skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is my most disliked feature as well and it causes the opposite, inconvenient effect for me: I add to my playlist a movie or show that I want to watch in the future, days later, I go back to my list and it takes me an unnecessary extra amount of cognitive effort to find the same item because it had a different thumbnail back when I first added it. So irritating.
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That's the ideal scenario - you have enough money to be unemployed for a while, you get a severance package, and you're in high demand so people readily hire you. Many people don't have that.
I'll be walking dogs at the humane society for a few hours with some friends. From there, we'll go to the beach for lunch and might do some free diving depending on the conditions of the water.

Tonight we'll have a bonfire and pot luck. My family is up in the northeast, I live down in the Caribbean.

This time last year, we didn't have electricity, so we have much to be thankful for looking back at 2018.
Yep, than go looking at xFS commits history, mailing list activities, websites (sgi site dead, xfs.org abandoned)... It's "live" in the sense that's bugfixed when bug spot around but there is essentially ZERO new futures, even in 2015 one of it's lead devs say it's legacy, damn that I do not find a video of the talk...

If you have to choose today a classic, rock solid, battle-tested fs than xFS can be the best remaining choice on GNU/Linux. Nilfs2 is too little used and known to be "battle tested" and it's development it's extremely slow. But the rest is only experiments, bugsware, legacy or specific-purpose storage, nothing more.
This used to be a thing - alternative voices for satnav recorded by famous people. I wonder why it went away?
Is it really a "choice" if the alternative is really hard to achieve in practice? It's like calling python's GIL a choice... with numerous projects trying to get rid of it in various ways and never really succeeding to do it while keeping the single threaded performance and the extensions API.
I just installed Pleco but I wish there was some more app suggestions. I've dabbled in trying to learn Chinese but I've never found a great app for it.

The insight I gained from learning to speak Japanese. -> Chinese characters are hard. So I'd very much prefer a language learning system that focused entirely on spoken Chinese rather than written Chinese.
> I'm not quite sure what is going to fill this gap.

Reddit?
Ok, so my point is how a private company can ever determinate what is acceptable or not for them of their customers activities or idea. I do not know how USA legislation works, in EU a private company can't "discriminate" their customers based on their own personal assumption. If you run a company you may refuse a new customer or you may found a way to break a contract with an actual customer but nothing "suddenly", unnoticed and arbitrary or you face big troubles in curt.
Sounds like you have stomach ulcers, Sir.
Sounds ghastly.
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I have a strong hunch that for reasonably smart people, IQ tests are gameable the same way academic tests are. I mean, if you test someone "out of the blue" you get some measure on how much they know. If they prepare, the more they do that the higher the score.

First time I competed for admission at one of the best universities in my country, I failed. For the next year I kept preparing myself, 8 hours per day math and physics. Next year I got admitted first.

Am I smart or am I stupid? Depends how and what you measure.
If that flag can suspend his account, it can send him a message.
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I'd love to see a real comparison of the effectiveness of video learning vs more traditional, skimmable text.
> "Hate speech" doesn't have a legal definition in the United States that I am aware of.

Then fix that, instead of using it as a loophole to ruin the web, and then still not having fixed that.
I think you need `products.sort_by(&:cost).last.cost` for the same result.
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Yes, the modem/router is likely buggy as hell, most "consumer grade" CPEs are. The best defence for that IMO is to remove as much code as possible - like the unnecessary for IPv6 NAT stack..
I’m not used to seeing “axiomatic model”. When I read that I thought you meant axiomatic system and not model. Sorry.
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I knew this existed but had no idea it was still under pretty active development. How cool!
I always trace rather than log. That means I have one table per ‘tracing function’, and just record the arguments to each table. Recording an object means recording the function calls that generated the object; regenerating the object is just playing those functions back. I’ll admit that this works far better in C than C++, as C++ tends to treat new types as opaque primitives.
Merry Christmas to everybody that continues to makes this community a procrastinator’s paradise!

(And the lurkers too!)
Too slow. It's 2018, modern PCs have 8 cores and 16 hardware threads, HDF5 only uses 1 at a time: https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/faq/threadsafe.html And that's C API, C++ will just crash instead. The case is different threads processing different files, not concurrent access to the same file (the latter would be very nice but I understand why it's quite hard to support).

Also looks like C++ API was designed in 90-s. Maybe that's my personal preference but I find it hard to work with, too much OOP but too few types.
Satellite TV providers manage to make it work: each receiver has its own key in a smartcard, and the master key which encrypts the broadcast is gradually distributed to each receiver over the same radio channel. The master key is changed often, so leaking it once is not enough.
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Well, you've got some pretty good answers, but I'll give it a go as well.

