skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Musician interested in EEG here.

Is there considered a "standard EEG kit", or an oft-recommended beginner's guide, course, or book?

Thanks!
Not quite the same, but Peter Jackson famously used iPods to transport dailies while filming LoTR.
I love the third slide they show on that page. It's just a line going up and not even pretending the y axis has any meaning other than 'newer version'.
I think the main issue today is its inability to just say "I don't know" when appropriate. A teacher can do that and sometimes that's a better answer than a fabrication. A teacher can also use less certain language when their confidence level is low as appropriate.

I think this is probably a technically solvable problem but doing so has potential 'optics'/marketing issues in terms of reducing the level of confidence it projects which a lot of people associate with competence.
The fact that this uses the AWS branding must send the marketing folks at Amazon into absolute fits of rage.
You’re right. So don’t let it get to that point. Work and live below your means. If you are working full time and struggling to put food on the table then take a look at your debt.

Work and save so you have 2x more days not working than you do working.
Wow, that was a weird experience. Fantastically well-written. Is this syndrome common?

I liked the bit about him wanting to watch his own surgery. I needed surgery on my hand and was ecstatic that the doc was going to do it under local. He was warmly amused by my requests to see inside my own hand.
Oh, are you talking about China now?
With how many "pro-business" Republican state governments are getting obsessed with the HS history curriculum these days...would you expect those governments to be happy with the actual historical facts about (say) the Sherman Anti-Trust Act? Never mind the fact that Senator Sherman was an Ohio Republican, and the younger brother of famed Civil War General William T. Sherman.

And with how pro-business - or at least pro-extreme-wealth - the Democratic Party has grown since the 1970's...I would not expect them to like that that bit of history, either. Even though ~every Democratic Senator of the time voted in favor of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
Video Snap Bookings?
I'm building a video snap travel marketplace where users can list/book accommodations, and leave reviews by using video clips.
The idea is to deliver a fun, fast & interactive user experience before you step foot on your rental.
Any thoughts?
Low current devices such as AC ceiling fans use so little current that the wire gauge is largely based on the minimum sizing for code standards. At least in the US, you can't put anything smaller than 14 gauge (AWG) in walls. Maybe in Europe they allow much smaller gauge, in which case maybe it makes sense... but usually there are minimum requirements for wiring since it becomes a structural issue (i.e., too thin of wire will break easily when pulled).
The parent has a point that if these natural cycles change even slightly, however unlikely that may be, it will swamp out any effect humanity has made up til 2023, heck maybe even 10x everything humans have done.
You could get faster in expected value. What if the time on input of length n was an expected value of 100 + 1/n?

That isn't possible, but it might not quite be obvious why that isn't possible.
GPT wrappers [handshake emoji] ClickHouse wrappers
> Can switching to an esoteric functional language from Python and Java really be considered reducing complexity?

It's not esoteric. It's a modern programing language, with 35 years behind its Virtual machine.

1 in 3 phone calls you've ever made was routed through a telephon switch written in a lang implemented in BEAM virtual machine.

WhatsApp was written in a lang implemented on the BEAM.

> I'm willing to bet that way fewer people in the company/industry understand the new codebase and can make changes to it.

It's really not hard to learn. It's not Haskell, It's not Coq, It's not Brainfuck.

You could pick up the syntax and the major semantics in a weekend.
The Parquet backend helped unlock traces search for large clusters (>400MB/s data ingestion) and over longer periods of time (>24h). It also helped unlock TraceQL (a query language for traces similar to PromQL/LogQL). There's more details in this blog post: https://grafana.com/blog/2023/02/01/new-in-grafana-tempo-2.0...

I don't have the exact CPU/bandwidth numbers on me right now but CPU usage has went up by about ~50% on our "Ingester" and "Compactor" components (you can read up about the architecture here - https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/operations/architectur...). But this is optimising for read performance which improved significantly.
There’s Nothing Natural About Modern Meat
Imagine an unaccountable bureaucracy failing to keep its promise.
Being in the industry it's actually quite the opposite.

OpenAI had a first mover advantage. ChatGPT has a good interface and GPT4 still leads on many benchmarks. But it continues to get worse and worse and others are catching up with significantly lower parameter counts. Their moat is shrinking very quickly.

