skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I distinctly remember learning about articles in fourth grade English in my US public school, and distinctly remember most of my class having a lot of trouble with them.

To your point though, I taught myself to read at age three and was reading adult fiction by fourth grade, I've always been told I have a large vocabulary, and still had a lot of trouble in that class around parts of speech and grammar, because I apparently skipped out on essential English language skills by teaching myself to read and not learning by immersion.

My theory of language was fundamentally different and I had to relearn English from the bottom up. This also caused me to perform terribly in foreign language classes as I was learning concepts I should have already learned about English... I wasn't just learning a foreign language, I was learning my own language at the same time.
It’s a rough “hobby” because all the options make it possible to build the perfect board but it takes a lot of trial and error to figure out what you really like.

I say “hobby” because I just started wanting a nice keyboard at the start and to be honest I find building boards boring.
A CMS is infrastructure, it's business facing not user facing
If you are going to replace the only single track roads with a cycle lane, that means no space for motor vehicles.
I think it depends on how deep you want to go initially. It's very easy to buy a pretty good mechanical keyboard off the shelf, and that's as far as many people need to go. Determine the switches you want, find some decently reviewed keyboards you like the look of, buy it (from a reputable online store).

If you immediately want to spend hundreds on a custom setup and are paying someone you've never met to do it for you, before receiving any kind of product, that's where it can get dicey.
Addition: when you choose a tonality in which you write a piece of music, it may define its standard set of flats and sharps, to simplify building chords using uniform rules. Because of this, it is convenient to name the same note using different names, relative to its neighbors.

Expansion: in non-tempered, natural tuning, such as often used when playing a violin, there are differences between some sharps and flats built from different notes, because natural harmonic intervals, based on frequency ratios like 3:2, do not split the frequency range in a completely log-linear way. This is why, say, G# and Ab may be not the same for purposes of pure natural harmony [1].

Equal temperation was invented to overcome this. J.S.Bach wrote a great showcase for it, Woll-Tepmeriertee Klavier, which involves harmonies and chord progressions that are hard or impossible to achieve with natural tuning without producing weird dissonances.

[1]: https://pages.mtu.edu/~suits/WhyG.html
The context is a design issue, and the fault seems to be not with bad engineering implementation but with having omissed a component which puts a security condition on the ignition system.

There is nonetheless a problem in these consolidated systems: such components, which matching the identity of a key the owner possesses give a "greenlight" to the ignition system, are electronic parts that can break, and their availability seems to be a dependence on the manufacturer. We should have standard components from car manufacturing, so that vehicles do not stop working because of missing replacement parts in the market. (The very article mentions shortages, in a different context.)
Firefox is made by a company. VLC has a product manager (who owns the VideoLAN Foundation).
> If one didn't uninstall UltraEdit correctly the IDM website deemed it to still be installed.

In my experience with this kind of DRM, an email is generally enough to get them to reset the licence at their end. Still an inconvenience though, and you'll need to wait until they've done it.
Also: we could have actual (clean) public restrooms everywhere if we were willing to put in the resources.
Today is a great day for you, because you get to feel good about yourself by being a first-order pedant and making basic assumptions about what I know and don't know and whether or not I've read the article.

I actually did read the article and even prior to that do know about deriving pitches from harmonics. What I posted was still correct in spite of the downvotes.
Unless you like the inside baseball of publishing, this article is probably not worth reading. I regret it.
> How do you implement healthcheck?

> Does the loadbalancer know how the healthceck is implemented?

Write a ping/sping endpoint like people did pre-Kubernetes? LBs provided by Cloud provider all have a trivial way of setting a healthcheck endpoint. If you are not in the cloud, nginx and HAProxy make it equally simple to configure a healthcheck. There is no k8s secret sauce behind healtchecks.

> How do you determine it's time to scale?

Monitor relevant metrics (CPU/Memory/DB), have alerts and add new vms or whatever when they hit a specified threshold. Or use your cloud provider's "elastic scaling".

> How do you implement always-on-process? service unit, initd, cron?

Yes. And the problem with that is? Processmanagers have been around forever, are simple to use and a well understood technology.

> How do you export the logs?

Cloud providers generally have a built in mechanism for pumping logs out, if you are not a cloud provider log export daemons exist that much simpler to work than running k8s deployment.

> How do you inject configs? /etc/environment, profile.d, systemd config, /etc/bestestapp/config?

Do whatever your organizations feels comfortable with... config files, json, .properties files, env vars whatever, it doesn't really matter, since the code needs to be aware of the configuration mechanism anyways it doesn't make a difference. And again not worth the tradeoff of running full blown k8s deployment with its significant complexities

> What about secrets?

