skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody attempting seriously and succintly to answer the question here even the article.

As far as i understand pattern recognition is basically what the cortex (in all its various divisions) does. Which is basically one of our most important higher functions and what sets mammals apart from other animals intelectually.

Recognising a melody is not so different from recognising the voice of a friend or the route to walk home. Except for different input types.

Except the fact that music and melody/harmony is not just 'match a pattern' but is designed essentially to tease, test and develop the pattern recognition function by taking simple clear ratios then finding ways to make them a little on edge mathematically in different ways.

So we shouldnt find it weird that music can give most of us pleasure itself because its literally the same mecahnism as things that are finding food or a good partner to mate with.

Then theres lyrics and the social side of music which puts a whole different twist on it. The above is pure rhythm and pitch only enjoyed individually.
No worries! I realize I could have been more explicit in my original comment.
After 20 years, the number isn't 99.9%. But:

Should chrome redirect all DuckDuckGo queries to Google.com because 99.9% use Google anyways?
I'm a Firefox user so I don't typically use Safari, but I just did try it right now and I guess they do!
Well technically that includes planes and motocross also.
Actually, the spreadsheet assumes that nobody is undertaking the buy-every-ticket strategy, it is calculating the EV for a single ticket.

In scenario #1, there are 1.93 tickets sold for every possible combination, meaning that on average, 1.93 people win the jackpot. If you go ahead and buy every ticket, that means 2.93 tickets per combination, reducing EV from 1.11 to 0.78.
I mean maybe, but that's just speculation, and it really doesn't get us anywhere.

The main point of the article is that off the shelf probiotics don't do the wonders they are toted to. You would have to have probiotics tailored to the unique bacterial composition inside of your gut.
> The wind and solar farms simulated in the study would cover more than 9 million square kilometers and generate, on average, about 3 terawatts and 79 terawatts of electrical power, respectively.

This study is looking at a combined farm size that's almost as large as all the land mass in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
There are also people who can't concentrate while listening to music.
That is why there is a process. In the process, nobody pushes the bad button.

There is a button polisher.
A button ladder bringer.
A button protection board builder.
A goods on protection board stapler.
And the one guy, who must declare that, the protection board over the button collapsed and pressed the button.
We are very sorry.

The only power to rival these- the state, the giant to protect our common interests, is bound, gagged and blinded today by liberal propaganda, as not to interfere with these processes.
The Byzantines controlled all of Anatolia, the Balkans, and parts of Italy around 1000 and retained much of it through the Komnenian Restoration. I wouldn't call the empire "dying" until after 1204. And remember, even at it's lowest Constantinople itself was regarded extremely highly -- most famously the Rus adopted Eastern Orthodoxy after being so impressed by the city.
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It's interesting that the number of hot days hasn't changed. In fact, by the graph, the average has actually declined slightly since my birth year, but rounds to the same whole number. If I make up my birth as being in 1920, the earliest available year, the number of hot days at that time is equal to the number of hot days that are predicted in the future.

I was expecting a completely different result.
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and bicycles!
> 1 threat to call the Canadian police

Fairly good hit rate. People have been jailed for performing "unsolicited pentesting" before. And @malwaretech is currently stuck in the US indefinitely for intervening in the WannaCry command-and-control system.

(fixed handle, sorry)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-wants-to-kill-the-url/
We're always going to need to see URLs. They're not going away. They're just talking about a better default view to show the user relevant information about where they are, which would be a good thing.

Being generous, maybe half of users can look at a URL and immediately identify the domain they are on. That's terrible, and goes a long way to explaining why phishing attacks are so prevalent.

I'm actually pretty excited to see what they come up with. If it's even marginally better than what we have now I'd be all for it. I'm guessing they'll end up showing some combination of the domain and page title by default (which might incentivize more sites to FIX THEIR GODDAM TITLE SCHEMES!).
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There thankfully is a setting to show the full url, but yeah, Safari on macOS does that by default. The change occurred around Lion (give or take a major version) if memory serves me well.
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Well, it's basically unusable if you have a hidpi monitor--which is more and more people every day.

If you don't, it's barely usable, with very bad UX defaults.
His videos on the Fourier transform are top notch. I can't recommend watching him enough.
How does Sublime Text compare to VScode for you? I am curious about the choice between the two, and why one would be better.
Overhydration is a thing. Living at the extreme end of anything isn't good for us.
This is not true unless the cookie is specifically marked to be domain-wide.

