skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a songwriter, I wonder why I write so many sad songs. Like, a lot of them. Really, really sad songs.

I just wrote one last week, inspired by a scene from a science fiction novel. It tells the story of a small fleet of spaceships fleeing a doomed Earth for the stars, and one ship attacking the rest and killing their crews in order to steal their fuel and spare parts. It's not just that what they did is a crime... they knew it was wrong, did it anyway, and feel terrible about it, but they also knew that if they didn't do it, another ship would have done it to them. So it's all guilt and shame from making a totally selfish decision.

Why would I write that way? And it's not like this is an unusual subject for me.

Part of it, I think, is that I do a very good job of covering up some deep depression in my day-to-day life. I'm a much sadder person than I appear to be.
i guess you need to define what "good" means in this context
> I don't know what quantum supremacy is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_supremacy

> whether or not its better than quantum computing, I couldn't say

It doesn't have to be better, merely as good as would already be a major revolution in both math and physics.

> I would wager that if you did more than 3 responses to him being a bit more clear on what you thought was wrong with the theory

This was my last message to Rod:

> I think you should try to run Shor’s algorithm, because if you succeed that will be a slam-dunk proof that your claims are correct. You will win a Fields medal, a Nobel prize in Physics, and become fabulously wealthy beyond the wildest dreams of Croesus. I think it’s much more likely that the attempt will reveal some flaw in your scheme, but either way, it seems like a worthwhile endeavor. Worst case, you will learn something.

I really don't know how I could have been any clearer.

This was his response:

> Well, I don't really understand Shor's algorithm (from wikipedia). I'd have to study it. I never really have so far. But, I'm confident that my conjecture that QC reduces to the two properties I mentioned in last email is true.

In other words: he doesn't understand one of the most basic and fundamental results in quantum computing, but he's confident that he has made a discovery that will revolutionize the field. If it quacks like a quack...
Exactly what I thought when I saw the title as well.
Upvote for Einstein quote.

BTW, Ryan Conway @ Digital Tradesman might be able to help out with a website for your new Plumbing Venture. Good guy, worth talking to > https://digitaltradesman.net/
> Git is the best source control system ever.

To be clear, I'm not disagreeing. But it is simply not good enough. Any new generation of source control needs to be able to do things that are difficult with Git, and Git simply isn't extensible enough. Microsoft has a Git VFS, and there's Git LFS, but this just doesn't go far enough.

There are good technical reasons why you would use Perforce or even Subversion these days.

The people who made Git made it for working on large, but not huge, open-source code repositories with a traditional model. It doesn't work so well for vendoring, it doesn't work well for artists, it doesn't have locking, it doesn't have access controls (and there's only so much you can add). You can argue that these features don't make sense or we're using Git "wrong" or I can write a bunch of hooks but at some point I just want them to work and I'm tired of fighting with Git to make it happen.

Just personal background, these days I work with closed source and open source, monorepos and multirepos, Git, Subversion, and Perforce all on a regular basis (and sometimes use weird custom setups). Git is by far the most familiar of the three, and I've published some tools for Git repo surgery.
have you already tried EatWith ?
thanks very much, super-helpful!
Why graphene hasn’t taken over the world yet (2018)
I prefer to share. Here is mine.
https://github.com/sbassi/MiGenomaSbassi
Reach out to your network or email your friends to put you in contact with potential users. It should be moderately easy since you're just asking for a free Skype call, you're not asking for money yet.

If you're having problem finding people to get on a free Skype call then it's a big red flag. You'll need to reconsider your positioning or your market. Because eventually you'll (presumably) be asking for money and that's even harder.
Worrying about kids listening to sad music is equally as absurd as worrying about kids watching violent movies/tv or playing violent video games and thinking that "some sort of culture of violence will take them over"

edit: here's evidence

>Journalists and policy makers do their constituencies a disservice in cases where they link acts of real-world violence with the perpetrators’ exposure to violent video games or other violent media. There’s little scientific evidence to support the connection, and it may distract us from addressing those issues that we know contribute to real-world violence.

https://div46amplifier.com/2017/06/12/news-media-public-educ...

>Unexpectedly, many of the results were suggestive of a decrease in violent crime in response to violent video games. Possible explanations for these unforeseen findings are discussed and researchers are cautioned about generalizing the results from laboratory and correlational studies to severe forms of violent behavior.

https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fppm0000030

>Results indicated that studies of VVGs and aggression appear to be particularly prone to false positive results. Studies of VVGs and prosocial behavior, by contrast are heterogeneous and did not demonstrate any indication of false positive results.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...

>Researchers in Germany used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on long-term players of violent video games and found that they had the same neural response to emotionally provocative images as non-gamers. This finding suggests that empathy is not blunted by playing such games long-term.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170308081057.h...