Cloud providers have convenient ways of solving this problem without involving k8s. If you are not on the cloud one can use cloud secret solutions (AWS Secret Manager, Google Secret Manager, Cloud Vault). All of which are much simpler to use than k8s secrets

> Service discovery? Is unbound/bind9?

DNS works well enough for most projects. Static configuration which lists domain names of whatever services you depend on (which are behind a load balancer) likely works for 90% of all applications.

I am not trying to be argumentative just making a point that "standardizing" all these things you mentioned "the Kubernetes way" are not worth the significant complexity of running and managing k8s for most organizations. And certainly, non-k8s ways of doing these things are much simpler to reason about for developers. A team of 2-3 developers can handle of these things and be able to keep the entire state of their system in there head, whereas with k8s it is suicide to have a k8s cluster without having a dedicated devops team.

And I disagree that there needs to be an industry wide standard of doing these things in the first place (and certainly not a standard like k8s that adds mountains of complexity). The standardization if needed, needs to happen at a team or organization level. Individual organizations should be free to pick and choose how they solve these problems rather than be pressured into the complexity of k8s.
The Blender Foundation is a well oiled machine that actively seeks funding and offers easy ways to contribute. It all described here: https://www.blender.org/about/foundation/

Blender is, after Linux, the golden child of FOSS for professional level tooling and I’d argue the model for running an open source project.
I like Odin
That’s what we’re trying to do at CodeApprove: build a code review tool for power users. UX is a huge part of it.

If you’re interested, check out https://codeapprove.com
But the problem is that you don't know if the book will click for you later, and click in such a way that it might change the way you look at life.

I don't know, what I don't know.
Did anyone else just skim through the article just glancing at the headings and get the entirety of what this person was saying?

For someone who wants to expound on writing, they have a lot to learn.
Agreed. Very cool use of magnets
> [T]hey were deemed sexist and banned

To expand on this, they were specifically coin operated _bathroom stalls_ - they didn't charge for _urinals_, and this put a disproportionate burden on women were charged for number one and number two.

Here's a Lockpicking Lawyer where he picks & demonstrates the coin operated lock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0foSHWP7rc
For making a good GUI, the tech guys need to be ordered around by non-tech guys who think like, or talk to, regular users and know what is needed. Tech guys don't like this, so someone needs to pay for their suffering.
You’re cherry-picking examples. Google Search, Gmail, Google Maps and Chrome are extraordinarily successful products.
The water can get too hot and/or short in supply to cool the nuclear plant.

It's not magic, it's a machine with design limits that extreme weather events can push up against.

It also can pollute rivers and kill fish before it gets to that level.

Sea cooled reactors have issues with jellyfish.

Having said that, the EU needs more gas in winter when it's cold, so doing the maintenance/refueling in the summer makes sense.

Still doesn't change the basic facts that a mix of solar/wind etc. is cheaper and better than nuclear and the annoying 'nuclear isn't affected by the weather' meme is wrong.
You definitely risk a clash between a well-tempered instrument (like a piano) and a violin, given the piano is just one big compromise whereas the violin can hit the theoretically correct note. Either the violin (typically subconsciously) tweaks the tuning of a given note to match the piano, or the note is too short to notice (given the main way to notice the difference is by spotting pulses, or “beats”, which is the phase difference between the two notes - which could be measured in seconds if it’s <1Hz difference).

Khachaturian loved playing with enharmonics - the violin concerto has runs where you get D# and Eb (or similar) in different parts of the same run - or worse, two different Bb’s, as the run implicitly moves through different keys as it goes. This is then made particularly fun in the lead-up to the cadenza, where the violin duels with the clarinet, and to sound correct, you have to explicitly coordinate on which key the various phrases are actually playing in (given it effectively switches implicit key faster than the explicit key signature). From memory, you end up with the clarinet deliberately playing very different enharmonics to the violin, giving it an incredibly otherworldly feeling.

edit: to clarify, you literally have to say: “so play this Bb as the Bb in a G-minor scale, and this Bb as the Bb in a Ab-major scale” or similar - as they have different frequencies. Or more accurately “play this subphrase as if it’s in G-minor, and this phrase as if it’s in Ab-major”. Despite the Clarinet having fixed stops, you still “lip” the notes up and down to get the right frequency.
I had a reply similar to that on my draft. It is incredible that people believe such things.

When I was 18 year old I had similar ideas, but later I found a great song by the clash that goes by as: “I fought the law but the law won”[1].