There was a time when IE misbehaved. Not sure if this fixed in Edge:
https://www.mxsasha.eu/blog/2014/03/04/definitive-guide-to-c...
I haven't had blood work done recently tho I do notice the difference if I'm away or forget and don't take the supplements regularly.

Cost isn't really an issue, I pay 15 dollars on Amazon for 360 5000 IU softgels.

Should note that I work in a windowless office room and almost definitely get less sunlight then the average person.
... he believes this technology could be used to detect emotions, IQ and even a predisposition to commit certain crimes...

21st Century Phrenology
I am currently switching from emacs to VS Code. I am using an emacs keymap and I must say, it is wonderful. For Python, I can per project easily select the right virtual environment, the "intellisense" like system is working very well, it is pretty fast and you can customize a lot of it.

I am expecting to slowly move out of emacs for my coding in the next few months.

Emacs will be kept because I have a lot of org-mode files to manage my company at a higher level (lot of tables with formulas to calculate several key indicators). On the longer term, they could be moved as Python notebooks with the rendering in VS Code.

So yes, I do think this is the editor which is going to move a lot of old coders out of emacs/vi/vim.

PS: The added bonus is that I easily get support of Go, Typescript, etc. without the need to "debug my editor". Just install the right extension, done.
I'm kind of confused what they offer. Are they providing a software that is like a IT "ERP" system?
Podcasting was one of Feynman's lesser known discoveries. They would mail the whole spool of film to your doorstep.
I followed the low sodium bullshit for more than a decade and never put two and two together: that what was making me debilitatingly drowsy on rest days after multiple days of vigorous exercise was the lack of sodium.

Almost exactly year ago I started adding salt to everything. Not only did the drowsiness go away, I haven't had single muscle cramp in the twelve months since.
Wow, the TrackerPro sounds great - there's a whole world of tech here I know nothing about! Do you think it works well for you?

I remember trying DragonDictate on Windows in the 90's, and it was light years ahead of anything at the time, but still not 'good enough' as an alternative to keyboard entry (for me). A lot of time has passed, so I imagine it's a lot better now - do you actually use it for inputting code, or just for general text? (like HN comments :)

Also, thanks for taking the time to answer and educate so fully!
Solve quantum gravity in a way that can't possibly be confirmed empirically.
Solargraph is pretty good, but RubyMine is still much better at least in my experience. Hopefully Solargraph gets there eventually and I can go back to using VSCode for everything.
they can be just acquired back to Google or by another player for about $10M/head.
I mean, aren't you in Switzerland? With the lowest unemployment in the world it should be fairly easy - if not, maybe the demand for the kinda job you're looking for is entirely met (saturated).
Balinese gamelan is played on metal instruments which don't have the same concept of consonance and whose overtones and scales have almost no relationship with Western music.

Some eastern european folk uses minor-like scales but harmonies feature a major second, which is certainly not considered a consonant interval.

In the West there's also jazz, which is based rather loosely on conventional Western harmony but uses unusually remote and dissonant chords.

And the entire serial and post-classical academic tradition, which is self-consciously and deliberately anti-tonal and dissonant.

In fact extremely consonant music is the exception.
GIMP's UI is one of the worst I can think of.

Everything is counterintutive, starting from shortcuts, to menus, etc. etc., and since it's GTK2 it looks minuscule on hidpi screens.
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> However, the moral of the story was essentially: "software is so complicated that it is bound it break, so you have to be good at fixing it". While that is certainly true, I think that developers have a responsibility to use whatever tools they can to write high-quality software.

I actually disagree that we have a responsibility to write high-quality software. As engineers our job is to create software that is good enough for the task at hand and that can be improved later.

Sometimes that means that you invest in 100% coverage plus integration and system-level testing because "good enough" means that it has to never fail. Sometimes that means you don't spend much time automating tests and instead do informal development testing before you check something in.

It's entirely up to your judgement based on what your code is going to be used for, and I don't think it was inappropriate for OkCupid's engineering staff to avoid testing in this case. After all, their business was really successful through the period where the error happened.
That's not skill, that's luck. If the bug in question had instead leaked every customer's personal data there wouldn't be a $50m company, there'd be a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
But why then treat Autostrade like a pr management entity?

"Autostrade, which handles media queries on behalf of the subcontractor, Spea Engineering, declined to comment."

