skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Examples of fields with hundreds of years of 'peer-reviewed research':

-Alchemy

-Phrenology

-Humor theory

-Spontaneous generation theory

-Astronomical geocentrism

-Ether theory

-Graphology

-Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalysis

-Astrology

all of them were once respected fields, complete with papers, journals, professorships, exams, etc.

By the way, speaking as someone in academia, you'd be surprised at how little 'peer-reviewed' means in terms of scientific validity. There's plenty of crap in
Nature and Science and everyone knows about it.
Aw, you cut out the part describing service-based IoT:

He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”

“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”
In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.

“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
Crypto gaming is not (always) a scam
Merry Christmas from Shanghai! 圣诞节快乐！

https://www.baidu.com/s?ie=utf-8&f=8&rsv_bp=1&rsv_idx=1&ch=&...
Or how about making a file name out of one complete line from ‘ls -l’?
Patreon Is Keeping People’s Donations
I'm assuming they mean some parts in the file require parts that appear farther on, so you'd have to receive the whole file?
I keep being more and more impressed with Apple to be honest. Whether it is desktop UX, phone touch UI, laptop trackpads, or even how seamless Apple Pay/FaceId works, most of what they push stands up to the test of time relative to the seemingly more data-driven experiences.
I think you have a point about C or C++ notion of arrays having the same type.

I'll probably rewrite that paragraph, since the main point is to tell people unfamiliar with Python that lists aren't actually linked lists.
The stations are 6m. 26m is the total proposed cut, which also cuts atmospheric monitoring and more. This is a terrible idea. NIST is really, really useful.
Greys anatomy?
Huh, robots integrate with Doom. I suppose it could be used to help train them for combat FPS games, not just doom. It would be nice if they added cloud support, only "cloud" is so mundane and cliched now... maybe instead of cloud we could call it "Sky", and because it's all just part of a network, maybe something like "SkyNet".
No, as I explain here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rfelectronics/comments/6nb6ky/do_ce...

To get halfway decent holdover performance, you want all the precision you can get when the constellation is good. That requires the best skyview (and least multipath) you can manage.
Why would an application like this care what file system it’s running on?
Crystal usage in actual Production ? Any pitfalls?
Another jazz musician here. (jazz pianist for 30+ years)

If you can't transpose on the fly, you're not a good jazz musician. Period.

Well, there's transposing and transposing. Transposing up/down a tone, semitone, fourth, fifth usually isn't too hard, depending on the song and tempo. But transposing some tunes by some intervals is very tricky. Most people have, I suspect, not practised doing that much, because there's no need. (No need at all if you don't play with singers.) Some jazz musicians practise playing tunes in every key, but a small minority, I believe. (And then you wouldn't be 'transposing on the fly' but doing something you've practised.) Being able to play tunes in one key is enough. But saying what you said so dogmatically sounds ridiculous to me. (I mean really..if someone can't, say, play Stella by Starlight in E 'on the fly' you'd tell them "You're not a good jazz musician. Period."?!)

If you can't play equally well in all keys, you're not a good jazz musician. Period.

That's just rubbish.

I'm not sure who you're trying to impress or why, but what you say just sounds wrong. And so arrogant: "You are way off base" "Period." "where the hell are you getting this?" etc. Everything the GP said sounded right to me. Read it again - you weren't really responding to what they said at all, but something else. It seems you felt insulted or something, I don't know why.
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On mobile web? I think I’d take the other side of that bet.
Very active. Getting close to 1.0, and pretty much at parity and beyond the original TOS.
It always sounds like the people working on these redesigns are not heavy users of the product. And by that I mean legit heavy users, not dogfed users.
"Strictly speaking" is an attempt to confuse. They could have just said "No".

Same for the whole "many people" portion, which could instead have been more honestly written as "Many people misuse the term "Open Source". We won't do that, but we really wish we could."
But it has been done at a length of 26.7km, for the LHC.
APL itself looks really really bad language with bad documentation, no real libraries, non-existent type system, bad function names, and I don't see any GPU programming support in it. In the family Matlab is still the best (It can do Monte Carlo simulation on the GPU, and has a great library for different distributions), but it's still much slower language than Julia generally.
I would ageee with you for cases where both sides had a strong argument, but in Snapchat’s case everyone was complaining about the new UI, so I’m not sure how to describe that sense - people who complained are from all different ages & backgrounds so it’s not like they had UI design experience or anything - “common sense” is probably the only thing they all had in common and that thing alone was enough for them to determine the UI sucked.

In this case, simply doing some basic user-testing would’ve been considered common sense and would’ve brought up the problem immediately.
I'd like to see this put to the test in a situation where sensory information is of no benefit: strategy games.