Llama2 is an open source meta model, btw. Anyscale's ray makes it much easier to leverage the super fast pace of development in the OSS community (or released by large companies as OSS).
This is a German works council, which is the most common outcome of a unionization effort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_council#Germany

Its creation can be forced by a vote of the employees and the council has a legal special status. This probably comes as a reaction to multiple distribution centers around Germany doing exactly that and forcing the creation of local work councils with the help of unions.
It is of course less efficient. I never said it was more efficient. But it's more convenient.
For anyone interested in a good video about this, there is YT video that details how the Ice Cream Machine's being broken is essentially a scheme that McDonald's corporate runs on their franchisees.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4
I'm all for right-to-repair but if they hate their machines so much why isn't McD addressing the problem?
In my experience, these robot vacuums all suck and not in a good way. You're better off paying a premium for a good stand up vacuum and doing it yourself... especially if you live with 1+ females that seem to shed hair like crazy ;p
Isn't it somewhat hilarious that the author of Adblock Plus, far and away the largest privacy risk faced by anyone, throws this much shade on Google's privacy protections? ABP gets unfettered, full and complete access to all your data no matter how sensitive and only the publisher's OpSec stands between the user and total exposure.
Often union members are elected into works councils.

It's basically like a government of the company and a union is just another party that can get elected.
> And are you really going to try to sue the police for shutting down the lab and locking the door on their way out?

If the police enter your property without a warrant then sure. The potential presence of illegal activity does not grant the police special powers to skirt judicial process (unless there’s imminent danger to someone’s life or something, obviously). If the police unduly lock you out of your own property on the way out then doubly sure.

Obviously most people will be relieved that their machine no longer has malware on it (save willing participants, which is a different question altogether…). What would piss me off is not being notified, and not being given the chance to remediate myself (what if the police damage other pieces of property on the way and I could avoid the damage if I’m simply made aware), etc.

So let’s go back to the meth lab example: do you think it’s okay for the police to show up on your property unannounced in the middle of the night while you’re sleeping to silently shut down the meth lab without notifying you that they’re trespassing and then slap a lock on your basement door behind which you store your emergency cash, medical supplies, prescription drug refills, personal protection equipment, defensive firearms, etc. without leaving the keys or so much as a word?

Edit (two more things):

1. It’s possible someone might have been running a copy of the botnet for research purposes, so presumably this copy is not engaged in illicit activity and only installed on lab hardware. I wonder if the FBI’s program considered this scenario. Maybe they only targeted IPs involved in actual DDOS attacks? That’d be cool.

2. You can question something without implying it’s wrong. One can both believe the FBI is acting in a responsible and just way while also being curious how this would play out in court. The fervor in your responses seems slightly out of place considering the comment you’re responding to is simply raising a question.
I called it out because Google Workspaces follows a very formal process for rolling out features, including a roll out schedule, etc... which are normally sent to Google Workspace Admins. "General availability" has a specific meaning to Workspace admins in terms of adopting new functionality, and Duet isn't following the typical release/roll out process.

Maybe we'll be surprised and they'll email the traditional feature roll out email to Workspace admins later this week
I suppose it mostly depends on how much the saved time is worth and how that compares to the cost of transport. I suppose there are some cases where shipping a box of drives makes sense.

I think a much more common case is having a critical machine crash and needing a backup sent to you. Depending on the bandwidth you actually have, restore by mail can be faster. And that's why companies like backblaze offer it.

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/features/restore

Restoring 8TB, which is not an unreasonable amount of data in 2023, at 40Mb/s, which is not that uncommon in much of America, still takes more than 2 days when everything goes perfectly.

FedEx'ing a 8TB drive should be able to beat that in many cases.
So.. one of the smokescreens Taylor uses is that their proprietary control software is necessary to ensure the sterilization procedures happen correctly, so they can trot out the argument "if you tamper with our machine you could kill somebody".

But it's a damn ice cream machine.

The stakes get a bit riskier when it comes to medical devices because it's much easier to imagine the scenario where you tamper with a pacemaker, you're going to kill somebody. You tamper with a dialysis machine, you're going to kill somebody.

Same problem, different stakes.
Acquirers typically add terms to deal preventing vanity announcements and defining shutdown timeline. They don’t want the overhead of maintaining, or the negative brand hit. Each case is different, but there’s always a plan. They probably have some reason to keep maintaining the current customers/product, we can just guess what it is.
The most important thing to note about DRY is that it's not about code -- it's about knowledge. You should not repeat knowledge -> logic, constants, etc. If the temperature is 87 and the price of the widget is 87 that is coincidence and not repetition.

There should just be one source of truth for any logic or process. If you duplicate that then bad things will eventually happen.
Also

- food may be easier to source than electricity in certain rural area

- auto scale mating

- no replacement part shortage
You should not get downvoted for this. The whole world isn't as safe as Europe. I spent time in a country with 220V, and in those days there was virtually nothing preventing you from getting shocked (I know as I've been shocked). The prongs were round, and you could easily touch the metal while inserting and get a shock.

Another problem: Some of the plug/socket combinations were fairly loose. It wasn't a tight fit. So if you're ironing, it was not unusual for the plug to be partially out of the socket.
I am aware that network operators have behaved this way for very many years. The point I am making is that all of the IT industry used to attempt to "work around" security vulnerabilities in the same way, until log4shell and all the others gradually beat that propensity out of them.

