skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have one of these. They typically fail because a tiny amount of crud in the feedwater, whether it came from the city supply or somewhere in the domestic water supply, plugs up the flow restrictor. I've fixed two like that. I replaced the flow restrictor on mine with an adjustable needle valve. 3 gallons per hour is a lot. I have mine adjusted to emit just a slight dribble. I think too much and the water on the biscuit is too cold to evaporate well, too little and the biscuit is not wet enough. I've considered making an Arduino circuit to flood the thing thoroughly at startup and then pulse it, but it works well enough as it is with the slight dribble. I think the newest fanciest humidifiers may actually have the pulse feature.

The "biscuit" in there was kind of old, so I went to some trouble to acquire a new one. Difference in humidification: None whatsoever. But while it doesn't impressively cycle the humidistat (I monitor that) like the old rotating foam drum humidifier did, the air quality is fine.

The previous "standing water" type humidifier was a nightmare. Some sort of microorganism in there caused copious amounts of yellow crud on everything and no amount of cleaning could get rid of it for good. Air quality wasn't affected, but... yuck. I didn't try bleach in there because I hate the smell of it.

Humidifiers are just inherently an iffy technology.
You'd have to compare across a lot more fine-grained than medieval vs modern (which, in a historical sense, covers the Renaissance through to, well, now).

* It's only the last couple of hundred years that a significant body of people doing work that does not have a large physical component - bone density is heavily influenced by stressing the bones regularly through exercise.

* It's only the last hundred years that childbirth-related mortality for women has plummeted. A lot of women would die in childbirth. Early industrial revolution era saw some parts of Europe have 20-25% of women die of childbirth. Now it's an extraordinary event.

* Following from that, menopause dramatically reduces bone density for women; one reason HRT was such a popular thing in the med-to-late 20th century was that it was seen as a panacea for removing the worst effects of menopause. Unfortunately it creates a lot of issues, as well.

* Diets change dramatically. Medieval people ate (generally) much less meat and sugar, but a lot of fresh (when in season) vegetables, some fruit, and a lot of grains. Early industrial food quality plummets as people move to urban areas without the ability to grow their own food. Rickets are a huge, widespread plague on urban poor (places like Glascow had rickets endemic well into the mid 20th century) for most of the modern era.

That's just wopk and diet. Consider that the averge medieval person walked everywhere, early moderns likewise, and only from the 19th century onwards did rail, cars, and so on see people getting about without considerable exercise being involved.
This is a big part of Apple's appeal for a lot of folks. They do not allow carriers to put ANY software AT ALL onto their phones. There is NO "open API" for carriers to load malware or replacement app stores through or root level apps or anything.

If you want that fair enough - plenty of android phones allow you to root them and do whatever (and of course the carriers use these open API's to do the same). I know some lifeline phones came with Android/Trojan.HiddenAds. and Android/Trojan.Dropper.Agent.UMX and plenty of other phones use these open api's for "enhancements" many of which are not removable.

Apple does not have any open API, and so distributors, carriers etc cannot "enhance" the phone. That turns out to be something that people are paying EXTRA for. The margins on apple's phones are nuts as a result - they charge FAR more for the same spec as another provider - because you can trust that phone through the supply chain FAR more than you can trust any other phone provider currently. Similarly, you can be an older phone, you can give them to your kids, etc and the quality is there. Resold iphones hold value much MORE, not less, then the more open phones from others (which often have a trash battery installed just before sale which dies in a few weeks).

In your open API world would facebook have to follow app store policies on data collection, user permissions, single point of cancelation?
Low carb and one-meal-a-day intermittent fasting both make a huge difference for me. There's something about eating, carbs especially, that just dulls my ability to focus. My wife has been pushing me to get tested for food allergies and I plan to this year. Diagnosed ADHD as a child, fwiw.
Teradata is shared-nothing architecture. Of course it will outperform Databricks and Snowflake shared-disk model as the data is colocated on the compute nodes so it doesn't have to travel anywhere.

