skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, given the appropriate locale in the system settings.
True. I honestly don't remember whether those were available when I started using MyNoise (late 2014); but, in any event, I've paid for it already and have downloaded quite a few of the sound choices.
How does GraphQL help here?
The interesting part of the SSR reinvention is that it only occurred in the Javascript land.

PHP/ Python/ Ruby /<put_your_language_here> folks never stopped doing it.

Actually, for some folks in the Javascript land, SSR was not a reinvention but an invention, because they never knew it was possible.
The typical approach that I've seen is to do "select * from FOO" for simple scalar fields that cost very little to retrieve from the database. If you have any fields that often contain large amounts of data, or any relations, you can provide a separate resolver for that field or relation, and then that resolver will only get invoked if the caller requested it. It's pretty straightforward, at least when using Apollo and TypeScript. (Obviously you would modify the original query to exclude such expensive fields so that you’re not duplicating work with the additional resolver.)

I still don't think I would personally recommend GraphQL to most companies.
As far as I can remember, even some of the special-purpose-hardware based solution like you'd find in a pair of noise canceling headphones do better on periodic noises. Not needing to race the soundwave seems like it should make the latency problem much more forgiving.

And the most annoying noises tend to be periodic anyway.

I think you should give it a try... let us test it, if you can cancel out my air conditioner noise you'll be my favorite person...
In this example, I tried to get my relative to use the built in macOS scanner but they refused, both because they were already used to the brother software and because they apparently called Brother support somewhat often for various issues and they would obviously say to install their own driver + software.
Vice reported this wild story of a Bulgarian black market weapons dealer selling a warhead from Pakistan in 2007.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c4f4NJSB_4

edit: aside, it's amazing how badly they flubbed reading Cyrillic on the road signs in the opening minute.
The option of not answering, or very later, is often a pretty effcient one
Can 'green banks' bring clean energy to the masses? The US is betting $27B on it
To add to this, a text file is only special because it’s binary contents are restricted(ish) to a set of numbers an editor knows how to interpret into human-readable glyphs.

Now then, if you want to discuss how most modern (non-executable) file formats are just zip files, then we can have more fun.
But it's incorrect to state that climate science is competing with JWST more than it is competing with any other venture, scientific or otherwise, for funding.
There a lot of ways to do the same thing as GraphQL. The point is if it’s as easy.
Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)
So you are sure that some tech that you avoided completely (and I assume have zero experience in) is a terrible piece of software.

Great. What is your take on the postal service structure of Turkmenistan btw?
Could you pull the quote out that says she's a lobbyist? I can't find it, and without it I can't figure out if you're misusing lobbyist to mean "is known to have had this opinion before."
You do, but most editors can force text output when saving. It does take some diligence though.
Hmm maybe the oldest, for example:

https://github.com/rcornwell/ctss

CTSS was first demonstrated on MIT's modified IBM 709 in November 1961:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Time-Sharing_System
Sometimes people make music because it's fun, not because they are trying to create studio-quality songs and beats.
What kind of interface would you like for such a system?

I created a FOSS alternative (that's not nearly as feature complete as mynoise.net) [0] but it has the benefit of being CC0 licensed including all of the samples.

If you have features that you think would enhance the experience, please feel free to open an issue [1] or DM me.

[0] https://abetusk.github.io/noixer/

[1] https://github.com/abetusk/noixer/issues
On this note it’s always useful to reflect upon the era where the US also had a cultural acceptance of “stealing” technology from the UK, since America wasn’t always such a tech leader.

Also the story goes that the Wild West was so famous for not enforcing Edison’s patents, an entire industry formed to take advantage: Hollywood.
is this opensource snowflake-for-security-logs ?
> There is no "minimal distance", rather there is "distance at which our math model does not work".

The paper is talking about an other type of minimum distance: minimum measurable distance. It predicts it to be 2*planck time (pg.7):

Combining the experimental limits on speed v, force F and action W using the general relation for energy E = F vt = W/t leads to a limit on measurements of time t given by

t ≥ √4G~/c5. (10)

The five principles thus eliminate instants of time and introduce a minimum time interval, given by √4G~/c5 ≈ 1.1 · 10−43 s, twice the Planck time.
I may be misremembering, but I think this was the plot of a Tom Clancy novel.
Looks good. I think an alternative like this is really needed.
If you look up the average quality of uranium ores globally, there's a bit of a problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_ore

Each installed gigawatt of nuclear reactor power, regardless of whether this is twenty 50MW reactors or a single 1000MW reactor, requires on the order of 200 tons of uranium fuel rods per year to operate. By comparison, a 1GW bituminous coal plant burns on the order of 2,750,000 tons of coal per year to achieve the same kind of baseload power output.

