skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, yes. That's because the Famitracker port I'm using[0] is a bit old and doesn't support the newer .ftm versions. So in case the player doesn't support a given song, there's a fallback to using FTMtoMID so you can still listen to it.

This was all done before I ported Furnace Tracker (that also supports the .ftm format) so I might just use Furnace for playing them. I have to check whether it can play the newer .ftm versions.

[0] https://github.com/nukep/famitracker-cx
What EU-wide law requires it to be as easy to cancel as to sign up? I’m sitting in Germany right now and I’m unaware of any such law - though it might very well be recent and not fully transposed into German law, or might be situational or not widely complied with.

It’s a good idea though, absolutely.
I think they were a big thing in Arabia during the time of Mohammad
Can't wait to see that IRB proposal. Do you think it would be able to pass at all? Maybe limit it to sacrificing invertebrates?
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I worked in public-facing jobs in a small Canadian city. I frankly had nothing but okay experiences. No customers from hell. It was just very dull and that's something that the media has always depicted really well.

What I gather from this story is that the offender feels no remorse. Oh the employee was much ruder! Oh she's not really that hurt! Woe is me! I wonder if she has learned anything, because people usually express their guilt when they feel it.

On the other hand, jail time for this? Isn't that a lot? Wouldn't paying damages or doing community service be more sensible here?

It's also sad to see how little the employer cared about any of it. It's no surprise that "no one wants to work anymore" when employers are this callous to their frontline employees.

It's just a sad story all around.
I tried to delete a Sony account (I had 2). Their site said to talk to support to get this done. I waited for 45 minutes, finally got to someone and they said I can’t. When I tried to mention the support site, they disconnected me, throwing me back in a 45 minute line if I felt like being hung up on again.

For a company that has been hacked multiple times, I find this unacceptable.
Often you hear it should be the desktop job to do this, but given most of them don't, it's moot.
A relevant historical fact here is that the reason the snake oil salesman is a fraud isn't because snake oil is ineffective, but that what he's selling isn't snake oil.
Damn, you beat me to it. I was already picturing something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand but with astrologers in cages instead of lava lamps.
This is not an effort or desire-mediated performance, it is a focus-mediated performance. Some people find that cognitively more difficult than others.

If you are the type of person to intensively multitask, to occupy your short-term memory with different trains of thought in a holding pattern, you will tend to sacrifice command skills - if your memory is already busy reading and writing on all available channels, it isn't going to pop up "You have something in the oven" or "You were holding a pen a minute ago and you set it down on the second tier of the brown bookshelf" or "You need to get the kid from school". The internet & smartphone era has unlocked a degree of hyperstimulus that can veer into the pathological for those of us with our brains wired a certain way.

This is also a thing if you're doing things at a 'normal' degree of focus but your memory is impaired (number of operational channels reduced) in some other fashion, through age-related cognitive decline or some types of medication or chronic sleep deprivation or a TBI.

This is the ADD trait. We are chronically late to important events, we lose things all the time, we frequently accumulate a thousand browser tabs, we jump from thing to thing as they come up. Forming subconscious routines is difficult, and when we do it, we often allocate them only the barest muscle memory - I lock my car regardless of whether it's already locked or should be locked (bringing in groceries) because my macro for leaving the car is to lock it. There are pros and there are cons to this cognitive style. But it's certainly not a matter of DESIRE to do things or CARELESSNESS.

What helps? I find:

* Writing things down, especially notes.txt

* Snapping pictures of things as easier form of notes

* Scheduled phone reminders

* Getting sufficient sleep

* Getting more than sufficient sleep - leaving an extra hour in bed to think about things, plan your day

* "Bookmark all tabs"
If you remember the average age of Oldsmobile customers (and remember Oldsmobile) you know this would never have sold well, even if they had switched to a more conventional interior. This is something Pontiac might have tried, though.
I choose to read most comments in a positive light, but thank you for your kindness. :)
If it works for you it must work for everyone. I guess the reports on the linked site and in this thread must be wrong
> Through a partnership with Microsoft, Kroger plans to place cameras at its digital displays, which will use facial recognition tools to determine the gender and age of a customer captured on camera

Those are stores that I'll never set foot in again. It's a shame that Kroger has purchased half of the stores in my area. Let's hope the other half doesn't get on board with this sort of abuse.
You'll enjoy set theory then. Just call the first set aleph-null.
What about the absence of exception handling?