Even the rebellious spirit of 70s punk acknowledges that one may fight(and should) but the law wins, and has power over your body however the law says so. To fight the law you cannot use your body but your mind.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AL8chWFuM-s
Actually most of the time if you're playing in a different tuning (eg quarter-comma meantone or pythagorean or whatever) where they would be different, you're playing a type of music where you exclusively would play one note or the other, so the fact that they are theoretically different doesn't arise.
Cases of paid and unpaid labor are materilly different, even if they contribute to an open-source project.
My job for a long time involved digging up people's septic tanks and fixing them. I know other people who pump them for a living. I know others who buy the waste and dry it. And people of all stripes buy it after it's treated and mixed with mulch and put it on their lawn. This problem is much more minor than you think. Lots of us are not afraid of poop.
Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

Even if playing with a fixed-pitch instrument, it only really sounds out of tune if they're playing the same notes. Which in the styles I play isn't an issue.

So I guess how often this happens in practice varies between styles and eras of music, which would make sense to me. I haven't ever done early music and know nothing about it (other than trombones used to be designed terribly and we now know how to make better ones ;)

Source: Also have a postgrad in music, probably from one of the conservatories your spouse teaches at, and still play trombone professionally.
It would be possible for most humans to notice something but feel indifferent, or for a sizeable minority to really hate something. So just abstractly I'd say that yes you do need more than those two questions.
You don’t have (unpaid) hobbies??
Never meet your heroes (2020)
This reminded me that I’m still looking for a Bluetooth Planck. Ergodox seems to be stuck in the past regarding connectivity options, otherwise I’d have bought a Planck EZ by now.
If I had to guess — and it would be a guess, I'm a software engineer not an economist or a politician — I'd just give the usual catch-phrases that seem to cover everything in politics: is it popular? How much would it cost and what else can we spend that money on? Will this be finished in my term? How likely is the situation which makes this useful (without the benefit of hindsight)?

Men även med så intetsägande och generiska uttalanden betyder det faktum att jag inte kan någonting om svensk politik att jag kanske saknar något som någon svensk väljare skulle anse som "sunt förnuft".
What we’ve learned from our first year as a Virtual First company
In most of the last two decades of my career, the OS has been abstracted away from developers by their sysadmins. And things have only gotten more extreme with the emergence/resurgence of managed hosts in the form of cloud computing “serverless” services.
A tonewheel organ could be amplified acoustically, e.g. by physically touching an appropriately sized resonant chamber to the wheel when you press a key. The exact size of the resonator does not matter because it's mode locked to the wheel, which turns at a speed determined only by the gear train. Tonewheel organ gears traditionally do not have perfectly accurate tuning, but there's no reason they couldn't be built to match any tuning system within the limits of human hearing (at greater cost and complexity).
> Also blender was regularly used to make content with input from the community. Multiple shorts that dog fooded it and provided improvements through the process, while inspiring many to see what’s possible.

The Blender Foundation and community made that happen! No glib “if you don’t like it, fix it!” type comments. I’m not suggesting that you personally have said that, but look at the context and process of Blender’s development and success. The people at the Foundation, along with a buoyant community have worked hard and listened to the criticisms and transparently worked on them. It’s been a long slog.
a. If by "materially moved" you mean were their policies influenced by Hunter Biden, probably not.

b. Yes. I don't think the "kerfuffle" did it, but what actually happened with the emails.

c. I think it would have hurt his campaign badly if the story were not suppressed.

d. Yes.

e. Yes.

f. Yes.

Ok, I read the essay. It's an opinion / explainer that Hunter's laptop did not contain any actionable proof of Joe's corruption. As for "seeing truth in it", I honestly don't know enough about the topic. Again, let's grant it as true in all respects.

I am not religious.

I think I might be understanding where your Socratic method is attempting to lead me. Is it your contention that the suppression of the laptop scandal is far less important than keeping an actually corrupt President out of the White House? That while Hunter Biden may have traded on his father's position, Joe Biden is not corrupt and so, we should let the suppression slide?

As a partisan, you might have an idea that all people who criticize "your side" are necessarily on "their side". Not true in my case.

In my opinion, both parties are deeply corrupt, and worse, they have legalized their corruption. As a duopoly, they get away with it. We voters only have the option to switch back and forth between Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. I liked Sanders, not because of his policies, but because of his incorruptibility, but that was not allowed.

Worse, whenever we bring up corruption of anyone, there's a peanut gallery primed to talk about the corruption of "the other side". Questions of Hunter's acquiring millions of dollars with no apparent qualification other than "son of US VP"? "You know, Ivana Trump worked out a copyright deal in China". Questions about foreign diplomats staying in Trump's hotel while working out trade treaties with the President? "You know, Hillary Clinton made millions in speaking fees while Secretary of State". Questions of Hillary's emails? "Trump also took classified documents."

But worse than any of that... yes, even worse... the fourth estate has entirely abdicated its function as a non-partisan release valve to all this nonsense (if it ever actually did that at all anyway).

So, honestly, I'm less upset about Biden's laptop than I am about official attempts to suppress it. You should be upset about that, too, even though it helped "your side". Next time, it won't be your side. Next time, it might be somebody really dangerous.

