skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes it less serious in the north where shortage of electricity would mean freezing indoor temperatures. Heat pumps have reduced the amount of electricity needed (compared to direct electric heating) for heating a house and thus the amount of imports/storage needed. Also, if the heat pumps are a part of a district heating system, a heat storage solution can be included in the system.

In a country where heating isn't yet electrified, it's a way to reduce fossil fuel use and carbon emissions (the ultimate goal) without necessarily reducing the fossil electricity production. So even if it doesn't solve Dunkelflaute alone, it's a part of solving the climate and energy crises.
> the more posh types in Clifton on top of the hill

In the 70s Clifton wasn't really posh either. Like many cities at the time the affluent had moved out to the suburbs (e.g. across the Downs or Gorge). Difficult to believe now, of course.
Short answer is no.

But I have had complete temporary relief for a few days at a time that coincided with other signs of healing in my body, which hints at what could bring about permanent abatement.

I’ve had mild tinnitus since I was about 12-13yrs old (I’m in my 40s now).

It’s never been especially debilitating; it doesn’t impair my hearing or diminish quality of life, it’s just always there in the background.

Since about the same age I’ve had signs of inflammation in the digestive system/respiratory system and other mild/moderate symptoms that research suggests are related to microbiome issues - EBV, CMV, etc. at its worst it’s been like chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia, though not always and not these days.

I’ve tried a lot of things over the years to try and resolve these issues - diet/nutrition, detoxing, cleansing, infrared, occasionally more extreme things I won’t mention here. On a few precious occasions everything seemed to click into place and I just felt a really pleasant, energized feeling through my body, the signs of inflammation went away, my digestion improved and the tinnitus abated and my hearing was completely clear.

Every time however, the baseline symptoms, including the the tinnitus, returned within a few days and remain to this day (though probably at a milder level than a few years ago).

I don’t have any definitive takeaways from all this, but it suggests to me that if there’s a way to fully resolve chronic inflammation and microbiome issues (which are quite common), it may bring about a complete abatement of tinnitus.

(You can Google for CMV tinnitus/EBV tinnitus to find research papers and articles/discussions on correlations between these conditions).
I’ve had tinnitus for about one year now. There is no permanent relief or treatment. Lots of snake oil.

My hearing was tested by an Audiologist and my hearing was normal.

The “sound” I observe is high pitched. Using a tone generator I matched it to around 16,500 Hz. Interestingly, if I play that tone I get temporary relief on the order of 2-10 minutes.

As far as I understand my tinnitus is the result of something going wonky with the signal processing in the brain.

If you’re suffering from tinnitus for the first time it’s important to remain calm. There is defiantly an amplifying effect from the psychological aspect of tinnitus. Eventually the body will “habituate” if it does not go away. It took me around 3-6 months to be able to ignore it. During the day I rarely hear it. At night a little more. Playing sounds at a low volume on a Bluetooth speaker helps. For example on Spotify an artist called “TMSOFT” has good stuff. In the day I’ll listen to jazz or lofi.

It’s important to protect your ears. iPhone has a hearing protection feature for headphones and I have it on the lowest setting. I would avoid in-ear headphones. Use hearing protection at concerts.
I have tinnitus which is within the frequency range I can hear, what I've found using headphones and a web tone generator is that I can establish a 'beat' frequency but I can't cancel it out entirely. That leads me to suspect that the frequency and phase of the tinnitus isn't consistent enough to cancel without actively tracking it, and how do you do that?
This example on python exceptions on their sample queries... The second result is a very opinionated result about exceptions considered and anti pattern https://sobolevn.me/2019/02/python-exceptions-considered-an-...

Maybe this was tweaked to be catchy for developers but I don't think is the right thing to see as the second entry.

If you search for exceptions you want to learn how they work, that is what 99% of the people would need. An entry like this is dangerous for instance if you are just someone trying to learn about them.

