skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The future is probably to only allow the middle-class and the well-off people to fly again, the tickets costing 5 or 10 pounds from London to the likes of Prague or Malaga that used to be so popular among the young and the low and low-middle-classes will probably be a thing of the past.

The same goes for personal cars, the governments are all too happy to give money directly to the high-middle-classes so that they could buy EVs costing north of 40,000 euros while imposing very high taxes (when not banning them altogether) for 10 to 15-year old SH cars favoured by the low and low-middle classes (because that's all that they can afford).

The Financial Times has had a really interesting article [1] on this a couple of days ago from the perspective of those high-middle class people, some of them are worried that the low and low-middle-class people will revolt once put in front of these new realities (like the Gilets Jaunes have done in France), but imo they will most probably do nothing of the sort.

[1] https://archive.is/H03ng
A well put-together powerful system with low distortion is quite an experience when you really crank the volume. It just gets bigger and bigger sounding but not really "loud" (ie. distorted), and loud clean sound is just a lot more satisfying and less fatiguing.

It's all about headroom, dynamics and being able to move air. Audiophiles may laugh, but a speaker like the Cerwin-Vega XLS215 one of the best choices you can make for reasonably affordable speakers, provided you have the room for them. They do look somewhat low-rent, but CV have taken some important lessons from PA speakers to heart, so they're surprisingly efficient and have large drivers that can effortlessly move significant amounts of air. Combine them with a powerful amplifier with plenty of headroom and you have a setup that can handle serious dynamics with very low distortion, better than 99% of concerts I've attended[¤].

For an actual PA speaker that can do much of the same thing, the JBL SRX835 is a similar powerhouse, but it has horn-loaded midrange and tweeter drivers, for those who prefer that sound. They are also effortlessly dynamic and I want a pair for my living room, despite the very utilitarian looks.

Unfortunately logistics and space constraints mean bookshelf speakers are the only practical setup in this apartment, so I picked ones that were as big as I could reasonably get away with, and supplement them with two reasonably well-hidden 12" subwoofers. I should have never sold my JBL 4410s, I'm sure I could have made space for them somehow.

[¤] The best sound quality I have ever heard at a concert and honestly better than most home setups, was when Opeth played in DR Koncerthuset here in Copenhagen in 2016. The sound is always insanely good there, but the combination of prog metal, an outrageously well-designed acoustic space, a seriously impressive sound system and world-class people behind the scenes, elevated everything to a completely new level.

It was the cleanest and most pristine amplified sound I have ever heard, and what really impressed me was how clean and deep the bass reproduction was, with absolutely no distortion or wooliness. It is my measuring stick that all other concerts are compared to.
I am a big fan of B&W speakers. Cool to see this article. Someday hope to get some 803s.
This (for cold brew, at least).

I’ve been using a muslin/“nut milk” bag for years. I’ll grind a pound of coffee and let it steep for a couple of days in roughly a gallon of water, then pour it into a dispenser that I can leave in the refrigerator.

I’m no coffee snob but to me the flavor keeps extremely well.

The only thing I found is that even the finest mesh bag leaves a considerable amount of grit so I pour that through a paper filter. Hard to beat fantastic coffee at the turn of a spigot.
Its not so different from the covid vaccines. We don't need a solution. We need every solution available.
Hmmm they really look to have huge losses. I understand a big part of that is because of growth but they have a bit more than a years cash remaining based on current burn - maybe 5 or 6 quarters? This IPO will need to generate a lot of cash to get them to a sustainable place.

Their cloud growth is good but their total growth (~50%) although nice isn’t so big for a company doing 236m in revenue but spending ~400m to do that at 50% growth.

Still I like their product and will keep an eye on this one.
I'm not sure how PyCharm deals with Docker but VSCode has a "remote containers" feature. You can run your app in a container and volume mount your code so you don't need to rebuild it, but the remote container feature lets you get full editor support (code complete for everything, etc.) with only defining a few lines of JSON. Maybe check around to see if PyCharm has a similar feature?
This can get very complex very quickly for a personal blog, though. I can remove GA at any time, and I'll probably remove it since I rarely look at my analytics, but Disqus is essential for commenting, which is integral to blogging IMHO.

The problem with the cookie law and the GDPR is that they adopt greenfield approach to an existing environment, without implementation examples.

BTW, as far as I know, the GDPR doesn't apply to me as "a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity", while the cookie law DOES apply.

But the scope of such statement if highly debated and, of course, Google and Disqus are not exempt from the GDPR.

So?