No. There is no way that a similarly capable system will be remotely close in price to conventional rail. Musk's estimates were wildly optimistic at best, and the system he proposed would have a small fraction of the capacity of HSR, for example.

The advantage of a vacuum train (let's not pretend it is Musk's invention) is top speed. In some scenarios, this may be worthwhile, but it's natural comparison would be short haul flights, not passenger rail.
Informally speaking we can take the set of all real numbers. Assuming we are using standard mathematics that most working mathematicians use then this includes non-computable numbers. Sets don’t have to be computable to be used unless you are someone who works with non-standard models of set theory.
The problem I find with both websites is that I prefer the look of the websites in Safari reader mode.
It's been a while since I used a windows machine that wasn't connected to a domain / managed by a IT dept... But isn't windows file sharing enabled by default on home editions? And from memory, no authentication is required to interact with the service - it's only after you connect, obtain a list of shares, and attempt to open a share that authentication becomes required - leaving plenty of room for bugs to be exploited.

At the end of the day, opening ports, any ports, is "dangerous".. A stateful firewall prevents much of the danger introduced by ports opened via NAT.
It's FUD. ext4 with LUKS, which is what pretty much everyone is using on a desktop, is still working and the client supported.
Is the drag on a high speed trains mainly inertial or skin (parasitic) or is it pretty even? I would expect it to be mainly inertial since it's moving at such a fast speed. If that's the case, isn't there a lot of different techniques to reduce drag actively and dynamically that they can explore instead of drawing vacuum?
That's basically the non-subtle version of what I was trying to convey :)
I made one of these GPS -> WWVB simulators a couple years ago. There's a short write-up here, in case anyone is interested in reading about it: https://www.anishathalye.com/2016/12/26/micro-wwvb/

There are also some neat iPhone apps that use the audio circuitry to produce a low-power signal that can be picked up by radio-controlled clocks that are close by: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clock-wave/id1073576068?mt=8

A couple people mentioned the FCC and licensing issues in the comments below. As far as I know, as long as you're transmitting at a very low power (40 µV/m as measured at 300m), it's okay. This should be fine for personal use, but won't work on a municipal level.
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The codes between x01 and x1F were designed for telecommunications, for instance binary custom formats over RS-232 or synchronous protocols.

There is an excellent description in "C Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications" by Joe Campbell.
1. Delhi: A novel

2. The modern architecture of New Delhi

3. Train to Pakistan

4. Maximum City: Bombay Lost & Found

5. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

6. Bauhaus

7. Making of the Atomic Bomb
Africa is not a country.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18685296
It's a lot more difficult to jam short wave than GPS because of multipath propagation. The Soviets routinely jammed Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty yet it was still possible to listen to it. The navy doesn't have to be on the fixed frequency, so jamming it is going to be even harder.
We likely have much less than 2 billion years before the earth becomes uninhabitable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
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Unsurprisingly, the biggest performance gains came from algorithmical changes, not micro optimisations (like if instead of switch.)

The lesson is always the same: leave micro optimisations for later and spend more time learning about data structures that can improve your code locality.
Had to relearn after breaking my fretting hand in a hairy motorcycle accident. Worse at chords, but better at blues and country style rolls now. I feel much of the change is just due to the reset in my playing due to a long break and some forgotten habits.

I seem to recall hearing that Frank Zappa would 'quit' guitar every few years to approach it fresh. Perhaps there is somehing to it.
>In principle, you can keep a vacuum pretty easily.

Keeping a vacuum over a length of hundreds of km is pretty hard, and in fact, has never been done.
While at it - make the mesh a blockchain one...
Curious to know why you landed on snakemake for bioinformatics? Were you considering other workflow engines?
More like 'mysterious vanishing of gun inventor'. Was so excited when I first read the headline.
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Thanks, didn't know systemd can do that [0]! I must grudgingly admit that it seems to be quite useful, though I still don't like having a single app doing all that stuff. But that's off topic... :)

[0] https://blog.andrewkeech.com/posts/170809_path.html
I discovered Claire North this year after she was interviewed on the Imaginary Worlds podcast. I picked up Touch, The Sudden Appearance of Hope, and The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, all of which were wonderful.
Businesses in the U.S. for the most part can discriminate however they want as long as it isn't on the basis of race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation.
This has always been Dennett's position, that "consciousness" will be decomposed into to a set of adaptive behavioural "tricks" we evolved over time. It's probably correct.
This shouldn't affect other local filesystems though. Inotify won't work with NFS, but should be ok with fs owned by the local system.
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no worries, these are all interesting things to discuss, and i enjoy doing it. atheist myself too :)
> This extension only ask permission for youtube.com and repl.it so any "potential malicious damage" is limited to those 2 sites

That's not true. It also asks for the ability to 'read your browser history' and to 'communicate with cooperating websites'.

