skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An awful lot of OS data is actually available directly from them under the open government licence in recent years. Recently they added their UPRN (unique property reference number) database and some other ones.

OpenMap Local and OpenZoomstack are both available as open data, and give an awful lot of what most people are looking for when it comes to map data.
As a fellow CS major: Try looking at Graduate Research Engineer positions in an area that interests you. Machine learning, computer vision, etc. These usually require quite a bit of creativity and a good understanding of math to solve problems. It's also low stress because working in research means you don't have to deal with customers directly. Also, the software you write can usually be research prototype quality and not production quality.
Good read. My strategy for avoiding all the vim porn and "plugin-madness" is to never install a plugin or mapping/override without learning to do the thing manually in vanilla vim.
This way you'll KNOW if that plugin is really worth the bloat, and if you do end up away from your config on a remote server you're just mildly uncomfortable instead of dead in the water.
>The driver is merely a pilot doing what is instructed over the radio

I think this severely understates the skill of some of the highest paid athletes on the planet.
Decentralized Data Storage’s Only Competition Is the Public Cloud
Do you think engineers haven't been involved in building aircraft and automobiles until now? They've been the "main drivers of success" since the beginning of those industries.

If you mean software engineers, I think your point is only partially valid. There is room for improvement in other areas as well, such as controls, aerodynamics, energy, materials to name a few.
"It looks like there is no case at all to be made for some of these therapies, and for remdesivir, it looks like the argument now is “Does it help a bit or just not at all?” The only thing that I’ve seen that really seems to be making a big difference now is dexamethasone, and we may soon (I hope) be adding the monoclonal antibodies to that list. The SOLIDARITY enrollment is still moving along at 2000 patients/month, and will be looking at these and other newer ideas as it continues. And that means abandoning the older ideas, because – as we’re finding out – they’re not much help. It’s time to move on."

Just so everyone knows, this is the same guy that writes the 'Things I Won't Work With" blog. It's all about insane chemical compounds and is very much one of the best blogs ever written.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/?s=things+I+won%27t+wo...
Create Your Own PineTime Watch Face in Rust and Publish on Crates.io
What's the motivation for these attacks? How do attackers benefit?
Watching cricket is an art in itself.

I once spent 5 days watching a test match at the basin reserve in Wellington, fueled with plenty of beer.

From day 4 it was obvious the match was heading for a draw and so it did.
Publish your Watch Face in Rust on crates.io... For all PineTime Smart Watch Owners to Discover, Install and Enjoy! Here's how...

https://lupyuen.github.io/pinetime-rust-mynewt/articles/watc...
You're right, I shouldn't downplay his abilities, and he's definitely well over 99th percentile when it comes to results and accomplishments at the very least. I've competed in CSAW and some other CTFs and winning as a one-person team is definitely a massive achievement.

Just to counter a tiny bit, he didn't necessarily win by an enormous margin. CMU's PPP has overwhelmingly dominated every collegiate CTF since forever, and he was a CMU student and I wouldn't be surprised if he trained closely with PPP members. He got 5100 to PPP's 4800, which, to play Devil's advocate, depending on the particular point weights of the solved challenges, could potentially mean he solved one additional challenge over PPP (though possibly more; I didn't dig to find the exact breakdowns). I believe he also deeply specialized in low-level RE from a young age (as demonstrated by the iPhone and PS3 exploits), and from my perception that was less common among collegiate CTF competitors and gives you a huge leg up. But of course mastering something that difficult so young and being at CMU are itself huge achievements, as is outmatching PPP on anything at all entirely by yourself.

Obviously insanely impressive, and exponentially better than I could've done (and did do) at that age or could do today. Be it intelligence or endless drive and work ethic or all of the above, he's clearly an extremely skilled polymath. I guess I just didn't want people feeling too demotivated over genetic factors, which play a big but not a full role. He may very well be a genius, though.
Nice free resource and thank you for posting. So many great discoveries in this thread.

https://melodics.com/

https://github.com/apankrat/note-detector

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=12590.0

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=k50uk8elR0M

http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/

https://musescore.com/hub/piano

https://github.com/apankrat/note-detector

https://synthesiagame.com/

https://pianojacq.com/
You can use this in Safari
https://github.com/ai/audio-recorder-polyfill

https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/webm-wasm

Safari doesn't play webm files two options for that

1). you can convert webm to MP4 with or without re-encoding(will be faster) using ffmpeg or ffmpeg-wasm (within browser)
https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm

2). Another option is play webm directly using wasm
https://github.com/brion/ogv.js
> That every comment has to be carefully prescreened for legal compliance? And even then you have to operate under a substantially increased risk of lawsuit.