However, coal requires no further processing once mined. To get those 200 tons of fuel rods, it can take a varying amount of uranium ore, and the majority of that ore is not high-grade, it's down around 0.1% U3O8 more often than not (there are a few high-grade deposits). So you might have to mine 200,000 tons of ore, extract the uranium in the form of yellowcake, convert that to uranium hexaflouride gas for enrichment from ~0.7% to (apparently) 4.95% for the NuScale design, and then convert the gas to solid uranium oxide and package it in a fuel rod. This is a pretty intensive industrial process just to make the required fuel and is neither cheap nor all that clean.

Enrichment level & NuScale plant design parameters:
https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1034/ML103470495.pdf

If you are in a location with plenty of sunlight and wind, I don't see how this could possibly by less expensive than some kind of integrated wind turbine/solar PV/solar thermal linked-to-storage grid of the same capacity.
Hidetaka Miyazaki is a very famous director/designer/writer of the FromSoftware games (Elden Ring, Soulsborne games)
The problem with what you're suggesting is that proving something improves longevity is really, really hard. If you want to find out if something's going to help people live longer, you have to study it for a very long time. And of course given the length of the study and the multitude of other factors that may affect longevity, you'd need to have a huge population of participants in the study.

If there were something that let you live to 200, sure. But trying to answer a question like whether the Mediterranean diet extends life on average by 10% is very, very hard. Even if we had great records of what everyone ate, you'd still have to deal with the fact that people consuming that diet tend to live in the same geographical area and share a lot of other behaviors that could very well affect longevity.
Counterpoint taken.
I'm pretty comfortable with the people who do and don't take me seriously.
https://archive.ph/H5Ibt
This is well-known, and almost trivial.
But because I am curious I looked this up in NR 3rd edition. Section 7.1.5 says

> The steps above that convert a 64-bit integer to a double precision floating-point value involves both a non-trivial type conversion and a 64-bit floating multiply. They are performance bottlenecks. One can instead directly move the random bits into the right place in the double word with a union structure, a mask, and some 64-bit logical operations; but in our experience this is not significantly faster

It goes on to describe a lagged Fibonacci generator which generates values directly as floating point.
“Please provide a patch/PR”
Not very impressive, as it doesn’t immediately (or ever) eliminate the term with a leading `0` factor.
I agree that this is an awkward but very desirable property for a system to have.

I was calling this "responsive idempotence" when discussing how the GNU coreutils are tested:

https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-testing.html
I'm very much looking forward to my "I called it!" moment :-)
> Has anyone tried creating deliberative infrastructure in support of crafting better OER?

The Wikiversity project could easily host that kind of stuff. It's a bit of a "catchall" partner project to Wikipedia for all kinds of educational content (in a broad sense) other than simple media files (that's what Wikimedia Commons is for) and newly-written textbooks (that's Wikibooks).
Yep, Tom Clancy's Sum of All Fears has a very similar premise. Israel loses a nuclear bomb during the Yom Kippur War, which is subsequently recovered by Palestinians who team up with some East Germans to start a war between America and the Soviet Union by blowing up Denver (the bomb fizzles.)
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That also doesn't make sense: No matter what, you're going to have to parse the returned document linearly, everything in it is therefore equivalent to a list in performance.

Random-access structures like dictionaries, hashmaps make no sense in this context: It would be stupid if you had to do extra work to tell graphql what your preferred key parameter(s) are so that it can create a dictionary, and then you get list-like performance anyway.
PostGraphile works really well for us. We had a lot of issues when we were previously trying to wire things together ourselves, though.
Of course that's incorrect, and that's not what I'm stating. The comment I replied to implied that we can (and are) doing both simultaneously. I'm trying to show the degree to which that is or is not true. I even said clearly that arguing about funding isn't worthwhile, for exactly the point you make. It's philosophically useless and categorically weak. The idea is simple: we don't care about global climate all that much, either studying it or fixing it. The funding and social effort shows that clearly. We prefer sexy shiny science the same way we prefer cars and iphones shipped from China.
You don’t even own your steam account. If you forget your password, but have other ways to proof (7+ years of purchase history of your credit card and paypal, your ID etc) they will still say: „go fuck yourself, buy all games again.“

Happened to me. Awful customer service.
I didn't experience this in Berlin; to be fair, however, I didn't spend much time in Bars there.
And good riddance to serial ports and parallel printer ports. USB saved approx. fifty bazillion man-hours of hassle.
What do you think about the reliability of the global supply chain for uranium ore and fuel rod production? Canada has some high-grade ore but the United States and Europe don't seem to have much at all.
As a JS veteran who’s a newcomer to TS, it’s frequently mind blowing (so many user errors caught), but it is quite unwelcoming. The ‘tsserver’ errors are often useless, and the syntax feels arcane and terse.

