skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are reasoning like if not 100% of engineers but "only" 99.999% work on the priority projects then those priority projects will fail. That's not the case.

Moreover, there is always the need to continue to explore and diversify research and development. It allows to spread the risks (even if modestly, given that most resources go to the priority projects) and discover the necessary paths to go ahead (which is required even for the critical paths for the priority projects).
What still isn’t clear is what the the initially-hot system has “learned” at the moment it reaches the starting temperature of the initially-cool system. There must be some difference between the two states at that temperature if the initially-hot one is going to catch up with and surpass the initially-cool system.
Again, I don’t doubt that there wasn’t a tense environment for her in that newsroom.

But your “from the horses mouth” citation comes from a newsletter that dedicates a significant amount of its virtual ink towards the anti woke/cancel culture run amok beat. Weiss has literally made her living on this subject for years now, she isn’t unbiased*

*that said, I do want to note that biased does not mean wrong, even though it is often portrayed that way.
The audio for all of the voices produced from public data sets is licensed as Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International. This is what a lot of the original data is licensed as.

Full license text here:
https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3-voices/blob/master/LICEN...

and an explainer on what the legal mumbo jumbo means here:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
A team of PMs probably spent a full year putting it together by hand.
Penn (of Penn and Teller) says that there are two kinds of magic tricks. Ones that are so unbelievably easy you cannot imagine the method, and the ones that involve so much work you cannot imagine the method. One time, he saw a magician perform a trick and guessed he had been in prison, because the amount of work it takes to prep it is so long there's no way anyone else would have the time.
"Oi mate. You havin' a good night?"

(This implies that you are not mates, and may in fact be about to start having a not-good night)
That's only half the story. I dislike using google services as much as the next person because their services are too pervasive, but they had a superior search engine when they released it on the web and they have maybe held that dominance with both aggressive tactics and a good search engine. Obviously that is changing fast. But I'm not going to lie and say just because they are evil, that they did not have a good product when it was first released.
Ask HN: How to Solve Homelessness?
It seems to be a real problem. Any ideas?
The Rhasspy [0] author recently got hired by mycroft to work on satelites and fully local. Rhasspy requires a lot of manual work, but replacing Alexa is already possible. I’m somewhat stuck with the current hardware availability issues, but I have a Pi 3 satellite that does wakeword detection (this is supposed to be handled by Pi Zero 2 W in the future) and sends the voice to the MQTT server running on a PI 4, the data gets picked up by the Rhasspy instance also running there, it does STT, intent recognition, sends the intent to home assistant and then does TTS back to the satellite.

My main software issue is currently how to replicate the music functionality. Playing music at the satellite that requested it, lowering the volume when it recognizes the wakeword. Preselection of "commands" for band and genre names should be easily scriptable afterwards.

In a quiet room, I have no issues with wakeword detection using a playstation eye camera (I wanted the seed USB microhphone array, but between discovering it and starting with buying hardware the supply chain bit once again)

[0]: https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
You would think that guitar face https://blog.truefire.com/favorites/10-artists-with-the-best... would lead to a pejorative being coined.
ZPM: The Kickstarter Failure That Revolutionised Espresso
I recall some minor controversy as there are story games with less than two hours of gameplay and everyone was refunding them.
IMO the point is that futures as a derivatives are for more sophisticated traders, they're less frequently used by retail traders or in a personal pension accounts. And anyway they're regulated by CFTC and out of the SEC's mandate. The investment objectives of the futures are trading profits, speculation, and hedging.

ETFs to the contrary are much more popular by retail traders and frequently used in a personal pension accounts. The investment objectives of the ETFs are preservation of the capital, income, and growth.

So the issue of the easily manipulated spot price is less problematic for derivatives/futures, and much more problematic for securities/equities/ETFs.

CFTC has the mandate to prevent manipulations in the underlying spot markets for any derivatives traded in US. The fact the CME (and other exchanges) introduced Bitcoin futures, put CFTC in charge of the spot markets too.
If your water provider says it's potable I'm not going to question it, but I have yet to see a provider that makes such a claim about their hot water. It is difficult to make a statement that would apply worldwide, but where I live, it is easier to keep legionella out of cold water even if the infrastructure for hot and cold is the same.[1]

[1]: [Czech language] https://www.moni.cz/aktuality/tepla-voda-jako-pitna
The 'rich will take care of the poor' plan hasn't panned out so well. Then there's the price, the long build-times ... We're building a workable solution that will spill over into energy-independence wherever the (no-cost-fuel) Sun shines. No carbon, less that has to be captured.
NVMe specification website uses Comic Sans
I hear what you're saying. The example of the albedo effect of solar panels makes the most sense, the trade off of absorbing heat vs catching photons. I didn't follow the heat pollution example, perhaps because the heat and greenhouse gas effect seem additive.