I feel that the GDPR is a good law. But it simply ignoring the status quo from an implementation perspective won't yield the results the lawmaker hoped for.
This mirrors my experience with Zen 2 and 3 as well. Multi-core loads result in just a few W per core and decent temperatures, while few or single core loads push per-core power into the 12-16 W region and the temperature rise/fall is basically instant (brick-wall at 10 Hz update rate, though it's unclear what filtering is applied and how the CPU derives a single temperature from its probably numerous sensors), which suggests that they're not limited by the cooler, but rather by the thermal impedance from the active area to the cooler. The core itself is really tiny (iirc around 4 mm²)...
This is a bit of a puff piece and ad for this agency. I do like Node but I don't think this does much to advocate for it. I was curious about the NASA case study however. I found the full write up of it here: https://openjsf.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/84/2020/02/Case...

It seems the data to analyse the issue was spread across multiple databases making it difficult to find the solution to the space helmet problem. They used Node to create an ETL pipeline to centralise the data into a RethinkDB instance and ElasticSearch index. It was then easily accessible for whoever needed it. It seems it was a success for them but I'm not sure you can attribute much of it to Node specifically. Though if the team was able to get the job done and achieve good results using Node good for them.
> This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws.

Meh, I'm not in your target audience anyway.
Heh, Safetynet is consistently fooled by Magisk's hide-root option, so is it really doing that?
I did this thing early in my career. I had two scenarios:

- No work

- Too much work

And very little in between....

"No work" requires a ton of time to generate leads, network, etc. You're asking people to hire an unknown. "Too much work" happens once the pump was primed. People found I did good work, and started hiring / referring me to do a lot more stuff.

The trick was to not unprime the pump. That was actually tough to manage, since e.g. clients would want me for 40 hours per week for a multiyear commitment (essentially employment), at which point, I'd get off of other people's radars. If you turn down too much work, people stop asking.

I think I'd manage this a lot better late career, but on the whole, I found employment to work better for me, at least with a good employer.
Copyright owners will push for the later, maybe even take a page out off Googles Play store licensing and outright prohibit hardware manufacturers of even dreaming about producing a device that doesn't enforce their draconian requirements. So hardware manufacturers get the hard choice of either going for the general market that expects things to work or going for a tiny market that is happy with some of the most popular services not working by design.
Tables are awesome and reliable across about 25 years of software across different vendors and development models...

Pretty impressive, if you ask me. I'm choosing tables too. And CSS.
> I hate code like `1.writeln`

Meh... after not more than my first month into D this syntax grew on me and now I just use `1.writeln` everywhere. More than a few years later, I can't think of a single issue this has ever caused me.
More understandable for anyone who was around for the virtually identical Sega vs Nintendo wars of the 80s and 90s.
I own some OnePlus devices and I wouldn't trust them with my money simply because of the mess they release in updates. Our phones are trying to reach example.com and RFC TEST-NET for christs sake. Also, they break things more with every update.
Another World: Genesis
You are spreading disinformation here, maybe, unintentionally. I lived for 25 years in Belarus and have a lot of connections in Belarus.

These days Lukashenko is very unpopular in the country. He falsified elections, his people committed a lot of violence against the innocent. He is putting people in prison, denied the entrance to Belarus for the citizens. It is a very bad time for the country now - many people and businesses are leaving the country for Lithuania, Poland, etc.

He did not do any economical reforms either, and most state companies are almost dead and cannot compete on the market. He totally relies on donations from Russia. Thanks to him Belarus is not attractive to investors. IT businesses, his golden goose, are leaving.
I’m quite confused by the paragraph arguing that advertisers don’t want to violate my privacy. So if I’m a parent and rather keep that private from everyone, how’s showing me diaper ads by obtaining that information from somewhere I didn’t suspect not a violation of my privacy?
Each player has 350ms for their code to run, that's the only limit and should be large enough for anything 'reasonable'.
Removing Garbage Collection from the Rust Language (2013)
> We found that WFH employees had a 50% lower rate of promotion after 21 months compared to their office colleagues.

For tech people this is not a problem since most will not work more than 2 years for the same company (related offtopic: this is the reason I think "legacy code sucks": because the original authors never stayed the sufficient time in a given company to deal with maintaining their own old code).
New Cloud TPU VMs make training your ML models on TPUs easier than ever
> Could you be more specific? At least for me, there's no noticeable lag when using Evil mode.

Long-time Vim user here. I tried switching to Doom Emacs for a few months. I really, really wanted to like it. As a nerd, the infinite customizability is like catnip to me. It has a really mature plugin ecosystem and you can have a really comfy computing setup with magit, org mode, dired, mu4e, etc...

But Emacs is intrinsically slow as molasses. The nail in the coffin for me was the scrolling performance. And I don't mean line-by-line. Even going half a page, or a full page at a time, pegs a CPU core and there is noticeable latency. The Doom Emacs documentation straight up admits it [0]. They recommend crazy things like turning off line numbers. Even with newfangled native Elisp compiler, it doesn't come even close to vim on alacritty.