>Results indicated that publication bias does exist for experimental studies of aggressive behavior, as well as for non-experimental studies of aggressive behavior and aggressive thoughts. Research in other areas, including prosocial behavior and experimental studies of aggressive thoughts were less susceptible to publication bias.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135917890...

>During the video game epoch, youth violence in the United States and elsewhere has plummeted to 40-year lows, not risen as would have been expected if the 2005 APA resolution were accurate. Although we do not assert video games are responsible for this decline (such would be an ecological fallacy), this decline in societal violence is in conflict with claims that violent video games and interactive media are important public health concerns. The statistical data are simply not bearing out this concern and should not be ignored.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/223284732/Scholar-s-Open-Letter-t...
Most Nazis escaped justice. Now Germany is racing to convict who got away (2018)
Ouch. 50 hour lesson on not being taken advantage of though, so there's some value there.
As a society, we're rapidly encroaching into a deeper feudalistic structure here in the US. This is apparent in trends shown in socioeconomic structure and mobility. It's also apparent in the unrest you see in recent and current politics.

At the same time, we're reaching a point with data science and sensing technologies that we've not looked at from a moral and ethical perspective at large as a society. These technologies will certainly be used by the ruling class (wealthy, powerful) for their best interests to further entrench this societal structure. As with any technology, it can also be used to serve humanity at large so the technology itself isn't bad, it's always a balancing act of how it's utilized.

We, as a society, really need to begin considering moral and ethical implications of the uses of these technologies by the ruling class and decide what we want and don't want to allow. If it's left for them to decide, I can assure you, it won't be good for vast majority of us plebes/proles (citizens).

Maintaining a democracy is a never-ending fight and we meager citizens currently seem to be losing the battle as technology accelerates the ruling class's grip at every turn. Heck, people on this very site are indirectly contributing to these development efforts for what now seems like a great payoff. It's easy to get wrapped up in the beauty and complexity of technology without considering its implications, especially when you're getting paid quite well (for now). You only need to look back a few decades at retrospective assessments from some of the greatest minds in the century that developed modern nuclear weapons as a guide.

We need to organize and step-up our game to take back control of our government to serve us (the people), not a select few extremely wealthy and powerful folks. We need to consider moral and ethical implications of use of these technologies and enact laws with serious protections and penalties before mass abuse of technology grows more rampant.
Are Tesla doing a SUV?

Everyone said the X was an SUV, but it looks more like a hatchback! I can't imagine it'd be capable offroad.
Rust has also had generics for a very long time.
Single family homes and cheap apartments serve different populations. There's some market pressure, sure, but the family looking to buy a $1m+ home is not in the same market as a studio renter.

Adding more studios won't crash the single family home market but will mean cheaper studios.
> And would Git really have beaten Mercurial if GitHub had been HgHub instead? GitHub's success was more about process than the technology of Git, IMO.

Hg is a much better user experience than git, that's for sure. Git won because of Github, which may have beaten any HgHub simply because Git has an actual API while Mercurial's "API" is "use subprocessing". In other words, if Mercurial gave a damn about the developer experience earlier on, it might well have won the war.
2008 was a housing bubble and it cut everyone at the knees.
This is unnecessarily paranoid. It would take a concerted effort to obtain a good quality and sufficiently pure DNA sample from a person's ambient DNA. In the mythical scenario that someone wanted to get your whole genome sequence without you realising, they would need to collect many ambient samples (the gum you just threw in the bin, swabs of handles and keypads that you just touched, hair samples) and perform whole genome sequencing, which would cost multiple thousands of dollars. 23andMe's crappy SNP test is useless on a sample that could be contaminated with other human DNA.
You can cause a scene earlier, break windows, set off car alarms. That's a lot harder once you're in a vehicle or in a house being held.
Logic isn't the hard part, it's knowing what to weigh and how.

I think like diving into an actual scientific paper, it's actually quite hard to take issue with various things and understand them if you're not familiar with the science itself.

I feel like I can logic out some stuff reasonably well as say some doctor studying DNA (speaking very generally) but as far as DNA goes i'm straight ignorant as to what to weight and conclude.... the doctor presumably better, but I'd have no clue if he was wrong.
Feels like you have that in reverse. I'd say that Github is popular because of Git's popularity, not the other way around. And git's popular because it was birthed by Linus.
awk is there in base. Did you try to invoke it as 'gawk' or something?
Could be a cool feature, but I wouldn't say "first". Been done in C for years:

* Safe and Automatic Live Update for Operating Systems, https://www.cs.vu.nl/~giuffrida/papers/asplos-2013.pdf

* Automating Live Update
for Generic Server Programs, https://www.cs.vu.nl/~giuffrida/papers/lu_tse16.pdf

And I'm sure hot code reloading has been done in Forth for decades.
I think it's the combination of integrating the battery pack into the lower frame structure of the vehicle, and also integrating all of the drivetrain components into that flat frame. In a body on frame vehicle the engine still sticks way up above the frame and has to be accounted for in the body design.

