skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very nice! It made me realise that rooms on one side of a building receive more sunlight than others over the course of the whole year, especially at higher latitudes.
You make it sound like those studies were bad because the sample size was too small. In reality bad study design or having an unrepresentative sample are more common issues.
Holding requests open for long polling is probably difficult to scale. How do you persist connections when application servers drop in/out? How do you load-balance? What about socket descriptor limits? etc...
There should be a study on studies being posted to HN. We must be at like 99% of them that get critiqued for being a bad study in one way or another. I would love to see some examples where everyone accepts the study.
I was in the same boat as you. Definitely talk to someone, see someone, take something, etc. I didn't and it spiraled out of control.
I'm knee deep into complex modular synthesis patches these days, but started like you a few years ago.
I would say: ignore the software stuff and treat yourself to a great analog hardware synth. You will learn a lot more, have a real instrument to play with, listen to its amazing sounds -- and if you don't like it, you will be able to resell it with a tiny loss.

In order to learn things, I would recommend a semi-modular synth like the Moog Grandmother. It's great for learning all the basics and sounds absolutely phenomenal.
Would be nice if they open sourced it now that the company doesn't exist anymore. But it seems to never pan out and people just lose access to the thing they paid for.
What are the losses for wireless charging? I'm surprised to see it in a battery pack.
I think the messaging is to encourage people to open an Apple Card account
What's controversial? That people who say they know vim actually don't?
I know $900-$1500 is "cheap" for most of the HN crowd, but for the rest of us there's hardware synth options that are much cheaper!
For example, the Korg Volca Keys [1] is a perfectly suitably synth to learn the basics of analog synthesis and can make some nice sounds to boot. YOu can get it for $150 new or even less used.
(And of course, there's plenty of free software synths, as others have linked in other posts here).
[1] https://www.korg.com/us/products/dj/volca_keys/
Sometimes I forget that there is a difference between a programmer and a software engineer. I actually think that mathematics should be emphasized more where programming is concerned, practicing applicable maths improves on your ability to be logical and therefore a complementary skill for a programmer.
Effect systems are both a runtime thing (similar to exceptions or lisp's conditions, in some sense), and a type-level thing (have a set of effects attached to an arrow, with type inference that is able to infer the effects and compose them nicely). Both are necessary for the future ML™, I think: the runtime part gives semantics to effects and composes super well (better than monad transformers, afaict: no need to `lift` everything); the typing part keeps the code honest. The effects also have to compose nicely with higher-order functions (so that `map` carries over the effects of its functional parameter).

> From what I read recently that's the plan, although they'll focus first on domains for 5.0, and merge the effects later.

Yes indeed! The timeline for typed effects is not clear to me, it might take a long time, especially with the stringent constraints of backward compatibility.

That said I'm not an expert, I'm just very hyped :-)
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I was the same! I saw synthesizers in the mid-70's and heard some Wendy Carlos tunes and Rich Wakeman and said "Now THAT is a pretty cool instrument!" That lead to me taking an electronic music class in college to get access to a Moog Model 15, and then to buy Hal Chamberin's book Digital Music Synthesis, and eventually to buy a synth from Roger Arrick who runs synthesizers.com and basically hand builds modular analog synths.

Designing those "fat" analog sounds from the 70's requires a subtractive synth which starts with a harmonic rich waveform (like a sawtooth) and then applies filters to it that are modulated by an ADSR envelope.

Dr. Chowning over at Stanford invented (or at least documented) using FM modulation (mixing) of multiple sinusoids to achieve interesting sounds. That was the basis for the Yamaha DX-7 and you can hear it on a lot of 80's and 90's band tracks. His book is somewhat dry but it goes over the theory well and with something like the Yamaha TX81z sound module you can put his ideas into action and hear the results.

Later synthesizers went full on DSP which allows you to effectively emulate that other forms and also to do things that they can not (like phase coherent modulation schemes).

All said, for me at least, playing with the model 15 in college and playing with my Arrick 22-slot modular synth since, has been the only way for me to internalize the connection between the sound I wanted to hear in my head with how to set things up to produce it.
You might find this interesting:

'What the heroin industry can teach us about solar power' -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53450688

The satellite images show the green areas over the desert increasing.

They're pumping water from underground to irrigate the poppies using electric pumps and solar panels.

I wonder how quickly the water table will be depleted though.
Agreed, especially after reading this post https://livingafi.com/post-fire-relationship-disconnect/

It's a dialog he is creating as a summary of many discussions. In his version of the story they both communicate well and seem to hear each other, but not agree on life. Then his takeaway is that she didn't hear him, which was an odd take.
You were tested and diagnosed with Covid in January 2020?
This is EXACTLY why I am so hell bent on retiring early. I recognized this aspect of my being very early on in life. My interests come and go, but they are strong. I am capable of achieving anything when my mind is truly interested in it but unfortunately my mind grows bored with things eventually. In retirement, I would just pursue whatever interests me at the time! Whether its software, hardware, automotive, or just reading.