Alpha Zero got to be so strong at chess through millions of games of self-play. I would like to see how it would fare with only one hundred games, against a human chess beginner with one hundred games under his/her belt.
It should be noted that the distributed SQLite is a patchset written by the LXD folks. Last time I talked to hem they said they're working on upstreaming it but want to be sure that everything is sane (SQLite has crazy backwards-compatibility requirements, not to mention the testing).
No, it's not FUD. encrypted ext4 is encfs and ecryptfs, not xy on LUKs, and yes, they did drop support.
Feliz Natal from Portugal!
If you did want to run the original Dropbox client, you could likely make a blob image on your encrypted partition, loopmount it and then sync to that.
Using OOP Principles Beyond Objects
Frohe Weihnachten from Austria!
Snapchat Coding Interview, Avoid the Fake SolutionDaily Coding Problem #3 [ITA]
Yes, between traits and alias control, you have everything required to solve OP's problem safely and efficiently. The only remaining aspect, I feel, is aesthetic, as the errors show; they show aliasing/ownership errors, but not indicative of operations on a single state machine.
> most of it comes from obvious tail-end cases (people with IQ below 80)

That is not a tail-end case, it is a huge number of people, about 28 million in the U.S. alone.

Wishful thinking is not a substitute for science, and IQ is (as far as we can tell) a good predictor of general cognitive ability, which is in turn a good predictor of a great number of things. If you think you have something better, we're all ears.
I'm sure that you didn't mean to offend but Shèngdàn actually means the birth of Kongzi (Confucius), and using it for Christmas is only due to Western Colonialism, trying to dominate and erase Chinese culture. 耶誕节快乐!

Edit: Yes, your link shows that every year there is this "Western Christmas craze" in China. It is a commercialized, fashionable holiday for young people to have fun - but this also shows how disrespectful it is that they associate this with the traditional title of Kongzi. Kongzi said that through festivals and rituals we learn to become more humane. Is this the spirit by which Western Christmas festival is celebrated today?
"The coaching habit" by Michael Bungay-Stanier - I've done some coaching training, and this is a great intro to using some of those concepts in looking after a team.
The Economics of Running a Curated Newsletter
NIST provides a standard way to introduce leap seconds, I believe. What alternatives are there for this? (One proposal eliminates leap seconds.)
Time Traveller's Cheat Sheet
That depends on how (and how much) the backend is tied to the modified version (IANAL, don't ask me for specifics, it's REALLY gnarly, and there are various contradicting legal opinions).
A Distributed Build System with Go and GRPC
I guess it depends on your definition of arrays, and what you expect from them. For example, Ruby calls a similar thing array: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/2.0.0/Array.html

To me it is kind of self-growing array that can hold objects of different types. The C++-ish equivalent would be something like std::vector<void*> / std::vector<MagicObjectBoxType> (there is no MagicObjectBoxType of course).
We just transitioned our tiled images from using a directory structure to SQLite.

Having a single file per very large image (for mobile) makes transferring them to the phone over USB around ten times as fast. I wish I’d done it years ago.
If you trust https://www.dropbox.com/en_GB/security#files, then they have encryption on transport and at rest in the DC, and implement forward secrecy and certificate pinning.
That's pretty interesting too! Although I think the advantage of the game here is that it's not only written in Lisp (or CL as the case may be) but the client is actually going to be open source, and it sounds like they're incorporating a (subset?) of the Lisp language as a component of playing the game.
Buy Google Reviews – Buy Google Positive Reviews
One annoying thing about basic economy fares is that the airline charges you to carry your own bag on (though I think one or two airlines may have since reversed this policy). It is “enforced” by relegating basic economy fares to the last boarding group, by which time the overhead bins are likely already full. While basic economy + carryon fee is usually still less than regular economy, it feels like the airline is coercing more money out of you to avoid the risk of a bad customer experience.
The 10 best apps for new iPhones
Do you want something different than the Dropbox exclusion list ("dropbox exclude add ...")?

That only supports excluding directories not individual files, and the actual list of exclusions is buried in some local binary config both of which are moderate annoyances - perhaps those are your qualms?
This is something I really want to implement in 2019: a routine, and a general attitude, strategy, tactics and actions to "get my act together".
Just like bell bottoms, this little nugget from the Seventies is back, I see. Same arguments, too, almost point-for-point. “Most speakers”, “large emerging market”, yada, yada. Just like the 70s, if you’re trying to sell Coke in China, might want to learn some Mandarin. OTOH, if you’re selling Coke in Greece...

