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This is the first time I've seen Preserves and I appreciate that! I've written something much simpler before [1] and understand that the specification writing is a huge undertaking. Please allow me to ask some quick questions (which answer I may have read but missed):

- Given the popularity of JSON among others, you will be almost certainly in need of the explicit JSON encoding of Preserves data model. Probably also others.

- Why a separate binary syntax? Unlike the textual format and semantics I don't see much value in yet another binary serialization format, given CBOR seems moderately successful and does have a well-defined data model. It seems that CBOR plus some already registered tags suit the needs for binary Preserves.

- It is fragile to base the textual syntax on an unspecified Unicode version. ECMAScript specifies the minimum required version (ES5 requires 3.0.0, ES2015 requires 5.1 and ES2016 requires 8.0) and XML (and also CSON) specifies identifier syntax in the way that the future version of Unicode doesn't invalidate that. I believe the latter is more suited for serialization uses.

[1] https://github.com/lifthrasiir/cson
Ah planning the treats.

I’ll have a chocolate donut about once a month.

I have to perfect in my diet for days in order to enjoy it no penalty. A second one is not an option.
Erdogan is a dangerous man. He once recited an Islamic poem including the lines [0]:

> "The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers..."

I am sure Germany has to be very careful in dealings with Erdogan, since Germany has such a large amount of Turkish migrants and thus they could quite easily destabilise the country.

A few years ago in The Netherlands the Turkish people started large scale protests due to a Turkish minister being denied entry. The Turkish people clearly identified themselves as Turks first and foremost, since they were carrying the Turkish flags during their protests [1].

Turkey maintains a strong kind of grip on its Turkish citizens abroad using state-funded Diyanet mosques [2] and allowing dual citizenship [3] - children born from Turkish countries living in a foreign country receive the Turkish citizenship by default.

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[0]: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/-the-minarets-are-our-ba...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Dutch–Turkish_diplomatic_...

[2]: https://www.dw.com/en/erdogan-in-germany-what-you-need-to-kn...

[3]: https://www.government.nl/topics/dutch-nationality/question-...
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I live next to Poland. They have a multiparty democracy and a serious turmoil in the streets now, because their polarization problem mirrors the American one very closely.

I think this is an effect of social media. It rewards the most extreme positions with likes and shares, hollowing out the former core of shared values.
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They're barely even that. Apple is the expensive handbag company of consumer electronics. Something people buy to show off their wealth.
I can understand the sentiment, but as someone who has the symptoms (though up until now I thought that's just a bad habit), I can assure you that this can be straining on social life, work life and relationships.

Also better understanding this can help with social acceptance.

Edit: E.g. yes, I stay up late but that's not because I don't care or want to be an ass or whatever; it's because I genuinely can not sleep for reasons outside of my control and going to bed at 10 or 11 is actually unhealthy for me.

Medicating that or living with it is a different question.
I highly recommend the book Maximum City for a portrayal of Mumbai.

I lived there in 2007-8 and loved the city. Great people. Multiple times rickshaw drivers would chase after me because I didn't get take my change back after passing them some small bills. Very honest and hard-working -- and amazingly resilient. Felt very safe there, even in (especially in?) the slums.

Beautiful international airport and a brand new monorail in bandra.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai_Monorail

Most of Mumbai is land created from ocean. Like the Netherlands!
https://theculturetrip.com/asia/india/articles/a-brief-histo...
There are many types of 'resources'. Aren't we exposed, for example, to some form of 'behavioral sink' ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink ), and if so isn't any practical way to tackle this some form of 'control'?
Zombears :)
You mean against people that have been denying a genocide for 100+ years?
I was completely ready for that book to change my life after reading so many glowing testimonials. It did nothing, though I felt worse after reading it a few times, because it was supposed to be so transformative.

I guess the mind-body prescription isn't prescribed for celiac disease or my other health issues, because finding out that I had those conditions was the key, not Dr. Sarno's advice.
Are you serious? Islands do sometimes expand for many reasons - but usually volcanic. Do you seriously think that's a counter argument against the fact of rising sea levels?
There are many other solutions than traditional pumped hydro when it comes to electrical storage : new pump hydro on isolated reservoirs (eg gordon butte), battries (eg flow batteries), compressed air, liquid air, stacked bloks, heat to energy come in mind

And you can store energy as heat or cold, which is easier and cheaper, with a bigger potential

And you can have an impact on the demand side, with energy efficiency and demand-response
It'd be especially interesting to see how expensive renewables plus storage end up being, relative to nuclear.
Honestly the bit that kills me is being thoroughly buggered for cash. And that is being forced down your neck even more regularly these days, particularly on the back of failures.

When it came to upgrade time this year I skipped buying a mid-range iMac, built a hefty Ryzen desktop instead and had enough spare change to buy a Lenovo T495s.