If you have anyone in mind to reach out to, climate scientists I know love to answer curious questions like this. AirMiners has IPCC co-author Bill Collins speaking a few weeks, you could see about posing the question to him: https://lu.ma/airminers
Looks clean to me, text is pretty small for mobile though.
Depends on what experiment you are doing. Either mass (approximated via weight) or volume can be the right thing to do.

In theory you could also go by number of particles (measured in mol).
I'd be interested to know how other type-safe language compilers like GHC (Glasgow Haskell Compiler) handle this problem. I believe that .hi files (object files that GHC generates from .hs Haskell source files, like C compilers generate .o's) have type info in them. But I don't know what GHC does to ensure global type consistency. Maybe it has its own equivalent of a link phase, that has to bring in all the types from the .hi's? Is that the equivalent of Ada's originally conceived program library? It never really occurred to me to look into this.
No, you make a video with your own audio but when preparing it for publish, you add a popular audio track and set its volume to zero. This means your video will be associated with the track and may show in more feeds or searches and royalties will still be paid even though no one heard the track.
Yeah hot water can leach metals from the pipes that you really don't want to be drinking. This could either just taste bad, or add unhealthy amounts of lead and copper.

I would not use this plumber.
These are bad but seem to be at the level of "All your base are belong to us".
Correct. Water heaters fill with sediment and should be flushed annually. Of course, nobody does this.
That sounds like a waste of electricity.
This is the funniest data science article I have seen possibly ever.
I think you overestimate influence of Western politicians abroad, we can clearly see how on board is world with sanctioning Russia when it comes to their own interests (almost whole world DGAF about some silly Western sanctions), it's even funnier to think they would hurt their economy for some abstract changed in environment. Have you ever lived in developing Asian or African country?
Invest in Lines, not Dots (2010)
If you're close to the Canadian border, buy it in Canada.Since December 2017 all phones have been sold unlocked.
Does it act as a way to nullify a default policy if one isn’t explicitly stated?
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Give people homes to live in. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/03/its-a-miracle...
> heat isn't real, it's just a measurement of the entropy in a system

You say that as if entropy ain't realy.

> if hot water takes shortcuts and freezes faster than cold, then it requires less energy to do so - that is the crux of the debate

You can't escape the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
I've heard physicists talk about what's real as the set of concepts/objects that are required to describe and predict the world. So imaginary numbers are real (if you believe the qm wave function is real), infinities aren't (but are still very useful).
counter point, I use my alexa daily and don't run into many issues with voice recognition, or it's lack of understanding.

Daily uses:

1) in the AM i set up all my needed reminders for 5 minutes before every meeting I have

2) it's connected to my hue bridge so I can turn off/on lights by asking while laying in bed, which is wonderful.

3) I play music all day.

4) It reminds me 10 minutes before every sunset to go outside for a walk.
I actually thought that freezing was one of the most humane ways to ... euthanize an animal
Looks perfect, thanks!
Kotlin is being used as replacement for Java in many places.

I know a few companies in Minneapolis are using Kotlin instead of Java for their new microservices.
Enjoy Digital Ownership and Public Libraries While You Still Can
Fear of interacting with police might be a more apt description.
Wholeheartedly agree that that's not acceptable performance, but blaming electron, which runs on chromium which is famously fast (despite its other issues) seems misguided.

To me it sounds like an artifact of architectural choices, eg by polling before rendering to avoid flicker, lack of client side caching, or possibly just bloat. Companies won't stop their poor software practices even if they switched to native.
I'm submitting this to HN because I think as the pace of funding slows down, this is going to become increasingly important advice
care to explain what is rockford to non native speaker?
Details depend on how the surface to volume ratio changes when you add them together.
We do get this request a bit but not yet at the scale where it is economically viable for us to do so.

I would however point out that the Mark II is completely hackable. So whilst it's not an SJ201 on its own, you can absolutely pull the whole thing apart, use it in other enclosures and even put it all back together again.

Another one of the reasons we made it is because having a single daughterboard greatly simplified production and made the Mark II more robust overall. There's no longer the possibility of a loose wire to the power supply or amp after it gets kicked around in the back of a delivery van. They're all in one and connected via the 40 pin GPIO header, but absolutely removable from the Mark II unit itself.
Show HN: JoinBase – Creates an Unprecedented Database for IoT Era
I am the founder of this database product. A fundamental curiosity in my heart is, after tens years of development, can the bottom layer of the common-users-accessible database still develop?

JoinBase, is my initial answer to this question.