Of course, things have changed over the years, but if anything they’ve changed toward a much more homogeneous world and I argue that learning any form of Chinese to be potentially less useful than forty years ago. If you don’t do business in China, what need is there to learn Chinese? And if you do business there, well duh, you might want to learn some of the local language like you would anywhere else.
>13- For a measure to be a measure it needs to be: + UNIQUE + MONOTONIC or, at least + TRANSITIVE

I'm not sure I buy this one. Intelligence is something that is inherently constructive in nature. Your knowledge and problem solving abilities build on themselves as you grow, so I don't think it makes any sense that IQ would stay the same throughout a lifetime.

Not to mention, I can think of many measures that don't fit these criteria. Height, weight, etc.
The deployment story has improved significantly this year with the release of distillery 2.0

https://dockyard.com/blog/2018/08/23/announcing-distillery-2...

Also, it was never as bad as everyone made it seem, but most of the gripes have been remedied :)
It may be confusing, but mainly it's wrong.

I find yours a very confusing way of saying it. Hard to parse. As a way of explaining to someone who didn't already know it would be useless, I imagine. The point[0] is:

Instruments in Bb: They play what they call a "C" and it's actually a Bb. To produce a C they have to play a "D".

Instruments in Eb: They play what they call a "C" and it's actually an Eb. To produce a C they have to play an "A".

[0] I only bother writing this because the wrong thing has been written on this page a few times, and not corrected so far.
One technique that is overlooked when transposing music - that maybe is interesting - is using clefs to transpose.

Suppose I play alto sax (which I do!) and have sheet music written for a violin, in the concert key, in treble clef. If I want to transpose the music and play it on the sax, which is an Eb instrument, here's the trick: read the music as though it's written in soprano clef!

A C in treble clef will be an A in soprano clef, which is indeed the correct transposition. Of course you still have to change your key signature.

So if you can learn to be comfortable with a new clef, as was the standard when Bach was writing choral music, then this would be a great tool in the toolbox for transposing on the fly!
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You're right, most people aren't in a position to "just move," but the constituency fighting to keep cities exclusive is not that large, and it won't take many to overpower it. Then, with easy access to urban apartments, people can free themselves from the expense of owning and maintaining cars.
In other words. Not far.

When you write "EWE plans to build the world´s largest battery" you know you are dealing with PR not with reality.
Tramiel Operation System (TOS) named. after the legendary computer icon, Jack Tramiel.
Hdf5 files are good if the data is write once, and numeric unless things have changed over the last fives years. From my recollection, you can’t append data so you have to rewrite the whole table and text fields are fixed width.
I actually love the smart download option, it allows me to always have the next episode downloaded when I leave the house.

This seems more like a CS fault than anything. Netflix is a huge company and CS agents are outsourced/so far from the actual product team that they operate on guidelines/info that might actually not be true/outdated. I'd say it's just a problem with a huge organization.
Aiven statement on license changes for the Confluent Platform
For those unfamiliar, this is a full open source (GPL) re-implementation of the original Atari ST (16/32 68000 system) operating system. Here's the long form:

The Atari ST's operating system ("TOS") was forked from Digital Research's 'GEMDOS' (a kind of CP/M 68k / MS-DOS alike disk operating system) along with 'GEM' (Graphic Environment Manager) which consisted of a device-independent graphics subsystem ('VDI') and a windowing system / application toolkit ('AES' application environment services). Atari was given a license from DR back in 1984, and effectively did their own port and forked from the mainline. The story of how that all went down is chronicled in an excellent series of blog posts by an original participant here: http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=995 and http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=1000

Note that this is 'Atari Corp', which was a company owned by Jack Tramiel after he quit Commodore. Not Atari Inc, which was the company responsible for Pong, the Atari 2600, and the original Atari 8-bit computers.

GEM was the brainchild of Lee Jay Lorenzen, who had worked on the Xerox Star project and who had advocated at Xerox for getting some of those concepts onto lower end PC-class machines. He joined DR in the early 80s and headed up the GEM project to work on that. He later left DR to start Ventura Publisher, an excellent DTP package which was built on GEM.

Digital Research went on to develop GEM on the x86 on a separate branch from the Atari version. They were forced by an Apple lawsuit to make modifications to it to make it less Mac-like. Atari's branch was exempted from this.

Atari Corp eventually packed it in, with their assets spread around like ashes, and the IP around their fork of GEM/GEMDOS has been lost to the world (well the source has been leaked but not legally). However after a series of acquisitions, DR's original IP -- including GEM, GEMDOS, CP/M 68k, etc. was open sourced under the GPL.