That freedom is truly priceless.

I only wish I too were 2nd at a unicorn startup ;)
I am realizing now that what I wrote reads like I was the author of Fakeflix - I am not. Sorry for the confusion..
Controlled burns prevent big fires??! Surely not.

So, you're telling me, that if they don't do controlled burns, you could end up with a huge inferno?! Impossible.

Next you'll be saying that the huge infernos are orchestrated, in order to promote the idea that climate change is out of control!
One thing to note is that their output is also crazy compared to their weight. Looking at the numbers I sometimes think I could stay in the peloton. But then I realize I'd be dropped as a hot potato in the first small uphill segment.
Would you insist that you should be able to "make" the moped? Nobody will be as self-sufficient as the early Neolithic people ever again. For me, "making" things by building them from mass-manufactured components such as solar panels is perfectly fine. People don't shy from installing solar panels just because they can't manufacture them themselves from sand anymore then they shy from buying electric motors or CPUs.
I think the idea is that watt-hours (Wh) serves the same purpose and doesn't miss information about capacity if voltage is omitted. Technically though the units in watt hours should cancel out to be Joules which may be the best unit.

Are amp hours in some way better due to the varying voltage across the charge profile of a draining battery perhaps?
It the system is moving fast this is still somewhat complicated to implement robustly because by the time the "catchup" request to t0 returns, more time has passed and more events have happened, so you still can't resume consuming the webhooks.

To be correct with such a system you have to be prepared to queue the incoming webhook events, do the catchup query, then replay the queued events.
The de-materialization of AR could lead in the direction you’re discussing, but almost certainly won’t. The infrastructure is/will be developed by organizations that are explicitly a part of (and escalate) the material and status culture you deride. Some of these companies explicitly make their wealth based on advertising and will hardly give up those profit streams willingly when the shift to AR takes place. Most people are trapped playing other people’s games, but the shift to AR won’t solve that.
If you mean Internet Explorer, it's because the deprecation of that is starting now because Edge supports IE mode for legacy apps and is otherwise Chromium.
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This story isn't enough to gauge safety. We don't know who wasn't vaccinated or when he informed visitors of his quarantine status.
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Thanks for your response. I think I was unfairly attacking you after a rough day. I'll just say that preventative care is very important and you have a right to receive the proper medication.
Even at 500x the speed of light it took some time for me to receive it, and then you receive it some time after, so no it does not arrive before you send it. You'll just have to wait ~500x that time to see the corresponding visual. For me it's not weirder than sending and getting back the paper airplane at 500x the speed of sound and waiting for the sound. But I surely miss something.
Harm is weird. If I sell bootleg copies of harry potter, I'm not harming anyone in any sense but opportunity cost. Sales that would have happened didn't occur. The law sees that as harm.

Personally, I'd like not have my IP used in training ML models. If they want to incorporate my stuff into their training data, they can do it on my terms, which would be either paying to license my work, or something along the lines of a new kind of copyleft license where the model has to be public and copyleft too. By including my work anyways, I didn't get the terms I would have needed.

Scale makes it weird, because it's the a-drop-of-water-in-an-ocean issue, but harm is still real harm when it's split into a billion separate pieces of infinitesimal harm.
$100M is a rounding error for the oil well operators at a country scale. And if you magically manage to convince one, there are others - Russia, USA, Canada, Norway, China, Iraq, etc.
Exactly. Perhaps an event happens once or twice-ish a day per customer, and never on the weekends.
Too bad it'll be an older version instead of the latest.
I wish Motorola wouldn't cancel their superb Z line of phones. MotoMods were a great idea, which worked especially well for batteries. I never had to worry to run out of power for the last 4 years I use these devices.
My thoughts / feedback:

Maybe it's because I'm Dutch, but we use the English cally.com or the Dutch datumprikker.nl for these type of situations. To be fair, it's more a generalized version of "I want to pick a date with a group, but when can everyone be there?"

It's not as specific as the idea presented here. So I find it interesting to compare. I'm immediately noticing that the UI/UX helps to solve this problem. What would I'd like to see is a quick video with the happy path of user stories, so I can see how it works. Though perhaps that's better, because now I feel the need to create an account in order to see how it works.
iOS has 60% market share in the US, which is also the percentage of people who could scrape together $1,000 in an emergency: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/11/just-39percent-of-americans-... .

iPhones are not simply Veblen goods like Hermes handbags (although there might be that element to them), they are also in many ways the best smartphone you can buy, for lots of different reasons. I buy all of my clothes at Costco and I have an iPhone. It is a mainstream product targeting mainstream Americans, many of whom consume on credit.
Or he informed them ahead of time and they took the risk on their own.
After looking at the specs, I'm really disappointed. MagSafe by itself already heats up my iPhone 12 mini tremendously compared to a normal wired charger, which can charge up to 20W instead of just 15W (or 12W for my mini). But this battery doesn't do even 12W/15W when not plugged in, it only goes to 5W, the same as the Anker battery, which is less than half the price. Also it only comes in white.
It's a fundamental disagreement on the very idea:

Google's position is that it's okay for a website to know X amount of data about a user, you know, as long as it doesn't, in total, cross the creepy line.

