skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We develop software for the german energy market (just the economic parts of it). If you are interested, look the following (we germans loooove rules and specifications :D) https://www.edi-energy.de/index.php?id=38 This are just the specifications for exchanging data between participants.
Is there not some work to be done on changing the price calculation to try and push back against this behaviour before abandoning the whole concept?
Not to mention that so much of life is simply out of our control.
Most importantly? That history is nuanced and that no single event determines all of history. That every country invaded and conquered every single cm of land they currently occupy, with only a few stupid exceptions in particularly inhospitable places (like I believe Iceland).
Japan spends $6k on average per homeless a year. The USA spends 5 times that.
What standard means of measure are you referring to exactly?

I guess time will tell, but if you look at statistics many country side smaller cities are growing when in the past they were shrinking for a really long time. The wind is vänding.
That's exactly the point being made: json is becoming xml.
Import into Yugoslavia was not that open during (low-mid) eighties. There were limits on how valuable items you could import. Personal computers got some separate exemption, but limit was set in Yugoslav currency dinars. Because of deprecating dinar you could import let's say C64 with a disk drive and a monitor when these exemptions were introduced, but in a year it was not enough for a Spectrum. By the end of the decade these limits were slowly eliminated.

Of course, there was always smuggling and bribing custom officials, citizens who emigrated for work didn't have these limits when returning home, so there were ways to get computers.

But Galaksija was important at that time (1984) because it was cheap and because it was sold as a kit to be soldered by end user, so it wasn't affected by import limits.
Yeah! But I’m gonna say I’m really odd, it’s a lot of vibes and unless I convince a doctor of a case study, I’d never be believed.

I have/had Tinnitus (it’s nowhere near as bad as it was 7/10 to it’s current 1/10). It’s been gone 7-8 years now.

1. I listen to music much quieter, and let my ears adjust.

2. This is the weird part. I would get itchy all the time, random pin pricks I’d feel often. I read about monks who meditated so long they could turn off their hearts. So I sat in bed for 3 months (before going to sleep) and tried really hard to look at where I felt an itch and see it was my body was wrong. There was no reason to give me a cue to itch. Nothing was happening.

I can easily ‘feel’ the pin pricks if I desire but don’t anymore. It’s like a weird mental trick. I can also feel mosquitos and really anything touch me and no longer get false cues.

Anyhow I suffered from tinnitus and did the normal suggested stuff but it didn’t work. So I remembered the time I got rid of my itching and tried to replicate what I did.

I sat and listened to ‘true noise’ and untrue ‘noise’ and it wasn’t instant relief but over 2-3 weeks it went to level it’s at now. I only notice it if I desire. It’s louder an extremely quiet environment but I swear it’s almost like I can hear my blood pump.

Listen to really low noise. Quieter than whispers. Then up and up. Train your ear to understand sound and not sound. Then go back down again. Sadly the truest quiet will cost you (some place remote with no bugs or wind) but I did it fine at home because I could remember before I had tinnitus. Earplugs I think don’t work because you hear your blood pump.

Anyway I’m sorry you’re suffering and I know what I wrote sounds really dumb/unbelievable but I do pretty good on prediction markets… ;) it might work for you. Very weird - no proof in the literature but it worked me.

-(I did the itch cue training around 12 or 13, tinnitus around 22)
-(I didn’t use any drugs)
How am I supposed to know the parent commenter's nationality?

The parent comment also opined on a scenario in which the person's actions (paint, then ask permission) landed them an official letter and threat of fine, which seems like "a big deal" to some people.
> If compiler warnings were complete sentences, would you worry about burning out your empathy circuits when you suppress the warning?

I wouldn't if it was just someone turning build errors into prose. I would if it was an immersive enough interactive experience, explicitly designed to make me feel I'm dealing with a real person.

> Guys, it's some numbers being multiplied together in a way that sounds like you're talking to a person. But you're not talking to a person.