I think I’ll probably get used to it, though.
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Dataloader does this IIRC
Who needs nukes? Ukraine is currently being pumped full of billions of dollars of conventional weaponry, and the Westerners responsible admit that they have no idea where most of it is going. In fact much of it is supposedly turning up on the darkweb markets - which is to say that it's now possible for anyone with bitcoin to buy a Stinger missile.

Think about that the next time you get on a plane.
If you're talking about the hypothetical group of people that paid $10K extra specifically to get all that stuff in the beer ads, like an option package for their beer, then what most reasonable people expect is beside the point.

Dumb or not, they were intentionally cheated out of a lot of money and it's documented.
This isn’t remotely a problem. Field by field granular security is trivial to implement in GraohQL
But it’s not 500k for 7%, it’s 125k. This makes a massive difference in the implied valuation, it’s not just a technicality.
80,000 Hz rigid body simulation! That's amazing. Seems like the only output of the simulation that's used in sound generation is the graph of exhaust pressure. He's adding white noise to the output. I wonder if it would be possible to replace the white noise by reading the vibrations of the various rigid bodies directly out of the simulation.
People tend to call them "lakes" because, I think, they are "unfiltered" and contain raw data objects and blobs, originally from the source system, unmodified. In a normal data warehouse system you ETL things and the final "load" step stores them in the warehouse, and then you use that as your source of truth. Your data warehouse might be Redshift on Amazon. In the "Data lake" case you instead load everything into something like S3, and then everything uses S3 as the source of truth -- including your query engine, which in this case might be Athena (also on Amazon). I won't go into Redshift vs Athena but if you're familiar with them, this should make sense.

I'd say like 95% of the case I've seen people talking about these things, they basically mean: shove everything into S3 and use that as the canonical source of truth for your data systems, rather than some OLAP system; instead you build the OLAP system off S3.

More simply, I think of it like a term to describe a particular mindset concerning your ETL: always work on the source data. And source data is often messy and unstructured. It's a lot of potentially unstructured and underspecified bullshit. So S3 is pretty good storage for something like that versus datastores with performance/usability cliffs around things like cardinality, fields that come and go, etc...

One advantage of this design I can see is that S3 is very "commodified" by this point (lots of alternative offerings) and can be integrated with in nearly every pipeline, and your tools can be replaced more easily, perhaps. S3 is more predictable and "low level" in that regard than something like a database, with many more performance/availability considerations. Like in the example I gave, you could feasibly replace Athena with Trino for instance, without disturbing too much beyond that system. You just need to re-ingest data from S3 for a single system. While if you loaded and ETL'd all your data into a database like Redshift, you might be stuck with that forever even if you later decide it was a mistake. This isn't a hard truth (you might still be stuck with Athena) but just an example of when this might be more flexible.

As usual this isn't an absolute and there are things in-between. But this is generally the gist of it, I think. The "lake" naming is kind of weird but makes some amount of sense I think. It describes a mindset rather than any particular tech.
If it had a fan for unrestricted breathing it'd be great. The hot and humid air building up is what I hate about facemasks. I had some very bad experiences in the past where I nearly choked so it's a bit traumatic.

Unfortunately they're still required here in public transport. I've been looking for some fan -supported models but the only one I found is the LG and that's too front heavy.
Ah the carbon fluorine bond, truly the most underappreciated 20th century demon. Ya know, nothing in the biosphere can reliably break that bond today! That's some geological epoch boundary shit right there.
Did Northstar ever find their niche ? They sold "multi-user" DOS systems that were just a collection of single-user partitions - no true multi-user magic.
The fact that the consensus differs so heavily between countries where this topic has become a political issue, and countries where it’s not yet become one (e.g., Germany), leads me to suspect these sources are biased.

