he's recorded.
For me, it's easier to wake early than sleep early. Whatever I want to do after midnight, I can do before dawn. And that plays into the artificial light thing of waking me up.

Once you're tired from waking early, you're far less likely to look at your phone too late.
One of the reasons for this is that for a NA (normally aspirated) engine, i.e. not turbo charged or super charged, the lower atmospheric pressure results in a lower compressed pressure (versus sea level) as the piston rises toward the top, which means a lesser chance of pre-mature detonation (knock) due to pressure, which is what higher octane prevents. So therefore you don't need as high octane at higher altitudes.

Unfortunately that isn't true with turbo or super charged engines, which are more and more popular. I really miss the 93 (and even 95) octane fuel I could get in Boston. I use a octane booster in my car here in Colorado to help offset the lower octane pump gas, and allow my turbo charged engine to make more power (by not having to pull timing to accommodate the lower octane gas).
They already have access to email through subpoenas and warrants.
KaTeX is great, but I long for a system that:

1. Can be rendered server-side without a heavy runtime (ideally written in C/C++/Rust/Whatever instead of JS).

2. Has a well defined output AST, so that the output can be manipulated (e.g. realtime visual equation editing).

3. Is accessible to the visually impared.

Actually, we have such a system: MathML. And its a W3C standard to boot. The only reason why we have to rely on slow JS hacks like KaTeX and MathJax is because of Chrome. Google hates disabled people.
What Is Unenlightenment?
IndyCam had the same resolution as the iSight but it looked like trash. There was a lot of geometric distortion and wacky color fringing.

It was weird because you _could_ get excellent video input on the Indy just by hooking up a real camcorder to the S-Video port. The Indy was the only SGI that came out-of-the-box with analog video capture. But the IndyCam wasn't analog, and it wasn't good for anything either.
In the USA, email that has been stored for longer than some (fairly short) period I don't remember offhand doesn't require a warrant to access.

Just think about that for a while.
Typically the submersible tank pumps pull fuel a few inches off the bottom of the underground storage tank. You'd have to have a very high water-level for the pump to pull water.
Refining Our Sales Process
I'm not an electric guitarist, but this is a dilemma that every musician faces at some point. Being a musician can involve an obsession for quality that can't be explained in utilitarian terms.

One thing is that the audience only has to tolerate your sound for a couple of hours, and can always seek refuge at the bar or just go home. You have to hear it over and over, night after night. You also have to hear it at home. As an amateur, most of my playing time occurs in my own living room.

Another thing is that there's a layer of the performance above the basic sound of the instruments, that the audience might perceive even if they can't quite put their finger on what it is. It's what separates a great performance from a dull one. We're all trying to find what that thing is, and it involves exploration on many fronts, including how we choose and optimize our instruments.
How rude!
Mathematical Markup Language (MathML)
In fairness, they outsource and sell returns by the pound. It’s a big business - they have no idea what happens to it.
Good job digging into all of this Paul! At my company (onspecta.com) we solve similar problems (and more!) to accelerate AI/deep learning/computer vision problems, across both CPUs, GPUs as well as other types of chips.

This is a fascinating space, and there are tons of speed up opportunities. Depending on the type of the workload you're running, you might be able to ditch the GPU entirely and run everything just on the CPU, greatly reducing cost & deployment complexity. Or, at the very least, improve SLAs and 10x decrease the GPU (or CPU) cost.

I've seen this over and over again. Glad someone's documenting this publicly :-) If any one of you readers have more questions about this I'm happy to discuss in the comments here. Or you can reach out to me at victor at onspecta dot com.
I have two: one for each hand.

I (used to) have to use my laptop a lot (meetings, traveling), so it didn't work for me to have a different keyboard at my desk. Then when I got stuck at home, I dug out my old kinesis but it was just too much effort to press those keys, and the cursor keys were just too far away. I could feel the muscles in my arms complaining.

But the pronation and ulnar deviation was a pain, so I bought another one, so now I can angle them perfectly for each hand. If you want to try it you'll need karibiner [1] so that the cmd keys work across keyboards.

I'm still using the magic mouse because I found click-drag with the trackpad to be shitty. Is there a trick to that?

[1] https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org
To be honest, I didn't realize that that sensor just about the size of an iPhone's sensor. I would have guessed the iPhone's camera sensor is smaller. It really blew my mind how compact the whole iPhone camera package is.