IMO this is a red flag about the quality for a search engine. Maybe they are just targeting seasoned tech people who would see this content interesting. But definitely not a search engine for the masses.
Interesting read. I like the recent discussions on go microservices vs monoliths. There's certain limits to both, but also cool benefits on both ends.

tl;dr of my comment: I think expertise needed on the human side of things causes microservices to be apealing. nothing else. but this is a big (cost) factor and cannot be ignored.

As for the article
1. Minimize Costs of Change:
I don't fully agree here. It might be 'easier' to implement changes, but really in a well structured and designed monolith, these costs should not be so different. For most points considered in this segment, this imo holds true. BUTT (we like big butts here sorry), that being said, the costs of developers able to maintain and understand a monolith, and engineer it in a way that minimizes these kinds of costs, separates responsibilities correctly between components / subsystems and such things might be higher and a team might be more tricky to assemble. Hence, the cost-of-change might be simply higher in a monolith due to the cost of expertise required to engineer and maintain it being higher. Not anything to do with the software or system side of things but more the human side of things. (most people can reason about a microservice written in go/python/whatever, but a monolith in c++ using parallel processing and event driven architectures... that's really another story.)

2: Encourage Generalization, Replaceability and Reuse:
I think again this falls in the same bucket as 1. It is possible to design monoliths in a way where libraries are written and used where applicable and components are designed in a way to allow for excellent reuse and replaceability. Using good design is key here. Again, microservices does -perhaps- encourage this more, as a microservice can naturally be re-used more likely, ---if designed properly---. Same goes for a monolith. A monolith doesn't mean a big 'main' function with a load of code in it. ECS systems and such designs, having proper interfaces and data models etc. all still apply in monolith land, and keep the same promises.

As for the risks noted I agree, and hence I do not like microservices myself. I try to avoid them in personal projects.

That being said, when collaborating with others, i find microservices more friendly to collaborate on, despite pitfalls and risks associated. This simply because its more likely a colleague will be able to produce a good quality microservice than a good quality piece of a monolith. This will likely no change, as there is always a shortage of good programmers (I myself, am not a good programmer - just a stubborn one... :D ). And due to that shortage, and the relative ease to teach someone python or Go vs Rust/c++ or such languages, microservices will be here to stay. (and to make me cry :'( )
I developed T after a series of encounters with benzodiazepines to lessen my nerves when I was coping with burnout. I didn't know I had burnout, I didn't know what was happening to me, I just wanted it to stop. My tinnitus became unbearable in the weeks after a psychiatrist took me of an benzo and put me on an atypical antipsychotic medication. I always blamed the new medication as the cause of my symptoms (of which T was one) when in reality it was the cessation of the benzo.

After 5 years of Tinnitus-hell I was put on yet another benzo and my symptoms were _gone_. It lasted only a number of months, though and when I stopped taking the new benzo ... it all came back.

I came to the diagnosis of benzo-dependency myself and found a psychiatrist who agreed to assist in a 6-month withdrawal with a gradual taper. After each step my tinnitus came back a bit for a few days and then dropped again. After a number of iterations it became what is known as "baseline", i.e. a background tinnitus I can live with.

In recent months I started taking Magnesium supplements in the form of citrates and Taurine. I then found this on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/tinnitus/comments/znyuyj/partial_su...
The top comment by kenzocarj is my current working model for dealing with Tinnitus. I'd like to try L-Theanine but it's illegal in my country - you can buy it in a form that has added glutamine which worsens my T. I'm now drinking matcha tea as a source of L-Theanine.

Hope this helps.
Surely you know some good people who will help us sort this mess and will tell us what is true and what is not.
Tinnitus isn’t sound in the “vibrating molecules of air” sense—it’s a neurological phenomenon. Anything’s possible—but our perception of sound is not obligated to play by the same rules as physical sound does, and ANC relies on those rules.
interesting indeed, don't know if you still can change the title, it's called Ragel
It's a shame the internet has pinned this on bodybuilders just because of the URL. TheJosh has a progress photo on his profile - he must be very deep into an offseason. bodybuilding.com is a general exercise forum and is infamous for the trolling on its misc board.
> I don't understand why a hospital would be yellow or a police station would be black by default. My guess would be white and blue, respectively.