Good luck on your budget trying to scale up shared-nothing database and making it scale up and down based on workload without downtime.

You can achieve significant speedup resembling shared-nothing databases by pushing the data close to the query using caching. Snowflake does it out of the box as it maintains table metadata. Databricks can do it too, but you have to be careful and it sucks.
> At least they are winding things down faster. Google announced the studio in mid 2019 and shutting it down in early 2021. Microsoft decided retail stores were a good idea in 2011, and only closed them off last year.

You're really selling me on using Microsoft over Google here: If I'm using a product/service, I'd prefer that it stay around as long as possible even if the company decides that it's a failure. Bonus points for being a "cloud" company so that users are totally screwed the moment the company pulls support.
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I don't think this is true anymore after publishers pulled back.
Yet. If they don't believe in their own product, how many other companies will, and how many of them will jump into a service which has a roadmap they don't control versus setting up their own service?
Yeah; this was definitely just a very quick project to demonstrate what was possible. If I was trying to build an actual, production-level/commercial project I would work with a Deaf person with this to develop a more comprehensive dataset.
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In my experience Athena on AWS beats Spark by an order of magnitude in terms of performance and price. Without the annoyance of having to start/stop/run a cluster. Snowflake is even faster than that since its storage is more optimized.
They'll both let you play games you already paid for but Stadia makes you buy them again, unless that changed?

To me, that put Stadia in an odd place where only the more casual players without a gaming device would sign up, or those with enough money to pay twice because they spend a lot of time away (but with good internet).
Yes. I'm no fan of Microsoft, but in this they're doing no different from Apple, et al, in supplying a limited free amount of storage and charging extra for higher storage usage.
A horrible thought experiment:

What if FB only maintained their Android mobile app and made iOS second class, gradually lagging in features and operational support/stability?

If that experiment 'succeeds', Instagram could follow.

What do you suppose would be the outcome?
How to write cuneiform
I used to be a huge MPC-HC[0] (Media Player Classic) fan. It's funny, but I liked it mostly because of the way subtitles were displayed. MPC-HC always seemed to get the job done perfectly, and when I had to use VLC at the time, I've always run into some problems.

I kept using MPC-HC for about two years after the development was halted. When it was time to look for an alternative, I gave VLC another try and was pleasantly surprised. The problems I remembered running into were no more, and the project seemed more mature overall. I'm enjoying it ever since.

Thanks to everyone involved with the project!

[0]https://mpc-hc.org/
"How do you handle your Aging in IT?"

Not well. I'm not even that old. I'm tired of the BS and games.

I guess I would say suck it up. That's what I'm doing. I can't say it's really working that well.
But why all the complexity?

There is a huge DI framework full of reflection and proxy classes, then a complex JIT to make the framework performant and now finally a scheduled warmup/load test phase to make the JIT work.

It seems like the same or better performance could be archieved with far less complexity by using an AOT compiled language.
What cryptography are you referring to when talking about append-only logs? To me, an AOL is just a list of records that has a single operation, append. It could be implemented as a file that is only opened in append mode, multiple files (eg logrotate), a lib that works in memory, a process that exposes an API, etc. I don't see any cryptography here.
"Redhead erasure" is, in my experience, a talking point for "great replacement" types, who I would think tend to overlap heavily with the "women can't have muscles", "there are two genders, men and political", and similar mindsets that are the incumbent position in gamer culture.
Mann-Whitney U test for kernel microbenchmarks
It seems in recent times, Google product development is always backwards. They never fully commit to anything, with the mind that if they see an up-tick in adoption, they'll invest in it. But maybe if they put more than a cursory effort into anything new, they might provide something valuable and generate another revenue stream. But perhaps they're just too comfortable with the loads of cash coming from ads?
"...the child of Bobby's Nordic girlfriend..." does have a role in the modern-day episodes (probably). I didn't figure this out until my second or third reading.
The note is in a bad place, the whole slope is the 20gb.
I'm on a very similar position. I found my ADHD out just about a year ago. After failing in many areas and going through a divorce, I can see some light at the end of the tunnel now.

