skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To read a zip file, you need to read it backwards:
https://github.com/corkami/pics/raw/master/binary/zip101/zip....

There's also another standard called ZIP64 to allow for larger files (maximum 4GB in the original spec).

I was going to say that RAR is proprietary, but at least there's (non-FOSS) source code and good specs: https://www.rarlab.com/technote.htm
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Those codes were originally for just such a purpose, but as others point out there was a bootstrapping problem. At this point, if Excel doesn’t support it, it’s not going to gain traction.
Jolly good, my next major electronics purchase will want me to know it's feeling very depressed.
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...wasn't that known for years outside the tiny bubble of psychometricians? They like to go on about how it's the "best predictor" for whatever, forgetting that the absolute prediction itself is pretty lousy even when at its "best" and most of it comes from obvious tail-end cases (people with IQ below 80). There's also evidence from neuroscience [1] that's what's being measured is an higher order artifact from multiple other measurements. That's the thing: as soon as you go from the abstract, cognition-as-a-black-box mental model to an actual physical one with a model of actual brain regions, IQ falls short.

Which shouldn't be surprising given how futile it should sound to try and encompass the entirety of human abstract thinking (without even being able to give a satisfying, consensus making definition of intelligence) into a single number. Imagine if people came up with a Health Quotient built on very basic medical exams and went on about how that number is the best "predictor" of your lifespan... doesn't mean the number isn't damn useless.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23259956/
My son bundled this, an Rpi, and a bluetooth nintendo-like controller for me for Christmas. I'd used MAME and similar in the past, but the polish on this setup is really nice. Out of the box, I could just drag/drop ROMS to folders for nes, mame, etc. Lots of fun, and minimal fiddling with config and options.
NetBSD was forked from 386BSD and then repatched with Net/2 code.
I think this falls under Finagle's law.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finagle%27s_law
A couple minutes with a search engine finds several articles on new features such as "XFS online filesystem scrubbing and repair" [1][2], as well as plans for a substantial interface rework to implement subvolumes and snapshots [3], from this year.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/754504/
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/753480/
[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/747633/
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Yeah, that's a pretty confusing way of saying that, regardless of the key, the Alto reads a major 6th above concert.
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>And so might we all in a couple more years. That’s because, according to Gartner Research VP Brian Burke, 80 percent of emerging technologies will be outfitted with artificial intelligence by 2020.

Oh bloody hell, just invent something else! I work in an "AI" lab, and I just don't want any more "smart devices". I'd much prefer something that solves a problem I actually have, like for instance the godawful commute times involved in getting around here.
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One word of advice from someone who has seen little success with Saas businesses, you gotta keep at it for at least one year or more.

Once you're done with the development don't make the mistake of focusing more energy on your coding or product features but rather give everything to market.

Focus on SEO, content marketing, list building and forums (the niche the better). If you are able to show it this year then spend all 2019 promoting and building traffic. Then you really have a chance at making it.

I wish you all the best. Merry Christmas! :)
Does it matter? The attack vectors are orthogonal, requiring a linear increase of resources. For something like a clock sync source, it might not be worth it for the attacker.
IIRC, Matt forked FreeBSD from v4 as he disagreed with the approach taken to SMP (ie multi processor support) in v5. He forked v4 and wrote his own patch set to deliver SMP support. That is a long time ago.
I haven’t run Hammer / Hammer2 so cannot comment on why it is awesome. To me my file system needs to be properly battle tested and trusting my precious personal data to a one man band feels a bit too esoteric.

I have always wondered how Matt makes a living from this given the somewhat niche positioning of Dragonfly?
rclone is great, i have been using it to make backup of google photos. I had tried so many different solutions before achieving this. Great to see it being here on HN.
I work at a company that uses word embeddings to generate predictions that customers actually pay for. There are lots of other things going on under the hood (e.g. neural networks in which the embeddings are the first layer, non-ML software architecture to make the UX something worth paying for) but to answer your question, embeddings are definitely generating real value.
Sounds like https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html
> your existing users have a very different set of needs and priorities as new users coming onto your platform, or not yet users you want to attract

In this case you should side with your existing users who 1) you already convinced to sign up and engage with your product 2) helped you build your product in the first place.

I’d take an established power-user any day over a potential new user that has yet to prove themselves (they might quit the platform as quickly as they joined).