Snow. At least that'd be my first guess for not going with white.

In general, you want to use distinctive characteristics that aren't common in that environment.
And why should it be? The silly HN "taboo" about mentioning downvotes is just that, silly. It's a tacit means of sidelining someone who might often have valid reasons for questioning why certain hivemind tendencies simply downvote valid points, with no reasoned counterargument, apparently because they emotionally dislike what they're reading. It's very common on this site and absolutely worth calling out in many cases, instead of automatically being considered shitty. Don't want people to complain about downvotes occasionally? Don't have them on the site.
They should ask Berlin for advice. I've got a tram like right outside my window, and the trams are only audible right before the rails get ground back into shape; busses pass me regularly and I don't notice unless I'm looking.

The sirens from the emergency vehicles on the other hand, those are probably part of the reason why I'm tired all the time.
That’s a good idea! In fact, it’s been requested a few times so I think Rev 4 will have card-edge connectors to do thar
>with a couple others ones in a handful of countries still using something called « imperial units ».

The only country I know of offhand that uses "imperial units" is the UK.

There's a different, but similar (and sometimes overlapping) system called "US Customary Units" that's used in the US. Imperial pints and gallons are NOT the same as US pints and gallons.
Despite it's name I suspect there was in fact a lot of snow that would make a white building too inconspicuous.
Ireland's teletext service, Aertel, to be switched off today after 40 years
Grab's 70% Tumble Shows the Limits of Singapore's Tech Dream
Still have it. However:

I worried about my tinnitus for so long. It drove me nuts at the beginning. Then one day I stopped worrying. I can't even tell you why, or when exactly that happened, just that it happened.

I remember reading all the comments saying "you'll get used to it", and then lying awake at night and thinking "I'll NEVER get used to it". It felt like I would have to accept a huge handicap. I really didn't understand how people could just say it doesn't bother them anymore. Really, that loud sound doesn't bother you?

And here I am today. I don't even think about it on most days. And most importantly, it does not feel like a handicap at all. It's mostly just gone. Still there and clearly audible when I think about it, but otherwise gone. Zero impact on my regular life, on my music listening or music making behaviour.

I also have a pretty strong hayfever allergy. Many people told me I'd get used to that, too, and I have to disagree: no, I don't get used to it, I'm 35 years old and it drives me nuts every single year. But the tinnitus is different. I have it for over 15 years now, and it just became irrelevant.
It's a rethink from the starting point of "everything should always be open source"

I think what's mentioned here is a pragmatic approach for software-centric businesses who want to be open-source but have realized that it doesn't really work without opening yourself to getting "Jeff'd" (ripped off by Amazon).
That isn't the critical part of the sentence, which is why you didn't spend any time mentioning it.

Yes they were less obese, the issue was the more likely to be the opposite, malnutrition. I dispute they spent less time battling disease, but if they did, it's because they died quicker.

Alzheimers is a disease of the old, and cancer tends to be also.

So all you're left with is obesity and the closely correlated diabetes.
It's a shame the parent comment was downvoted and this is currently languishing at the bottom of the comments.
I've noticed that M series Macs have extremely fast disk drives that the OS uses as swap quite efficiently. I've frequently used all my RAM on my Mac and barely noticed any slowdown when it starts swapping.
Thanks for the heads up! I could indeed.
Clock faces were inspired by sun dials. The hour hand traces a version of the path the sun's shadow makes. At least in the northern hemisphere.
> My parents lived in an apartment

Most of the apartments are in multi-story buildings.
I mostly agree with what you say, but for your last point about respect, I was essentially making the same argument, that one shouldn't flatly dismiss a certain practice because they themselves don't have a reason for it.