It’s phone upgrade time in January. I don’t know which way to turn yet.
How to understand your 3rd paragraph in light of your 1st paragraph?
Isnt Greenwald an outspoken Bernie Sanders supporter?

IMHO he cannot be pigeonholed into a neat "right wing / left wing" scheme like that.
What are these events related to Turkish Government denying genocide? Does it justify what happened to unrelated people after 105 years?
I laughed at the Truth of this. Fox News honestly doesn't even register as a legitimate news organization for me most of the time. I actively avoid using them as a source. It's like getting upset over supermarket tabloids.

Yet this organization sure had an awful lot of blood on its hands with its recent pandemic coverage and yet all I ever hear about is papers like the New York Times. Rogan himself seems to have shown a lot of sympathy for Fox News worst tendencies on this matter. The last time I remember outlets like the NYT having so much blood on their hands was during the Iraq war and that reporting was about a generation ago, AND Fox was even worse than them even back then. Yet all I hear about is the perils of the dastardly MSM and their legions of partisan so called fact checkers.
> being grouchy and tired all the time isn't enough to kill people or prevent them from reproducing.

It may not be enough by itself, but it's easy to imagine it being the last straw so to speak. An alternative explanation could be that society needs a certain percent of night owls. That there is a niche in which it's beneficial.
The Public Order Act 1986 has an exception:

> It is a defence if you are inside a dwelling and had no reason to believe the the words or behaviour used would cause or would be heard or seen a person outside.

I believe the argument being made in the reading of the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill is essentially that you can still commit a hate crime in private. Which seems fairly obvious —assuming you subscribe to the notion of hate crimes— but never expect the Times to see things with that sort of resolution.
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Night guard job was essential for literally hundreds of generations. It's no surprise there are adaptations in the gene pool.
Most _Americans’_ definition.
> ”Fair comparison here is overall energy invested for energy obtained.”

We think of “energy invested” as having an environmental cost, and of course that’s true when it comes from polluting fossil sources.

But as grids get cleaner, and transport vehicles and construction equipment are electrified, this is no longer such a concern. Eventually we’re just using clean energy to build more clean energy - a virtuous cycle!

New low-carbon concrete formulas and steel production technology are also needed, of course, since these are a major source of emissions whether for a nuclear plant or wind farm.
Although I’ve seen numerous examples of hubris by creating accidental complexity, I actually think category theory is an exercise in minimalism. But the realization only happens when understanding the complexity of ‘normal’ imperative and object oriented programming.

The problem with category theory, as I see it, happens due to a mismatch with our mode of creating. We tend to converge in our solutions from chaos to order. Formal systems don’t provide space to be chaotic in. We need to be right the first time.

We need languages and IDEs that will help us find abstractions. Static analysis saying: “this thing here is like all those other things if only you see it like so. Perhaps you want to structure it like those other things as well?”
Anyone looking for a cheap morning light box should consider a grow lamp. They are designed for plants but they work pretty well for humans too. You get a lot more power per dollar than the human ones which are usually at the bottom end of the required light output. If you pair it with a smart home relay (or microcontroller with relay module if you are so inclined) you can have it turn on automatically with your alarm.

I use a 100W 16x16 LED array grow lamp and if you're within 3ft it feels like a sunny day.

I also recommend if you think you might have DSPD that you get bloodwork for cortisol and prolactin. Some people who don't have the mutation still have the symptoms because their cortisol is permanently elevated (chronic stress) and only falls when they are exhausted. Both can be treated with a light box and relaxing activities in low light in the evening but if you have elevated cortisol you may also need to consider additional treatment option for chronic stress. It's also possible to have both because constantly being on a different sleep schedule to the rest of the world can cause chronic stress.
AI model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through phone-recorded coughs
I’ve tried reading medical reports of patient complaints.

It is crazy hard. It’s like tech support on a Linux running Oracle with grandma.
Rogan isn't political. He just pretends to be for money.
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> So what’s the alternative?

Currently: a Google-free AOSP-based distribution on one of the hundreds of supported devices.

In the future, hopefully: a free software mobile platform compatible with a range of hardware.

Google-free Android is a thing, I've been using it for about 10 years now. I do not have a Google account, there is no 'Gapps' (Google Apps) on my devices, I do not use the 'Play Store' (which is a bit of a silly name for people who speak Dutch where the word 'Play' sounds like a Dutch slang term for toilet, 'plee'), I don't use Google Search directly (it is one of the engines used in my own Searx instance, next to DDG, Bing, Yahoo etc.), no Gmail (I host my own mail), no Google Docs (or whatever it is called today, Libreoffice Online works just fine for me, hosted on my own server), etc.