No, that’s only the standard I want to apply if they are editorializing the content that’s being posted.
Drone.io does exactly this, although in an OR configuration
i started studying astrology as a covid project and got distracted. one of the texts called surya siddhantha speaks of units of time. the smallest unit of time is 'truti' which is 10^-7.

the text divides time as 'murta' and 'amurta'...the first translates to 'embodied' and the latter translates to 'unembodied'. it means 'unreal time'. in unreal time, there is no destruction. all 'murta' time units are based upon 'one respiration' or 'one prana'. (living time or 'murta' unit)

one truta is 1/37500 of a second. i dont know if it goes smaller than that..but it builds up from that to a kalpa of brahma which is 4.32 billion human solar years. two kalpas make a day for brahma. 30 days make a month of brahma and he lives for 100 years. currently, we are in the 50th year of brahma, first month and in kali yuga(4 yugas of which kali is the last make one chatur yuga..1000 chatur yugas make one kalpa.)...kali yuga started ...acc to these texts started in 3102 BCE and will end after a run 432,000 years. current kali yuga began roughly 5,121 years ago and has 426,879 years remaining as of 2020 CE.

i wasnt paying attention to the quantum scale and was fascinated by the cosmological time. at some point, i expect to return to the lunisolar calender time that was really the original purpose of my reading, but i got carried away and went down the rabbit hole.

its going to be difficult to get back to astrology study because turns out there are multiverses and multiple brahmas who 'bubble' in the ocean and disappear as they create and destroy their worlds and themselves. and then there is time dilations for various creatures each one perceiving time on a different scale. this with the accompanying mythology is better than any sci fi i have ever read.

*https://archive.org/details/TranslationOfTheSuryaSiddhanta/m...
> This article describes my Vim journey, starting from heavy personal customization and ending with a renewed love for defaults

this exact pattern is found in so many vi|m articles and is touted as a triumph of vim's default patterns, when it is really a failure of vim to support whole ranges of functionality. as a daily user of neovim, i know that vscode is a superior alternative and am waiting for a month off to transfer all my vim customizations to a real ide
Following the Adobe playbook?
Relatively stable is not enough, as we can see from how common cancer is.
I think I read on HN a while back that Silicon Valley is mostly a gigantic wealth transfer from investors to landlords by way of tech workers.
The key signature meta-event is barely functional if you have a remotely expansive view of "music theory". Identifying a root note, major/minor and number of sharps OR flats doesn't really pin down a large number of actual scales.

For your purposes, it may be enough, but in more general terms, it's woefully underspecified.

A better way for MIDI to have done this would have been to use a "standard" scale numbering system combined with a tonicity count. An example or two is given here:

https://ianring.com/musictheory/scales/

I appreciate that your current project doesn't need this, but if someone wanted to somehow create a MIDI file that included the information "this uses Locrian with a flat second", the current SMF spec is inadequate.
I do it maybe a dozen times a year. Most of the younger bay area people I know go at minimum once or twice every winter. It is definitely one of the perks of living here along with all the other cool nature.
I agree. It's better to cut off the line past the point where it no longer has any data to support it.

In this case it's about 2.5 years of missing data that is substantiating a claim of 2x+ increase during the same time. It's reasonable to say it had an exponential function up until two years ago, and we don't know what it was since then.

R squared doesn't capture that inaccuracy because there is no data to compare it against during the scary time period in question. It's just a line in a void.
I looked at the cited paper[0], and I'm not sure the article author has correctly summarized its findings. As I understand it, the paper says "cyclical climate change probably caused this pattern of extinction->re-evolution (van der Hammen cycles)" and it points to overlapping changes in the geologic record (including canids and their teeth) as evidence of that claim.

I can't see anywhere where the article says "changes in canine dental morphology caused the cat gap."

Edited to say: oh derp, I only looked at the first line of the article - there's a discussion of that connection further down in the article, although it says in the summary that the connection is disputed.

[0]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-002-0392-1
Side note - an incredible number of sites are already planting the cookies, running the scripts, and doing the tracking before you even interact with the prompt...

Textbook illegal under the ePrivacy Directive implementations, but many (most?) sites still do it...
I agree with this. One thing I’ve also come to realize is that a lot of people simply believe everything they read on the internet these days.
> No, it means less 230 protection for HN. Stop conflating this with destruction of the platform, it's becoming like "net neutrality". Remember when tweaking that killed the internet?

Really? If HN starts only moderating based on "identifiable harms (i.e. illicit content, directed threats, terrorism)" then it'll quickly become a cesspool and lose the community.

On the other hand, if they continue to apply posting guidelines, how many banned users suing HN over "politically motivated censorship" and shit like that do you think it takes for them to decide it's not worth it? Content removed because someone was an abusive jerk suddenly becomes, in plaintiff's claims, content removed because the moderators didn't like their politics. Now spend your $$$$ to defend against that claim!