Furthermore, as I understand it, the extension can easily be updated in the background to do stuff that it didn't do when you looked at the code and installed it. I imagine one of those things might be uploading your browser history to a 'cooperating website'.

Correct me if I'm wrong though!
Where did he go wrong in his criticism of Hyperloop?
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Human brain is a technological marvel. We know too little about it to measure its properties accurately. IQ tests do measure "something", but it does not give us a useful picture.

Analogy:
We can use an electron as a wave or as a particle, but have very little understanding of what they truly are.
People made similar arguments about everything we didn’t understand until we understood it.

The poorly defined word of consciousness may mean we’re asking the wrong question, but I find it pretty unlikely it’s too complex to understand.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8QzZKw9WHRxjR4948/the-futili...
I happens on a smaller scale, too. I’m also in rural Arkansas, and about 15 minutes from Walmart. I’m 5 minutes from Harp’s, and with basically no traffic in that direction. I tend to go to Harp’s.
That sounds awesome! Do you have any published code for your compiler/language yet? I'm curious :)
I've been using Syncthing for more than a year across ~6 machines to keep them in sync. It works great for more complex setups than the article describes.
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>He actually takes loans against his shares to pay for his living expenses.

That's how you want to do it, and that's how everyone with the level of net worth of Musk does it. You don't think, for example, Zuckerberg, sells his FB shares everytime he buys a house in Hawaii.
> But if you're talking about the mystery that is your own subjective being, then we may never solve that problem.

For your consideration:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.0050...
It is a choice to keep backwards compatibility with the C extensions API.

The GIL would be quite easy to replace otherwise.
What a nightmare.

----

The door refused to open. It said, "Five cents, please."

From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt's money-gulping door.

"I'll sue you," the door said as the first screw fell out.

Joe Chip said, "I've never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it."

(Philip K Dick - Ubik)
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.... Except, a file added to your dropbox will only appear in your local box the next time you create a local file -- there is nothing to wake the local entr when a file is remotely added to dropbox.
I'm still enjoying the 10-years-Tor short story collection "Worlds Seen In Passing".

My absolute favorite story so far is "A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel" by Yoon Ha Lee: https://www.tor.com/2011/08/10/a-vector-alphabet-of-interste...
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It's almost midnight on the 25th where I am and this is the first time somebody wished me "Merry Christmas" today. Thank you. Merry Christmas and best wishes to all of you as well.
There's no practical difference between a 'total vacuum' and 'partial vacuum' in this case.
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Where I live has effectively no minorities, and the same economic conditions exist.
There are many exchanges though, and their brand is not associated with how people spend the crypto/money received. And assuming that people don't hold money in online wallets, they can freeze the asset either.
So quite different from the Mastercard and Patreon case.
Languages without dependent types feel that something is still missing.
Basically yes. They contacted me after I left and brought their business to me.
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The old technique last time I was reading about this was the stimulate areas with an electrode before doing any work there. The electricity would disrupt the function temporarily so the surgeons would know that that part was integral to whatever function they were attempting to preserve.
> But if you're talking about the mystery that is your own subjective being, then we may never solve that problem.

For your consideration:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.0050...

> Personally, I think we have a category issue. We simply don't know what category to put consciousness in, and all attempts to solve it thus far have been category mistakes.

Consider the possibility that the category you've implicitly created for consciousness doesn't actually exist.
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Ie11 supports flexbox fine. This is a trivial matter that any decent developer could fix in a day or two.
I'm not a an active dropbox user but I find this very surprising. Next question is, why wouldn't they open source the client libraries? Supporting many platforms is already a huge task.
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I think Rich does not like Some x | None because he does not like simple pattern matching too much. This is why Clojure does not have a first class pattern matching syntax (you can emulate, and there is a library and it is just X amount of lines, etc. but still).