What if you can't tell you're talking to a machine? It's not like we never had humans pretending to be software. And after spending countless time shitting on a "humanlike but totally a bot" customer service agents, how long until you start treating actual human strangers the same way? The cues are all almost the same anyway, and every interaction is training you one way or another.

> You're talking to a ball rolling down a billion dimension hill.

That's probably as good a description of how our own intelligence works as any. Don't underestimate the amount of information and complexity that can be packed in absurdly-high-dimensional spaces.
I expected something different: whether the product that someone develops should be innovative or not. Rather the author writes about the underlying technology that is innovative or not.

Neither of these two need to be innovative IMHO. Technology should enable us to do something useful. Or translated into business terms, it should be a profitable business as profit is a proxy of how useful a product or service is to people.
And hopefully we use a base-12 numbering system. It would make division into thirds, quarters and even sixths much easier. Sign me up!
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Tascam and Zoom still have a modern range of x-track recorders that are standalone and don't need PC.
As an aside, they were filming the latest series of The Outlaws at the same time as the annual St Werburghs City Farm Fair was due to run. The income from the fair is one of the biggest sources of income for the City Farm charity, so Outlaws paid the Farm the same amount they normally got from the Fair. Probably a good deal for the Farm as it takes a huge amount of effort to run the fair (but they also staged a delayed fair a few weeks ago too!).

Honourable mention to Windmill Hill City Farm on the other side of town too.
swatch beats or gtfo
> A couple of people claim they were the first to paint Cliftonwood houses a bright colour in the 70’s, one being our ex-mayor George Ferguson

Classic behaviour by old red-trousers.
Quality issues are to be expected, given the most effective countermeasure when you detect scraping is not to block the bot or dispatch the lawyers, but to poison the well with subtly incorrect responses.

If a stream of data is central to your business, then you might catch on eventually, but if you're just selling it along, it will most likely take forever to detect this type of quality problem.
> It seems to work at least as good and often better than the custom solutions before.

The standardization that LSP brings is nice, but from a user's point of view it's pretty terrible compared to existing custom solutions. At least for the few languages I tried; Scala and Haskell.
The feature set supported was very small compared to what existing integrated editors supported, it was slower and less reliable.
For hayfever, different kinds of solutions exist: "vaccines" can help in severe cases; antihistamine pills are the main solution, but I found that some don't work for me and others do: you should ask a doctor and try another one; cortison-based nasal spray and eyedrops also work very well for me.
Very excited to see Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel is an author here! Many might be familiar with “R for Data Science” (https://r4ds.had.co.nz/), to which she is a contributor, but she’s also published a lot of great papers around teaching data science.
In the UK at least -
The prices were put up before the Ukrainian war, but then that was used as an excuse.
honestly, the mental math around metric time demonstrated in this post makes me think we should go the opposite way and make everything else base 12 instead of making time base 10. Being divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6 makes a lot of mental math easier.
Haven't heard of anything like that. Looks like it is some American pop culture definition that reduces the history of Europe to a few very broadly defined buckets to reduce the intellectual workload. It is often called ignorance. Do you think it makes sense to continue saying it is a valid use?
Something that is not explicitly said is that the people caring about Gaza split into two groups, pro-Hamas and pro-Israeli. These two groups vehemently oppose each other and believe only their side is right. This is quite different from the society at large who recognize that both sides are guilty and both sides are victims, and don't see any hope to solve this problem in any way.

So of course both sides care about reporting and how each group is presented. There will be more and more pressure for others to take sides and describe what is happening using labels that fit their side of the story.
The camera is good for its price.
If you want a MFT sensor, why don't you use something like a Lumix G9 and connect it to the RPi via USB? It's a lot less than $1000 these days.
I did too, but my point is that even if some planet is really "close" to Earth as far as climate, it doesn't matter because it's too far to get there.