Here's what is working well for me:

- reducing the amount of decisions to make. The less, the better. Even my meals are now precooked and I just take them out of the freezer at lunch or dinner time

- 30 minutes of cardiopulmonary exercise

- Ritalin doesn't work really well for me. I don't know why, but muscle relaxers operate wonders. They make me feel a bit slow, but, after all, I think that is what I need. To slow down. It doesn't work 100% of the times, but when it does, the effect is really positive. It allows me to focus and think through things without other ideas popping in my mind.

- I used to feel all the guilt related to unfinished projects, and to punish myself really hard because of them before finally letting them go. My ex-wife was very detrimental on this aspect, making me feel real bad for my "lack of willpower" and stuff like that. Now I have a completely different attitude about unfinished projects. I just keep a file for every project, and register every idea when it pops up (during a walk, or when I'm having trouble getting asleep, for instance). The lack of sense of guilt by itself has been producing a very positive effect. I don't mind anymore if I don't finish even 1% of them. Life is more than that. And now I'm getting benefits from my "divergent" thinking, turning it into creativity. This last week I finished a challenging personal project thanks to an idea I had during some nights of insomnia I endured those days. And I'm feeling great.

- caffeine helps up to a certain point. I don't drink more than 400ml of coffee per day anymore. If I drink too much, I have some 30 minutes of high productivity and creativity and, then, my day gets ruined with lack of focus, anxiety, regrets for not having followed some great career paths when I had the chance, and so on.

- I still watch Netflix, but now during scheduled times. However, I try to be disciplined but not too hard on myself.

- Background white noise help a lot, especially working place noises now that I work from home. There are some nice ones on youtube. And, when I sleep, I always use a big and noisy fan (but I live on a warm region of my country).
Are you sure the Dyson you bought was real? I have owned a Dyson stick vacuum for over 5 years and it still runs for ~15 minutes on a charge. The newer versions of the same vacuum sold at Costco are advertised to run for up to 40 minutes.

That said, I switched to a Roborock S5 Max around March of last year and I have only used the Dyson once or twice since then.
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Technologies: JS/HTML/CSS frontend development, UI/UX Design and research

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It's a much more difficult withdrawal for many/heavy stimulants users. brain fog, zaps, depression lasting months, messed up dopamine/glutamate and other brain crap.

It sucks there aren't any good meds for addiction treatment for stimulants yet (naltrexone/bupe etc).

Quitting meth, cocaine, prescription stims is really really hard.
TL;DR: It doesn't currently seem like a problem, but it is definitely a topic worth keeping an eye on.

"The vaccine generated a weaker immune response against the South African strain, but the antibodies remained above levels that are expected to be protective against the virus, the company said, adding the findings may suggest “a potential risk of earlier waning of immunity to the new B.1.351 strains.”

“Out of an abundance of caution and leveraging the flexibility of our mRNA platform, we are advancing an emerging variant booster candidate against the variant first identified in the Republic of South Africa into the clinic to determine if it will be more effective to boost titers against this and potentially future variants,” Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel said in a statement."

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/25/covid-vaccine-moderna-workin...

Source for my source, because he posts a pretty solid round-up of recent research and well-cited sources every Friday: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2021/01/28/covid-1-28-muddling-...
https://github.com/delta/delta-oss

link seems to be broken.
Is it illegal
What objective? I kept running past red signals as fast as I could, hoping for another train to crash into, and there wasn't one.
The Art of Apartment Hunting in Berlin
I find it deeply satisfying to find this article atop HN's feed, followed by

"Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing business focus "

Good software that solves real user problems effectively and efficiently will live forever.

