skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked into Sunamp last year as they sounded idea for us when redoing our heating. They seem to have had many teething problems, including the control circuit boards having fundamental problems, and people having the battery contents expand and warp the cases.

If you're interested in going that route, have a look at https://www.google.com/search?q=sunamp+review+site:forum.bui...
That's awesome. Sounds a lot like Brazil's Pix, which I saw some people in this website say would be a detriment to the "free market" and shouldn't exist. Lol.
Author seems to be looking to generate a blue noise texture for image sampling. I'm not familiar with them but it seems to be blue noise which also has uniformly distributed values in time domain. Generating white noise in frequency domain and multiplying with a frequency shape mask can generate noise with any frequency distribution, but it does not fill the uniform distributed values in time-domain requirement.

If there are no other requirements than the frequency spectrum then generating the noise in frequency domain works fine.
He is a man.
There is an RFC for this:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2550
There is fairly sombering website highlighting all the churches that were demolished during these decades in the Netherlands. Often the reason was "stadsvernieuwing" (urban renewal) and at the location of the church, the contemporary church for capitalism would arise - a shopping mall.

http://www.mooistegeslooptekerk.nl/
I did understand the point perfectly. The mechanism was there simply for the good actors to backtrace the data to the matching person, it's purpose was never to play a part in making the data more anonymous.

If what you meant to say was the more clear statement that adversaries wouldn't need to do that then I'd have agreed with you.

Everything else that was mentioned; the strict processes in determining what data could be stored, what it exposed about the user if anything, eliminating as much of the human input as possible and the post processing of the data before it left the measurement lab. These are the steps that achieved anonymity (as far as everyone believed had been achieved).
I don't understand why Dutch leave their home country. It seems so idyllic from the outside! What's San Mateo got that Utrecht doesn't? :-)
No evidence. But I have seen a lot of fundamental based investors talking about using technicals to get a better entry point.
Am not super versed in the question, but would wager it’s a matter of who’s willing to go fight the status quo to change the law. Contrary to cannabis, there’s no strong science behind decensoring, nor obvious medical use. The field is already under heavy attacks in a lot of fronts, there would be better battles to fight than this one.
I like this author's reflections on sustainability, supply chains, and labor, but I don't find their class-anxiety over their cork-pull being middlebrow very relatable.

My first impulse is "give it to a thrift store", which is where I buy all of my clothing. But then I think about how poorly-organized and unpredictable the housewares department at the thrift store is, and wonder if, once it was donated, if anyone would ever buy it. We do a bad job at recycling in our society, but we do an even worse job at reusing. Imagine if reuse were something we were really dedicated to: thrift stores would pool their inventories and rationalize their stocking in a way that would make the nearest thrift store a viable choice when you want a specific common item, and not just when you're browsing to see what you can find.
> middle click on window usually puts you in some sort of stupid alternate scroll mode

It's just badly implemented there. Internet Explorer had a completely brain-dead implementation, and every embedded webview inherited that.

Firefox always had a very nice implementation of middle-click scroll. It may sound silly, but this one of the major reasons I always hated chromium-based browsers — they do have it, but it's not nearly as nice (you can't, or at least couldn't easily scroll inside scrollable elements, the acceleration profile feels very weird, and other small things like that).
I completely agree with everything you said. I think the people that should chime here in should be product/project managers.
I mean, it's all cute and sustainable I guess for me on the edge of it all.

Until the road outside my house is pedestrianised.

Then I move further out and everything I do pollutes more, heh.

There's a balance between 0 cars and all cars.
Wahoo, it doesn't use 0-indexed months! Probably the biggest cause of bugs with js Date objects.
> DateTime.MaxValue is 0x2BCA2875F4373FFF.
> The 62 bits technically allow for an extra ~81 days into the year 10,000.

Just eyeballing it from starting 0x2B... which is about 2/3 of 0x3F... which would be the maximum value of 62 bits, I'm pretty sure you've miscalculated!

Looking at the docs, 0x0 represents 1/1/1 AD, so that means the 62 bits can suffice for almost 5000 years beyond DateTime.MaxValue. So, people's code will still work for a little while afterwards, even if they aren't printed correctly!

But anyway, it's all kind of a moot point. 8000 years ago is about the limit of known human civilisation, so it's unlikely that any of the technology we create today will still be considered important the same distance into the future.

Not only has every country on earth gone through at least one entire calendar reform in the last 8000 years, and many countries that use the concept of DST feel the need to change the dates when it occurs every few years, the chance of this being an issue for anyone is approximately 0.
Why do you consider it a good thing to not use standard controls?
But trickle-down economics is trying to make it one. We have 3 men in the US that have as much wealth as 50% of everyone else.