1. For the first time, it proposes the evolution of the database from the user's point of view.

New tech concepts such as cloud navtive, or HTAP or datalake are no longer encouraged to be consumed. What users want may be just a easy-to-use, efficient data tool that fits.

2. For the first time, it well supports three DB payload types in a single engine of a free industrial-grade database: TP single row transcation write, TP and AP read.

If you don't need complex transcation, it can meet almost of your needs in the domain.

3. For the first time, it is so fast that for most businesses, it is no longer necessary to use a distributed database for their data needs.

Any suggestions, questions and comments are welcome. I answer online.
Directly from Google. Just make sure you don't choose a carrier.
'Commentariat' refers to reader comments. Not sure what activism you're seeing in this short and fact-based report.
There is no reason why big tech cant implement a big system at scale to rely on users to police itself, except of course they would lose control themselves.

Web3 and crypto already exist and HN overwhelmingly hates them. This is like crocodile tears.
> On Facebook, I'm honestly not concerned. Just look at the last few years where facebook.com fades into irrelevance (with IG not that far behind) while TikTok has surged

I am also not concerned but note that in the past FB has used an embrace-and-extend strategy themselves to include features from competing networks, killing or restricting them.
Henry Ford Would Deal with Today’s Supply Chain Upheaval
I don't think anyone will dispute that some options are not useful, but I don't accept that you, or anyone else, should be the arbiter of what is useful and decide that more options aren't, and therefore we should stop.

For the same reason that the next option presented could be the worst possible option, it could also be the best possible option. I reject the attempt of others to tell me that we should stop entertaining any more options at all.

That said, I think you've simplified the options presented for discussion to the point of being not very useful for said discussion.
Damn. My assumption was AWS was a market leader globally cause of its customer service. Hope your issue gets resolved.
I think the ability to detect that you are not eating a counterfeit isn't that important because if you were making counterfeits you would just put the taste on it as well.

however it might also help you to remember if you took the pill or not, as the taste might be another mnemonic helper for people who are perhaps temporarily overloaded and now can't remember if they took the pill or if they just thought about it and got distracted.

on edit: there is of course this -

>By taking a photograph of each CandyCoded pill after manufacture and recording the location and color of each nonpareil, a manufacturer can construct a database containing the CandyCodes of all known-authentic pills they produce. A consumer can then simply use a cellphone to photograph a pill and transfer its image to the manufacturer’s server, which determines whether the pill’s CandyCode matches a known-good CandyCode in their database (meaning that the pill is authentic) or does not have a match in the database (in which case the consumer is warned that the pill may be counterfeit and should not be consumed)

which seems like something I wouldn't expect the public to actually do, but maybe in an environment with many counterfeits incentives are changed.

on second edit: I guess the swift downvotes must mean I have now crossed a contingent of candy-tech true believers?
Whatever your definition of “social movement” is (which appears at the very least, quite peculiar), you seem to be implying those two things are well defined, unrelated, things, and they're not.

You can make up whatever categories you feel are useful (the author here chooses to include values as part of technology, by example), but don't forget that categories tend to make people overestimate the difference between things.
The tax is not accurate historically, for higher income brackets. Prior to 2018(?) you could deduct the majority of your state income tax from the federal income tax (the "Trump tax cuts").

https://nypost.com/2021/10/05/court-upholds-trump-law-limiti...

Basically, prior to that implementation, you were really paying MAX(federal income tax, state income tax). After that implementation, you could only deduct a maximum of $10,000 in state income tax from federal tax. So it looks more like: ADD(federal income tax - $10,000, state income tax)
Pretty cool! But, before you jump into it...
Unless Github have changed their terms, this is against the ToS of Github actions. If I recall correctly, they are meant to be used for building/testing/maintaining the project included in the repo.
To clarify why I think you might be punished if you check and mess up: that's kinda how it works for rendering aid in a crisis. People have refused to render aid because they feared they would be sued. Even if you expect an airtight acquittal, it costs money, and you may not actually have enough money to prove your innocence if the other person has more.
Thomas said we could maybe think about finding a different justification for some of those rights “[a]fter overruling these demonstrably erroneous decisions." Sounds like he wants them reversed to me!
The Vanishing Moderate Democrat
Or maybe UUIDs...and the typical printed representation of those uses hyphens, which are valid in domain names ;)
This is true, and not all contracts are valid. It's why I'd love to see a good case brought. I feel like every time this happens the little guy just folds instead of doubling down.

But agree, would love to see some lawyers weigh in.
What are failure domains?
Ah, you're angry because people who made a lot of money are spending it? And in a place that offends you?

Even in Manhattan, the folks with the money are rarely spending much time on the subway.