[0] https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs/blob/develop/docs/faq...
Little of both.
If you're willing to give it a chance, please stop by the discord server, I'd love to have a look at what's going on and if it's a bug in the game.
This is often a requirement of grocery stores where they intend to sell it, who don’t want to have stock that isn’t salable after two weeks (it can take the big groceries longer than that to just distribute it to their stores).
Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach (2000)
It's the universe conspiring to test your will power.

If you can resist after reading this HN thread, you'll be able to overcome any future temptation.

Good luck.
It could go the way of freenode, in which case, everyone would move somewhere else. Things change, deal with it. It's not a one-off, it's a cycle. Everything eventually dies and is born anew from the ashes.
If you're reading this you're likely to be from Earth; more likely than from some other sentient-life bearing planet; therefore other sentient-life bearing planets must have fewer sentient beings!

Simples.
I'm not sure what you mean. Being exposed to risk is a fact of life in supply chains. Every time you order from a supplier, you have the risk of having ordered too much, and you have the risk of having ordered too little, and the quantity (and timing) of your order is just your way to decide how much you want to be exposed to these two risks. Abandoning JIT does not change that.

Of course, the financial impact of the two risks is not equal. Many supply chains aim at a service level that is higher than 50%: they reduce their exposure to out-of-stock risks by increasing their exposure to overstock risks, because they consider out-of-stock to be much worse than overstock. But where do you draw the line ? What is the correct ratio ? How large should the rainy day fund be ? Is it worth building warehouses and hiring the workforce to run them ?
The 500 Euro note is being taken out of circulation (2019)
Yes, people should go to jail so you don't have to smell things you don't like.

Unbelievable.
How to use version control system Git?
Rephrasing this a bit, I do also find myself to enter my "work-mode" playing these types of brains, and I too would rather do paid work if it's going to be like that. It's not fun for me knowing that I'm essentially exploiting myself for no reason. I'd love a game like this however that developed niche skills. Maybe a game where you move your unit by writing a weird, complex bash script for something.

Or a game where you have to rewrite a perl one-liner in python before the bomb explodes or something. That could be sorta fun for me.
In classical music, the performance is of course unique, but the piece is not. What I mean is, even if the arrangement has changed for a particular piece, the underlying score, the foundation is same.

As you know, classical music is layered. It can be scaled for different sized orchestras, which can be akin to tessellation in graphics. You can add more nuanced scores or details if your orchestra has enough members. Of course this has a limit, which is the full score written by the original composer. Similarly, you can remove some layers or simplify the piece if you're smaller orchestra without compromising the piece.

What I tried to say is, if you've listened the piece from or performed with a relatively big orchestra, you'll know that which instrument shall be there, where the small optional triplets are, how the piece should sound or where's that little oboe shall come in, where the little cymbal adds that little crash, or how the harmonics affect each other and create that atmosphere.

So, you'll notice something is missing or off or not as it should be especially in the high end. Classical music has a lot of perceptual tricks under its sleeves to create a specific ambiance and sense of space and most of this lays in the higher end of the spectrum, and they get shaved off first with lossy compression.

Hope this helps, because it's something more felt than can be said with words, how you can't really hear the double bass but feel how it's there. It's that kind of perception.

Edit: Just wanted to add that one musician's or orchestra's specific style of course will be different, but a good orchestra is very faithful to the original score of the piece. Even if an orchestra is playing a little fast or more aggressive, or a simplified version, base instrumentation and atmosphere is the same (as long as the orchestra is not doing Metallica S&M style play the right thing with wrong instruments kind of deliberate arrangement).

Another extreme example would be the band Pink Martini. They have an on-stage audio magic which allows them live with the exact sound of their studio recordings, albeit live. It's surreal to experience.
Interesting. Looking at the same graph - especially when you tweak it to show only the last decade - you'll see solar is growing very quickly (25% YoY) while the others stay fairly stable. That would have it overtaking oil in 20 years.

Considering we're going to see mass adoption of electric vehicles in the next 5-20 years I think that will happen even more quickly.
An Automated Approach to the Collatz Conjecture
I'm not talking about offloading everything to the partner either.

It sounds like you've only worked in organisations that force a really shitty work/life balance on their staff but I assure you that you can have your proverbial cake and eat it. Maybe it's a US vs Europe culture but here companies are generally (not always, there's a fair share of shitty companies here too) accepting of employees working from home when they need it. I've never once had a job that hasn't allowed me to work flexible hours to accommodate school runs and other family commitments, nor take time away when my child is ill.

In fact because my wife is a school teacher (and thus has less flexibility in her job), she is the one who depends on me most of the time. The commute was the one little block of the day (and it wasn't every day) when I wasn't running around for a wife and two small children.

