skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently moved away from music to using brown noise and it has proven far more effective at helping me stay in a focused state.

But one trick I learned back in my college days that worked well was to play a single song on loop. It doesn’t really matter what the song is, though ideally it is something you enjoy (though not one of your favorites as you don’t want to wear yourself out on it). After a loop or two your brain gets used to it and it goes in the background and you stop noticing it.
Great marketing move of using a cat.
Cable modems are often placed in poorly ventilated spaces that overheat. So you can get the best of both worlds by including generally unneeded fans which enable the device to function in sub optimal conditions, but can also extend lifespan in better ventilated spaces.

The alternative of passive cooling in such spaces is unreasonably expense because only a subset of devices are subjected to such conditions.
Thank you for introducing me to Truffle! Off to write some DSLs I go!
My main issue with taking/making notes is that now I must worry how to store and organize them. Back in college I'd take them in a notebook, review them for exams, and then get rid of them by the end of the semester. I've tried blogs (static site hosted on gitlab), markdown files with Vimwiki, Obsidian, and now I'm using Notion. The common thread among all of them is worrying about how to organize them (e.g., file structure, tags, by topic, etc).
Weird, this data is what Wikileaks claimed they took out.
There was no DNC insider and there never was.
House music, drum and bass, ambient, breaks, acid trance, a bit of world music and some game soundtracks. I have about 800 songs on several playlists.
discovered n8n.io recently, seems a similar but more powerful product.
There's something about S.U.N. Project and Infected Mushroom that really gets me in the zone.

I also really like most of Aim to the Head Mixes[1] on YouTube

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAWykzoREYA
All I can say as an artist is that there is a huge difference between constructive criticism and mindless putting something down.
The sad situation is that most of the devs hurried into building applications that speak ActivityPub instead of creating libraries that can be used by others.

If you're working with go, I created some libraries that are overlayed over the specification pretty closely. You can find them at github.com/go-ap
C# exists
Layers are not as cleanly isolated as we like to think. Take buffered IO as an example. With unbuffered IO with a dumb drive, a lot of programs run slower. However, what unbuffered IO does is give you immediate feedback about the completion of the IO. I said write 64 bytes. It either writes 64 bytes, or fails.

When I add buffering, I now have a new possible failure state where my request to write data completed, but the data is sitting in the buffer. If the data were really important (say a database) I add a write barrier like a 'sync' call. It's one more thing I need to be aware of. Bufferring adds more ways to fail.

Then we add an additional twist. Our disk controller is really clever and has its own local cache so I can write 64 bytes, send it to the controller, have the controller say "we're good", but not have to wait for the data to be written to the platter. With the dumb drive, that wasn't the case. I had immediate feedback. But now we have a new failure state and I have to account for that as well. Maybe I have to put battery backup on the controller. Maybe I need a new primitive to really flush the data. And I might also have new errors where the controller accepts the data, attempts to write it to disk, but the disk is dying and fails to write. So my program lost data and the only way I know about it is to look in an unrelated log for drive failures. Unfortunately no one thought to check or change the card's battery backup in 3 years...

This isn't just a caching problem. Let's say you take some functionality and move it from a library to a service on the network. Now you have to account for all sorts of other issues related to network failures that just weren't part of the base case for local resources. I can no longer just make a call, I have to think about things like retries, or what I need to do if the service is unavailable. Possibly, I need to percolate up new errors to drive my code into behaviors like caching the data locally until I can send it. My debugging also gets more complicated, like 1) is the server alive (ping is often blocked so we use Test-NetConnection to do an NS lookup, ping, and TCP connection test), 2) Is the address routable? 3) Is my network connection still valid (e.g. did my local switch meet its maker)? 4) Do I have correct certificates (e.g. we can't complete the SSL handshake)? 5) Was there a protocol change (e.g. Team A is sending {"foo": 1} but Team B is expecting {"foo": "1"}, and so on.