Of course, some idiots don’t understand this, and “Twitter” is the result.
Lots of hating on IQ. I have nagging thoughts: if IQ doesn't mean anything, they why is it so very, very hard for a perso to score higher on an IQ test in subsequent tests? Its at least measuring 'test achievement'?
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For what it's worth, I considered myself pretty undecided about this issue before, but the tone and content of your comments have moved me significantly against your argument.
So you say that a company can legally lock out a customers without any reasonable notice and room to discuss?

In EU for instance telcos, banks etc often change conditions without "negotiation" they simply inform their customers that starting from the next month/year/end of auto-renewal period there are new conditions visible "there" and if their customers refuse the change can end the contract without penalties having, in theory, enough time to switch to another company.

This protection is not much effective in many cases since most telcos/banks etc offer nearly the same conditions and change them nearly at the same time so a "bad move" for a customer of company X typically is already present or about to arrive to others possible "competitors", regularly antitrust step into action but normally without enough strength and timing to really avoid many bad moves...

However no one can act without enough time from the over part to respond and certainly not without keep receiving money on behalf of anyone...

Oh, to clarify I hear about cases arrived in curt with motivation like "we have received (as proved by Postal Service) that communication, but inside the envelope there are only to white sheets..." and things of that level but still person to person actions with a formal responsible from both sides.
Sounds good but I already have a wife?
It really did! Well, it felt pretty fast anyway.

Merry Christmas to all celebrating and happy holidays :~)
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Maybe not - if they don't constitute an economic force. Pivoting is a revered tradition in startup world
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Thanks for sharing the link! What a great source for procrastination :)

Loves this one for example:

15,000 yrs from now: According to the Sahara pump theory, the precession of Earth's poles will move the North African Monsoon far enough north to convert the Sahara back into a tropical climate, as it was 5,000–10,000 years ago.
It's really not a mess. It's a solution to a problem, and it works well.

To give you an idea of how not-a-problem it is, many composers (myself included) prefer to read orchestral scores (so, a page will have roughly 15-20 staves) that are transposed. So, instead of reading each instrument in the same key, we see what each player is reading. If the concert key is C, I'll see the clarinets and trumpets reading in D, etc. I prefer it because you get a better sense of how the music feels to each individual player, and can better respond to any issues they're having.

It's a mess to look at, I guess, but to any reasonably well trained musician, it's clear as day and conveys far more useful information than the "cleaner" way of seeing everyone in the same key, which really just obfuscates what's really going on.
Because your goal is to be an effective advocate?
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I think it's something similar to the Stockholm sindrome. It's literally hurting your eyes but you are so used to the pain you don't want to let it go :)

Joke aside, I remember when Green was the only colour my monitor could produce. And it felt great only because the other option was not using a computer at all.
I am not sure what kind of argument you would like, you are trying to redefine the word 'deterministic'. My argument is that it does not work like that. Just because we cannot predict something does NOT mean that it is not deterministic. Even if it is physically impossible to predict it for anyone it still can be deterministic. That's just how this concept works. In practice this means nothing, so I think we can end this debate because you are surely not convincing me and I doubt I can convince you:)
SQLite does not support BLOBs larger than 2GB, so in that sense it's only as good as FAT32
Sheet music notation actually works very well at conveying what it needs to. Transposing instruments are a bit of an annoyance if you need to read, e.g. a full score, but they come with the huge advantage for the player of working a bit like guitar tabs - the note position tells you instantly how to play it, no matter how the instrument is pitched. It is a good compromise.
You have to set DPI that is appropriate for your screen size. If you keep using the default 90 DPI with a 15" 4K screen, the text will for sure be small because it is rendered as if the screen is about 49".
Cryptomator is another cross-platform alternative for file-level encryption: https://cryptomator.org

Also includes first-class support for cloud syncing apps.
IMHO it's crucial to be broad-minded in technical matters, and to use that broad-mindedness as a secret weapon as part of one's day-to-day work.

But please don't take my word for it -- here's a selection of quotes collected by Paul Graham (who attributes a very successful business of his to the expressive power of Lisp) extolling the virtues.

http://www.paulgraham.com/quotes.html
Besides, the only reason different instruments are written in different keys is because that’s how they’re pitched. So if there even is a “problem,” that’s it.
I took an IQ test once, when I was 17. It was a sunny day in February, I was well rested, had nice breakfast and even managed to get a sneaky toke while my mother was in the shower. I prepared by singing to the radio in the car. It took a few hours and I got the results on another day, so it was a "real IQ test", though I'd have to look up the exact type. But it doesn't matter anyway. I scored 142 that day, and there is no way I'll ever take an intelligence test again. It made me kind of an asshole for a while, too, I found it hilarious to respond to stuff like "it's cold outside, don't you want to take a jacket" with "I have an IQ of 142, don't you think I'd know when I need to take a jacket?". But even then I knew I was feeling really good that day, and answered quickly, and what I didn't know I maybe sometimes guessed correctly. I didn't take it serious serious.