Everything built on the F-150 frame looks like an F-150 (F-150, Expedition, Navigator), but something like VW's MEB platform can have a lot more vehicle shape variety (ID 3, ID Crozz, ID Buzz, etc.)
"the West ever returns to the idea of democratic society where everyone should have access to education, housing and good working conditions"

That sounds more like a value system rather than a philosophy of governance. An authoritarian or a libertarian could make a case that their way will deliver those things.
It really is - especially having an idle auto manufacturing plant here. There’s not much else you can do with those, so seeing it put to use is great, rather than just collecting dust.
TL;dr: "This study is unable to speak to why depressed people find low-energy, sad music uplifting [...]"
Is it different to have software and cameras doing this than the cashiers?
Haven't heard anything.
"They'll muddle through on something like this, finally getting it to work through endless tinkering, and it'll be fine"

This is NASA we're talking about. For a satellite. There will be no muddling, or tinkering.

Nasa isn't in the market to hire any old web dev you know. This is rocket science.

Edit: On second reading you may not be a serious as I first thought :)
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> There are good technical reasons why you would use Perforce or even Subversion days.

Can you say more? What are some of those reasons? Or link to some data or examples?
What a whole lot of nothing
Yeah I had this idea also, steam vapor at 1/8 atm might be easier than a full vacuum. Havent done the math, though.
Am I right that this is a forwarding, non-caching DNS server?
Out of genuine curiosity, do you know of any resources you could point me to to explore specific situations where Git isn't fitting the bill technologically?
This sensor isn’t that important. You can fly the plane fine without it. The problem is when the sensor gives a bad reading and the system trusts it.

Two sensors are enough to overcome that. If they disagree, ignore them both. The problem wasn’t that they only had two sensors, it was that they didn’t use them both simultaneously and ignore them when they disagreed.
The title felt a bit misleading- this is more a gripe of git and the approaches to mono and multi repos with git.

I'm not following the call for something new, though:

> A source control that treats CI, CD, and releases as first-class citizens, rather than relying on the very useful add-ons provided by GitHub and its community.

I'm not a die-hard every-tool-should-do-exactly-one-thing-the-way-the-unix-gods-intended type of person, but in this case, I really feel that source control should stick to being source control. Hooks and add-ons are great precisely because things like CI and CD came after, and who knows what the new rage will be 5 or 10 years from now.

Building everything for today's workflow into a single tool means that by the time it's ready, the "today's" workflow won't be cool anymore, and we'll have other newer tools and processes that this new source control can't support :/
Isn't the argument here that Git is not good at mono-repos rather than that mono-repos suck? This seems true to me, but there are already other options that suck less if you want the advantages of a mono-repo.

I would also suggest that mono-repos work better with statically typed languages with module boundaries and visibility control. The problem of anything being able to touch anything else is not so bad when you can hide implementation details behind small APIs.

I have definitely felt some pain with having Ruby projects in a single repo using git, but much less so with Java projects using Hg.
Ok but that’s like saying robberies are correlated with mobility. Sure, but that doesn’t mean we’re discriminating because they are mobile.
>what's the point of these articles?

Content marketing.
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I agree here. I’ve owned 6 Audi’s, one Lexus and a Jaguar and the interior quality/attention to detail in the Tesla is really sub-par.
Fair enough. It's certainly more about mutual back scratching than it is audience service.

I'm probably less affected because I pretty much choose individual episodes to watch anyway rather than just listen to everything on a given podcast. I don't commute so I don't spend a huge amount of time in my car and therefore don't listen to a huge number of podcasts overall. (I rarely listen at home.)
Brakes in an EV pretty much never need to be replaced, because most of the braking is regenerative and doesn't wear the pads at all.
> What is super cool about Tesla is their laser sharp focus on creating a good electric vehicle.

And don't forget leaf blowers!
Wait, is it only depressed people that like sad music? What about stories with tragic endings? There must be a lot of depressed people to have made these things so popular over the years.
Haxe: An understated powerhouse for software development – George Corney
Postgres 12 to get concurrent rebuilding of indexes
I think the apparent hubris is what they're referring to, and that it is a negative indicator of developer self-awareness, while humility and willingness to acknowledge past mistakes are positive signs.

Honestly, if you've always delivered rock solid software, you're some sort of mythical creature.
What a bullshit pointless article. And oh god the cringey git wordplay... I'm starting to feel this is basically blogspam.
Yeah, and as you write, Boston is a major city. If it's struggling, think about all the towns with 50K, 100K, or 200K...
That's assuming Galaxy S8+ is using Qualcomm's keymaster, I'm not too sure.