You're sticking your head into the sand over what the unintended consequences of your proposals would be because you really really really want to believe it would only have the intended consequences that you like.

(Look at what you do when you bring up newspapers: newspapers have extremely limited user-generated content, because of the standards you're proposing extending. Again: there goes HN.)

The only stuff that would survive would be the stuff with big userbases, big pockets, and the ability to throw a lot of moderating power at stuff. Which all sounds to me more like traditional broadcast media - which is historically claimed to be also unfair to the same conservatives who are making the most noise about this stuff. So... good luck with that.
What you experienced may be a baseline change when using noise cancellation. It happens with all noise cancelling headphones after long use (for me). I am NOT an authoritative source on it but what I heard was that the brain makes a baseline for the background / silence and when that noise is removed (active noise cancelled) then the brain recalibrates which may cause the same symptom as tinnitus as the brain tries to cancel it out but supposedly without the permanent damage. I consider it "possible" but I haven't seen hard science on it.
Join performance is a bit of a hairy topic.

If you're pulling data from an external source that supports query folding[1] such as a database, it'll try to push those joins to the original source.

If you're pulling in data from a source that doesn't (or the join occurs after query folding is no longer possible), there are a host of performance considerations/optimizations.

By default PowerQuery knows nothing about your source data and makes no assumptions. If you're joining data using the GUI, the generated code will likely use the NestedJoin[2] function. A single "step" in the processing will have its ram capped at 256MB[3], so depending on the size of the data you're joining and absent of any data processing steps that would give it guarantees about your data, you may or may not be paging massive amounts of data to disk as it loops through the entire dataset you're joining for each row that is being joined.

That said, PowerQuery has 6-7 join algorithms available, and a variety of techniques that can be used to optimize the processing. For example, if you add a primary key to the table (via Table.AddKey or Table.Distinct or Table.Group), it can short-circuit the data processing the moment it finds a match. This[4] article series is really helpful for optimizing joins in particular and the link-outs and tidbits scattered within the series are fantastic for getting a better understanding of PowerQuery's inner workings and performance considerations.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/power-query-fol...

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/table-nestedjo...

[3] Mentioned halfway down this article: https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2019/04/21/power-bi-dataflow-co...

[4] https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2020/05/31/optimising-the-perfo...
Why do NES sprites flicker when there are a lot of them?
It is not superior, you just have not reached enlightenment.
Surely "A Bit Short" would be a better fit ?

(Not quite sure that idiom works in US English so maybe only for some markets ;-)
this is not about license . Its about other aspect of oss.
> Do you remember printing in 2000?

I remember printing on my NeXT Laser Printer in 1992 or so. Great experience, fast, reliable, high quality output.

Rare the pages that did not come out at rated engine speed.

Canon engine, tweaked to 400 dpi instead of 300, with the host doing the rendering in DPS (anyone remember machportdevice?) and a custom DMA interface delivering the bitmap directly to the engine IIRC.

No interfaces on the printer itself, no ports, no Wifi, no LCDs, no memory, nada. And none needed. Printer is for printing.
But your "right to go wherever I want to on this planet" must already have limits, right? Do you lock the doors on your house/car?
What are some key differences of this from tools such as Spinnaker and Harness?
For clarity, both people would need clocks though, correct? The top comment sort of implies you could measure this effect simply with one clock in the room, somehow, but you'd need two.
“We observed for the first time that the electron shell in a molecule does not react to light everywhere at the same time."

Question: does this not violate the "quantum" in quantum physics? I thought that a quantum particle had to be in either one state or another simultaneously in all places in the universe, because otherwise, it would have a gradient between one and the other, and its energy would no longer be quantised.
> I do think there's a larger discussion about trillion dollar companies just forking a project and announcing it as a new feature for their platform without even talking to the original creator.

I always find these messages weird, because in the end it's one engineer like you and I who looked at some open sourced stuff and decided to use it, and perhaps it didn't really do what they wanted so they forked it, and it ended up being used in whatever product they were working on, and in the grand scheme of things it was not about a big trillion dollar company being evil, it was about how engineers do their work nowadays.
Auditors do not look for fraud. Plain and simple. It has NEVER been their job. I have at least a dozen auditors/accountants as close friends. Talk to any auditor and that’s the first thing they will tell you. If they happen upon fraud they need to tell the authorities immediately but otherwise don’t expect auditors to be the ones who are also fraud detectors.
> you're playing at a given pace, miss, stop and repeat a bar, the app should detect that automatically instead of just carrying on expecting you to keep playing.

