skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a classically trained pianist as well, though a couple decades out of practice. My 10 year old son has been learning to play for the past couple years. As he learned his pieces he would fall into just horrible habits of wrong tempo dynamics, etc. So he gets to the end of his lesson book, good enough to play through the pieces but really only 20% done learning the pieces.

So his teacher tells him to memorize the pieces. Good I think, so I have him go memorize each piece and give me a concert once a day. He's like 40% of the way there now, better but no where near close.

So his teacher now says go learn with your eyes closed. _This_ made the difference. He plays with the correct rhythm, corrects any mistaken notes because well mistakes compound, even his dynamics sound right now. It's actually beginning to sound like actual music!

For him I think closing the eyes got him out of his mentality of just rushing the pieces, it put him out of his comfort zone and that has made all the difference.
Dogs and smell were one example. Maybe it’s sight related. Maybe it’s electromagnetic field sensitivity.

I’m not seeking meaning, I’m seeking falsifiable experiment to conclusively rule out the possibility.
Pretty good idea and forward thinking by the Japanese police.

I feel like cryptocurrency promises many more scams like this if it ever becomes mainstream. Imagine how profitable scammers in the future could be, mass autodialing worldwide, GPT and text to voice filling out details of a script, asking for transfers in cryptocurrency. At least with this scam the scammers are often physically vulnerable when they go to pick up the money.
You would need to pass *p or declare it as volatile I assume, otherwise by what means would foo change p?
Robin Hanson isn't the one saying it's wrong. A number of other physicists (e.g. Garrett Lisi as mentioned in the post) have said it's wrong, on the basis that the calculation is easy and when they do it they get a very different result. Hanson is just the one who claims to have found the particular error that the paper made, because nobody else thought it was worth bothering to find the particular error in a paper that got such an obviously wrong answer.
Chia Coin is driving up storage prices for the reasons other currencies drove up GPU prices
This is what happens: [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27086093
> girls suddenly became more interesting than space marines (and seemed mutually exclusive)

I’m 45 - they still do. I’ve had geeky hobbies as an adult and knew one woman who was into miniatures, but over time I’ve come to value female friendships more than my mutually exclusive geeky hobbies. Somehow I seem to have gone from introverted to full on extrovert in the last 30+ years, I’m still not sure how it happened, but at this point in my life social connections are really at the heart of who I am, and solitary pursuits are much less consuming. No real point in making this comment other than self reflection, and perhaps curiosity as to how many others made such a transition. Maybe it is typical, I just did not see it until it had already happened. Video games became boring. Ah, I just don’t have enough time! Nope, turns out I’m just really not that interested any more. Fascinating.
The Dimensional Gate – 3D rotational shadows of E8 Polytope
I agree completely. I play several instruments, and when I learned I wouldn't have been able to motivate myself to do it if I was just practicing small sections over and over again. I might have taken twice as much time to gain the same skill level, but in my opinion, finding the motivation to improve is harder than actually improving at most skills.
From this job posting[1]:

"The Kernel & Operating System team at Twitter is responsible for shipping the Linux kernel and OS versions on which all of Twitter’s services run. Our job is to ensure the safe, reliable, fast, and efficient operation of the lowest levels of the Twitter software stack! We actively contribute many of our fixes upstream and are active members of the Linux OSS community."

[1]https://careers.twitter.com/en/work-for-twitter/202101/005c4...
The counter point to this is DARPA and the dearth of private research going on currently.
My wife and I run about a load a day. We like having clean sheets, towels and clothes.