I really think that it would be technically easier to just build a bunch of O'Neal cylinders here near Earth orbit, than to build ships capable of colonizing a distant planet.
> Also nice how they IMMEDIATELY ran into a continuing fraction 1/3, which is exactly the point of the 60-minute hour, 24-hour day, or 360-degree circle: lots of factors.

While I agree in principle, this example is not evidence of it. It's not like we measured the amount of sleep needed and it's precisely 8 hours. A more reasonable thing to say would be: You need to sleep for 3.5 metric hours.
clearly we need to reposition the moon
It's hard to overstate how important how these magazines "Računari u kući", "Svet kompjutera" and "Moj Mikro" were important during 80s. There was very limited amount of computer literature to be found, so we all learnt 90% of what we knew from these magazines. Hats off to Dejan Ristanović, Voja Antonić, and all others who wrote for these magazines. They were the light that guided many of us to our future careers.
Yeah, too much of our society is based upon 24 hour time.

The transition is also unlikely to have many benefits. Unlike most of the other units of measure, the everyday conversions are fuzzy. The only exception I've seen is when payroll bean counters expect minute precision converted to decimal hours, which is a pain! Everything in science and engineering tends to be maintained in seconds, which is decimalized anyway so there is no benefit there.

I don't see "metric time" making any headway, particularly since something like universal time would be much more beneficial yet hasn't gained traction.
“Shock and awe” as a military tactic against military targets in a war may be terrifying (and intentionally so) but is not an act of terrorism, IMO.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world...
> There were 42 million transistors in a Pentium 4

USB 1.1 was in '96

That's Pentium 1 era. Pentium 2 was released year after. Pentium 1 had one tenth of that

> When USB came out we already had some very crude 3D realtime rendering already at that time available to mass consumers, I'm sure we could have figured out how to flip power on a port if we put our minds to it.

Why your six neuron brain can't imagine saving pennies on chips used in cheap computer peripherals?
“fuck the sun”

https://www.plover.com/swatch.html
> This is a classic case of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good

No. If you say they're exiting fossil fuels, but they're moving on to gas, your claim is just wrong. Gas might be better than coal, but that wasn't the claim.
I'd say there must exist a more ancient law, stating that a representation of s-expressions is reinvented whenever a need arises for a generic data format.

S-expressions are the most direct representation of a tree: (root node node ...). Trees are everywhere, they represent any nested structure; lists are logically a subset of trees.

XML is a tree. It has the weird "attribute" node types, a legacy of SGML text markup notation. JSON is a tree, obviously. So is protobuf, thrift, etc. They all could be serialized as s-expressions.

Now, a schema that destined a tree is also a tree. Hence XML Schema, JSONSchema, etc.

More, an abstract program that describes a transformation of a tree is also a tree; this products homoiconic languages, from XSLT to Lisps.

There is nothing special about XML; it's just a particular case of a generic law.
That's a bad take and you know it. HashiCorp couldn't make money because their enterprise offering was slim on features and overpriced. Rather than compete, they're playing protect-the-castle with some aggressive plays to keep their company afloat. They're bad stewards of open source (always have been) and are now getting their just desserts.
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The wind power over here is nice, but hopefully the nuclear gets rolling[0].

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61010605
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Ask HN: How do you find contributors to your open source projects?
Hey,

As in the title - how do you find contributors to your open source projects?

I enjoy starting projects and making them to the point they just work (think MVP), but they need polishing to become production-ready. They would benefit from more features, better cross environment support and less bugs.

I would put time and support to improve coding skills of my contributors by giving code reviews and 1-on-1 mentorship

But how do one starts with this?

My projects are already openly available on GitHub, but I see very little traction on them. One main reason is likely they are not that interesting and good enough to another developers

But maybe some people would find them interesting as I do, so how to find these people?