So you can absolutely have a commute and still be dedicated to your family. You just can't work for c*nts who thinks a working relationship should be one way.
The audiophile analogy is not a terrible one, particularly given there's "sensible" snake-oil-avoiding audiophiles out there, but there's still a few important differences that make coffee quite different:

1. The expensive accessories thing is actually a bit of a myth.

Espresso is expensive: a good home machine will set you back well over 500 $/€ and can go up into the thousands, and an accompanying grinder is about the same price range again. You can pay over 100 just for a tamper.

But, coffee snobs are typically not into espresso. The two biggest areas of "audiophile-esque" dedication are pourover (v60 funnel ~€4.50) and the infamous International Aeropress Championships (retailing ~€35). Filter-grade grinders are also much cheaper than Espresso, going in the ~€200-€500 range for electric, but most dedicated aficionados prefer manual grinders which retail as low as €25 for a decent quality one.

A part of the above differences is that coffee snobs are into the more direct & involved (slow) process of making

The bigger cost to coffee snobs is beans, retailing usually around triple to quadruple the price of major brands. I guess this could be likened to buying vinyl... ? Though the audiophile community still disagree on whether vinyl is worthwhile.

2. It's not all about taste

Major brand coffee is sold at well below reasonable cost of production. Coffee snobs are buying Direct Trade coffee, which is typically much more sustainable and equitable, even when compared to many of the mass-produced "Fairtrade-labelled" brands. While buying expensive beans will hit your pocket much more severely than the equipment costs, it is at least going toward something.

This could I guess be likened to audiophiles supporting artists by buying albums etc. but I'm not sure if that's generally true of audiophiles specifically (e.g. compared to serial concert-goers)
This is a first-year university calculus text book based on hyperreal numbers.
> a little note pops up informing me that there's a bug in sorting non-ascii characters that was fixed recently

Grandpa goes: Sorting? Wha? Non-ASCII? What's ASCII? Characters? Like on TV??
Placebo redactions. Win-Win
I just went for the easy solution and disabled web fonts. Comes with the drawback that many site UIs are now at least partially broken (especially since some developers had the bright idea to use fonts for UI icons), though flashier sites tend to come with less interesting content anyway.

But as it stands I don't want to trust Google, Facebook etc. more than absolutely necessary. They have lost every right to that a long time ago and are incentivized by their business model to not change anything.
Sure, I mostly went through this playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjbohkNBWQs_... (I haven't seen all the videos yet).

Also some parts of this book https://www.amazon.com/Database-Internals-Deep-Distributed-S... were very useful when working on the file structure.

I also just recently saw this project https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/ which builds a database in C. I have not gone through it but it seems like quite a good resource.

For the overall design the CMU playlist is the most helpful.
Humans never willingly decrease their footprint. Even technology that is supposed to "save money" won't be used to decrease overall footprint. People want to save money so they can get more in other areas. Technology that simply reduces overall footprint doesn't sell. Technology will not save us.
Top load testing tools – Top load testing tools
Beans produced for supermarkets or chains use the “best before” because it is a relatively long time. The beans might not taste their best but they are safe to use.

Speciality roasters will print a roast date.

James Hoffman just made a video on exactly this topic: https://youtu.be/O9YnLFrM7Fs

Warning: once you start on his videos you may never return.
I completely agree and would be in favor of keeping nuclear power running. But I think that shutting off nuclear early is a very minor mistake compared to the general energy policy.
Is 'you can either consent or leave' GDPR-compliant?
I agree that the choice of task is not ideal. It is something that I struggled quite a bit with, since coming up with a good task can be a lot of work. Unfortunately even some of the "neuromorphic" datasets that are in use can be solved by massive temporal averaging or result in reduced performance of the network relative to "analog" temporal input (e.g. on Google Speech Commands). I'm collaborating with a group that is interested in event-based vision and control, so hopefully this will result in more practical/impressive demonstrations in the future.
Deep freezing iron-based materials makes them both magnetic and superconducting
This freenode thing shows they have less power than they think. If they abuse it, it's super-simple for their users to move elsewhere. Every sane client supports connecting to multiple networks at the same time.
I think they would in any case. My impression is that data is siloed internally at Google, and that data sharing between departments would be way more complex than just setting up some (possibly redundant) logging.
>We found that WFH [work from home] employees had a 50% lower rate of promotion after 21 months compared to their office colleagues. [Managers] often confided that home-based employees in their teams get passed over on promotions because they are out of touch with the office.

While I think there is definitely merit to having the entire team in the office for at least some days of the week, managers should have enough self-insight to be able to just stop discriminating in this way when it comes to promotions.
You logic doesn't follow. You start out by saying "no", but what you immediately follow up with, is the answer "yes" to my question.
>most will not work more than 2 years for the same company

I must have worked in weird tech companies all my life then. (The legacy code still sucks, though.)