But it also wasn't just a joke to me, either. When I as a little kid, I was reading a comic with the neighbour's kid who was 2 years older, and I remember coming to the end of a page and waiting for him to turn to the next one any moment, and being surprised at how long it took for him to do that. I was excited for a second becuse I thought "I read faster than this guy and I only just learned it!", then I scolded myself and thought "no, he's probably just taking time to actually look at the images in detail". Knowing that there's at least some fuzzy objective-ish substantation for actually being above average in some areas offered some closure to that kind of stuff, and from then on out allowed me to not have to prove myself when someone who I felt wasn't that bright insulted my intelligence. But it's good I didn't take a test with such a result at age 12, that would have been a social disaster I'm sure.

Ultimately, I didn't make myself, nobody made themselves, so at best intelligence still only gift, and even more importantly a responsibility. Honesty and kindness are much more valuable in a person than any amount of intelligence, IMO. Intelligence often just allows us to deceive ourselves and others better, and I think many of the major problems in the world we ascribe to stupidity are in large part so big due to intelligent people either not pulling their weight, or actively exploiting and molding people more simple than them.

> Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

-- Albert Einstein, who had a very high IQ, so.

Screw intelligence, let's strive to be wise and kind. Intelligence is just a bonus, a nice to have, like being a bit more agile, or like a computer having more RAM, less latency etc. -- but it doesn't make a bad application something entirely different.
No. That's not necessary. Assembly language is the simplest programming language there is. It's not a joke and will save time later.
The idea of such an event is fascinating and I enjoyed reading about it. Although one comment on the site points to a difference between American and British culture: they say they set the story in the 1950s because it is "a 'vanished decade' in pop culture". Which is odd because in the US it is perhaps the most cliched decade thanks to things like "Happy Days", "Grease", faux-1950s diners like Johnny Rocket's, etc.
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How did you name your startup/product?
I'm looking to launch an e-Commerce business, however, I'm stuck. It's as though all the names are taken. I have a very long spreadsheet and all the names I think of are taken (either the domains I'd like, or the business names). It seems to be one of the more difficult things to do. How did you come up with your startup/products name? I think I just need more ideas to find a path that works. So far I've been stuck at animals, markets and portmanteaus that don't really make much sense.

Any feedback on the thought process that you followed would help me find more paths to figure out how to name my company.
Is it true though? There's plenty of evidence that IQ test performance can be learned (i.e. you score higher) with prior training. That's why it's often insisted that tests be taken "out of the blue" without any preparation whatsoever.
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Taleb doesn't mean IQ doesn't test something real. He says this "something real" is irrelevant.
No, Go has about the fastest loops you could want, implemented in the obvious way at the asm level. (That is, not that Go's loops are any more extra magical fast than any other compiled language, but they are not slow as in some dynamic languages.) The focus is there because that's where you get wins, in any language.
The AI will serve you ads for audiobooks you can listen to during the commute. That's something, isn't it?
Merry Christmas, HN! This community is something I check in on every morning — I’m happy I can always find something new or interesting to learn about each time.
Because the instruments have three valves, they are essentially a variable-length tube with a three-bit interface for choosing the length - so there are eight possible configurations, and two of them happen to result in the same tube length so there are seven selectable lengths.

So if the length is set to “C” (that is, no valves pressed) and your lips buzz at “G” then you will be playing a “G”.
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Merry Christmas! And best wishes for a splendid 2019.
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After e2e encryption, my second largest feature request is a .dropboxignore file

I don't understand why they don't have it even after all these years.
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An interesting Xmas gift for the hacker community. So now, DOOM doesn't just run on a toaster; it also runs on vacuum cleaners. Or more, vacuum cleaners can input data to DOOM!
Next up: IQ on why Nassim Taleb is baloney.
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Man there are some nasty replies in this thread.

Not that I don’t agree with the high level premise, but I hate when people dismiss a hundred years of peer reviewed research generally without doing the peer reviewed legwork to back themselves up.
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I've worked at private companies where we've had cesium atomic clocks in the lab. I've owned a rubidium atomic clock. I'm not saying that shutting down WWVB/WWVH/WWV isn't foolish, but atomic clocks are readily available to anyone who wants to pay. Cesium is high five figures and rubidium is often available for under $1,000.
> Only that mandarin may open up a world of 1.2 billion people, a whole universe to explore.