Just in case someone here is interested in building their open source contributions track, here's the list:

- [Python, TypeScript, Next.js] Gdańsk AI - Full stack AI voice chatbot (speech-to-text, LLM, text-to-speech) with integrations to Auth0, OpenAI, Google Cloud and Stripe - Web App, Web API and AI API https://github.com/jmaczan/gdansk-ai

- [Python, TypeScript] Spellbook - Shell and Powershell scripts registry - https://github.com/jmaczan/spellbook demo https://spellbook.maczan.pl/

- [Python] ktotu - Identify devices in your network and monitor it against intruders https://github.com/jmaczan/ktotu

- [Rust] pff - Examine your Internet connection quality and status in terminal https://github.com/jmaczan/pff

- [Rust] xiexie - Static site generator https://github.com/jmaczan/xiexie

- [CSS] Bulma helpers - Library with Functional / Atomic CSS classes for Bulma framework https://github.com/jmaczan/bulma-helpers

- [Vue, JavaScript] Basic Vue Chat - Easy to use Vue chat https://github.com/jmaczan/basic-vue-chat

Thanks!
This is exactly the decimal time system used in France during the brief period of the post-revolutionary established First Republic, 1794 to 1800.

Although the metric system originated at the same time, it's important to note that the French Republican decimal second isn't the same as the one used by international metric system (SI) that we ended up with. So calling this "metric time" is quite misleading.

The decimal second is shorter than the standard one because there are 100,000 decimal seconds in a day vs. 86,400 SI seconds in a day.

(If you're a rich antiques collector, a late 18th century French decimal clock might be a very interesting object. My understanding is that they are rare because their active use was so short and most clocks were repurposed to standard ones.)
My knowledge of the Amiga chipset is very cursory, but peeking at the source code, there are some blitter routines that look like they're used for texture scaling (i.e. stretching + drawing vertical strips/walls.) I don't know whether that (alone) accounts for the significant speedups needed. A good comparison would be to any bottlenecks the original NeXT engine, which had the 68k, but didn't have any of the accelerators...

https://github.com/Krzysiek-K/Dread-source-drop/blob/master/...
I think source mage tried to do that?
I haven't been near death, even though I was previously involved in a serious motorcycle accident (I was a pillion rider) as a kid, where I completely blanked out. Don't have any memories of the actual accident at all.

What I want to say however is that anyone who wants to make conclusions regarding whether there's life after death cannot do so without invoking the spiritual realm as well.

I've personally had a spiritual encounter whereby the holy spirit entered my body (I could actually sense the lifting of my skin in my chest and His entry into me). That experience changed my life forever.

The point I'm trying to make I guess is that there are many things about this so-called life that we still don't know about, in particular the dimensions we can't see and which science refutes because they can't be tested.

Perhaps that's why religion is often about having faith?
Here in South Africa, energy production is starting to move more and more to individual households and businesses, because our government power utility is failing. We don't have electricity markets, but that seems to be changing.

Hopefully we will get robust electricity markets here. Not because I think they are intrinsically a great thing, but because they are less terrible in the SA context.
Nope! Protect your hearing kids, by the time you notice the problem it's far too late (but we also live in an age of miracles, I'm hoping some type of drug will turn up within my lifetime - if Semaglutide can exist, so can this).
> independent projects? P

you mean like flatpack and snap which also have the benefit of decoupling .so dependency management?

or maybe like nix which you can run as a package manager on other dristros then NixOS?
If you don't want to use something like snap/flatpak then all the distributions using your PPA repository have to provide the same libraries packaged the same way, and at that point what are they going to even gain from being different distributions in the first place? If someone wanted to make a fork of Ubuntu but all the packages and contents are exactly the same as mainline Ubuntu then they'd just use Ubuntu.
What is a good book on statistics that one can use for self-learning?
> made proper architectural planning and careful deprecation mandatory

That's why it never caught on.

The ability of JSON/Javascript to tape together kinda-working solutions before and instead of any kind of specification works is hugely powerful, because it allows iterating on the requirements by having actual users use the app.
Cool, do keep me posted please, email in profile. Very nice project!
The ol' thumbtacks on the street near the tire-shop routine... but actually doing it.