Thank you, VLC team!
Not diagnosed, but strongly suspecting. I have a tab hoarding tendency; it took me a decade to notice the problem, and years of fighting it, but I've recently managed to make by brain accept that the burden of lingering tabs is greater than any value I can expect to get from them - so every couple days, I have a "screw this, let's clean the slate" moment, where I just close the browser window and reopen it fresh.

I've also stopped saving links to stuff I found on-line, because I never revisit them anyway. I once thought my "to read" list was my most prized possession. Now I realize it was just a way of making my procrastination seem productive.
The gameplay experience is extremely impressive. I expected input lag and streaming quality to be problematic, but I've been a frequent stadia player ever since my (free) premium bundle arrived around Christmas and issues have been rare.

The only thing stopping me from spending more money on games is the fact that I expect it to just evaporate one day and take the games I "bought" with it. Moving to a licensing arrangement to let me play the games I already own/could retain even if Stadia goes away, would help a lot in this regard.
Most financial institutions need some kind of basis for a promise - something that "secures" the contract e.g. like a loan secured by an asset.

A regulated entity might have capital requirements which would limit the no of burgers promised to money held. Another might be a contract with mcdonalds for N burgers, or a warehouse full of burgers - shorted stocks require the lender to actually sell a stock, and the shorter to actually sell it (and buy it back later) but there will need to be security/"deposit" on the returning of the stock - there exist a risk that the lender will not get their stock back, which is part of the reason for the premium.

Since you/I are not regulated financial institutions, not may would trust us to deliver 1 trillion burgers on paper; so the flaw exists in "What if they take their future 1 trillion burgers and sell half" - sell to whom? They'd have to find someone willing to buy. "What if you walk into McDonalds to claim the 1 trillion burgers" - the "paper burger" is an agreement between you and some third-party, not mcdonalds. You couldn't pre-order items from one shop, and go to another store with you invoice and demand they fulfil it - your contract is not some general/official currency, there is no obligation to accept it.

> So you're saying it's okay to promise burgers as long as it's an amount that actually exists and McDonald's can fulfil it.

It's a promise that you will supply N burgers, so the criteria for ok-ness is that you can supply N burgers, that McDs can provide that many is necessary-but-not-sufficient alongside:

- you can pay for N burgers
- you can transport N burgers (on time)

but when I say "ok", I mean from a "morality of making personal promises" perspective, not "financial promises/obligations made by a regulated financial institution" perspective. Individuals are not financial institutions, and financial institutions are regulated as such.
Configuration management is more than version control, it's how you control your entire deployment, VC is one part.

VC can be a huge part of this if you are software only, but it also helps sometimes to remember that these standards were written with hardware in mind.

Another thing that can help with understanding is to start from what they are trying to achieve (talking to someone experienced here helps) and work backwards.

For example, the idea that if I pull a version of your release software off a machine at a hospital, you should be able to demonstrate to me that you know exactly how it was produced and ended up there. The source code, the build machines, the packaging, etc. You should be able to tell me what other version exist and where they are. If I need you to notify everyone with a particular configuration of an important update you can do that.

Stuff like this leads you to the configuration management language pretty naturally.
Cede & Co is the company that performs the function you are describing. I can’t give you answers on the technical side of things.

This article below will hopefully help you understand things a bit more clearly.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-07-14/banks-...

EDIT: I pasted the wrong link. See below.

https://smithonstocks.com/part-8-illegal-naked-shorting-seri...
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Which games?

They are completely opaque with everything from the release all the way up to the uplay+ roll-out.

There really isn't anything left to take their word on anymore.
A Categorical Theory of Patches (2013)
Huh? That brings us right back to “everyone needs a hefty at-home computing device that goes underutilized most of the time”?
It was just a dish of prawns served with chocolate sauce. Ramsay made the smoothie and fed it to the blindfolded chef to demonstrate the combination doesn't work.

I've watched that show way too much...
Yes. Pretty thinly veiled advertisment, the "article"