The charts here speak for themselves, https://inequality.org/facts/wealth-inequality/

Lower taxes on the rich just makes the rich richer and everyone else poorer. We need fair taxes for all, not breaks for the rich and hope that they spend some of their extra cash.
shrugs Not to my taste, but you've got to admire somebody so pissed off with pixelation, they've created a project..

I was disappointed at the issues - I'd anticipated there being amusing complaints.
And he seems to be one of the few who bothers to keep up writing at MS devblogs.

I wonder how it looks internally. Like, can anyone write there. Apart from a university I worked at management would never let me write any "blogs" about work related stuff.
It's China that's worried a) they want in on the idea and want to slow Musk down and b) they don't want their citizens able to connect to (basically) access to the internet beyond the GFofC.
Thanks for the input. Nope. I never really liked options etc
That would be a good reason. None of the many people I've seen getting these for Christmas over the years had arthritis. What they did all have was a friend or relative with a social obligation to buy some crap for them and a zillion other people in a crowded mall on the 24th afternoon.
"The quest to remove the final barrier of privacy"
It certainly inspired me to give it a try, very well done!
You’re niece commutes up to 45 min by bike to high school? So potentially 1.5hr per school day?
If it was "propaganda" as opposed to credible, unproven allegations you'd be pointing us to paragraphs about how meetings between Trump campaign officers and Russian officials probably or definitely did not happen as alleged, not clutching at the straws of "did not find evidence to prove beyond reasonable doubt [specific offence]" in an investigation which substantiated that there was contact between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives and resulted in criminal prosecutions of some of the participants for lying about that contact anyway.

When the OP suggest that claims of a South Korean built wall stretching the full length of the border are baseless propaganda, he's not doing so from the starting point that yes, there's obviously a wall going the full length of the border but we can't be confident of convicting its builders of criminal intent
> When debugging code or studying a program, it is quite comfortable to depend on only one hand, and have the other free to scribble or relax.

I wonder if the OP is ambidextrous? If using the mouse gave me a hand free to scribble some notes, I'd be a much more enthusiastic mouse user. Alas, both writing and mousing require my right hand, and there aren't many good uses for my left.
The operative piece of the above post (to me) is "working _against_ the browser", not the existence of custom code per se. IME lots of problems with UI development have come (partly) from shoehorning tech to do something it's not meant to do, at the expense of speed, accessibility, and general usability. If the built-in thing doesn't do what you need, by all means build something that does, but it's worth keeping in mind that often the useful thing that end users actually need/want is the built-in thing.
There is a key difference. With the JSON version you are constantly serialising and parsing the entire file, even if you need to write just a single byte.

With SQLite, you can read or write a few bytes without having to process the others.

Also, SQLite would allow observing the current state by querying the file, with the JSON version you would need to keep dumping the state every few seconds.

But I agree with you that most languages have solid support for JSON and it prevents you having to break down those tree structures into rows and then back again. For typed languages the struct becomes the schema.

SQLite indexes and joins also would not be a benefit if your state is small enough that queries are just filter functions with “full table scans”.
The Swedish hydro is currently under a lot of pressure. It is overused and need to be reduced in order to prevent extinctions of multiple species. The existing plants are old and need be repaired, and a majority of them has failed the regulative requirement for environmental preservation. Some are arguing that the law need to be changed, possible including EU law, or they won't be economical viable to get them into compliance.

As one comment on the news said, it is not viable to dig out new rivers. Someone in Norway could comment if they can expand their capacity, but I suspect the answer is the same there. Hydro is good but its a finite resource, and we now know the effect it has on fish and other animals that need the water to be traversalable.

Talking about the energy grid of Sweden, how many know that the single biggest contributor to carbon emissions in south of Sweden is an oil power plant? A country full of hydro and still, that is what tops the charts each year.
Here's our counterargument, or at least why Beeminder prefers punishment: https://blog.beeminder.com/contrapositive/

Relevant bit:

This sounds good but we’re not into it. I mean, first, we do have plenty of positive reinforcement in the form of pretty graphs and the satisfaction of adding datapoints. You can even spin the pledges as positive — they help you quantify the value of your goals. That can be powerful information for us rationality nerds.

But why not reframe Beeminder to focus on rewards? Well, paying money up front and getting it back unless you derail is a trick — it’s equivalent to getting stung. At least for me personally, the equivalency would always be at the back of my mind and bother me.

And there are more pragmatic problems. I like having scary high pledges on some of my goals. It would feel especially unreasonable to pay up front on those. Even more pragmatically, most goals are open-ended: get 10k steps (or work 40 hours, or practice piano for half an hour or whatever) per day forever. There’s typically no particular point when it makes sense to get your money back. It would be totally inefficient to have money always flowing back and forth and would really muddy the mental accounting in terms of how much you’re paying Beeminder for the motivation it’s giving you.