So, I ask yet again, and please take time with your answer: given that your news sources have demonstrably lied to you, what are the specific principles that enable you to evaluate what is important and what can be dismissed as unimportant?
Wouldn’t it be easier to bribe short termers? Or prop up new ones with bribed money?
I have switched almost completely to audiobooks. I believe it's more natural for humans to listen as it removes a layer of useless computation(deciphering symbols and converting into sound or whatever).

Reading is now limited to stuff on the internet and for incremental reading software.
No, and yes.

The difference is obvious even those who don't distinguish pitches much (can you hear the difference in the video linked in the article - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GhAuZH6phs&t=21s ) because the 'wrong' one played in a scale or a chord sounds really, really horrible; that's why we have all the work done on 'tempered' tuning to reduce the gap so that everything is just slightly off.
I am their paying customer.

I had two slack workspaces for completely different projects/companies. I set the other one up early this year and we were slowly migrating to it after another SaaS went bust.

I was going to start paying for that workspace too, because I needed the extra features. Luckily they showed their true colors first and I got a chance to migrate away early. I don't want to deal with their whims long-term.
It is based on the Odroid N2+, which can definitely replace a Pi.

I used some in the past and they are powerful alternatives.

The only downside is worse software support (the official images have only older linux versions), but there are alternative images. I had good experience using Armbian images instead of the official ones.
For more context, look into acoustic metamaterials [0]. I am curious about this 87% number. I would rather see a distribution of absorption by frequency/intensity. I imagine lower frequencies are much less affected while the high frequencies of a bat's pings might be almost entire absorbed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_metamaterial
Applied music theory for managers, engineers, producers and artists
Yes Kubernetes YAMLs are a PITA. But you can just wrap them in a scripting language like Ruby that makes it easy to create a DSL.

[0]: https://www.brightbox.com/blog/2020/02/12/rubynetes-kubernet...

Use a language rather than a tool if you need the flexibility.
Giant Keyboard Is Just Our Type
So lossless compression?
This is what living in a society where winning more than the next person is the only thing that counts will give you. Why should anybody fulfill their part of the unspoken contract with the rest of society, if solidarity only goes one way?

If people shall care about collective goods, there needs to be an actual collective spirit first. Places where this type of public infrastructure actually works are also places where people realized that you can't create a good society by letting the rich hoard their wealth and build walls while the homeless are beaten instead of helped.

SF is a truly dystopian place in a certain sense.
I am/was their paying customer but I already explained that in the other comment.

My point was that I'm tired of not being able to trust any SaaS company long term. The service generally only gets worse over time, and then your data is at risk. So I decided I'm not gonna take any more chances with these and just try hosting everthing I need myself. So far so good.
What? He's using LG and Mitsubishi heat pumps, has a relatively large battery pack installed that's connected to his solar panels. All of these need considerable investment for a layperson to install.
> The author obviously really dislikes his subject

Clearly, yes, the author is driven by resentment and is a terrible writer

> but

There's your mistake!
Yeah I actually thought about using it for a project for a second, but they're praising how it now uses PHP7, recaptcha 2, Symfony 3...
You would prefer to never get a thing for free rather than have it at no cost for a brief period in time?
The real public bathroom problem isn’t that middle class people have a dearth of options, it’s that people with no money at all, especially homeless people, have no options whatsoever.
My pointer is modify your HHKB if you like it.

You can modify the domes, get adapters (sliders) to use MX style keycaps and even replace the case.
For context: I am not a native English speaker. My command of the English language is more than adequate for writing academic texts in English (ie, research).

I am aware of "gimp" as a derogatory term, but it pops up so infrequently, its primary connotation for me has become this piece of software.
I imagine plenty of other non-native speakers would similarly only have a loose connotation to the meaning as an insult.

In other words, while names may sometimes be important, I think this case is not an instance of that for the majority of people on the planet.
You are comparing file IO, string to int, raw processing, and text output speed all at the same time.
There are pros and cons associated with the choices made in both sets of libraries and compilers for each of those aspects.
What exactly are you trying to measure? Can you isolate those parts more specifically and compare them instead? That would probably be more informative.
I remember reading that the Portuguese authorities were not sure the heart was in condition for travel. There were significant diplomatic efforts to have it moved to Brazil. As a Portuguese I am glad it happened and that it is even touring the country.

Like the sword of Bolivar that recently was brought to Colombia, I wonder if this is a general push for state identity consolidation.(on the sword topic there was controversy where the king of Spain did not get up to pay homage to it when presented in the ceremony).

I think he did well as did the Colombian president in not picking up the incident)
Sorry, you’re totally right, I just quickly searched for “photopea source” and found the github page.
This was just a stream of nonsense