It isn't a layering thing like well constructed, SOLID code, it's changing the assumptions and conditions you have for all sorts of states you could be in. It's even further compounded with complex services where service A depends on B, C, and D, and D is failing. But now the data in B and C don't reflect what's in D, which failed to update. Your code becomes much more complex to handle these additional failure scenarios. Your search space for possible failures is orders of magnitude larger.
OK! That's reasonable. But then the naming implies more...
Thanksgiving Dinner Will Result in 305M Pounds of Food Waste in the U.S.
Who falls for these door to door salesmen’s Bs? I hate these guys knocking on my door. Really just wanna punch them in the face.

If I needed something Id go and buy it, don’t need some pushy sleazy salesman trying to trick me.

These door to door sales are so bad for the consumer there are even laws in states that state you have 3 days to back out of a contract signed during a door to door sale.
Did you see the list at the bottom of the page? You can play all of the older puzzles!
> Each year, more than 170 workers die, and for the period 2009–2017, the mean annual total mortality rate has been 150/100,000. Most of the workers are in the age range 25–35 years and are most likely very healthy as they were accepted for this temporary work migration. The total mortality rate is lower than the likely rate for this age group at 240/100,000, which may be a reflection of the “healthy worker effect” (a selection process) or incompleteness of data collection

> In global studies, approximately 15% of deaths in this age group are due to cardiovascular causes, but in this NMW population, the death rate was in the range from 22 to 58% during periods with daily heat index (WBGT) levels reaching 20°C (cool season) or 30°C (hot season), respectively

The authors neglect to mention that these migrant workers avoid many common causes of death. They generally don't have their own cars or motorcycles, so very few traffic deaths. There's little drug use in Qatar, so no drug-related deaths either. Odds of getting murdered? Nonexistent.

Most of the leading causes of death for workers between 25-35 simply don't apply to migrant workers in Qatar.
Thank you, very kind. I myself am in awe of the current best solvers, the difference between my previously world-class average and the records now is massive.
I would sell it on Amazon as "baby formula". That way I could even make a profit! Only half joking.
Is a tablet and keyboard really much lighter than a laptop?

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/20/21227741/apple-ipad-pro-m...

Suggests a keyboard and large tablet is heavier than a laptop
passwords.google.com has used this api (or one similar) for years as an additional layer when getting a password in plaintext.
I never wanted to learn how to solve it, because finiding my way to solve it is the game. who's like me?

I bought a rubik's cube when my son was born, because I wanted something to play that was not my phone while he was on my lap. 3 years later I'm able to complete one face in like 5 min consistently. still a long way to solve it, new techniques to discover and hours of play in sight. yay!
FTX Flipped Jane Street’s Risk Obsession. Disaster Followed
Yes. Although learning to take C&C well is hard.
What kind of nonsense is that Trump enabled Erdogan. Sure, if Trump hadn't been POTUS then, would you have expected another President to intervene in Turkey? Definitely, not.
Jackson does it well.

Any sane json library has to support newer Java idioms, if not it is not worth using.
Im not sure about “The World” but most of these ships have 2-stroke engines. I see TW doesnt burn heavy fuel, but instead “cleaner” marine diesel. Like a private yacht.
Lately: Cigarettes After Sex for some reason... Before I never thought I'd listed to music with lyrics while coding. But apparently things do change sometimes... Go figure.

btw, before it was mainly chillstep mixes from YT or Spotify... I still listen to this stuff here and there.
At the same time, USA has the oldest constitution, and east coast cities for all intents and purposes are 250 years old. If Europe's imperial capitals are essentially 19th century inventions, so are America's (Paris, NYC, Barcelona, Philadelphia, ... all ballooned to their dominant feel during the same decades). The biggest difference is that the brand that the USA is not old or has little heritage, has been along for so long that Americans and Europeans alike have internalized it. But in 2022, America _is_ an old country, and does have a lineage that stretches way back, all the way to antiquity why not.
Well I’m sure other species took advantage of forest fires, too.
I think SWIG had a different purpose. The author here generates and embeds WebAssembly in Go, to avoid building the same lib for multiple platforms (+ the bindings to call the low level c code). Maybe the tool wasn't good enough? Right now this is just WebAssembly which is proven to work on multiple platforms.