Everyone else's position is that if the data isn't required to operate, you don't need it. If we accept that the User Agent, as it is going to be frozen, is going to be served anyways to avoid breaking the legacy web, very little of this proposal adds value, and much of it adds harm. It isn't practical to move to not serving the User Agent, so any replacement for the data in it is pointless at it's very best. The frozen UA provides enough to determine if someone is mobile, the only real need for UA strings. And when most browsers are looking at reducing the tools for websites to fingerprint, Google is introducing new ones.

So Firefox's position on Privacy Sandbox as a whole is pretty logical: If it's optional enough to be requested, why offer it at all? The entire premise of Privacy Sandbox is that it wants sites to have access to some amount of information about the user, and the position of every non-Google-browser is that they want to give sites as close to no data at all as possible.

This is the core of the problem with a single company being legally permitted to operate a web browser and an ad company. Every single browser developer that doesn't own an Ads and Analytics suite is opposed to Privacy Sandbox.
I feel like this wealth concept is a bit dated, have you seen the news the last month.

For the ultra wealthy, their lives are completely dependent on loans and debt.
Looks like Apple is once again doubling down on Lightning, because the battery pack gets charged with one, instead of with micro-USB or USB-C.

I like how it also works as a MagSafe charging pad, but it's a shame that they didn't use a single bidirectional USB-C port, and have a way to allow other devices to be charged from that port.
Maybe it's slightly more convenient because the same value applies no matter how many cells are in the battery pack. So it helps distinguish the packs by electrical current output capacity which we can't get from a power value because power combines two different measures.
Embedding gifs is getting harder as well. I wish I could spit in the cereal of whomever at Google decided videos need to show up in image search. Even when you search for a gif you saw fifteen years ago you have to sort through a dozen webm or gifv or mp4 versions of it before finding one you can actually embed with an [img] tag.
I once upgraded an EPS interpreter that was used as the key piece of an EPS importer. I added a couple of PS things like 'arcto'. It seems to me a LaTeX importer could work as an interpreter, too. Probably not very much fun after a while.
Good video! Thanks. c is still defined as "the speed of light" by NIST, even if it's not measured, and even if it's more universal than light. But I get your point (via the video) - photons are particles that move only in space, and not at all in time. Kind of makes your mind bend when you consider the cosmic background radiation hasn't aged a day since the beginning of the universe...and since it comes from everywhere equally, we really are the center of the universe. And so is everwhere else! Fun.
Personally, I've always just associated ftp:// with my preferred client and the browser just opens my client for me when I hit one. Works pretty good.
Haha greener grass and all I guess. I've seen those numbers on glassdoor and a couple threads here.

Edit: sorry it was site https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi.... No idea how real it is.
You can also charge the pencil from an iPhone. It's just another Lightning device.
I understand this concern but I was blown away when I heard this fact which I wanted to share with you.

> Certain species of bamboo can grow 910 mm (36 in) within a 24-hour period, at a rate of almost 40 mm (11⁄2 in) an hour (a growth around 1 mm every 90 seconds, or 1 inch {2.54 centimeters} every 40 minutes).

At least it's better than no trees at all.
Ironically, as much as I love FreeBSD, I am being forced to migrate to Linux because the USB mass storage support on FreeBSD is broken on Dell rack servers. I recently migrated to a newer generation Dell server w/ 16TB disks to replace my aging fleet of R710s and cut my power usage considerably, and found I could no longer reliably keep a server online if I boot from USB. There's several threads about this on the FreeBSD forums, including one I started, and the general consensus of the community is "don't do that thing you're doing that works perfectly fine on every other OS, even Windows." not "FreeBSD is broken and this bug should be fixed."

I've fought the good fight for FreeBSD for more than a decade, and my last system running it is getting Debian installed on it in the near-term future.
One of my favorite resources I find myself going back to time and again is Synth Secrets a 63 part article series by Gordon Reid:

https://www.soundonsound.com/synthesizers/synth-secrets
I am so sorry to hear, I hope you feel back to normal soon! What are you doing to manage your symptoms right now? Are you exercising, taking vitamins, prescribed drugs, seeing a therapist, etc?
> You were tested and diagnosed with Covid in January 2020?