Not to mention the laws and accounting involved. We’d be kind of a bank and have revenue that wouldn’t count as revenue. I assume this part would be perfectly overcomeable if we were convinced the psychology / behavioral economics were right. But, again, we are not.
> We must live on different planets.

This was my point.

> There are literally mountains of evidence publicly available, and many thoroughly researched books by respected lawyers and political scientists on the subject.

The Mueller report didn't find any such mountains. Some of the biggest peddlers of the conspiracy theory have been recently been forced into embarrassing back downs https://nypost.com/2021/11/09/ex-state-dept-spox-slams-schif...

> You can't live in denial of the obvious and at the same time have the chutzpah to accuse others of lacking evidence.

What I can say for certain is that looking past all the bluster and propaganda and claims of what exists, I have never seen evidence proving Trump colluded with Putin to hack the election.

> Who's the propaganda victim here?

The people who believe there is evidence Trump/campaign colluded with Russia are.
It’s very difficult to know what will be valued in the future.

In NYC, the World Trade Center was often thought of as an architectural abomination. Two boxes stood on end without soul or character. Once they were gone however (notwithstanding how they were taken down) people had to admit they did have a unique character and were representative of a time and a place.

Again in NYC, the beautiful old Penn Station was destroyed to be replaced soulless office towers and a “modern” sports arena. Train travelers were reduced to a rats nest of a filthy underground station. When the developers came for Grand Central Station the public responded with a hearty “NO!” and it was able to be saved. And yet Penn Station does about double the ridership of Grand Central (and according to Wikipedia is the busiest transport hub in the Western Hemisphere.)

I guess my point is, we’re all trying to do our best — including city planners past and present — and as times change we should endeavor to continue, but cut some slack to the planners of the past and hope those of the future will do likewise with us.
Thanks. You are right. It is quite complicated.
“In the US, an apology is considered an admission of responsibility and is often the starting point of legal action against the culprit, while in Japan, a sufficiently sincere* apology may well defuse the situation entirely.”

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“hospital staff and doctors willing to discuss, apologize for and resolve adverse medical events through a “collaborative communication resolution program” experienced a significant decrease in the filing of legal claims, defense costs, liability costs and time required to close cases.”

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/you-had-me-i-m-sorry-im...
OP - i'm sorry that guy on your PR was a dick.

I also don't think that a demand that the entire culture change to be more welcoming is a proportionate response. Some cultures don't want to be welcoming to just anyone. Arch prides itself on having a very high entry bar and filters out the ones who don't make it. You may not like it, some people may be dicks, but that is their choice to make. Gatekeeping in a limited sense is literally something everyone does in some measure - in picking friends and dates, hiring, immigration etc. It's not an unalloyed bad thing™

its weird but this problem is rooted in youtubers/discords who don't have the slightest clue what the community values or what Arch/Manjaro is jumping in and pumping millions of newcomers into a distro that doesn't want them. if 5-10 youtubers understood their audience, did their research responsibly and picked the right distro to recommend before pumping out a video that hits millions (cough LTT cough), a lot of this could have been avoided.
Thank you; likely I should finally give it a try.
Can you link to this please? Intuitively it seems every Core Web Vital would be improved by less code.

I found this post [1] but it seems a but outdated and references AMP, which Core Web Vital metrics are supposed to replace (right?).

https://danluu.com/web-bloat/
I’m genuinely happy with Redshift for data warehousing purposes. For this I mean not-transactional data store. I don’t want to use the term OLTP or OLAP as it puts it in a purist’s camp. Sometimes I store 3NF normalized data and many times a flattened denormalized very large fact table and often times a model similar to star schema. I don’t have to worry about building indexes anymore, which was a real chore with row-store databases like Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, or PostgreSql. MPP column-store databases have really been a game-changer for the enterprise. We’re talking billions of rows of data easily handled in the query plan.
> It seems so idyllic

The weather isn't. (I don't think it's the main reason for people to leave though)
Urgently!
I was competing in the Jump Trading programming competition and thought I had a pretty good implementation in AVX asm, but I was still behind one of their engineers, so I asked him after the competition. Turns out he was a Linux kernel committer and wrote a process to spawn multiple threads by copying itself, modifying the parameters, and then setting the offsets directly in the thread table, avoiding all mallocs and thread startup. So basically, his math code was just basic C loops, but his process was complete before my threads even finished allocation.