I am prophesying that a similar reckoning is likely to come upon the network backbone. You're arguing that the cost of entry to the game (BGP peering) is such that the old ways will continue to work. Let's hope you're right.
GitHub shows Copilot ads alongside source code
Short sessions are there because, for all practical purposes, SLO doesn't work and we are using short sessions to simulate high-latency SLO. In a previous life we supported SLO properly, and it had no value at all.

It's one of the many sad realities of the modern world that basic functions don't work and no one will fix them.
Its everywhere in Europe. I haven't seen nor heard about say a single oven not plugged into 400V. I've lived in 4 different countries in east & west, all the same. Even when traveling around a bit, I see those special plugs in convenient places, where you may expect to plug something powerful for some heavier work.

Anything high power, you go for this plug. I'd imagine car charging would also benefit from this but not personally in that market yet.
For those who (like me) didn't know what a Works Council is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_council#Germany

TL;DR: It's a non-union form of worker representation with separate legal status in countries like France and Germany. While not unions, their existence isn't incompatible with unionization.
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This is probably the AWS lead initiative to place their preferred people into a council they see being formed anyways.
Well if you compare it to emacs vs vim, that's making me think there is a correct answer.
Always has been, even since it's inception. The only thing that'd kept it safe and unutilized in that regard had been a grassroots efforts to not facilitate that transformation. That only lasted so long as the main population of Ops/devs/netizens were in agreement.

We've blasted past that age at this point, do everybody gets to don their robe and wizard hat, pick up the staff, and yeet patches, routing rules, and packets betwixt one another.
Solution there would be to make the abstraction "opt-in", such that a team can elect to duplicate or abstract as desired. Also helps if the "main" abstraction is itself composed from smaller abstractions, from which downstream teams could then pick-and-choose rather than having to either fully abstract or fully duplicate.
Most beginners being in frontend is a reflection of frontend not being respected. If frontend was more respected, then more beginners would be hired into backend.

Other than the lack of respect and career ceiling, the worst thing about frontend is how quickly things change and knowledge is considered out of date, so there's very little stability.

Also frontend is in a weird stop right now where enterprise frontends have stabilized on React, redux-toolkit, and likely some styled-components like CSS library - but personally I much prefer Zustand for state management and Tailwind (which to a traditionalist will look like sacrilege at first glance). In this last interview I was rejected from I was given redux coding challenges, which I completed, but since I stopped using redux many years ago maybe I wasn't as fast as they were expecting. I guess what I'm saying is in the past it was enough to have worked with any UI library like React, Angular, VueJS, etc. and be generally sharp, but now things have stabilized such that it seems that companies seem super picky in wanting their specific slightly outdated enterprise-y tech stack. Which I mean if that's your standard, fine, but they don't at all seem knowledgeable or interested in discussing alternatives (in total contrast to when I interview in which it's what I'm way more interested in discussing in an interview than some lame coding exercise that says practically nothing about the candidate).

You're prob right on the outsourcing, and that's even more signal to gtfo of frontend as that just signals increased competition, lower compensation, and is a reflection of frontend's second-tier status.

I love full-stack. I just keep interviewing at companies that say they're hiring for both backend and frontend, but regardless of what I say I'm interested in they shove me down their frontend pipeline.
> If someone starts running a meth lab out of your unlocked cellar, at what point do you become culpable for not knowing?

The problem with analogies is that they assume they are correctly "analogous" but 9/10 times they really describe an entirely different situation, making them unhelpful if not misleading
Or user group... or active directory group... or admin group. super user. etc.

Or... you can just split things by tables. Or even shard by databases where I don't have access to your database and vice versa.

doing stuff in the application and leaving everything in one database/schema is an option... but don't think you aren't making trade offs and leaving open possible issues by not taking the more comprehensive option like sharding.

And that's just one question to ask. Another is what about upgrading the database and segregating customers. can't do that if everyone is on the same database/schema. What if a customer doesn't want to be updated or upgraded? Much like companies paying for Windows XP support because stuff they have relies on the older version of software?

"where user.id = 123" is a simple solution that quickly becomes more complicate to put it mildly.
More often than not, you can get "single digit" numbers with the right metric prefixes, and you can pretend they are "nice and round" just about as easily. It's just another one of those "what you are used to" things. These sorts of "intuition" are largely cultural osmosis, everyone in your culture is used to it and everyone uses it in your culture so it seems more "human" and "sticky" because you are swimming in it at just about all times. (Which is mostly a paraphrase of the conclusion of the video, until "all" of us switch in the culture, none of us switch.)
There is no benefit to performance or efficiency with a single-phase motor vs a three-phase motor.