Plus OO has its own advantages, even if you don't use it all that much, its one of the best ways to fit problems into neat design patterns.

Go seems to be missing those features.
What's the difference between "talk" or "produce output" in your mind? I feel that automatic completion makes it sound as if the complete result was already supplied to the model or that it is akin to just the most probable next word from simple frequency rather than the "thinking" that is done by the model to produce the next token. Autocomplete doesn't adequately describe anything. Like imagine a hypothetical machine of infinite ability that still works in a way where it produces tokens in a series from previous tokens, you would still be arguing it is called autocomplete and bothering me.
Did go through it, bookmarked for use, that's how I learned about the command palette, just hard to break the habit of using zellij, that too with tmux mode :D
You can dump iterm2s config into a file and sync it to other machines.

Granted it’s not meant to be edited directly but rather via the GUI, but yeah it’s possible to persist it if you want.
There's a famous study that found that hockey players are statistically more likely to be born in certain months, due to them being the biggest in their year-groups, which created a self-fulfilling cycles of attention from coaches.

Reinterpreted, if you're an Aquarius, you're 50% more likely than an Aries to get into the NHL[1]. So, I guess I do sometimes believe in astrology, it's just very rarely better than random.

[1] https://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/birth-month-totals/nhl-playe...
"Astrology is the mother of science" is a great quote and more or less historically accurate too. We should not be ashamed of the origins of science being in astrology and alchemy, they were important steps on the way.
The comments here are extremely unhelpful. We get it, you think astrology is stupid and anyone that thinks it works is an idiot worth ostracizing.

Now can we get on with comments actually diving deeper into the actual study in the OP?
It doesn't really, at least not to a great extent. Most people seeking advice from astrologers didn't start because of science nor will they stop because of science.
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For the benefit of anyone else who gets this far and is curious about the actual figures...

Over December, there were just under 250k encounters with migrants crossing from Mexico. That is an average of roughly 8k per day. These are apprehended and detained pending a decision on whether they can remain, and are not given work authorization [1]. Migrants can be deported if they have committed certain crimes, or are not deemed to be in any danger in their home country.

It is wildly misleading to suggest that 15k people per day are getting through the border and starting work in the US.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/15/migrant-e...

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1226
Hey Sam from Electric here, I work on PGlite

What the team at Supabase have built with postgres.new is incredible, it has been a lot of fun to work with them on it over the last month or so. It's fead directly back into the development of PGlite and helped us iron out some bugs and finish hitting the feature list required.

SQL databases and LLMs go together so incredible well, the structured data and schema enables an LLM to infer so much context about the database and the underlying data. This exploration into a UI over this paring is going to be incredibly influential, it opens up what has traditionally been a complex technical problem to everyone. That's the true power of LLMs.

I'm not going to go on about PGlite here as postgres.new really deserves the limelight!
Pushing baby booms to boost economic growth amounts to a Ponzi scheme
I guess you'd have to call an unrelated word and zero, which is explicitly allowed.
> Van Rossum is totally right in saying that he never wants a Python 4 for that reason, so it seems at least he learned a little bit since then.

Just because the BFDL doesn't increment the major version doesn't change the fact that myriad breaking changes arrive in Python 3 PEPs.

This is purely an optics hack. Python 3.0 is very different from Python 3.13. Had the frog not been boiled slowly, it might as well have been Python 4.

The people who could stop this churn will not. It's a full-employment ticket for them, chasing dot-release upgrades and educating us about changes that we couldn't live without but somehow did for decades.

It takes a big person to say when something is good enough despite its warts. Contrast the Python churn with Linux and git: never break user space.
I also think Pandora has spot on music recommendations.
This is trippy and disturbing. Which is exactly what I look for in my scifi.
It actually gets even better! :D Enjoy the journey!
I originally installed WezTerm because I switched from Kubuntu to Ubuntu and wanted some of the features of Konsole (infinite scrollback, searching the scrollback) without actually installing Konsole (I know you can install it under Gnome too, but it just felt... wrong). And yes, it instantly grew on me, although (as I can see from this article) I have barely scratched the surface of its configurability. My only complaint is that its many features are not really discoverable. Sure, the documentation is really good, and the author is very engaged and helpful, but... one example: I looked up how to select large blocks of text using just the keyboard, I did it once, said to myself "I have to remember this!", then promptly forgot it and now I'm back to selecting text with the mouse like an absolute noob because all in all for the few times I do this it's faster than googling that documentation page again...