If the API is clear and documented, I don't see why this would be an issue, except for the fact it might be a little bit clunky.

It's not the first solution I would come up with, but the question would be: why not? Just because we're used to older and more traditional patterns, why not just to embed webassembly for low level stuff in your code?
implement random pic loading from ... somewehere
Secrets Management Maturity Model
Well now I'm curious. Do you feel the same way about malaria, which kills half a million people a year?

That we shouldn't attempt to remove malaria from our home environment with things like mosquito nets, but rather "make our bodies resilient"?

And... how exactly are we supposed to be making our bodies "resilient" against COVID and the flu and malaria? Seems like you've left out that crucially important detail.

To be clear, the microbiome in our gut has nothing to do with continued exposure to lethal airborne viruses. Sterilizing against one thing doesn't sterilize against everything.
What is an invalid reason to feel an emotion? And what does that mean exactly?
implement random picture loading from ... somewhere ?
(with proper size)
There was a lot there 120 years ago. However the natives didn't have access to the types of materials that would last in that climate, and of course Europeans destroyed their culture.
I know Jeff personally when I ran for the NC House of Representatives in 2018.

Jeff has become regionally famous, especially among highly-engaged NC progressives, as an incredible communicator. I say this with no exaggeration, but he may be the only legislator (out of 170 state-wide) who uses social media like a normal human being. He is also known for his floor speeches whenever the Republicans pull their shenanigans[0]. This post is pretty typical of his "straight to the people" mass communication style.

Unfortunately, Jeff's career has been limited by circumstances. He has had the misfortune of legislating in a state that is the canonical example of "gerrymandering with surgical precision." He's also hamstrung by an inept state party infrastructure that has really struggled to win tight races and actively boxed him out of higher office (namely, the US Senate races in 2020 and 2022). It will be interesting to see where is career trajectory takes him now that he's in Congress.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4qqkLmJm2I
Thankfully it's illegal now in some jurisdictions.
FWIW you can replace the "www" in your links with "solar" to access LTM's solar-powered version of their website. It's off-grid and solar panel powered, so not available 365 days of the year, but I've yet to find it offline when I check. I think it's a neat project. :)
This is not a very apt comparison however. Cars are not primarily used for leisure.
I would never choose to talk to the machine unless there's no alternative...

There's a reason voicemail has largely been replaced by email, etc...

Then there's the spying issue.
they were during broadcast, by law.
This looks great! I’ve played a couple of games in the Open Sicilian and the French Tarrasch and there wasn’t a moment that I felt like I was playing against a computer. It plays some cheezy lines which I would expect from a lichess player.

On the user side - I think the review area would benefit from principle-based analysis similar to what is seen in chess.com. I am guessing that for it to happen, there needs to be a separate analysis engine that can detect positional motifs. I think chess.com did a decent job with that (better and more actionable than decodechess in my opinion).

On the tech side - I’m curious how this project differs from existing neural nets trained for lc0 such as bad gyal and maia?
I'll be looking at your notes and see if I can find some inspiration. I've thought about such a system but instead of a flat README, I'd have a directory for each note with a README and accompanying assets (code and images). In the root directory, I'd have a table of contents linking back to each particular directory.
You're probably right but one thing that worries me is I think both governments would sort of like that result...
There are different cultures in different countries. While journalist often had a political lean in Germany, I think it has gotten worse. And the amount of manipulative methods US media outlets employ in current times is astonishing.
Feels like that was someone's as article to publish in case of emergency. Almost parody.
Maybe the most famous is the Lorenz attractor, arising from the Lorenz System (this is one of the simulations shown in the website). In Wikipedia you find a description of the system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_system
Honestly - I don't think anyone really wants an "online voice assistant". The key problem word there is "online".

There is no way that a device can meaningfully parse information from the internet and present it to you right now. At some point? Sure maybe. But it's definitely not now.

