skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drawing/painting takes a lot of concerted effort.

If you have really never sat down for several hours and worked on a drawing, you immediately have several things going against you:

1. You know you won't make something particularly good the first time. Why spend several hours of concerted effort on something that won't immediately pay off?

2. You aren't an "artist". We tend to categorize people by their current skillset, and constrain ourselves to the skillsets we are comfortable with. I don't know of any good ways to teach the brain around this without simply "pushing through" it.

3. Your goal is to do it "right", but you are going to do it wrong. Thousands of times. Every stroke of a pencil is a wrong stroke. The instinct is to immediately erase.

The beauty of painting is that you can't erase. This is why I would recommend a person begin with painting rather than drawing, so that every action is additive.

4. You have to start with purpose. The purpose has to be good enough to enthrall you for several hours. If you start painting something that you don't find interesting, you know at some point, you will get bored, and you will never finish, so why not stop now?

This goes for anything creative. How can you learn to write software without software to write? How can you perform music without music to perform? How can you build something without something to build? Creation needs purpose, if nothing else.

> On the other hand, most children don't have any problem being creative. Somehow by the time we become adults we lose that, and then think we're permanently incapable.

This is one of the most important barriers for us to overcome.

We need to practice doing things wrong, and creating garbage. Unfortunately, we constantly reiterate the claim that garbage is bad, and that we should do everything perfect.
Everything is consistent in the big (down to the nybble and bit) endian view.

The number 0x12345678 is actually the nybbles 1 2 3 4 ... which are the bits 0001 0010 0011 0100 and so on.

In the hex dump 12 34 56 78 we just understand the bytes to be big-endian also at the nybble level (and bit also).

That is to say the "1" can be understood to be at the lower "nybble address", relative to the "2".

If that buffer is sent over a serial communication channel or network, the bits actually go in that order 0001 0010 0011. The 1 nybble goes out first, as 0001 (three zeros out the door, then a one), then the 2 nybble and so on.
MoviePass says it will start acquiring movies, too
> It seems every few years someone does this publicly, and then either gets DMCA'd or forgotten.

Luckily the guys who do this do not live or work in the USA, but in Austria, so Austrian and European Law applies:

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=143505754...

"(…) It has therefore to be considered that, in these limited circumstances only, performance of the acts of reproduction and translation by or on behalf of a person having a right to use a copy of the program is legitimate and compatible with fair practice and must therefore be deemed not to require the authorisation of the rightholder. An objective of this exception is to make it possible to connect all components of a computer system, including those of different manufacturers, so that they can work together. (…)"

Essentially this means, that reverse engineering with the intent of creating a cleanroom implementation of a compatibility layer or independent toolchain is perfectly legal.
Ok. Let me argue a bit further:

Whatever we've done lately obviously hasn't worked. Seinfeld has been sent again and again and yet we see nazis marching proudly in Charlotteville and elsewhere.

The world should not forget what nazism caused, what communism caused, what nationalism caused, what racism caused etc.

I'd be tempted to say: learn kids to hate those things but I'm not a fan of big words.

But I certainly think more focus on history lessons would be a good thing.

Or maybe we need something similar to this, only for thoughts: https://www.damninteresting.com/this-place-is-not-a-place-of...
So, to put it short: "What's dangerous about Jordan Peterson is that he makes ideas we don't like sound plausible"? I don't really see an answer to the question in title.

Anyway, his lectures for psychology students on youtube are quite nice to listen, even though I find it problematic how often he treats hard facts off-handedly to speak in favor of his overall narrative. I wonder if there are more courses (especially on non-technical subjects) of the same quality freely available on youtube.
This is just giving UX a bad name.

There cannot exist the best UX for regular users. There are things that are used once or very rarely and have to be designed to rely on people's prior experience with other things, like most websites. And there are other things that are used often and have to be designed to be learned. Every case is different and not simple.

As for trends, maybe you are thinking about UI trends. People do like to follow those and confuse UIs with UX and make things harder for everyone. But you can't really say there are UX trends.
I would say that if you're not a prime member then yes. I was a prime member and then decided to cancel my membership and service has gotten worse for me. It takes longer to get items sent to me. example: I ordered an item 1/1 but did not get it until 1/11. That would never have happened before prime was created. What's funny is that the item as shipped on 1/10. I got next day shipping but the held it for 8-9 days.

Also, there are a lot of prime incentive sale items on the site that I can't order but I see every time I'm there. What it does for me is to make me lose interest in Amazon.

I've started to order more from Newegg and Walmart. The prices are not that much different but I don't need to be a prime member to get acceptable service.
> If they were uninterested, they would simply say so, rather than making a series of excuses.

Haha, not my experience with people. The excuses people say are rarely the truth. People speak in euphemisms for a variety of reasons, and you've got to divine the truth from between the lines.