Just try it for a change instead of giving up and giving either Apple or Google their pound of flesh. There is too much disinformation on the subject of mobile freedom, too much 'party politics'. There is a world outside of Apple and Google, why not give it a try instead of assuming it doesn't exist?
I used to think that but now I don't think we're getting better. The more I think about it the more I see that people are equally bad at it, progress only happens by building out the tooling beneath them that allow them to build more and more complicated things, without them realizing it.

Developers have the capacity and willingness to work on a small part of a codebase and the rest has to be filled in by others in a similar situation and by tooling.

I'm a bit biased since I run an edtech company but it's very disappointing to see how hard it is to get companies and people to actually invest in education.
> Not sure if actually converting PCM to voltages over time is really that complicated...

!

As someone working in this area, the USB interface is the boring standard bit and the actual analogue bit is both difficult and determines quality.

For what purpose do you want an open source DAC? Would you be happy with a chip doing USB to I2S for you and then doing the DAC yourself?
This is what worked your someone I knew. YMMV.

1. Introduce him to one of many free online UI/UX courses and figure out if he's actually into it. If he isn't, try some other tech thing.

2. Once you've figured out what he's into, make him do one or two online courses in it, preferable from a good university (see: edx.org).

3. Work on a portfolio. Projects of his own, and contributions to F/OSS projects.

4. Add more to the portfolio. Non-profits often will give people with little previous experience a chance.

5. Apply to jobs for a junior position. Try small companies if he isn't having success elsewhere.

6. If he's finding it impossible to find work, internships are the way to go. They often make it easier to get jobs.
+1 for synching. Resilio sync is also good, but not free any more (win server needs a business license). They do have an encrypted option though (you can use a server somewhere else that has your data, but very encrypted, and only the clients with that key can read...)
School starting times are one of the worst things for night owls and I hope ongoing research helps to raise awareness and bring change so night owl kids don't needlessly have to suffer for 10+ years.

I long thought having different school starting/ending times is the way to go. Like one cohort starting at 8 and another starting at 10 or even 11.
Standing up at 8 is hard for me and I'm happy to be in a job where I can start working at 10, but here in Bavaria school starts at 08:15 and I had to set my alarm to 06:30 for a huge part of my life even tho I rarely fell asleep before 00:30,sometimes much later. The result was that I regularly missed a day of school, because I was just too tired to go. Luckily my parents were supportive.

Also my performance on the 8am classes was much worse than on later classes. In university I skipped all 8am lectures and even skipped early exams and waited for a "better scheduled" exam.

The worst part about it was how non-understanding all the early-birds are. They just didn't grasp that asking me to be awake and productive at 8am was like asking them to do work after 11pm and that "just go to bed earlier" isn't a working solution. Just ignorance of a different rythm.
Correct. The complete quote:

> (waste years and years of their lives) sort of pretending to do research for which they’re not at all well-suited

Suggesting that incentives to do research that follows academic tradition do not aligign with the best possible outcomes of independent investigation.

Which is what we both point out.
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> Something else is going on.

Money in politics probably as well.
Would be nice if americans acknowledged that although their country is great in many things, its not so great in quite a few others, or outright horrible at some. Just like any other place. Maybe take some humble inspiration from places where it can and does work better. It doesn't mean system ends up with communism, dictature and whatnot. Just a slightly more humane system to live in, where rich stay rich just with tiny little less wealth, on levels that don't make any difference to their luxury lives.

If the country is so prosperous as US, its also important for those rich and beyond such petty worries to live in well working society anyway. Otherwise they end up in their little fenced paradise with wolves roaming everywhere outside.
That'd be generalizing the threat, and isn't the right thing to do.
Exactly.
Spent years hiding symptoms. When it got the point I couldn’t, I had a brief round of sympathy.
Then people got impatient that I didn’t quickly “recover”.
In that case recovery was over a year, just to get back to were I could hid symptoms again.
I moved from apple to android a few years ago, hoping the grass would be greener. I hoped I was leaving behind a locked in ecosystem with hard to repair devices for a more open ecosystem where competition would improve quality.

Android is a fat mess, with flagship phones from premium manufacturers being incompatible with various OS features, and devices from different manufacturers being incompatible in ways that never happened in the iOS ecosystem.

If you want a full blown "Android" experience, you end up buying all google devices, and in my experience google support are as bad if not worse than Apple. I have a pixel 3 phone from Google that is still under manufacturers warranty. The power button seems to have gotten stuck, and maybe once or twice a day it gets stuck in a reboot loop, and in that process the phone gets _hot_ and ends up running the battery to 0. It's happened when I'm driving too.

Google's advice has been a factory reset, or a replacement device for $300. They claim I must have dropped it, or otherwise mistreated it and as far as they're concerned that's that.

So here I am, 2 years later with a $700 android phone, contemplating an iPhone 12 because the situation is no different on the other side...
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> I do not have a fucking disorder! I just sleep differently!