EmuTOS was created (many moons ago) from the original DR sources in order to have open source ROMs for ST emulators, effectively doing again what the team at Atari did back in the 80s: porting to the 68k Atari ST platform. But since then it's grown to be a full alternative to Atari's ROMs that works on more than just emulators.

In addition to being basically full feature (and quirk) parity with Atari's TOS, it also includes a full hard disk driver which is something Atari's never included without an add-on. This includes support for IDE drives for modern devices like compact flash cards, etc.

It also has been ported to and runs well on other 68k and Coldfire platforms, and runs well on the Amiga, on the Firebee (a modern Coldfire based Atari-like machine), and headless on Coldfire evaluation boards. It's also been recently ported to the 'Kiwi' 68008 DIY microcomputer.
I'm not sure how what you're saying contradicts my point (apart from vague accusations of 'wishful thinking'). What Taleb is arguing, what I'm arguing, what the original designer of IQ was arguing and what seems to be common knowledge among everyone I know in neuroscience or medicine is that IQ is a very good predictor of life outcomes if you are mentally impaired to begin with. When you venture into the realm of >100 IQ, it loses a lot of its predictive power, which is why (where I live at least) it is mostly administered to people, mostly children, suspected of needing 'special requirements'. In that sense, it is a very good 'unintelligence quotient' but not much beyond that. It is disingenuous to argue for its general predictive power when what most people have in mind is definitely not disadvantaged children when arguing about it.
>The sad realization was that private companies can control who gets to speak very effectively.

It's rather a sad realization that a vocal online minority can control private companies (and public figures) very effectively.
He's probably referring to this:

https://www.universetoday.com/140540/chinese-fusion-experime...

It's nothing very notable.
pocket is a good one. I think I will use it
I would guess that it doesn't work well unless the note you are buzzing resonates with the instrument (it is (even) harder to do, does not sound clear?)
This makes sense to me as a musician, and also as an artist or craftsperson. I feel like I’ve done so many prior works, they deserve to be revisited and reworked and at some point, you might as well. I may feel like there’s certain elements of past work that could benefit from attention with my current, improved skill set, or that something that felt finished previously seems incomplete now. Another motivator could be that an older work feels underexposed. At other times I might pull out an old work because it contains elements of a current trend, or I think the style is ripe to come back into fashion. You see this with modern musicians, too - artists often remake songs from their early demos or first albums later on with better production, a different style or a new perspective.

I would imagine that many people reading about Bach’s way of reusing rhythms and notes would think of coding. Parody as described in the article sounds like he was using his old rhythms like a template, or macro. This metaphor works great since it’s hardly even a metaphor. Musical notation, with its rigid and limited format, resembles a programming language much more closely than conversational language.
I've been trying to decipher this irrational hatred of YAML coming from a certain subset of developer for years. I've only three or four data points so far, but all of them were very gifted, opinionated developers who were unable to explain their hatred.

Recently, it began to dawn on me that maybe the problem is one of visual acuity required for discerning whitespaces. I always assumed that just because I could visualize a YAML hierarchy just as well as I could JSON, and could edit YAML without messing up the indentation, that others could too. But I've witnessed highly capable developers bang their heads against the keyboard trying to fix repeated parsing errors in YAML they've written. Perhaps not everyone can pick up whitespaces quite so easily...
> Jazz musician here.

Ah, but are you a VOCALIST? In my experience:

* Instrumentalists tend to have a certain baseline of competence when they show up at jam sessions. Vocalists are more variable.
* Possibly because of that reason, vocalists sometimes are held to stricter standards than instrumentalists.

> This practice is absolutely standard. You are way off base.

You may be moving in different circles than I do, and may assume that all of Jazz works the same way.

> If you can't play equally well in all keys, you're not a good jazz musician. Period.

"good" is not a binary thing. I don't think I've ever met a pianist who was truly indifferent to what key to play in (Generally they prefer flat keys to sharp keys, and fewer flats to more). And vocalists should know how a song fits in their range.

> If you resist on principle (where the hell are you getting this?)

It's all about the power dynamics. I've seen refusals to sight-transpose all the time.

> Jazz has a long tradition on being a pretty hardcore meritocracy

Jazz (like many institutions that hide behind "meritocracy"), also has a long tradition of cliquish behavior.

> PS no one is gonna call out F#. They might call out Gb though. We always err to the side of flat keys, not sharps (horns like flat keys more).

… which would tend to contradict your claim above that good jazz musicians can play equally well in all keys, wouldn't it?
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Funnily, SQLite also describes itself as better than the FileSystem in this case as well: https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html
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This is just an advertisement right? $600 is absurd for a toaster oven, camera or not. "Bubble of everything" indeed.