I'm a piano noob but wouldn't you want to practice catching back up with the beat if you ever intend to perform?
Same with NFL. I understand the sport is interesting, exciting, and has complex strategies. However, why do people care about which team wins? The players are traded freely among teams, and all teams are owned by the same business. So for example the San Francisco 49ers have very little to do with San Francisco, except for the name. If the San Francisco 49ers win, it has very little to do with San Francisco.

The Economist had an excellent article about the NFL's structure, and how it operates like a cartel, pressuring cities with varies financial threats and incentives.

https://www.economist.com/business/2006/04/27/in-a-league-of...
We're using Jira, Confluence, and BitBucket on-prem at our DC now, on some pretty sizeable VM's with good network connectivity back to head office.

Despite that, it feels very slow. Not the occasional 10+ second page load, where you've accidentally clicked something that happens to generate a cascade of cache misses. I can forgive that kind of infrequent performance hiccup.

But rather, regular usage, especially of Confluence and Jira, just feels sluggish when doing bread and butter actions - adding a comment to a ticket or reloading a kanban view, loading a new page or opening the search dialog on Confluence.

Yet, everything I've heard about the responsiveness of the 'cloud' offering is that it drives people to move to the on-prem server version.
This only fiction I have read twice and made notes.
The criticism that it would go negative in the past is meaningless. Of course it’s unphysical, but that doesn’t mean a linear model isn’t appropriate for today’s data.

You would just choose a point of time in the past where you believe the model is inapplicable. Maybe it was a different linear model then, or maybe mostly constant, who cares, we’re modeling today’s range of data, which might be well explained by a linear model, doesn’t really matter what 2011’s data was doing unless we separately believe the same growth law had to apply across all the years, and I see no reason why.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24803109
I was the target of an email DDoS attack on my gmail account in 2017. I had to propose some motivations in my report.

https://imgur.com/ksYbkEv
Take a site offline then tell the owners that if they pay you 5 bitcoin you'll bring it back. Google wouldn't ever pay but a medium/large retail company may if they are losing 100k/hour in sales
Yeah my mom used to chastise me for eating too fast. Later i realized it was because she overcooked everything so meats were really tough and i just wanted to get it into my body as quickly as possible

Now overcooking a steak is a just sin. It should be like butter
When I read myths of centaurs I can't help but think they were a metaphoric description of these early horseman tribes, also as the origins of wisdom from the east.
To summarize the experiment - they measured the interference effects of electron waves from a hydrogen molecule hit by xrays (high energy photons) and the electron wave interference pattern carried with it information on the relative timing of photon absorption at two ends of the molecule. So using this interference-based "amplification" they could resolve and infer the propagation of the photon across the molecule length scale. Or at least this is how I interpreted it from a coarse read :)

There was no clocks and detectors involved that you might think of at first.
Anyone got a good opensource Jira alternative I can install locally? Most alternatives are cloud as well.
That linguistic is then an idiot, and you should not listen to that person, because they clearly have no clue what they are talking about. If this claim was true, the conclusion would be that all of the US is a less diverse place than my native Norway. Why? Because the Norwegian language is far more diverse in how people speak it than American English.

And your assessment of German, displays a lack of historical knowledge of how language develops and get standardized. Most European languages tended to be far more diverse in the past. Contrary to your claim all European languages have become ever more homogenous in modern times.

Why you ask? Because language tends to develop into different forms in isolation. Hence all of Europe has historically been a patchwork of languages. The formation of nation states through the 1800s and standardized schooling is what caused the gradual homogenization of language.

It is the late founding of the US, which the the reason why American English is so homogenous despite the size of the country and its diversity.

French, German, Norwegian, Dutch and plenty of other European languages was in fact so diverse that a national standardization was needed in large part to actually be able to write books which could be used throughout.

In fact in my native Norway creating a written form of Norwegian proved so difficult we ended up with something like four different written forms all with different spelling and grammatical rules. Two of these written forms are official and taught all over Norway. Neither written form really corresponds exactly to how anybody speaks as Norwegians speak a multitude of dialects with different pronouns, grammar and words which loosely map to either of the written forms.

But at least by having a language board we have somebody trying to make sure the spelling isn't the utter mess that English is. English grammar is easier than Norwegian grammar, but the spelling is the worst of any language I have learned.
Will they launch a local-first fake competitor?
I was under the impression that the majority of written Japanese (e.g. in newspapers etc.) is kanji, which isn't phonetic at all.

So I'm a bit confused about how Japanese is straightforward and easy to pronounce -- isn't it actually one of the hardest languages in the world to memorize how to pronounce, behind Chinese?

I know there are the phonetic hiragana and katakana, but they're used particularly with children and language learners. An adult reader has to memorize ~2,500 characters non-phonetically, no?
That is exactly why they are so interesting.