Controlling the motor with a VFD is how you increase the efficiency and performance of a three-phase motor, simply being a three-phase motor provides no efficiency benefit other than you can use slightly smaller conductors to power the motor.
Grayscale Can Be a Bitcoin ETF
I’m curious if you investigated the TimescaleDB extension that is built into Supabase for your usecase? And if so, what was the pros and cons?
Lady ought not bend anyway because she’s wearing a skirt and may expose her ankles (or worse). At best she can squat down but the ground is dirty…
Probably Seinfeld.
I agree 'atoav's comment is very misleading for anyone unfamiliar with that fact.

If the Wikimedia Foundation's efforts were directed to making an ever better encyclopedia, more precise, more complete, factually accurate, from all possible perspectives, etc... then it wouldn't nearly be viewed so controversially from long time users.
This is the only way to ensure that no information is leaked.
that's unfortunate and makes me sad.
I created a game editor some years ago that had several HSL alternatives including one contrast corrected bar and two different light/shadow corrected bars. I used it mostly the other way around though. Creating suggestive backgrounds with many colors but with low contrast between them.
I would guess wanting to align with the CEO. One day they hope to be a CxO of some sort. So that means reading the mind and following the example of the current CEO. They won't get further up the pyramid by advocating against the explicit (or perceived) wishes of their dear leader.
No, in public procurement it's still bribery. You just carefully tailor the tender to the company that the fix is already in for.

When I worked in state government, every vendor of products was simply a middleman who marked a bunch of stuff up that you could easily buy from standard wholesale sources. Their catalogs would be three-hole binders of photocopies from other people's catalogs and printouts from ecommerce webpages with the prices whited out, and a pricelist typed up in word at the back. Every vendor of services was connected to an insider who tipped them off that purchases were about to be made.

The lowest bidder was selected from the people who could jump through the hoops required to submit bids, and who also fit the carefully written RFP.
Any device where you don't control the initial firmware,
and the firmware doesn't support ssh keys. AP/Routers (consumer and commercial and industrial grade), Shared hosting with ssh but limited features (eg GoDaddy)...
The franchisees hate the machines, but some people at the corporate level are I'm sure very happy with the big stacks of cash Taylor provides to insure the exclusivity. Reputational brand damage from having always broken Ice Cream machines is apparently less of a concern than losing those sweet greenbacks.
I had purchased music from them, none of which is now available to me, apart from what I downloaded.
Cool, I'm in the Seattle area and didn't know of that one either. Do you have any background on it? I run a similar website to catalog all current airports, but also collect info on closed airports for historical purposes. I added a page for it here: https://pirep.io/airports/UNM96. If there's any info to document on it that would be wonderful.
But are they more powerful? AFAIK it's pretty common for a European range to be in the 7000-10000 watt range. That's also normal in the US on single phase 240V. And I can go buy a 36000 watt tankless water heater from Home Depot. I think it's a wash, either system can deliver however much power you need.

The reason for gas in the US is because people like it. It's been seen as upscale for decades to have a gas cooktop. It also helps that gas water heaters don't require electricity and work in an outage. Our residential natural gas distribution network is extensive and reliable, and it's pretty straightforward to use the same appliances on propane for people out in the sticks.
Yay, I’m sure we can trust them to not have this happen again if they’re given decryption keys for all our data.
oh this is familiar is it sourceforge again
> One of the biggest benefits of duplication that the author fails to identify the locality of logic

There are a lot of things in the post that I fail to identify. There are also some things I wrote there that I no longer completely agree with.

Here's a newer post in which I go deeper, and in which I do address the locality of logic.

https://www.codewithjason.com/duplication/
Anti-timing attack? Anti-traffic analysis?
Seinfeld.
https://archive.ph/ecloJ
Yeah, but each individual, by themselves, cannot make any significant positive change by giving up huge cars, while doing so means giving up something they want. So the gain/loss tradeoff is not good on an individual level.

You can assign collective blame, but what good is that, except for virtue signalling and guilt tripping? It's not an effective method of social change.

There is an organization (government) that can make those changes that you want (ban huge cars) - so why not blame them for not doing it?
I don't agree that film is the "pinnacle of art," but even discounting that, there are many works made by individuals throughout history that are great, books and paintings for example. I don't see anyone saying that these should have more than one person making such works but for movies and shows, it seems that we are used to the status quo and cannot see how in the future that great works can similarly arise from individuals via the advances of technology. I'm sure in 2100 when this tech is commonplace that people will think about how archaic it was to have thousands of people work to produce a film.
So what do you do when the device has no long-term storage like an SD card?
OpenAI Rumored to Be Close to Signing Deal for One of Uber's Mission Bay Bldgs
Oh, /that's/ why it's called cascading style sheets. :-)