In this regard I really like OCaml:

let get_something = function
| Some x -> x
| None -> raise (Invalid_argument "Option.get")

This is very simple to understand and reason about and very readable. The examples Rich was trying to make in the video I could not tell the same about. He kind of lost me with transducers and the fact that Java interop with Java 8 features is rather poor.
Rust has no functional widget it, lacks many common libraries. Almost nobody is using rust.
I didn't really study the formats myself but as far as I know 7z container format is a way better than zip.
Reminds me I have to extract data from an 9x day windows application. It's a jetdb that refuses to load in the first viewers I could find. Made me wish it was sqlite (although it didn't exist at the time..)
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Disclaimer: Former Mensa member

From personal experience it appears that high IQ is a horrible measure of success. On the other hand when you combine high IQ with discipline you can come very far.

With all that being said I wish Nassim would provide some actual data instead of anecdotes.
I settled on snakemake because my corner of bioinformatics had the most prepared 'recipes' for that one, plus it played nice with our cluster's weird local flavor of SLURM
> If I was going to make a call, I'd guess that formal logic may at some point prove our inability to come up with an explanation.

I'd take that bet. Physics already tells us that humans are merely finite state automatons (due to the Bekenstein bound), so the logic needed to describe us needn't even be that powerful. And given our behaviours were largely shaped to be fairly energy efficient due to evolutionary pressures, consciousness will turn out to be one or more cognitive tricks that convey some adaptive advantage.

The hurdle people typically have to accepting this inevitability is because of the internal perception of cognitive continuity, but this property is clearly false. There's are many obvious cases where continuity fails, like sleep, anaesthetic, etc.
Would the "click all fire hydrants" type be easier to program and add accessibility support?
They're empires. They're end of nations in as much as empires were. Even if a country ends,a nation persists (look at Jewish and Roma people as an example). A nation ends if the people intermix ad intermarry with others.
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''.join(chr(n) for n in [77, 101, 114, 114, 121, 32, 67, 104, 114, 105, 115, 116, 109, 97, 115, 32, 97, 110, 100, 32, 97, 32, 72, 97, 112, 112, 121, 32, 78, 101, 119, 32, 89, 101, 97, 114, 33])
This is simply false.

Modern bitcoin wallets use HD tech. Each transaction has a seperate public wallet
Is there any Dropbox-like service that lets you control your own private keys, without resorting to the ugliness of uploading an encrypted image to Dropbox?
The future is open. It is not predetermined and thus cannot be predicted – except by accident. The possibilities that lie in the future are infinite. When I say ‘It is our duty to remain optimists’, this includes not only the openness of the future but also that which all of us contribute to it by everything we do: we are all responsible for what the future holds in store. Thus it is our duty, not to prophesy evil, but, rather, to fight for a better world.

-- Karl Popper
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In a few years we will have our best friend constantly in our ear. He / she will be the ideal friend: always happy to chat, to give answers, tell a joke, know what to do and buy. This will be virtual person, controlled ultimately by Google, Facebook or Amazon. Many will prefer to be with that person instead of real people, at least most of their time.
2D and discrete -> Conway's Game of Life
2D and continuous -> Lenia
3D and discrete -> Minecraft ?
3D and continuous -> Molecular biology
Alto sax is always in the key of E flat. That means the note called A flat played by an alto sax would be C on the piano.

This corrected version still isn't right...
With numba or other jit tools in CPython, you have things equivalent to pypy list strategies as well. If you add jitted helper functions or Cython, you have even more control.
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It’s not mysterious or important, it’s just where we find ourselves. If we are literally unable to see outside the bounds of the universe or the simulation, it is irrelevant to our experience, because it does not change how we should act. Boggling the mind on the subject does not create larger meaning where literally none exists.

Humans have an instinct to make things mysterious and more meaningful than they are because it drives their curiosity and need to explain, which drives their ability to predict, which fulfills the mandate of life to win competition for resources and grow.

Introspecting and understanding the perceiver thus answers the question easily. Wittgenstein did not have fMRI machines.
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The game should imho show the answer by showing the actual formatted text.
They deliberately take screenshots of the camera preview so that what you see is exactly what you get. Given the horrendous (i.e. several second) lag of the shutter button on many smartphones, this makes a lot of sense for an app designed to capture fleeting moments (especially since they won't be viewed for more than a few seconds).
That depends entirely on the plot of the movie. If it’s a terrorist thing, then yeah it’s probably going to be a shopping mall, sporting event or similar. If it’s an opening salvo to take out “key” infrastructure clearing the way for a larger something later, then it’s perfect.
What about hdf5? I'm starting to use it as an in-memory, parsed cache representation for data stored in like a plaintext file document database. With python's PyTables and visidata acts as the independent data explorer app.
Faster as in, faster to take pictures. Not faster to code. The native camera app on my phone is horrendously slow to take a picture; Snap is instantaneous.