Q: "Wanna go to a movie friday?"

A: "Can't, I'm washing my hair that night!"

What she really meant:

"Drop dead, Walter!"
>I see creativity along the same lines. Many folks are conditioned to memorize, follow processes, follow norms and paths laid by others, it may not occur to them to seek out originality. It is another form of learned helplessness.

The same applies in the academic setting as well. When I was doing my PhD, I found myself trapped in exactly this kind of paralysis. I was very good at learning things, so everyone expected me to do well, but I had never created anything, and the idea that I ever could was so overwhelming and foreign that I couldn't even get started. It wasn't until a little over a year before graduating that I managed to get it together, and was lucky enough to pull it off in time.

Part of the problem is the romanticization of creativity, at least in my mind, as if it were an act of heroism or exceptional ability. On the contrary, it's mostly a matter of working and thinking and not giving up. Once you get enmeshed deeply enough in something, you stop wondering about if you're any good at it.
They could, and there have been rumblings about doing so for many years, including among sysadmins. It emerged from many corners: layoffs of the first dot com crash, unrealistic deadlines, afterhours work, general crappy management support, underpayage, etc. I think generally the attitude is "why would I want to be paid less?"
There isn't much of an articulable case for these rules to be unconstitutional. It's not analogous to freedoms people have in their personal life.

They're using the Federal aviation system, public property airports, being routed by the FAA, and so on. It's much more analogous to requirements for auto safety and licensing.

The government can't mandate the color of your shirt in your own home, but they can mandate the exact shade of your turn signals when you're on public roads.

I'm not a fan of our current security state, it's insane. But air travel isn't a private act, it's important to calibrate the conversation to the issue actually at hand.
What tool is he using to show the circuit layout?
Businesss Insider is a clickbait website that takes little snippets of comments and spins fanciful stories about them, and wraps them in junk titles with "how" and "why" but never deliver explanations. It's a shame this site allows that website to be posted here.
Ask HN: Smallest blockchain?
Are there any cryptocurrencies that focus on small blockchain size? For example bitcoin's blockchain is more than 100GB this might be a bit too large for someone who only has say a 256GB hard-drive. Are there any cryptocurrencies that focus on having the most space efficient blockchain? Say, maybe a few GB?
There was a line-up for the iPhone X in November where I live. There was still that much demand for it. But obviously there's a big part of the market that can't even consider it.
> Office Space ?

Funky anecdote coming up.

We went to see Office Space when it was in the cinemas, after having heard a number of good things about it. There were 8 of us. 7, myself included, kept bursting into laughter throughout the film. The last one didn't really register.

When we walked out, the silent one quipped: "I don't get how that was supposed to be funny. I see that same stuff at work every day."
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Oh, undoubtedly. There's no small amount of tribalism and moral sadism among the SJWs, using these sudden shifts in vocabulary as an excuse to berate people they didn't like in the first place.

Which in no way means intersectionality is a Bad Idea. Intersectionality is a major advance in the understanding of oppression.

I hope Peterson can actually wake up some of his red-pill followers, and do more harm than good in the long run. But for now, he really needs to apply that intellect to dealing with something he wasn't ever prepared to deal with - being a symbol of intellectual authority to a movement that stands for things he no doubt despises.
It's so off topic that you're not even talking about the same problem when you say "you get around this problem"

What a confusing post.
How to speed up Python application startup time
It is interesting that programmers (as a whole) seem resistant to it. It's often described as being unnecessary, but when you go one or two posts down HN you find people decrying long hours, open plan offices, weekend callouts, etc. etc.

I suspect it's just that when the going is good, people don't really think they need a union. If the prophecies come true and AI starts writing code for us, you can bet people will suddenly be interested in unionisation.
IMO, return <something> may be ambiguous in switch expression.
> It's extremely important to your mental model to understand how the bits are arranged

And the shortcut for that is simply regard bytes as big-endian. On all platforms. Whether you're on a PPC or x86, the byte 0x80 is going to go out on the wire as 1 first, followed by 7 zeros.

So if you're writing a data compressor and the spec says that the variable-length bit strings (huffman or whatever) are stuffed into bytes in network order, that means you fill bytes from the left down. That is done with code that works the same way on BE or LE platforms.
awesome, and nicely done on the "bonus law"!
I would pay for such a service as well. In addition to that, I would love if this service would allow companies like Apple and Google to maintains their own lists of IP's and update them regularly, so you can be 100% sure that an IP belongs to them.
There will always be geniuses, capable of feats far beyond what you could ever accomplish. As a mathematician, I'm only too aware of this.