Considering how Samsung is focused on security, I wouldn't be suprised if they'd use external security element like Google does on Pixel 3.
Whoa. Please consider sharing your playlist via Spotify!
They made over 3B in net income last year...
At a greater height you need a larger airship to provide the same lift. As you move towards the vacuum of space and the differential becomes less the lift per unit volume is less.
In other news... Immigration court mass-hiring crooked judges.
Job postings are reserved for the Who's Hiring post on the first of the month
Because perl is part of the base system, and not a package, harmless files are typically not removed by the OpenBSD Installer.

You don't have to remove those files, the upgrade guide simply indicates they're no longer required.
Ford has a total revenue of 160.3 billion. I don’t think it was too difficult to find; justifying was probably the bigger headache
You can already adapt mercurial to do different stuff very much like the author suggests. As a user (but not developer) of such adaptations, I think it works really well.
I completely disagree. It is physically impossible to be more productive in a C++ project that takes 5 minutes to compile compared to almost any interpreted language with a debug cycle spanning seconds. It's that simple. The next issue is the ecosystem. Often the language itself is completely irrelevant if the ecosystem is good enough but here is the thing: ecosystems are tied to languages. Yes I can be productive in "crappy language X" if I recreate the superior ecosystem of "super language S". I am not a superhuman lifeform that has the power of hundreds of bright human brains (millions of bad ones aren't enough) and the corresponding two hundred hands required to interface with the computer.

No. I will just pick a good ecosystem and the language it was built around and be happy instead of proving that you can build a skyscraper out of feces by producing steel via nuclear fusion.
The difference is antivaxxers are arguing against something that has a known and demonstrated benefit for reasons that offer nothing in return.

What is the benefit of commercial DNA testing? Some dubious genealogy that might be mildly entertaining? If there's an actual health benefit to DNA screening, it should be done by a health professional where the information could be subject to HIPAA.
NYC to Limit Cars on 14th Street in Traffic-Cutting Experiment
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19738120
BEAM is still present but HiPE interfaces with it using some specific ABI that allows mixing AOT compiled native modules (just machine code) and the BEAM register machine. I'm not sure if there are new caveats as I regard HiPE as a compatibility feature rather than something under active development (I may be wrong but it seems to fail to compile all of OTP's Erlang code now).

The overhead of that context switch is a bit high but it allows the code loading facilities of the BEAM to reload HiPE compiled modules. This works because all processes yield to the scheduler, which acts as a kind of code-swap safe-point. The usual module-local vs module-remote call rules apply here when old versions are purged.
An some comments above said, layoffs are likely after the games popularity wave recedes. Also, maybe they're hoping for promotions?
Having worked at a startup I would not be surprised if they used that assignment in order to get some of their work done. The startup I worked at wanted to use Kaggle competitions in order to improve their AI code that they ripped from other sources (all while the marketing team made them look as if they were a legit company at the top of the field).
Here is an excerpt from an interview with a music therapist about grief and music (written by a wise and caring friend of mine from long ago):
"Music: A Natural Accompaniment to Grief Work: An Interview with Music Therapist Lauren DiMaio, PhD. (Story by Katherine Caldwell)"
https://missionhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/October...

"During grief, many aspects of our life are raw and painful. It’s common to believe we’re better off avoiding them. But magically, on invisible waves of sound, a piece of music can penetrate into pain we swear was carefully locked away. Within a few chords we can go from “doing just fine” to a searing confrontation with heartache. Of course you might ask: why would we purposely want to do that to ourselves? Grief is tough enough without exposing ourselves to tunes that leave us emotionally wrung out. Perhaps it’s only to say that music is strong medicine. “If a certain piece of music is unbearable, don’t listen to it.” says Dr. DiMaio, “Acknowledge that it’s not helpful at that time. Accept that the piece is only useful in gauging your place on the grief journey at that time.” When confronting the heaviest part of grief, that certain song or hymn, or even a whole genre of music may be impossible to take in. Sad songs of heartbreak or loneliness may, out of respect for our vulnerability, need to be avoided at certain times. Trust your instincts, but don’t turn your back on music completely. Fortunately, music takes infinite forms. If sad tunes are off limits, go on a search for a more joyful noise. Surround yourself with music that speaks to another part of you: songs of celebration and gratitude, or melodies that uplift the spirit. If the music you once loved brings you down these days, it might be appropriate to explore new types of music, things you’ve never listened to before. Changing our internal vibration is what grief recovery is ultimately about on a molecular level. Exposure to inspiring vibrations, even externally, can help us change internally. Finding new music has become easier than ever. Internet searches and downloads make everything published in the music industry readily available, including lyrics."

While grief and depression are not identical, there is a lot of overlap.
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Partial checkouts is the main thing that comes to mind that is better with svn than git.