It seems like you'd rather there not be rich people?
I think he's advocating fitting a high level language like Ada in the kernel or in the CPU(?), with one global addressing space and no separate individual process addressing space for memory protection, but rather relying on the high language to provide memory protection. That's where his bizarre hyping of "object oriented" addressing space came from.

It has been done. See Singularity project from Microsoft Research, which used C# as the language to provide memory protection, no process, all programs running in the same global memory space, and all of them running in ring-0. It was a fun research project, but never really made it out. There were other research projects like it.

Also his (object, offset) addressing space is essentially a segmented memory model. The object id is the segment id. I bet the object id is in a linear space.
You have a few different issues with the assumptions in your comment.

First, yes, one can ask for a source without a sincere request for it, known as sealioning. However, that was not what I was doing, because:

> While statistical data is much better then common sense reasoning, it's still possible to make claim via deduction and even anecdotal evidence.

Oftentimes, intuition is not correct. Think for example to the Monty Hall experiment where many people thought that the odds of two doors holding the winning prize, after a third door were opened, to be 1/2. However, on actual examination and statistical analysis, it is actually 2/3.

Similarly, simply because you believe that ebook sales reduce print book sales intuitively does not mean that this be so. In fact, based on other studies, it seems that piracy actually increases sales [0].

> Anecdotally if I see a book I like, the first thing I do is google for that book with a ".epub" or ".pdf" extension so I can download it for free. I figure other do-gooders are going to pay for the book so I might as well freeload a free version. It's logically the most cost effective move.

Second, just because you pirate does not mean everyone does. Ebook sales have overtaken print sales, showing that most consumers actually do not pirate. Those that do an action overestimate the percentage of others who also perform that same action, this is a known cognitive effect.

All in all, you have no source except intuition that can be shown to be wrong.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/e-book-piracy-may-have-unexp...?
The voices are under a CC-BY-SA license, so you can generate all the audio you want (offline), even for commercial usage.
Which support plan are you on?
I'm pretty sure ByteDance does license music. I don't know if they license all of it, but I'm pretty sure the RIAA or ASCAP could easily get an injunction if they didn't license any music that was theirs.
What class of languages are those?
I’m curious, what are those theories?
> GPUs only speak in objects, never linear addresses.

Shared Virtual Memory is literally "GPU sees X region the same as the CPU sees it". And is implemented on all desktop GPUs today: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...

By making pointers treated the same on CPU or GPU (by allowing their 64-address spaces to be identical by sharing the same memory regions + using PCIe to keep those memory regions in sync), you can perform high-speed CPU / GPU communications of even linked data structures (linked lists, trees, graphs).

GPUs utilize many linked data-structures. Oct-trees accelerate bounds testing, BVH trees help raytracing. Etc. etc. The GPU addresses must be linear because they're synchronized to the CPU's memory space.
I really have no skin in this game, but there are a lot of perfectly functional countries with fewer than 28 million people, and it seems kind of silly to assert that an energy-exporting rich country of 28 million could not survive on its own.
The only controversy is whether you should pretend to believe the plumber's dumb story or make him hook up your ice maker correctly.
Nader's book was also click bait. The Corvair was not any more dangerous in practice than any of its contemporaries.
While utility workers often work in close proximity to live circuits, i.e. EMF, electricians generally do not.
> Ideally it would be in a pressure regulated space.

That probably wouldn't do much to help us answer the question of what will happen in our own freezers which aren't pressure regulated. While I'm glad there are and will continue to be all kinds of investigation and exploration around the Mpemba effect what I (and many others) really want to know is if heating water first would help with real world situations like having ice cubes ready in time for an event.

I can accept that it might not always be the case, but considering that at this point we can't say for sure if the effect is real at all it'd be nice if we could get it settled that it worked often enough and potentially decreases freezing time enough to be worth the time and trouble of microwaving our ice cube trays even if all the details and underlying mechanisms aren't well understood.

I should probably just start trying it myself and see what I come up with on my own, but even imperfect lab experiments would be much more accurate and trustworthy. I regularly do things like heat a mug full of water in the microwave, get distracted, and then forget all about it for hours.
Hot water heaters frequently have sacrificial anode rods to prevent corrosion. The rods corrode over time and dissolve into the water. Lower cost aluminum rods have health concerns, not as much with magnesium rods.

See also Tom Scott's video on Britain's history with separate hot and cold taps and why hot taps sometimes had unsanitary cold water tanks to supply them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfHgUu_8KgA
A bit tangential but you might also be interested in reading about the USN Journal on Windows which has been around since Windows 2000 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USN_Journal
Somewhat disappointed to see that this is not a guide in the form of illustrations.

The reading is accompanied by a small number of illustrations, but they appear to be artistic interpretations of the theme, and not directly illustrative of something that isn’t said in the text.