That doesn't mean that you will not have something worth contributing. The difficult thing is to find out what that is of course!
Securing API Keys in a JavaScript Single Page App
Stealth startup seeks engineer to build First version of product 4equity
So, how does twitter uses Jacobian?
So, basically Amazon is a form of Charity then; they basically have "no form of money" under that perspective. (Dispite knowing the fact they could turn on the money spigot at any time if so desired)
People talk as if Mozilla was a true independent alternative to Google Chrome. I often view things through the Golden Rule - " Whoever has the gold, makes the rules." The vast majority of funding for Mozilla comes from Google. They are already financially strapped. The chance of them doing anything significant to upset the web that Google built as free content monetized by tracking advertisements is practically nill.
OMG, your own archive even shows it!
Big endian is dead on the client. WebGL exposes endianness and happened at a time when almost all systems running browsers are little-endian. This makes the big-endian provisions of the spec a dead letter. Web devs don't need to test on big-endian systems and would have a hard time finding big-endian systems to test with even if they wanted to. It's safe to assume, therefore, that there's a mass of Web content that only works if the browser exposes little-endian behavior to JS. It's not performance-wise competitive for a WebGL system to present little-endian behavior on big-endian hardware.

Therefore, it won't be feasible to try to re-introduce big endian to systems that need to be competitive at rendering the Web.

Big endian will stay alive for the time being on home routers and Sparc servers, and probably for a long time on IBM z systems.

The cost–benefit of software accommodating big-endian systems will look increasingly bad with legacy enterprise servers imposing a negative externality on everyone else. (E.g. refusal to consider bitcasts between SIMD vectors of the same bit width but different number of lanes as portable/safe operation in language design.)
Absolutely. If the algorithm were perfect, shelves would be empty moments before the restock arrives. But I wonder how the endless bounty effect of fully stocked shelve affects customers' shopping habits. For example, I might not buy the pineapple if it were the last one on the shelf, because surely there must be something wrong with it. Then again, three rotting pineapples that no one would buy is better than three cases of rotting pineapples in the back room.
Why do we need a union in a seller's market? If I'm unhappy with my job I can quit and get a new one in a week.

It's not about being a knowledge worker. Screenwriters are unionized because there are many more people who want to write than there are gigs, therefore there's a high potential for abuse.
Really like Quiver (not affiliated at all), more than enough bells-n-whistles for me :
- Everything is stored as JSON so I keep sync'ed over Dropbox and version-controller via Git.
- Supports both a nesting hierarchy and tagging.
- Though I don't use it much I like the JS flowchart and sequence-diagrams
- etc etc
I really don't see this as anything other than a gotcha argument and I feel bad for anyone you tried to use it on who couldn't defend themselves in the heat of the moment.

The crime rate is a known political tool that is actively manipulated for political gain (stop and frisk anyone?). Everyone knows that being "tough on crime" is moral statement not a statement of fact. Outside of crime averages that operate on a continuum the crime rate is so subjective as to almost be useless.

I would say "the crime rate is down" as an argument is roughly equivalent to believing that any given president has an impact on the DJIA. Look at the cover of the NYPOST yesterday[0]. Attributing a president who has been in office for a year with anything having to do with the economy is almost always untrue [1]. In fact, if anything it's more likely that Trump is benefiting from the policies of his predecessor.

So in conclusion the "crime rate" is never up or down, it's just one tool in the political handbook to try and manipulate people with fear, uncertainty and doubt. As a basis of establishing policy it's almost always rhetoric. To further elaborate on your comment, it has less to do with when a crime is "detected" and more to do with what is a crime.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/uifDjWI.png

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-presidents-economic-d...
Anything like this, but ncurses based?
The Automotive Liberation of Paris
This will be the start of many Human-Car crimes where the self-driving car is the victim.
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I'm curious what effect this will have on all the constant cries for more "real journalism" instead of companies pushing for low budget high volume output and semi-digitized content milling. Hiring "real journalists" full time just got a lot more expensive for a company that was already attempting to reinvent itself in a struggle for profitability in a strained industry.

Also, can't the LA Times easily just buy up more freelance material from non-employees (not only journalism, graphics, web work, etc)?
Oh well, I was thinking of a measure where 0 was in some Borel set of it, otherwise it loses a bit the fun of it
I would like to see internet access treated as an OS permission that need to be expressly granted by the user, same goes for iOS and Android. I wish this was part of the OS and not something I need to go and install 3rd party apps for. I like the idea of deny all by default.
Increase investment into labor costs. Hire people who actually know a thing or two about cooking (that would mean hiring people with culinary training, not just people who perform well in the interview process.) You can convert pretty much all that's going to waste into sellable products on the store shelves. You might have to sacrifice consistency over time in that, your stock or broths made in house will differ per what's available.. but that could be sold as "authentic in house made". Same goes with soups, stews, pies etc.