I guess that's what bothers me a bit - is that there is a somewhat in depth investigation regarding the technical explanation, but a big shrug at hitting the wall on explanation of management failures, which IMHO should go all the way up thru the ownership conglomerate.
> Don't think there is any reason not to do this [...] Most sites already have a www. to . redirect in place

Most. Not all.

The browser is doing something out-of-spec for really no reason at all and it has the chance to break some sites.

www.domain.com and domain.com are never guaranteed to go to the same page. Yes, out of modern convention, they do now, but it's only a convention. Sites are free to break it, and some do, so to make this change is a bad idea.
Do people really expect to be paid market rate for open source work?
I was a PD customer for 3 years at FarmLogs. There was literally zero innovation or development on that product during the entire time there. It was abandonware. I am shocked that they're dominating this space with such lackluster enthusiasm about their own product.

I'm not just referring to a lack of new features... it’s a lack of improving their core product. It's buggy and painful to use. I can’t tell you how many times acknowledging an issue (during the crisis around the issue) failed and caused cascading problems with other engineers being paged. That’s the one thing this product should do without fail.
What isn't probiotic: definitely antibiotics.
Instructions were never removed from 32-bit mode though. You can run your 32-bit programs the same as before, even on today's most modern processor. You just won't get any of that 64-bit goodness.
From what? I think a better noise generator would do better than random, e.g. headless chrome, human-esque mouse movements, reasonable link traversal, etc. I also wonder how many of the big sites will blacklist by IP knowing many ISPs reassign and many botnets run on their customers' computers.
I would just point out that HN does this in the title of every link posted, and has been doing this for years.
Neither can I but that's because I get very easily overwhelmed by music.
Because the battery drainage with Firefox is unacceptable.
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Pretty cool, this is actually a great reference for a lot of things.
Even if you're familiar with RL, you might be reminded of something or learn something new.

Sutton and Barto's book is also good if you want to do more than dip your toes into RL: http://incompleteideas.net/book/the-book-2nd.html
That page has the PDF with links to code, problem solutions, and course material.

If you just want an idea of what an RL algorithm looks like, I've got a (heavily) documented version of TD(λ) for linear function approximation here: https://github.com/rldotai/rl-algorithms/blob/master/py3/td....
Nonsense. Newspapers are dying off because they aren't doing their job. They all copy news from the same few sources, and do almost no decent investiation. Why doesn't anybody care for more than a title and a short snippet? Because what's left is filler.

I would really like a newspaper if it provided decent content. I would even prefer a weekly in depth edition instead of a daily dose of mcNews, we'll-give-two-sides-even-if-one-is-insane, and political opera. Now who can I give my money?

A tax means google pays, not me, and they can continue creating garbage. The market has spoken, newspapers. Please do your job or drop dead.
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Anecdoctally this happened to me the other day in my Haskell backend: had a recursive function (in the IO monad) that every ten second would take a connection of my connection pool (and since it was recursive) would not give it back to the pool. Of course it was a stupid bug, but it was hard to figure out because it would take a while before it got to that point and once it was there every call to the backend would block then timeout. I like functional programming, and yes: it was in the IO monad so not pure, but I think most applications ends up in some stateful monad even if your stack is built for functional stuff... This was 'not at scale' but it as a Haskell project it is fairly big. Point being: yes, pure apps will not havr this predicament, but even with a stack built for pureness I can see it happen quite often. Running software is messy...
The point is that engineering decisions need to involve both the business and the technical side of things, and they need to be pragmatic and not tied to any particular dogma from either world.
> they're run by actual people who have to interact with other humans such as their friends and family

Who need to continue to recruit people who do have actual values. It's still a play for them
It probably depends on how you define "best approach".

For example in chess - sure, alphazero is better than stockfish - but stockfish is "good enough" (100s of elo better than the best human), without the cpu-cycle cost of alphazero.
> You can still click and see the whole URL. This is just making it easier for the average user to see the most important thing to them, which is the domain name.

Thanks for adding a step when that user's most important thing is telling us folks supporting them what the actual URL they went to. From other folks in this thread[1], it isn't as simple as just a click.

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17928598
Familiarity makes consistency the only real guide in any formatting guide. So, apart from formatting rules, there are still a few bits to argue about.

Try to use only standard SQL functions instead of vendor specific functions for reasons of portability.