What I want, and what I was pretty clear about in my list of use cases is the ability to push a button (or run a function with parameters) with my voice.

My exact use cases

- Kitchen timer: StartTimerFor(duration, timerName?), HowMuchTimeOnTimer(timerName)

- Alarms: SetAlarmFor(time, alarmName?), WhatAlarmsAreSet(), CancelAlarm(alarmName | time)

- Lights/devices(ex: tvs, ACs, etc): TurnOff(DeviceName | RoomName | ALL), TurnOn(DeviceName | RoomName | ALL)

- Conversions: WhatIs(numberOfUnits, inSecondUnit)

- Current time: WhatTimeIsIt(inlocation?)

- Current weather (optional, I don't use this a ton and it requires an upstream source, although HomeAssistant already gets that info for me): WhatWeatherIsIt(atTime?)

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I've found basically all of the voice assistants I interact with are actually really damn good about understanding roughly those patterns (Alexa was the best, but only for the first year or so [honestly - it was actually wonderful as a beta product] - it's gone markedly downhill over the last several years as they try to cram in more detection and more features).

They just insist on trying to sell me on other parts of the experience (check out this tv show, there's a sale on, use this product, did you know this? did you know that? etc). And I don't want it.

But I'm more than happy to pay a fair sum of money for a thing that will just reliably do those commands.

It's incredibly liberating to be able to do those things with my hands busy, or my eyes closed, or while lying down.

Tack on an HDMI port or a display so I can view a recipe and I will literally give you money right now for this thing (and I have - since I've tried most commercial voice assistants).

Long term - I'll probably end up just cobbling together my own version using Rhasspy/Mycroft or another text parser/STT engine, and HomeAssistant or OpenHab if I can't get what I want commercially. I just know that I'll end up spending more money and time on it that way (which is not the end of the world, I just have other hobbies at the moment, and a very young child).
>>> For most normal countries
That's quite a racist thing to say. There is no such thing as normal and abnormal countries!
>>> aren't engaged in a power struggle against the world order
The US has been engaged in several coups around the world, but you will of course conveniently ignore this and pretend these countries are struggling to defeat the US.
>>> The problem with nukes is that any one competent holder of nukes can basically trigger mutually assure destruction
Counter point. India and Pakistan have not engaged in war since them both becoming nuclear powers. The US and Russia unlikely to go to war because of the ir nuclear powers! If every country had them it's likely to make the world safer.
To me what’s interesting is that MS smelled that it was a problem a while ago and pulled the plug before it ate a hole in their wallet but Amazon and Google keep plugging along ploughing money into a bottomless pit. Apple has a different play and looks like they are controlling their losses there quite well and may act as a slight loss leader for other products.
Ear plugs. The ones people use in factories not to go deaf.
It is not exactly rocket science: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/6Kz53bs7x. Bonus it supports visiting multiple synchronized at the same time, deadlock free.
And the most stressful way to play Diplomacy is “one turn per day.” You’ll obsess about it all evening long, then get up and immediately focus on it again!
> As long as you have near-perfect American pronunciation.

There isn’t a such thing as an American accent. Ask anyone who is not a native speaker and either hasn’t been to US that long and tries to understand my natural deep southern accent. I can adjust my accent if needed and if I think about it.
> lie about reasons to sell

Are you talking about the partnership first strategy? That's pretty standard and how companies get to know each other.

> personal emergencies to deceive and pressure acquirers

There's plenty of gamesmanship during an acquisition - particularly a large company swallowing a small company. The big company can get bogged down, requiring the small company to stay the squeaky wheel to get the deal done. In this case the acquirer could have easily waited until Monday.
yep, datalove
The instructions specifically state to use a VPN, no different from bittorrent in that regard.

http://annas-blog.org/help-seed-zlibrary-on-ipfs.html
This is about art. Art is about aesthetics, taste, and emotions evoked. All of those are subjective and personal.

Therefore, there are no invalid reasons to hate on art.