17 months ago would be mid february 2020.
The IFR, depending on whom you believe, was always in the 0.23-0.7% range. The CFR is a worthless junk statistic for estimating risk to the individual and is only of use for managing services.

Whether it is lower now or not is more a philosophical question as empirical, the IFR has been demolished by vaccinating the elderly.

This can be taken two ways.... Either that Covid was never a risk to most people to begin with and only appeared deadly because of those close to death, OR Vaccines have saved us.

Either way, the CFR in Briton of the Delta Variant is 0.13%, for the unvaccinated that number is 0.08%

A reasonable IFR rate would be close to half those rates (in my opinion, as that is unknowable)

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Severe viral diseases are no joke. I know a couple people who got COVID19 and are still dealing with issues months on. One had to drop out of university due to "brain fog" and concentration issues.

> Individuals that have not fully recovered or suffer from fatigue, dyspnea or depression were more likely to have further healthcare contacts. However, a third of individuals (37/111) that have not fully recovered did not seek further care.

My personal experience of getting chickenpox as an adult was a high fever for almost a week and nearly two years before I felt normal again. At about 6 months in I stopped going to doctors because they had nothing new to tell me. What was a mild disease for children turned into a protracted ordeal for me.
It's only useful if you know the voltage of the battery, so that you can calculate watt-hours, or if you at least know that two batteries you're comparing are the same voltage so you're comparing like to like. It's not useful if you're comparing batteries of different voltages unless you're adjusting for voltage in which case you want to use Wh anyway, which is why using Wh here is more useful.
Who will pay for the gains if people want to withdraw them?
Why cant we just plant more trees? Or let the trees we have grow bigger, to soak up all that extra carbon?
I cannot recommend Syntorial enough. It builds up your knowledge of subtractive synthesis knob by knob, starting just with an oscillator and working up to the whole shebang (filters, envelopes, modulation, legato, mono vs polyphonic, etc). For every single step, you're given a typical softsynth interface (with only the settings you've unlocked so far), given a short melody played with the target configuration, and you have to duplicate the configuration by ear from scratch (the intent is that this is the most direct way for you to learn to dial in sounds you hear in your head). You'll also be shown which knobs you got wrong when you make a mistake so you can intuitively see which settings you need to focus on better hearing.

On top of all this, the license includes free add-ons for popular softsynths like Massive and Serum that go into specific detail about applying what you learn to those synths if you're interested in that.

And there's a hands-on demo! https://www.syntorial.com/

It is pretty expensive, but the combination of brilliant hands-on implementation and sheer volume (no pun intended) of learning content warrants it IMO if you're invested in learning the topic.

Also, not directly related to this, but they have a forum as well where people will share sounds they hear in popular songs and ask each other for tips on programming what they're hearing, which can be a neat resource as well, though I've personally not got as involved in that.
I've literally never seen a contract that contained a prohibition on being an asshole. If you are presented with a contract that doesn't contain such a condition it doesn't tell you anything about the intentions of your counter-party
Since they claim a quarter of patients are showing symptoms and one of those is depression - how do they separate the out the effect of the de facto criminalization of social activity, an innate human behavior ingrained in our DNA after millions of years of evolution?

You'd get significant depression in solitary confinement too.
The perspective I get from the article is of decentralized self sufficiency. Being able to harvest methane in their locality, and use that as fuel is quite appealing versus purchasing and installing solar panels or relying on power lines.

I’m not saying your math doesn’t check out; rather, the author is going for a different set pro/cons than just pure “efficiency”.
No, I had it in early March, pretty much textbook, called the local doctor who said don't bother testing (it was quite obvious) but isolate from family, which we did as good as we could. There were a couple of really bad nights, and after that it got better bit by bit and after three weeks I was able to get up again and work a bit. From there it was a long slog to get back to 'normal'.
Definitely.

Trivia: the original Emacs (written in TECO for PDP-10s running ITS) also had transparent access to remote filesystems using the same syntax (host:path).

It was free though: remote files were accessed over the net via a FUSE-like userspace process.

In the mid 1970s.
>Its my understanding humans evolved from a rodent like creature that existed during the time of the dinosaurs. primates did not exist then.

Our ancestors might at some point have been rodent-like, in the sense that they looked somewhat like rodents (or rather, some rodents still look like them, as the rodents also evolved from the same ancestor). But they weren't rodents, and they didn't have the incisors that characterize rodents.

>also, humans did not evolve from primates. humans are primates

Yes, we evolved from primates, and thus still are primates, like how birds still are dinosaurs.
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Another one here (Woman, 24 y.o.). Contracted COVID, had a terrible three-weeks of infection. Nine months later, I am having weekly heart palpitations, I'm constantly fatigued and fogged in the mind and my lung capacity is half what it used to be - I now require an inhaler to go on my runs. I know several women my age experiencing far worse.

Long COVID should not be ignored.