(in case you're wondering, the page I mean is https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/copymode.html, not https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/quickselect.html, which sounds like what I was looking for, but is something completely different - also very handy and a great idea, but not what I was after)
Obviously astrology does no better than random guessing, that's no surprise. But the fact that astrology had such low levels of agreement is a little interesting to me -- I guess I assumed there was some kind of underlying system to astrology, but I guess not!

> Much to my surprise, astrologers had very low agreement with each other on the chart for each person. If astrologers picked charts at random, they would agree with each other 20% of the time. In our study, even the most experienced astrologers only agreed 28% of the time.
I spent literally hours over several days on hold to cancel and when googling it this was widespread and hated.

Possibly you were very lucky, or they've buckled to the pressure caused by previous anti-consumer BS.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/dec/19/i-was-cut-off-...

> Unlike providers who use the rival Openreach cable network, Virgin Media does not allow its six million broadband customers to cancel expired contracts online. Thirty days’ notice is required before any switch, compared with the 14 days’ notice required to switch Openreach providers.

A link to the ongoing Ofcom investigation into their shabby tactics:

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/switching-prov...
I did a similar experiment with my sister a few years ago and got nearly identical results.

We'd gotten into a discussion about how neither of us believe the explanation that astrology gives for how it works (that the position of the planets at the time of your birth influence your personality) but my sister thought a person's star sign might be a proxy for being born in a particular season which could reasonably affect someone's personality (ex: perhaps babies born in the winter share personality traits distinct from babies born in the summer).

She also thought that given a list of people and descriptions of personality traits of star signs she could match them with better-than-chance accuracy.

We made a list of ~10 people that she knew personally. I looked up their star signs and found a description of all 12 signs from an authoritative-looking astrology site. For each of the 10 people I gave her a choice of their actual star sign and two randomly picked star signs (determined and shuffled by an RNG). Random guessing would predict she'd have a 1/3rd chance of getting any individual person correct. She predicted she'd get ~7/10 correct.

She got exactly 3/10.
If you child's memory was erased each day I imagine you wouldn't notice any progress, indeed.
This is my first time working with a language that exclusively uses errors as values, and I haven't had time to develop any strong feelings about it. So far it feels nice because it makes error handling crystal clear, but I could also see it becoming cumbersome over time.
What you see as missing, others (including myself) see as delightfully constrained and solved in a different way.
Some one asks for ideas on how diet may help. Someone else answers with a ref to Dr Greger.

Now you come that this "widens the empathy gap that sufferers already face" and "trivializes the disease".

I think you are overreacting.
Nope, it's the same. It's one of the things I value about the language and project.
If I get more emails after unsubscribing I file a complaint with the FTC, then forward the response I get from the FTC to support@<spammer.com>. So far that has a 100% success rate.
I don't think they examined true randomness, but they did look at inter-astrologer consistency, and that was also no better than chance, which strongly suggests their answers were uniformly distributed (rather than being wrong, but everyone being wrong in the same way).
While the author may give that superficial suggestion, he never really broaches the subject.

Per the dictionary definition of sport, the only thing that set sport apart from any other artistic expression is notable physical exertion and recognized competition. In breaking, the physical exertion is certainly there and the will to be competitive is also there. It it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck. –– Especially when it is not unlike figure skating, which has been an Olympic mainstay for a century. There is clear precedence for this type of sport being considered Olympics-worthy.
I didn't read the main article, no. I just looked for a reference to the gigantic Chinese coal power expansion I knew about.

If these number are real, it's vaery good news!
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Creating the largest protein-protein interaction dataset in the world
OT: I'm most excited by Ghostty (created by the founder of HashiCorp).

https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh
This is true, but it doesn't mean you should actually use a variety of languages for your day job if you're self-employed; that is, you lose some productivity if you choose an unfamiliar tool, and you'll shoot yourself in the foot if you choose a language unsuitable for the problem at hand.

The other thing to watch out for if you're in a corporate setting is that if you use a language nobody else is using at your company, your project is doomed and / or it will be stupid expensive compared to other projects because it uses a different language from the rest of the organization. See also https://boringtechnology.club/
A MySQL solution to implement High Availability
I've developed an open source tool to implement fault tolerance, auto promotion, topology discovery and traffic routing (in essence and HA solution) done in Python3.

The idea behind this project is to offer a simple way to implement HA in primary-replica clusters out there in MySQL.
I actually liked that poem!