The only valid question is: which social circle can you share that opinion with?
I was not aware of that, may be it IS related to that. But then, using a certain set of tools together (Firefox, PHPStorm, DataGrip) that historically have all been memory hungry was not possible before Ventura.
My memory was that the emperor adoptions were more pragmatic than anything, either because the emperor didn't have a son or as insurance against a power struggle caused by a single son dying. It's been a while so I could be mistaken.

This is the same mechanism that business succession planning reduces risk. Failure to train and groom new talent for leadership roles is a good way to ensure a company dies with its current staff.
> However, as a protocol, NTP only guarantees 1 second accuracy.

The "one second" number is not inherent to the protocol, but comes from a survey from 1999:

> A recent survey[2] suggests that 90% of the NTP servers have network delays below 100ms, and about 99% are synchronized within one second to the synchronization peer.

* http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-algo.htm#Q-ACCURATE-CLOCK

A 2005 survey found (AFAICT, see Figure 1) that north of 99% — more like 99.5% — of servers had offsets less than 100ms, and that 90% have offsets less than 10ms:

* PDF: https://web.archive.org/web/20081221080840/http://www.ntpsur...

The output of "chronyc tracking" from a randomly-selected system I help run:

Reference ID : […]
Stratum : 3
Ref time (UTC) : Wed Nov 23 13:35:21 2022
System time : 0.000002993 seconds fast of NTP time
Last offset : +0.000003275 seconds
RMS offset : 0.000008091 seconds
Frequency : 13.191 ppm slow
Residual freq : +0.001 ppm
Skew : 0.017 ppm
Root delay : 0.001615164 seconds
Root dispersion : 0.000048552 seconds
Update interval : 65.3 seconds
Leap status : Normal

So chrony's algorithm thinks that the system time is currently off by 0.000 002 993 seconds (3e-6), and on average it is off by 0.000 008 091 seconds (8e-6).

All I had to do to achieve this was have some infra nodes (that do other things as well) point to *.pool.ntp.org, and then have my cattle and pets point their NTP software to those infra nodes. No special hardware, no special software, no configuring of network switches and routers: just a few lines of Ansible and I get (estimated) microsecond (1e-6) error levels.
I praise CLOS because I've used it quite a bit and I like it.

CLOS is an object-system construction kit as much as it is an object system. I generally like to solve problems by building a language in which the solution is simple and straightforward to express, and CLOS provides handy tools for defining data structures and suites of operations on them that facilitate that approach.

I also like to work by livecoding, and that sometimes means redefining types that have live instances. If my types are CLOS classes, the Lisp will automatically catch changed definitions and will update existing instances to conform to the new definition. That's awfully helpful in a livecoding context.

CLOS has also come in handy when I needed to build novel systems of data types and function dispatch. For example, Ive worked on several knowledge-representation systems over the years, and it's been useful to have CLOS features for constructing novel inheritance schemes, access controls, truth-maintenance, persistence mechanisms, and so on.

So I've used CLOS quite a bit over the years. Some tools vex me more every time I have to use them. Others are a greater pleasure to work with each time. In my experience, CLOS has been a tool of the second kind.
I love Google Assistant but it doesn’t recognize well my wife or daughter voices. Thus they find it annoying and do not use it.

I use it primarily to turn on and off the lights (multiple times per day), play music, turn off the TV (but not to play things on TV, too unreliable) and to raise/lower the temperature on the Nest.

We have tried to use the Nest Cams with the Hubs as a baby monitor but the cameras feeds freeze and don’t tell you so it is actually dangerous.
The entire Viridian site is still up. Includes nearly 500 essays by Pope-Emperor Bruce Stirling himself. There's even an active link to a Cafe Press shop where you can still buy a Big Mike t-shirt.

http://www.viridiandesign.org/

One day, when the kids in the domes are asking why their great-great grandparents didn't do more to save the planet, we can shakily point our gnarled fingers at resources like this and say "we tried".
Was not aware of that, cheers.
I don't see how you can conclude that the Russians were "definitely" involved when the entirety of the evidence is coming from the word of spooks.