BART should've just stopped replacing them because it was already depressing and created a feeling of unease even when it was just a few years old. BART is a symptom of the dysfunctional, lower-classing of American mass-transit in contrast to masses of unyielding cultural exaltation of the single occupant vehicle in gridlock. Hurray that they dug a tunnel under the Bay, but scant few actually want to board a tram that seems perpetually foreshadowing of an escape room or serial killer scene.
Most of GNOME development is done by Red-Hat employees, it isn't going away.

KDE and XFCE come in second, and then there is everyone else.

Anyway, it is mostly irrelevant, as most of us use GNU/Linux headless on a server/IoT, containers, or only the Linux kernel alongside Android and ChromeOS userspace.
Completely agree on all points. But there is something special about XML: everyone has failed to make something better.
Let me guess: 0e02 is interpreted as floating point?
The iPhone 14 and above are not "unmodified". They have new specific hardware on them, otherwise Globalstar would work with the iPhone 13 and all Android phones.
> actual good MERGE syntax

While not the shit-show of bugs it was upon introduction in SQL Server 2008, there are still reasons to be careful with MERGE in SQL Server: it can still deadlock with itself in some circumstances, has issues with filtered indexes, can cause problems with CDC (wrong operation(s) get logged), …

(I actually like SQL Server, but the implementation of MERGE found there-in is certainly not one of the things I like about it!)
Depends where you are starting from and what you want to learn. The linked book is a first year introduction, and does a good job of that. If you want to go further there are many other options:

* Statistical Inference by Casella and Berger. This book has a very good reputation for building statistics from first principles. I won't link to them, but you can find full PDF scans online with a simple search. Amazon reviews: https://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Inference-Roger-Berger/dp...

* Statistics by Freedman, Pisani, and Purves has similarly very good reviews and can be easily found online. Amazon reviews: https://www.amazon.com/Statistics-Fourth-David-Freedman-eboo...

* The majority of the Berkeley data science core curriculum books are online. This is not purely statistics but 1) is taught in a modern style that makes use of computation and randomization and 2) uses tools that may be useful to learn about.

1. https://inferentialthinking.com/chapters/intro.html (Data 8)

2. https://learningds.org/intro.html (Data 100)

3. http://prob140.org/textbook/content/README.html (Data 140)

4. https://data102.org/fa23/resources/#textbooks-from-previous-... (Data 102; this gets into machine learning and pure statistics)

The Berkeley curriculum is not the only one; there are tens, possibly hundreds, of online courses. The Berkeley curriculum is just 1) quite extensive and 2) the one I happened to read the most about when I was recently researching how data science is currently taught.
See the comment upthread about S-expressions, but .. given that this doesn't have a marker for "atom" which it badly needs, isn't it strictly worse than S-expressions.
I've been watching your project from inception and I think you're on to something, keep doing this and you'll definitely go places. Also: I'd suggest contacting the Adafruit people, they're right in your sweet spot and may have both good product ideas around what you're doing and a massive audience and market. On top of that they're nice.
> They didn't accept the existence of Israel and started a war

For all the complexities in this situation that is probably because for hundreds of years prior to Britain taking control of Palestine, it was occupied by those people. Once Britain assumed control, the agenda was set to make this a Jewish homeland and the process of mass immigration began and then the forced division and removal of Palestinians from areas they'd occupied for generations.

Obviously that isn't going back even further, where the situation gets even more complex, but if people just stick to facts rather than get emotional, it is pretty understandable why Palestinians to this day believe they were conquered and removed from their land by force.
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I’m almost completely deaf in one ear and had problems with tinnitus in the beginning (~7 years ago), especially when trying to sleep. Nowadays, I really only notice it when I focus on it, and it has no impact on my quality of life whatsoever. I think a lot of it is psychological.