Just that they're all from the same country mostly. Going by raw numbers isn't a good metric here. Something like "number of countries or cultures where you can communicate with the average person using that language" would be a better fit, and this is where English will probably still be king for a long time.
Doesn’t work on ZFS either. I dropped Dropbox because of this.
Doesn't help get over it, but hovering over steamy water with Vicks metholatum, with a towel over your head, provides 10 minutes of not feeling lousy.
Great! Is this on github or some other? I had a couple of applet entries it'd be nice to package up.
Even though it's proprietary, Resilio Sync does encrypted peer to peer sync, plus it allow encryption-only nodes. These contribute bandwidth, but cannot decrypt the data.
Merry Christmas, buddy!
It might be too late, but one thing my brother taught me is to demolish a LOT of orange juice the moment you start to feel unwell (drink it as if you are thirsty all the time - I did five litres of it in about twelve hours), crank the heating up to make your bedroom uncomfortably hot and sleep as much as you possibly can.

I don't know the mechanism behind it working for us - my brother and I are a bit of an oddity in that we both have insanely effective immune systems (and like running experiments on ourselves), but it works for me. Might work for you, might not!
As much sleep as you can manage, and nourishment such as the classic chicken soup.
Lists are very often used in the way arrays are, though.

The heterogeneous use-case (that in C, etc. is usually a struct) is often filled by either tuples or (ordered) dictionaries in Python.

If you really want something a bit closer to a C array, you can fairly easily create a UserList that enforces the non-empty requirement and only allows items of a particular type.
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Boil some coke with slices of ginger and lemon. Then drink it warm, but not hot.
Really time-consuming and also an eye-opening experience to see how good some of the participants are. I haven't participated before and went into the forums for the first time after having spent 8+ hours coming up with a solution - only to find a video of someone solving the problem in 5 minutes!
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I've read stories like that, people rushing products to benefit from subventions. It backfires badly on renewables.
I'd be interested to know more about the Chinese research you are referencing. Could you point me to the research and explain how it overcomes those arguments of Lidsky? Is it using something other than Deuterium and Tritium, or has it found a way around the problems that Lidsky enumerated with the DT approach?
What makes someone a good front-end developer?
I was in the US military, and they used something called an ASVAB test to check your suitability for various jobs. It's one of the few skills tests I've encountered that seemed both reasonably accurate and useful.

I'd much rather see the results of that for a potential job hire than I would want to see their SAT scores, IQ, etc.
I think people prefer less risky now. Now that faith is partially gone, living in fear of catastrophy is worse than lower energy production.
$26m does seem a little steep with today's technology. That probably includes the price of being nuke proof... I'm guessing if we're merely worried about sprinklers watches and clocks we could let that level of hardening go
For reading and writing I agree, but just the language itself definitely not. At least not objectively, but how do you define that anyways?
I think the stuff about nested loops performing poorly is a misunderstanding. There's nothing inherently bad about nested loops. The motivation given in the previous post[0] is:

> The big breakthrough I had was after looking at the hot function I realised that storing the game events in a List of Arrays meant that we had a loop in a loop. It was however possible to flatten this into a single array of integers and reset the game every 11 turns with a simple if check.

The issue here wasn't nested loops, it was data structure overhead and poor data locality from having a lot of tiny lists (11 items each, as I understand it).

0: https://boyter.org/2017/03/golang-solution-faster-equivalent...
This is perfectly useless advice. You've hidden all the magic in vagueness. Everybody thinks they have common sense, so of course they already think somebody with common sense looked at the design.

I'd suggest either just giving an honest rant or giving actual advice. And for that you have to really unpack what you mean by "common sense" until somebody who doesn't have "common sense" can have a chance of understanding and fixing the problem.
> John LeBoutillier, who went on to be a U.S. congressman, later recalled a case discussion in which the students were debating what the C.E.O. should do if he discovered that his company was producing a product that could be potentially fatal to consumers.

> “I’d keep making and selling the product,” he recalled Skilling saying. “My job as a businessman is to be a profit center and to maximize return to the shareholders. It’s the government’s job to step in if a product is dangerous.” Several students nodded in agreement, recalled LeBoutillier. “Neither Jeff nor the others seemed to care about the potential effects of their cavalier attitude. . . . At H.B.S. . . . you were then, and still are, considered soft or a wuss if you dwell on morality or scruples.”

Cute...

Can you honestly imagine consumer capitalism dealing with global warming and environmental impact of their own actions? Do you really think that bringing market mechanism to solving environmental problems (or other social problems like FB) will work?