This applies especially to british sources on this topic. The NHS and BBC have become heavily influenced by the Tories in recent years, so I’ll have to question your sources.
I think graphql is fantastic, and solves tricky design decisions (versioning, precise rest queries). However, I don't believe all graphql client libraries are created equally, and I strongly prefer those that are simpler, and closer to graphql's own syntax (ex. ariadne). This is an opinion though, my preference is generally explicit > implicit.
I think the idea of a standard iterator interface is good, it will allow standard implementations of Map, Filter, and other convenient functional helpers.

But I have mixed feelings on the overloading of the "for x := range" syntax. One of the things I like about go is that it's easy to dive into a new code base and understand what's going on. Overloading the range operator means to understand a for loop I need to jump around to understand the iterator implementation.

It's already pretty easy to loop over an iterator, e.g.

for {
x, ok := it.Next()
if !ok {
break
}
...
}

I'm not convinced that overloading range is worth it. But on the other hand, I'm sure I would get used to it fairly quickly
Covered this song at many a gig, I feel I've got most of it down, but not playing the guitar upside down as she did, it will never be the same. Love this song.
It uses scallions, which is onion.
Will this drive innovation and investment around solar panel efficiency and longevity improvements or will they be buying the cheap imported 18% efficiency panels? Is there anything in the legislation to require the panels be produced locally and meet some minimum efficiency, durability and longevity standards, ideally also breaking dependency on imported minerals? There are plenty of unemployed coal miners that could be put to work extracting the minerals required for these solar panels locally. By locally I mean US/Canada.
Hmm, I feel weird reading all this criticism of GQL. It reminds me of when our place switched to it and I was constantly slagging it off until my friend/colleague said "do you actually hate it or you just don't understand it?".

Default hostility to new concepts and frameworks can save a lot of time, energy and mistakes in software but sometimes for some use cases the new (variation of an old) solution can be superior.

We use it as the API we expose for our React and mobile clients and it's just, so good. I'd never want to consume it for a non-FE client but it's night and day versus stitching the results of multiple API calls together using some godawful chunk of mess like Redux.

We have a C# backend and Typescript frontend. We write our backend resolvers of the form `public async Task<SomeResultType> GetSomeNamedField(TypedParams pq)` and it just works, Apollo generates type safe client code and we define the schema in a single place. We still write backend code to implement each resolver method, exactly how we did in a normal API but... that's just the same.

I wonder how bad other backend devx must be for all these people to hate it, it seems more like a language specific implementation flaw than a genuine problem.
I suspect the root cause is this linguistically unfortunate journal title: "Outside the Safe Operating Space of a New Planetary Boundary for [PFAS]" which you can attempt to review here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.2c02765

It would seem environmental science wishes to call everything an environment, and discuss the status of the PFAS chemosphere, which would be confusing if you weren't paying close attention.

Edit: The abstract was also, maybe geared towards SEO? Discoverability? Here's maybe a clearer rendition

"ABSTRACT: It is hypothesized that environmental contamination by [PFAS] [is spreading globally, by clouds and rain in the atmosphere]. This hypothesis is tested by comparing the levels of four selected [PFAS substances] in [rainwater, soils, and surface waters] with [state agency guidelines]. [...] it is concluded that

(1) levels [in rainwater] often greatly exceed US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ["Lifetime Drinking Water Health Advisory levels"] and [are] often above Danish drinking water limit[s...]
(2) levels [...] in rainwater are often above Environmental Quality Standard for Inland European Union Surface Water; and
(3) [the rain contaminates the soil, on a widespread basis] above proposed Dutch guideline values.

It is, therefore, concluded that the [rainwater, soils, and surface waters, across the earth, have all been contaminated]. [We also hypothesize] [the soil contamination] are especially poorly reversible because of the high persistence of [the chemicals] and their ability to continuously cycle [...]. Because of the poor reversibility of environmental exposure to PFAS and their associated effects, it is vitally important that PFAS uses and emissions are rapidly restricted."
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I would expect it to store 01234 as a number unless explicitly told to store it as a string. This is exactly how it should work. I’m all for hating on excel but being upset because the software can’t read your mind and your eccentric edge case isn’t automatically picked up is a bit entitled
Does it only work with ETH or how can I use it?
> China how young, happy and active the elderly all seemed

probably because they haven't been exposed to a lifetime of processed foods like here in the west.
Canada is fine with me. Finer than China.

You can also stockpile rods easier than, say, gas. They don't take up as much space, given how energy dense they are.

Having a three year strategic reserve is thinkable, not so much with other means of electricity production.
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And supporting them is supporting a faceless corporation run by young, ageist technocrats, where all your rights are squashed under DRM