Funny to think that the Olympics started out as LARPing ancient greece. Tradition old and new at the same time
Obviously disease is caused by a dwarf residing in the belly.
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Well what stops others from leaning forward? Sense like not an advantage because if it helped everyone would opt to do it.
Funny how this empathy thing and "less damaging punishments" only works for people in the judge's social class and/or tribe. Everyone else gets the full force and letter of law applied. I'm so damn tired of the double standard.
Yes. My current girlfriend told me that her father forbade her to marry before a given age, because this was a recommandation of the astrologer who chose her current name. I met her at that current age.

Another prediction was done 6 years before, that said she will meet an exceptional man by 2024 but also that she will have to go back in her country on that year. Since we met this year and she considers me an exceptional man, she believes I'm the guy of the prophecy. However, because the first part of the prediction is true, she's quite stressed about the second part.

Based on those two data points, Taiwanese fortune tellers seems to be quite on point. I'll revise my judgement in the future based on if she had to go back or not (I'll follow her anyway).
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The OpenJDK folks have quite a long and storied history of trying to do this right and still generally recommend that if you want a JVM to have the right number of CPUs, you should set the relevant parameter yourself (-XX:ActiveProcessorCount). This is basically the same advice as Go folks telling you to set GOMAXPROCS yourself.

The problem is not just cgroups v1 vs cgroups v2 or the stability of cgroupfs, but also of CPU "shares" vs "limits", the different tunables for different Linux schedulers, the effective limits under hierarchical cgroups, etc.
if you want to limit the number of Ps, then you use a cpuset, that sched_getaffinity will take into account. cgroups only allows you to limit cpu usage, but not lower the number of cpu cores the code can run on. This is “how many” versus “how much”, and GOMAXPROCS only relates to the “how many” part.

I may have misunderstood the rationale here, but I think the discussion about cgroup support is not about limiting the number of Ps
I believe there are many different hype cycles at once, depending on ones vantage point. The world is large!
I make no claims about her ability to feel empathy; anyone who is throwing food around is struggling on the empathy front.

But if she has previously worked in a service job it seems unlikely that she sees people working service jobs as beneath her in principle. If anything she probably sees them as near-peers and is acting out of a warped sense of social competition.
Yes, it seems cruel to push young doctors to the limit like this. But I’ll offer a counterpoint:

In an emergency, you want doctors who are used to making decisions under stress and who are aware of their impaired decision making abilities when tired. This is a rite of passage that means in a true emergency where they have to be making good decisions without adequate resources they can do so. You see a similar tactic when training military recruits.
A very underrated piece.

Take the best of SCP lore, keep you guessing, make you root for the most deeply lost cause that can possibly be and still see hope because the characters and settings are awesome.

However, what do I know? This is my first day on HN.
I tend to agree with the article, but to be honest "Break" is not high on my list either way.

This caught my eye:

>Softball is in … Oklahoma City?

Really, will they put heat lamps on the players too ? I have been to Oklahoma City in June for a 2 week large national convention almost 30 years ago. I thought I was going to die from the heat, and everyone from the north part of the US were miserable.

One OK person said "It does not get hot until August", a young lady from Washington State went ballistic yelling about the heat. I just laughed.

30 years later with Climate Change, playing Softball in Oklahoma City in July, are you kidding. I hope the have 5000 ambulances there sitting waiting for people to faint.
If you haven't read it, Stories of Your Life and Others by Chiang is incredible.
Arguably, birth date and astrology are only tangentially related. Iirc I looked into it and there was little empirical evidence for 12 groups, it is more like 4 groups spring/summer/fall/winter.
Nothing new or surprising was learned, the skeptics say 'see!' the 'believers' will disregard. And it's fine.

Most people don't believe tarot cards are really some magical thing, it's just an interactive and creative way to get some random inspirational qoutes or text. It's either fitting and viewed a true, or not fitting and simply disregarded. I know it's all bs, but that doesn't mean it cannot be entertaining.
I know you are being ironic, but for those that don't, this is completely unrelated to Astrology and more to how we break kids/teens in age categories (sorry, I don't know the proper terms for this in English). Which, by the way, may be different from country to country due to terms/calendars, etc.
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> Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out
Picking up trash from the floor does not require special tools, and does not void the warranty of the floor.
They go back even further than that. The first practical, commercially available electric cars were on the market in 1890. Electric cars were a thing before gasoline-powered cars.
It's not exactly a HN topic is it?