If you want to take it, you'll have to pry our washing machine from our cold, dead hands.
it was both

it was still a game
China Says Debris from Its Rocket Landed Near Maldives
Maybe I'm missing something, but could you please specify the stuff related to furry? The cat and dog icon or my avatar? I'm not a fan of furry so I'm suprised that you mention it. Thanks!
On the TI-84+, assembly programs still work and it's still a test-approved device. I wrote a Forth interpreter[0] that can interop with the syscalls as well

[0] https://github.com/siraben/ti84-forth
If Linus doesn't like unit tests, can't a separate entity keep their own independent unit test repository, test the kernel against it and report regressions? I think it would be a worthy project.
Yes 100%. I have to plug this channel that came up like that a few months ago. It has a lot of obscure rock and a lot of it is really good!

https://www.youtube.com/c/TerminalPassage/videos

I didn't even know there was a Jazz/Fusion rock scene in Japan in the 70's for instance. I never would have heard of this band without YouTube suggestions but really enjoying their work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20eVtt1VJyg
It was trivial to write a program that mimicked the wipe-memory screen with assembly (without assembly you could try to get away from it, but there were subtle differences in the menu UI with a TI basic menu and the system menus)
> The question then becomes can we write a low code framework that does this well?

We ask mathematicians for help! https://math.mit.edu/~dspivak/teaching/sp18/7Sketches.pdf
He's not a teenager, he's 10yo.
Okay, a guy from internet knows better than hundreds of authors :)
When you say you've seen Justin Guitar do you mean the web site or YouTube? He has a structured program: https://www.justinguitar.com/classes/beginner-guitar-course-...

I haven't seen the new site design but it seems ok. When I started learning the guitar (~6 years ago) Justin was a huge help but I complemented that with in person lessons with some teachers and with additional material/random songs. So consider me a fan. I also recommend getting in touch with other musicians/players, that's gonna push your level way more than an app would.

May I ask how long ago you've started learning and what level are you at?

I think there is a lot of great material online. But in order to grok most of it you need to have some foundation.

I've never used any app (well, I use a metronome app) since I haven't seen anything that looked useful. Ear training apps could be useful but I haven't been able to stick with it. In general "apps" seem a poor fit for teaching the guitar.
That's an unkind characterization. People aren't just complaining to complain - from their perspective their gripes are legitimate. I'd categorize myself as an explorer type of player (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_taxonomy_of_player_type...). So I like to explore how game mechanics interact with each other and new levels. Lately, the devs have removed lots of details and nuances in crawl. That makes the game less interesting for me because there are less things to discover. For example, mummies are kind of pointless now since no race needs to eat. Removing features may be good for achiever type of players though, because it forces them to come up with ways to beat the game without those features.
Tips to build better ML Models
So you store the password and the TOTP in KeePass? Seems that you have 1FA, hacking your KeePass is enough to own you.
Long game is a few superstar teachers teach kids online and their parents and neighbors / community teach them social etiquette
How about being in a field where you are paid enough to live.
So all the people alive that are uneducated in US history can’t step foot in America unless they learn about George Washington?

It’s literally impossible for us to be where are without history as it was. It’s not an obligation for us to keep making kids aware Thomas Jefferson existed.
I was this kid, and I think I know exactly what's happening. He's playing the piano as if it were Guitar Hero or Dance Dance Revolution, as a game where the goal is to hit the right keys at the right time. Somehow you have to communicate the idea that the goal is to produce something that's enjoyable to listen to.

Playing with eyes closed is something that I've never tried, but my guess is that it's forcing him to listen and that's why it works. (I need to try it myself!) What worked for me when I was a bit older is my teacher making me get a little handheld recorder (cheap ones were surprisingly good back then, and I'm sure the tech has improved). Try having him record the song and listen to the recording, and ask what he thinks. In particular, does it sound musical? Why or why not? My guess is that it'll reveal details he wasn't able to focus on while playing, and it will motivate him to fix them.
I've been saying this for years. Forget "organic" or "free-range" or "local", all of which can still be arranged via Sysco. But if a restaurant advertised "Sysco-free", that would be highly appealing.
Something is starting to go really wrong in HDD pricing, following GPUs and other things, because I bought that same 8TB drive two years ago for $147.

Hard drive prices are supposed to decrease in $ per TB over a multi year period, with advances in areal density.
As it's described in the article, neither side is presenting a compelling case. The government isn't saying what problem it's trying to solve, the teacher's union isn't saying why it's bad (1).