I worked for a Safeway for a bit and would see how many bananas they'd trash of which you could easily make a few things on mass in house.. banana cream pie, banana ice cream... if regulations were to be cut back some you could even make banana rum in store. I don't think that'll happen anytime soon.

It's also a shame there isn't a system set up where you freeze the wasted product in bulk and ship it out to a facility that could process it into animal feed.
Agree. Also I want to point out I'm not offended by this in any way.

I'm just arguing that downvoting someone for pointing this out is counterproductive.
At least in Europe the percentages are the same within each country

This isn't actually true. There are quite a few dependent territories and the like that are part of the same country but have different tax arrangements. There are also multiple VAT rates for different types of product or service in a lot of countries, with different rules from place to another about which products or services attract a lower rate.
I use ncdu (https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu) all the time, no treemap though.
That's wrong, you don't get the money you'd save on electricity up front like you would from selling your rig. You're just digging yourself a hole.
Some hedge fund made a killing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUxMY77i0q4
I was working in the frame of parent's comment to show that delays and congestion are another solution to the problem. It's certainly not the one I'd choose, but I was trying hard to give an unaffected discussion of the tradeoffs (until the sarcasm in the last paragraph.)
I'm surprised Amazon isn't behind this; I assumed this was their warehouse fulfillment algorithm applied to supermarket retail, for everyone to witness firsthand.
You just explained that your behavior itself was odd (you are sick.) Have you considered that you've not normally done this and so you've never noticed that this is always what happens? My local grocery store has premade foods, like soups, and they get made in bursts and slowly run out over several days. So what you observed could be the norm.
For the xpcc.io library, that I was involved with when I was in college, we ended up defining our own XML format and write importers for the custom formats that ST uses. For the LPC controllers from NXP we had to transcribe the information manually from the data sheet (our attempts to automatically parse the pdfs and extract the info never worked out).

Checkout the latest version (now called modm).
A description of our device file format can be found here: https://github.com/modm-io/modm/blob/develop/devices/Readme....
If you are interested in the data for STMs, checkout: https://github.com/modm-io/modm-devices/tree/develop/devices...
Amazon is a publicly traded company, so their valuation isn't really impacted by preferential stock. Also, if you think amazon has access to 1.6 trillion dollars, you're crazy.

And, well, they actually make money.
It's not as much "alt-right venerate him", as his ("alt-left", I guss?) opponents like to mark him "alt-right" for no reason other than he is not as "left" as they are.
"integrity" is not a word that matches "Business Insider", even if they are willing to poke at their investor's investments.
> run the tokenizer on the client side, client submits encrypted tokens to the search index.

That would be an incredibly insecure method of encryption.

> or don't provide a search service, have client have its own local index.

Yep, I would prefer an on-prem solution.
I've talked to people in the past who associate a union with factory work, and they don't feel like it applies to them.

I sometimes point out that every movie star they've ever heard of is a member of a union.

I think part of the problem comes from the decline in unions in the US over the last few decades. New industries aren't unionizing, and older unions are being undermined where possible.
takes notes

So would you want just the curated list, or an application that uses said list and provides feedback to the user? Either? Both?

Because I've _sort_ of done this on my personal Mac-though for reasons more pertaining to an infrastructure I maintain for a client, scaling this to a type of service wouldn't be TOO difficult.
I think the reason is that we associate driving with negative externalities (pollution, renewable resource usage, etc.) and so if the response to congestion pricing is that people drive less and seek alternative means (using public transportation, telecommuting, etc) then that is an additional win.

Whereas we associate having children and schooling with positive externalities -- the creation of an educated workforce that will keep our country strong and prosperous in the next decades. So we intuit that if people responded to the tax by having fewer kids or unschooling the kids, that would be bad for society. (I personally don't actually think that public school produces positive externalities but I'm extremely unusual in that belief).

The other complication is that "good schools" are really the schools with the best students and best parents. With road congestion toll you are paying for an inherently limited resource -- wide, paved right-of-ways enabling leading connecting population hubs. Whereas with the limited number of "good" schools in NYC, the inherently limited resource is the good students themselves. So a "good school" tax is essentially charging good students to be around people like themselves, which is kind of a weird thing todo.
At many companies, unless you have “PR” in your job description, it’s a violation of policy to do such a thing, or even comment after identifying that you work for the company, even if it is to defend or otherwise comment positively.
There's a reason there's a somewhat famous joke about a professor who, when asked to explain an step he claimed to be trivial, furrowed his brow deeply, spent the best part of an hour looking at notes and scribbling on the blackboard only to declare afterwards "Yes! It is trivial!'.
I'm a programmer who's currently in a union position - I want out. I pay dues and get basically nothing for them, as developers we're generally in decent negotiating positions. Unions are great when you're not in that position, but just an extra cost when you are.