I don't think this is too important as the many places I've worked at had been using the same vendor for many years. Depends on your future plans, I guess.

Include comments in SQL code where necessary. Use the C style opening closing where possible otherwise precede comments with -- and finish them with a new line.

I prefer always using -- so that adding a new line of comment only consist of prefixing it with -- instead of going on the preceding line, backspacing a bit and then starting your new line.

Do not prefix with tbl or sp_ [...]

More-so because in SQL Server, sp_ means special and not stored procedure.

Avoid, where possible, concatenating two table names together to create the name of a relationship table. Rather than cars_mechanics prefer services.

I don't think this is a good example. This table is there to support the many-to-many relationship, ye? The name "Services" doesn't really convey that.

Object oriented design principles do not effectively translate to relational database designs—avoid this pitfall.

This is too generic and deserve additional details and examples.
For what? Acquisition only makes sense if a market opportunity is so close that missing it will affect the bottom line. I believe companies can independently build their own TPUs at lesser than $60M within 2 years. And even then the volumes for these chips are ... ?

Unless millions of units are being sold/month, it might just be cheaper to have some AI acceleration done in Intel's integrated CPU+FPGA offerings [1].

[1]: https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/24/a-peek-inside-that-i...
There are people who have made lots of money with Fiverr - I wouldn't dismiss them right away. But for developers, there may be better options. I guess with sites like Fiverr, the trick is to come up with something unique which can also be automated (if not 100%) and just do batch jobs, for developers.

There are people charging good rates on Fiverr. One example here - https://www.fiverr.com/news/side-hustle-school and there are others.

They keep 20%, which stings :)
From one of the comments there:

http://www.pool.ntp.org vs http://pool.ntp.org

One takes you to the website about the project, the other goes to a random ntp server.
The point is, the GIMP project would then be paying (in time and/or money) solely for someone else to "learn a little", when they could/should be spending that time/money actively improving the product.
They didn't care so far because it was so confusing. The hope is that by showing something that's user-relevant (the name of the website name and the security level), it will become more useful for the average user.

Why should a user see: https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada?utm=asdioasd&arg=j210d... when all they care about is "Wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada"?
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If you're talking about the flame graphs, they're a fairly common feature of modern profilers. The oldest implementation I know of is at https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph.
By "cool" do you mean it helped you read the article? I'm curious because I had the exact opposite response, I actually quit reading the article at that point. I think it might work better on a small screen, but I was reading it on a full size monitor with the window maximized. It actually took more time to scroll to the next sentence than it took to read the sentence. I found it too annoying to concentrate on the content.
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> They have almost never been done formally by an established state during normal civil life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
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Maybe a better solution to DNS lookups, but doesn't change the fact that your ISP may be profiling you based on the IPs you connect to for web traffic. VPN could be argued as a solution there, but even volume sans target is a profiling tool.
Yes to the last! Whenever bughunting my first step is to reproduce the issue in a failing test. This has the benefit of me being sure I know what is failing and how, but also crystallizes then knowledge and experience into the repo for future engineers (or future me) to know the most common/practical ways things break in the real world. It is also marginally useful for catching regressions, if the test is clever/general enough.
According to this blog post[0], IE misbehaves with cookies and allows breaking SOP.

The spec says that a cookie flagged with the domain "domain.com" is supposed to only be valid for requests to "domain.com" and not "subdomain.domain.com". A cookie that is intended to be valid for all subdomains is supposed to have a preceding dot, like ".domain.com".

Older versions of IE (That may still be in use) will treat "domain.com" cookies like ".domain.com" cookies, allowing malicious.subdomain.domain.com to access cookies only intended for "domain.com".

[0] https://www.mxsasha.eu/blog/2014/03/04/definitive-guide-to-c...
Interesting science.

But, I don't feel that the second is a legitimate use of meta-analyses. Due to publication bias, the conclusions it draws are only useful if the efficacy of probiotics is a forgone conclusion.

Moreover: I have a huge question regarding their primary measure, specifically regarding their use of number from this study:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14608267

Which show up as the 8th line of their risk-ratio calculation, but whose results have no relation to the values on that graph.

Moreover, this isn't peer reviewed, as far as I could see.
Isn't that simply due to internal politics? Whoever owns foo.com might delegate www.foo.com to someone else, but they ultimately control both.
HN removes all subdomains, not just "trivial" ones. That's a separate issue.