I have no problem at all with urban dwellers (or anyone) who choose not to own or drive cars. It's their choice and perfectly valid for their own reasons and needs. The same courtesy should go the other way too though.
> turns posting fake job ads into a profitable scam

God forbid that the average software developer actually does 5 mins of research into the company before shooting off a resume, even worse before loading 700 npm packages and running build scripts on their computer for a quick "test" assessment?

All I see in this thread is reactionary stuff from people who get kneejerk offended by the idea of paying to apply to jobs. The market is getting entirely automated from end to end and some who want to hire don't particularly want that.
Maybe the computer or smartphone has been shared with some discerning reader.

Personally, I keep browsing history on my phone clean enough to autocomplete "n" to "news.ycombinator.com".
> It works, but the benefit isn’t usually to the consumers despite that being the intention.

I'd argue that "it works" as in not experiencing blackouts is of significant benefit to the consumers.
OpenAI-Python v1.0.0 Beta
> Yep. Metal was a little early.

You mean it was ready when it was ready, and Apple released it. When Apple released it, Vulkun was not even an idea.

> Why they should? Because it it would improve portability for their platform and Linux. And it weakens Microsoft.

Why would Apple care about that?

The rest of that paragraph reads like a loosely connected stream of consciousness with no reasons for Apple to drop Metal and go all in on Vulkan.

To remind you, again, the timeline:

- Metal has been available since June 2, 2014 on iOS devices powered by Apple A7 or later

- The Khronos Group began a project to create a next generation graphics API in July 2014

- Vulkan was formally named and announced at Game Developers Conference 2015

- Metal has been available since June 8, 2015 on Macs (2012 models or later) running OS X El Capitan.

- On December 18, 2015, the Khronos Group announced that the 1.0 version of the Vulkan specification was nearly complete

- The full Vulkan specification and the open-source Vulkan SDK were released on February 16, 2016

By the time Vulkan was just released, Apple had already been running Metal on its devices for two years. By the time Apple released Metal 2 in 2017 Vulkan was 1 year old

> For the same reasons Apple supports OpenGL they also support Vulkan.

Apple doesn't support Vulkan.
> If I'm writing a chat app with millions of messages...

Once you have millions of messages, maybe consider moving the data intensive parts out if postgres, if necessary.

The criticism is often that people look for big data solutions, before they have big data.

If you scale out of postgres, you probably have enough users and money that you can fix it :)

But moving to a NoSQL before you have to, might just slow down development velocity -- also you haven't yet learned what patterns users have.
I'm sure that's religious revisionism (just like the Christmas holiday). Like so many time-based things, the 7-day week comes from the cycles of the Moon, and goes back at least as far as the Babylonians.
Seriously, on its face it's worse than google privacy wise because of the payment thing. Accept cash payment as some email providers and VPNs or stop telling people to trust you. And claiming Bitcoin changes anything privacy wise for the layman just blares red flags all over the place.
The groups I belong to do many things I wouldn't do. Some of them I'm sure I wouldn't do. As for others, I'm not sure as I don't have enough data and time to verify them. So you imply I should leave them all? In this case nobody could belong to any group because sooner or later any group can do at least one thing you wouldn't do.
> generators artificially "shut down" to drive up prices

Isn’t that an argument for having a proper market with multiple suppliers? Competitors would normally step in to provide supply at non inflated prices to generate greater revenue.
"Shock and awe" is a pretty good description of terror.
>This declares foo as a pointer to char, and bar as a char:

char* foo, bar;

So that's why I've had so many problems understanding C. I come from the Pascal world, where a type specification is straightforward.
My literal face every time I read LinkedIn: o_O

People (mostly from past jobs) who I have experienced as perfectly normal human beings you can have a normal conversation with (otherwise I wouldn't have connected them) evolve into completely fake engagement robots.