I went through the Ontario school system, and I hated it. Unless it has changed drastically, high school seemed particularly ineffective, being both too broad and aimed at post-secondary university-level education. Of note was the lack of education for skilled workers, which, predictably, there's a shortage of now. I went through the 5 year program, which was particularly awful (decades ago they aligned it with (all?) other provinces and made it 4 years).

Personalized education through technology, at least as a supplement to on-site education, is already here. Ensuring that all children have access to it, by making it government funded, seems like an awful thing to be up and arms about.

(1) They do claim that this will be a problem because of the digital divide, but the gap between poor and rich students (putting it simply) is well known, and growing, so how exactly would this make it worse?
As far as I know Bitcoin is still an uncorrelated asset. Stocks on the other hand will have quite a bad time.

https://charts.coinmetrics.io/correlations/
> Suggested a way that a study like this could feasibly be executed as a RCT.

Sadly the infeasibility of a randomized controlled trial does not make the evidence from an observational study stronger.
Immediate Use of Ivermectin Medicine Globally Can End Covid-19 Pandemic
Make Light Trucks as Safe as Cars or Ban Them from Cities
Do they have any competition? Those chips are probably effectively free for them. R&D isn't.
They could be fixing bugs and adding features. It's FOSS, just look at the git issues. Telemetry is the ultimate "We don't want to listen to opinions in forums.". Why telemetry, I'll tell you my troubles directly.
Instagram Working on Safety Check and Encrypted Messaging
I think use case of shelljs and this zx is more for developers who need to perform file system and subprocess operations but rather stay away from bash or other footgun-ridden shells and instead write things in safe code with access to richer data types and more libraries.

bashojs seem to start in the other end, add js statement-execution to shells and and yet another pipeline-language in the mix. More like AWK with js-syntax.

Looks good as a "jq" on steroids but i wouldn't compare it to shelljs.
Dogecoin is at $0.60. This cryptocurrency was made as a joke. That’s really all you need to know about it.

The Fed and SEC etc all claim they want to make things safe for retail investors, but we are seeing the manifestation of a malicious bubble right before our eyes and they are all doing nothing. Zero. Zilch.

Lots of people are going to lose a lot of money when this is over. And please remember that the government agencies that are supposed to be helping us are doing absolutely nothing.

And then, once the dust settles, just like after the dotcom bust, you will see a ton of regulations coming down like SOX to “protect” investors when we could have been protected RIGHT NOW, May 2021. It’s utter bullshit.

When people say conspiracies like the government is using covid to control us and try to take away our freedom, I would normally laugh. But after 9-11 and the “Patriot” act, the dotcom bust and SOX, and whatever regulations come from the fallout of crypto, I’m starting to wonder if they have a point.
Not OP, but no? Are you implying that commiting to a Vegan diet means no delicious food? Because you couldn't be further from the truth.

Once you actually go out of your way to eat a balanced plant based diet, you'll discover super tasty recipes that are on par or better with the dishes you are used to.
That huge macro appears to be wrong, as there are little endian PowerPC systems, where __ppc__ and _powerpc__ macros are also defined, making the outcome of the detection invalid.
A friend of mine in the mid-90s was experiencing homelessness and had a "virtual home" via website, including some VRML code. Considering in that era few people were "on the internet", it's not a far leap to find someone experiencing homelessness in the modern era who own a cell phone
https://archive.is/MtAv7
The response from Facebook is interesting. "We can't verify that you're the rights holder". How would one go about proving to FB that you are the uploader of a YT video? Link accounts?
Had no idea about cancerous effects, but the taste is amazing. As someone who eats meats regularily, my favourite vegan burger is with a grilled portabello in it - it beats all the over-processed stuff they sell nowadays.
> "Look Chuck, I'll believe it when I see it."

Fed only reluctantly raised rates several years after '08. I would be surprised if they began staking them higher anytime soon regardless of any 'strong recovery' narrative.