Ok, well, delayed phase sleep disorder is in fact a disorder that can lead to serious health problems, even when people are allowed to self-select their sleep schedules. One proposal for the mechanism is that the circadian cycle is longer than 24 hours, which is in fact a medical problem. Society didn’t make the day 24 hours long. People without DPSD can generally fall asleep earlier than normal if they are sleep-deprived, but not people with DPSD.

DPSD is very different than normal “night owl” syndrome, and is not an issue of society refusing to acknowledge different schedules. Are you sure you even have DPSD?

> abusive and disrespectful and needlessly oppressive, no different from treating women or gay as inferior.

Please please please please stop trivializing misogyny and homophobia with these ridiculous and narcissistic comparisons. “No different” - reeeeeaaaalllllly? Things are more difficult socially and professionally for people with DPSD. But they don’t get killed for it! You don’t have people musing about how DPSD are duplicitous wenches who are running our culture.
1) CouchDB, because we needed a document database and CouchDB is the cool one. The multi main replication model is also very interesting.

2) self managed, because managed couchdb are rare.

3) the indexes uses tons of ram, we have to be very careful when we index something.

4) I would migrate to a managed postgresql because transactions are something we would like to have, and the replication model wasn't that useful after all.

5) we can use bigger vms and more vms. Couchdb will scale okay as long as we have enough ram for the indexes.

6) a few VMs, 50€ with OVH or 500€ with Azure.
Very debatable.

Democratic traditions in other countries long predate even the existence of the US; it wasn't the first with universal suffrage; it had a troubled history even after that till at least the 1960s, even before we get to any contemporary problems.

I don't know there is a legitimate claimant on the "first democracy" title, or even if we are there yet, but unlikely the US.
I think you might be pleasantly surprised to get current on how vacuum works in current editions. Vacuum used to be a bigger issue for pg.
SMR is interesting and have advantages... but it is not ready yet, and there are uncertainty about the cost. Wind and solar are getting so cheap that I have doubt SMR can compete on price... Possibly it could compete at the margin when the cost of storage (electrical and thermal) and demand-response are too expensive.

About the current cost of the different type of energy: https://www.lazard.com/media/451086/lazards-levelized-cost-o...
(please note that capacity factor would be different according to the country, for example renewable energy would be more expensive in France than is this document)
Well regarding illegal immigration, Europe is straight up fascism. We dump refugees to open prisons on islands. There's not a single country that is so relaxed view on illegal immigration like USA, keeping borders is common sense in the rest of the world, not even a discussion. The immigration crisis was a temporary thing, because there were just too many people coming at once.
Rogan is not doing journalism, or serious interviews trying to get into bottom of anything. It's just a show and content creation. He is just going with anyone who comes into his show.

Here is little deeper take of Greenwald:

Inside Glenn Greenwald’s Blowup with the Intercept
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/inside-glenn-greenwa...
One way to solve it is to introduce a concept like a nursery (a la structured concurrency) and when setting it up you instruct it to create a new thread that is only used for those particular tasks.

This of course requires a scheduler that needs to handle hierarchical control of execution rather than having an unformed mass of tasks, but nurseries provide other benefits as well.
Turkey is not denying only the Young Turks' role in Armenian genocide, but also the pogroms against Armenians in Baku that are a direct cause of the current situation in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Mutatis mutandis, somehow I don't see the German government sending drone attacks to Israel.
> We don't yet know why this genetic variation exists, but we are leaping to the conclusion that we just need to drug these folks and force their bodies to work 'normally' and that's that.

The normal way to deal with that is to make the medicine available but optional.
Side note: All text on that page is invisible if your browser language is not English or Spanish. I had to click "EN" at the very bottom to read anything.
Notably this works on asymptomatic forced coughs. 17% false positive rate but 98.5% true positive rate. Extremely interesting.
> I stand by my opinion that calling a common evolutionary adaptation a disorder is abusive and disrespectful and needlessly oppressive

While I agree with the general statement and dislike that a disorder might give the implication that it is abnormal and needs treatment, I rather have it acknowledged as a disorder than being told to just go to bed earlier. It's not ideal, but definitely better than ignoring it.
Even if it is made public, the problem is still money, not decision-making. It will require a massive investment from the state.

Why wouldn’t they just be allowed to double prices? The state won’t do better given the same money, they would raise money through taxation, which is still money.
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You can stipulate the collation in the query if you need something non-default.
Great stuff! Now who's the first person to listen to the entire linux kernel source code? ;)
I get what you're saying but on an important topic, let's keep HN a place to have more valuable conversations. I let myself make snarky comments on some topics to be honest but for sensitive political matter it would be better not to play this way.
Armenian Genocide has nothing to do with current Azerbaijan v Armenia fight, what are you even talking about?