For reference, I'm German, most of my contacts on LI are also German and this seems like some special hell usually reserved for super sweet artificial Americans with pretend niceness. (Not a dig at Americans in general, just in a professional public setting, if you ever heard about the "Germans are too brutally honest" meme you know what I mean.)

Everything is super awesome and shallow, there's nothing social about it.

Namaste :praying_hand_emoji:
Why are you downvoting me for an honest question? I've seen it a bunch of times being used in a place where I would've used hiking and I'd love to hear more. People these days ...
Israel's vaunted tech sector is going to war
As somebody who has the misfortune to be living in Russia in this time, I have a very clear opinion on internet censorship and demands to prevent 'misinformation': kill it with fire.

Once the government gets to decide what's true and what's not, your country is no longer free. If the government wants to fight misinformation, it should disclose more information. If the government has an ability to silence anyone, this ability will be used to silence information harmful to the government.
When I say "calling out" I'm referring to labelling acts as terrorist acts. I probably could have used better wording.

But this argument is all about trying to provide an objective description of the facts. I agree with the BBC here - calling a group a "terrorist group" is an editorial choice, even if we do have government list of terrorist groups. I'd say that the attacks on the music festival and villages near the fence easily qualify for the term "terrorism", but so does Israel's retaliatory bombing of civilian targets. We're still quibbling over definitions (which is IMO inevitable), but at least we're talking about actions, rather than entire groups.
Which also makes a big cultural difference in Microsoft only shops, as whatever comes with Visual Studio is what matters, a common discussion theme.
There are upcoming meds that do help but it's still in trials such as RL-81

It's gonna be a while
Declaring X,Y and Z on separate lines for a graphics routine would just be silly, they're all the same type.

Defensive programming that extreme reminds me of the behavior I learned to avoid pissing off my drunk dad.
That's why we do interviews via Zoom.
As I see, it means something akin to "People's Democracy" which is an alternative terms of some other left authoritarian regimes.
> We can make them

The people doing the amplification here aren’t forcing anyone to do anything, which is a critical difference.

> whatever zionist fantasies you may hold

If I were forced to pick a side in this battle, I think the result would be the opposite of what you expect.

That said, I fully support the right of their opponents to yell loudly (with this truck) about their discontent. It’s peaceful protest of the best kind.
As someone having both tinnitus and eye floaters, this rings (pun intended) so true.
> Self-driving cars don't exist in any meaningful way

Agreed, but I wouldn't call them a "pipe dream" — Musk's timelines may all be pipe dreams, but the tech exists (and isn't just from Tesla) and can be used where legislation allows. On the scale of changing urban infrastructure, even if these take another decade, I'd expect them to be widely available faster than new train and subway lines.

Bike infrastructure should be an easy win, if only it wasn't for the political aspect that makes many see cyclists as "other". I'd be inclined to vote for people who promise more of it.
I've had it for as long as I can remember soI don't know what life is without.

I've had some curiousity from time to time, but that's the extent of it.

I truly believe acceptance is the best cure when no cure exists in this case, but it's also the most difficult method in all aspects of life.
What affect did magnesium have on your tinnitus? What about the L-Theanine?
Yes, it is quite obvious that the evil are the “crazies” (your term) that see a billboard and decide to do someone harm (and decidedly not the publisher of the billboard).
I was only saying that -O3 enables _even more_ optimizations, which can lead to UB code that works with -O2 but misbehaves on -O3. And because -O3 is seldom used (for reasons other than code breakage), the code patterns that are actually UB but don't get compiled to bad code at -O2 (by e.g. gcc) are lesser known. It all depends on how much a given compiler is willing to make assumptions based on UB and what's permitted by C spec to make optimizations. At -O3 it probably makes a lot more of those assumptions, along the lines of "the spec says this is undefined behavior so I will assume it can never happen and optimize it based on that". The more aggressive inlining in conjunction with that probably exposes more even more UB.

Edit: found example where code works on -O2 but breaks on -O3, related to using abnormal amounts of stack space
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47058978/g-optimization-...