Forgive me if I got it wrong, I am definitely not a Linux kernel committer.
Are the "original" Sanskrit texts floating around really original? Modern Sanskrit is significantly different that Vedic-era Sanskrit, or so I am told. Won't you be picking up just another translation if you try that?
We should just drop to 50 years. Most people have a working career of 50 years. Having 50 years to earn off your creation seems fair to everyone.
You need spiked tires for your bike, just like for your car.
The new epoch will probably have time 0 as being the instant when we accidentally blow up the earth, adjusted for wherever we are in space by however long it takes the light from earth to get there. Assuming we have some lucky ones who do manage to escape the earth before then.
Have you considered that the causation might be going the other way around?

It seems like you're saying that "My town has to be built for cars because we live so far away from everything. Obviously the Netherlands can afford to build for people because they live so close together."

It could also be the case that people in your town live so far away from everything because it is built for cars, whereas since the Netherlands is built for people they can live close together.
> We know sure that neurotransmitters have a role in mental health

While they have a "role", differences in neurotransmitter levels do not predict mental health state.

My understanding is that "chemical imbalance" theory was a popular misunderstanding of a more limited and specific theory called the ”catecholamine hypothesis" which has itself been pretty much debunked.

For decades the explanatory psychiatric theory behind depression has been the the "bio-psycho-social" model. While we know that biology is an import part of the picture, that part can include a bunch of different factors besides neurochemi cals, such as possibly inflammation, neuron growth factors and more.

[0] https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/debunking-two-chemical...

> Equating depression to monoamine derangement was a very attractive notion for all but in 30 years remains unproven, and not very helpful in guiding treatment.

I believe that theory has been mostly disproven, but that doesn't change solid evidence behind the efficacy antidepressants that were developed using that theory.
Amsterdam is mostly fine, especially out side the inner city ring which is overrun with tourists, but only a few km2, probably the size of 2 or 3 Hyde Parks. I don't understand why you think it's not good for families. We live in Amsterdam, have stayed in villages and rural areas (holidays, family), and we (including our 8 year old) don't think we'd be better off anywhere else.
Yeah, it was so much nicer with cars everywhere. A great place to raise kids, because if kids need to go somewhere they can just take the car.

Glad you found a place where you can park 3 cars, it is very useful to have so many cars.
Useful resources for newbies in Java for web-oriented programming
I tried to write down a list of stuff to learn to work as a Java back-end developer which could be useful for new trainees joining my company with no or little knowledge of Java and Computer Science. What do you think? What would you add to help young developers?
The best UIs IMO tend to be those that allow operation with the left hand on the keyboard home row, and the right hand on the mouse. Keyboard shortcuts should be preferentially towards the left side of the keyboard. Quite a bit of CAD & graphics software works this way.

Keyboard-only is decent for text, and particularly good for text where everything that needs to be edited will be on the screen at the same time.
48MB? That's ridiculous for an SNES cart. Even at 48Mb that's the size of the largest SNES cart IIRC.
Recommendations for Maintainers – Endoflife.date
If you want to be "that person" in your office, Unicomp makes buckling spring Model M keyboards, and they have one model with a trackpoint (the Endurapro). Looks like it's out of stock until sometime next year due to tooling issues though.

https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/SFNT
Little side topic - care to say why are You switching to js? Is it Your decision or were You forced ?

I'm asking because at one point I was forced to work with react/node/graphql combo for over a year and wasn't very happy with it. After a year I could not be more happy to get back to something more mature and stablized. The whole js ecosystem seems really chaotic and feels bit like fashion industry but dictated by people that know nothing about fashion.
These are cities designed for the elite and wealthy.

Reminds me of SF.

“Why can’t we have more bike lanes?” - never said by a poor person.
> People may not expect to deploy CODE from 2000 CE in 10000 CE

Expect they may not, but it's bound to happen because it's been running just fine for 8000 years...
What are the distributed options for Postgres? What mechanisms are available to make it highly available i.e. with a distributed consensus protocol for strict serializability when failing over the primary? How do people typically deploy Postgres as a cluster?

1. Async replication tolerating data loss from slightly stale backup after a failover?

2. Sync replication tolerating downtime during manual failover?

3. Distributed consensus protocol for automated failover, high availability and no data loss, e.g. Viewstamped Replication, Paxos or Raft?

It seems like most managed service versions of databases such as Aurora, Timescale etc. are all doing option 3, but the open-source alternatives otherwise are still options 1 and 2?
This is not specific to crypto. Rather this is simply how dealing with foreign currencies and tradable assets/securities works.

What people might not realize is that these very standard accounting and taxation rules do apply to crypto.
Thanks for the kind words! It means a lot coming from yourself. As I've said elsewhere, I think Beeminder is the best competing solution I've come across :)

Love your attitude towards competition and I'm excited to be considered a competitor!