The banks and courts still haven't dealt with a wave of evictions and the resulting property consolidation that will result when the moratoriums are lifted.

Plus, if you believe in speculation, the markets are frothy right now. Survey says: S&P500 is held up by FAANG, corporate bonds 'a fiasco' [zombie companies], SEC snoozing as usual. If market adjusts, then rates will have to remain low; or perhaps go negative. If you believe speculation.
It's interesting the focus this article places on relational databases. The author insists that Salesforce must run on top of Oracle, or Postgres. The notion that any modern company wouldn't be using SQL somewhere in their daily process is outlandish.

...which is interesting, right? SQL won. There are no competitors. Everybody uses SQL. But if you ask developers how they develop their interfaces, you'll get a million answers, ranging from DOS terminals, Electron apps, PWAs, .NET forms, whatever. Maybe what we need is SQL for the view layer to complement the relational backend? SQL is famously easy to pick up because it allows the user to describe what they want, not how to get it. React and friends get us closer to this goal of universal reactive programming, but nothing/nobody has capitalized on providing an all-in-one "put words in this box and get what you want" type application. I guess the assumption is that building such a language is functionally impossible, but I really wonder if that's true. The app-building app that ultimately wins is going to be the one that lets you build any app, not just an app that serves a particular niche or business process.
I'm Welsh myself, I grew up in a farming village, I'm quite aware. I think knocking it is absolutely warranted. I've got some respect for those who tried a different way of life and decided this was what they preferred, but not for those who picked stasis without even examining the alternatives.
Drew DeVault just started recommending foot over Alacritty. You might want to check it out.
how could it be uncorrelated when investors are using the same source of funds (stimulus checks and low interest rates) to bid on both assets
Pretty much all the markets are going crazy right now, people are getting 100+k all-cash offers on top of their asking prices on their houses for sale, sp500 p/e ratio average is at like 44, pokemon cards are increasing in value, etc.

What's happening is not specific to dogecoin/crypto in my opinion.
Muscle memory is only one aspect of it.
Muscle memory fails badly in stress or performance situations.
There also has to be a solid intellectual knowledge of the piece.
Mental practice can help with this.
The S&P500 and butter of sciencedaily, rather.
You are assuming that irl and online are remotely (pun intended) the same. From personal experience animating a language workshop, doing it online is awful. Because of delay, sound quality, only one person speaking at the time etc. In the end only the participants already proficient in the language benefits from it, so it is widening inequality. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the same effect occurs for other subjects as well.

It seems obvious for instance that kids having access to better computer and networking as well as their own calm place to study will be able to perform better in remote learning. Not to mention adults who can answer their questions. Schools allows those differences to disappear.
> What cleanliness? Because you think that
>
> void f(T *x);
> f(&x);
>
> is not clean? Well, then use C++:
>
> void f(const T &x);
> f(x);

To be honest, the first option is much better for readability. Visual inspection of the caller lets the reader know whether or not f can modify x.

That second option is horrible for the maintenance programmer who is reading the caller; whether or not you are interested in what the function f() does, you need to actually look it up to see if it is allowed to modify x.
iCloud Backup backs up the messages, or the message sync key in the case of Messages in iCloud being enabled.

iCloud Backup is not e2e encrypted, which means Apple either gets the full iMessage and SMS history (in the case of Messages in iCloud being disabled), or gets the e2e encryption key to decrypt the synced Messages in iCloud (which they already have, due to running iCloud).

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
It doesn’t matter when it comes down, next year or 4 years from now. The market will come down for stocks and cryptocurrencies.

These are not sound investments for retail investors and it will cause many people that could have been using their money to increase financial stability and fund their retirement and/or emergency savings accounts to lose that property.

It speaks to the incompetence of our society in handling money that only 39% of Americans could afford to pay for an unexpected $1000 expense. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bankrate.com/banking/saving...
No. Intention does matter. If the host chooses the goat by chance ( with the possibility to choose the car instead ) then my chances to win are 50% ( switching or not ).

But we are talking about Monty Hall after all. So I could be wrong :P
They roll out the FedCoin and save us from barbarism.
> “There’s experiences within Roblox that we did not look at as a game,” Kosmynka said.

Worth reading the whole article, but you could’ve just googled this before accusing the poster.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/7/22425774/epic-apple-roblox...
I wonder how this will fare compared to Regolith [0], based on Ubuntu.

I've tried Regolith last year, based on Ubuntu 20.04, and it felt sluggish. Regular Ubuntu worked great and my usual install of i3 + picom on Arch works great, too.

The test was run on an i5-8500 with 32 GB RAM, UHD 630 graphics and 4K screen. The Arch install flies on a i5-6500 + 4K screen, too.

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[0] https://regolith-linux.org/
What is stopping you from making a project dedicated to orchestration/configuration/deployment and using test containers to make those tests? How do you debug those "complex systems" when they fail?

I've made a project in one of my old jobs dedicated to configuration and deployment tools used by CI jobs. At first it got some criticisms about "testing the CI that tests the software" and "testing the tests" but when the number of fires we have to take care of was cut by half it quickly became the norm.
You can press ? in-game to view the help, including a list of controls.
A bit off topic, but thank you so much for sharing Un Sospiro, wasn’t expecting to hear that much beauty this morning.
This is from 2 years ago. Is there a new effort going on related to this?
What's fundamentally wrong with people losing a lot of their money on crypto? A lot of people lose money on Penny stocks, OTC markets, casinos, a lot of people buy new cars that depreciate 30% in one day, etc.

Everyone knows DOGE is a joke - so if you assume we're all capable of independent thought, what would you propose that is not a paternalistic view of the world?

We don't need more bullshit like accredited investor credentials which create huge differences in access to investments - that is real economic inequality justified by protecting the poor from their own stupidity.
Bitcoin regularly moves in tandem with SPX and this effect will continue to strengthen as more ETFs become available, and futures volume (on classic regulated exchanges) increases. These instruments are gateways that enable a much larger class of investors to come into Bitcoin cheaply, but it also means Bitcoin joins their portfolios and is treated similarly to other asset classes during market events. Uncorrelated, mass adoption: pick one.

During the massively undersubscribed 7 year note auction last month BTC absolutely tanked and recovered in perfect synchrony with SPX, TLT and gold.

During a recent deleveraging event (last month I believe), it was possible to observe BTC following an identical path to SPX for almost the entire day.
> If you don’t enable backups for iMessages, they stay on your device.

The backups are enabled by default, on your device, as well as the devices of everyone else you iMessage with.

For iMessage to be end to end secured, you need to turn off iCloud Backup on each and every device you have, and everyone you iMessage with needs to turn off iCloud Backup on each and every device they have. If either you or your conversation partner misses a single device, Apple will get either the message text itself in the backup (if Messages in iCloud is disabled) or the message sync encryption key (if Messages in iCloud is enabled).

In practice, this never happens. Non-e2e iCloud Backup is an iMessage cryptographic backdoor.
All those things are helpful but nothing will ever beat one-on-one lessons (Covid/finances permitting) with a teacher who is proficient in the style of play you’re most interested in. Or if you have a buddy who will jam with you and show you scales, basic chord progressions, and standards. I have been playing guitar for 21 years now, and bass for about 7 (4 of those in a relatively successful band, as small gigging goes) and every time I stop being lazy and signup for lessons again my skills accelerate exponential faster than tooling around on my own.

I know Covid makes this difficult, as can cost, but I highly recommend it! Even an hour lesson every other week would work wonders for you.

Edit, grammar: I got my second Covid shot today and I’m a bit groggy.
Or Windows with Rust?
unless there is a clear indication they controlled for bmi, meat consumption, alcohol consumption, body fat, I wouldn't waste much thought about such nutritional studies.